Re: [SLUG] automatic login?

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 15:47:22 EDT


On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:26, Bill Glidden wrote:
> Say I'm writing a kiosk application. I want the user to just be able to
> turn on the machine, and have it ultimately start up this kiosk application
> without having them go through a login procedure (mainly because there won't
> be a keyboard on the machine).
>
> Is this possible?

KDM and GDM both, as far as I know, have an "automatic login as..."
feature in them somewhere. After that, it's just up to you to make sure
that user's environment launches the appropriate apps on login.

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