On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:14:48PM +0200, Thomas Barandon wrote: > Hi, > > To my knowledge it is impossible to create an account without > password, but you can create an passwordless login with GDM (and i > think kdm). > > eg. gnome you can find this option on: > System > administration > connection windows > security > activate > auto connection, but is not really what you want (or maybe you have > targeted the wrong problem) > > If you don't want any autologin system you can edit /etc/pam.d/gdm and add: > auth sufficient pam_listfile.so item=user sense=allow > file=/etc/X11/gdm/nopass.list onerr=fail > just after this line: > auth required pam_env.so > and before this: > @include common-auth > > Now you just have to create the file /etc/X11/gdm/nopass.list and add > the username who need a login without entering a password.
But also remember to disable the password protection on the screen saver. See also: http://tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/add_gdmonly_user Which does basically what you wanted, but also edits /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
