Automatic login with gdm not working

Dominique Goncalves dominique.goncalves at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 04:30:56 PDT 2008


Hi,


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Antonios Anastasiadis
<antonakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the entries
>
>  AutomaticLoginEnable=true
>  AutomaticLogin=dom
>
>  are put under the [daemon] heading instead of [security]
>  in /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf, GDM logins automatically again.
>  I guess GDM changed its way as of GNOME 2.20. I have filed a relevant
>  bug report.
>
>

In /var/log/messages, there is

Mar 22 12:26:34 djdomics gdm-binary[17656]: in openpam_dispatch():
pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_authenticate()
Mar 22 12:26:34 djdomics gdm-binary[17656]: in openpam_dispatch():
pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_setcred()

But it works now, thanks!

Regards.

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