2009/9/15 Glenn Cogle <[email protected]>: > My objective is to use the SunRay clients in Kiosk mode ie they start an X > session as a unique generic user on the Linux (Etch in my case) Server, > which runs a RDP session to a Windows Terminal Server. > > . . . but X is starting with gdmgreeter, requiring Linux credentials. Once > I've authenticated as glennc (or root) the Xsession runs as the generic user > utk0, and the RDP client application runs. > > I'm looking for suggestions for removing the gdmgreeter login step.
This thread is a bit old now, so if you've already solved your problem, you can ignore this message. I'm not at my Gentoo box at the moment, so can't check, but I'm fairly sure that gdmgreeter has an auto-login feature. Not sure what configuration file it's set in, but the gdmsetup utility has been helpful for me in the past. Failing that, do you really need to be running a login manager? If the box is only supposed to be running and X11 session, then perhaps something as simple as "su - utk0 -c startx" in rc.local might do the trick. Hope this helps. :)
