Re: KDE auto-login not working after kernel upgrade (2.6.30-2 -> 2.6.32)

2010-01-04 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Γιώργος Πάλλας schreef: A strange problem is occuring: After a kernel upgrade from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32 on an updated debian testing system, the user auto-login feature of KDE stopped working - instead I am presented with the kdm login screen. If I reboot with the old kernel, kde auto-logins the

KDE auto-login not working after kernel upgrade (2.6.30-2 -> 2.6.32)

2010-01-03 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
A strange problem is occuring: After a kernel upgrade from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32 on an updated debian testing system, the user auto-login feature of KDE stopped working - instead I am presented with the kdm login screen. If I reboot with the old kernel, kde auto-logins the user fine. The problem is

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-16 Thread Jacobo221
It worked for me fine but, since rungetty doesn't set the USER variable, HOME variable etc, bash, when run as "bash -l" will fail to rad ~/.profile ~/.bashrc, etc... There must be a way to have rungetty to set this variables or some app which logins into some user without prompting for pass :-/ Ple

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-12 Thread James Vahn
{in response to linux.debian.user} "Jacob221" wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on my computer to do a Linux MediaCenter (to play videos, DVS, > music, maybe games, and such). Since this computer will not have internet > nor LAN access, i'd like it to auto-login, so that

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-12 Thread Greg Folkert
Info Below: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 12:16 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 17:32 +0200, Jacobo221 wrote: > > BTW, I'm still here, so if someone knows about a way to acomplish my > > desire... ;-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ apt-cache show rungetty > Package: rungetty > Priority: opt

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:37:08PM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote: > > > If you use GDM as your Display Manager, it has a feature to do > > Auto-Login. > > hmm... "How can I auto-login as a _user_ (still, not as root, since i wouldn't > like any ap to corupt my sy

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 17:32 +0200, Jacobo221 wrote: > BTW, I'm still here, so if someone knows about a way to acomplish my > desire... ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ apt-cache show rungetty Package: rungetty Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-11 Thread Jacobo221
Hi again, > Those two things associated with setting the username in PAM should make > it so that anyone putting anyname in using any password that is unknown > should work. Yeah, I knew about that, but, as posted on my first message... "i'd like it to auto-login, so that by

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:37 +0200, Jacobo221 wrote: > > If you use GDM as your Display Manager, it has a feature to do > > Auto-Login. > > hmm... "How can I auto-login as a _user_ (still, not as root, since i wouldn't > like any ap to corupt my system) in the Comman

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-11 Thread Jacobo221
> If you use GDM as your Display Manager, it has a feature to do > Auto-Login. hmm... "How can I auto-login as a _user_ (still, not as root, since i wouldn't like any ap to corupt my system) in the Command Lie Interface? (the idea is not to use X)" <- so, no X ;-) >

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-11 Thread Greg Folkert
I'm looking forward for your help ;-) If you use GDM as your Display Manager, it has a feature to do Auto-Login. Run from an X session: gksuexec Select root as your user to run as Type in gdmsetup as the program it'll ask for root's password Under the General Tab Auto-Login Okay.

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-11 Thread Jacobo221
> 1:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/setuid username /bin/bash --login > > (As always, call back if it doesn't work) Thanks a lot. In fact, I had already tried this, but the problem is that setuid doesn't set the environment. if there was some way to run 'su' instead of 'setuid' but without asking for pass

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-10 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:41:37AM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on my computer to do a Linux MediaCenter (to play videos, DVS, > music, maybe games, and such). Since this computer will not have internet > nor LAN access, i'd like it to auto-login, so that

MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-10 Thread Jacobo221
Hi, I'm working on my computer to do a Linux MediaCenter (to play videos, DVS, music, maybe games, and such). Since this computer will not have internet nor LAN access, i'd like it to auto-login, so that by insterting a CD and booting up, everything is done and not a single key has to

Re: auto login virtual terminal

2003-02-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030219 08:15]: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:11:19PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > You might look into 'screen' -- when in a screen session, you can create > > a new screen (i.e. virtual terminal) with a 'Ctrl-A c', move back and > > forth between open

Re: auto login virtual terminal

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:11:19PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > You might look into 'screen' -- when in a screen session, you can create > a new screen (i.e. virtual terminal) with a 'Ctrl-A c', move back and > forth between open screens, etc. Yeah. It's also handy in a Windows environ

Re: auto login virtual terminal

2003-02-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Brooks R. Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 11:09 AM -0600): > Greetings, > When I do some programming, I like to login to several virtual terminals, > so I can compile without exiting nano, read a man page, view other code, > etc. Is there a somewhat safe

auto login virtual terminal

2003-02-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, When I do some programming, I like to login to several virtual terminals, so I can compile without exiting [1]nano, read a man page, view other code, etc. Is there a somewhat safe way to login to several vt's at once from say a script? Thanks, Brooks 1. Yes, I said nano, get

Re: Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread nate
=?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= said: > > Hi, > > Is there a way to auto login using a specified user > name and password to a remote machine? I read rsh, > telnet manpages and found nothing, it specify -l > user_name but how about sending password? i do it with ssh. espe

Re: Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread xbud
umm don't use rsh or telnet use ssh and use RSA Authentication to login w/out a password. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc.. www.openssl.org www.openssh.org -xbud

Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Is there a way to auto login using a specified user name and password to a remote machine? I read rsh, telnet manpages and found nothing, it specify -l user_name but how about sending password? = S.KIEU http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online.

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > I agree, we could start xdm in rnlevel 3 and "su someuser startx" in > > runlevel > > 4. > > > Great,I'll keep an eye and try it as soon as it's done.Thanks. > why do you want to wait? ;-) i attached my auto-login script again. now it

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Mircea Luca
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:33:41PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > > I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the > > sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one us

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:33:41PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the > sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one user would be > great.It would be ne

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level. this is not hard to do. you can specify the config file to use with the -config switch. so you could specify a config file with auto-login options and alte

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Mircea Luca
Hi I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one user would be great.It would be neat for a home user since the "admin " part is really happening no

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
rtx finishes. > you would have no xdmcp while the auto-login session runs ... > So my question is: who really needs a patch to xdm? > who needs auto-logon at all? it's not a question of need, but of convenience. :-) regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.sign

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> There is something that I always asked myself about the differnet display > managers. Why do they not handle the login window as an external > application ? you can find something like that on freshmeat ("XDM-External Greet"), but the url is dead ... -( however, the external greeter concept of xd

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I have this script as /etc/init.d/startmyx. It auto-logs me in on tty9, and xdm can still run on tty7. It could be modified to run xdm after startx finishes. So my question is: who really needs a patch to xdm? -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. "Real hackers mostly th

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > > i became interested in automatic login, too. > > Just a stupid question, why are ppl using xdm in the first place if they > want an auto login? Whats wrong with using startx instead?! > i&

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > i became interested in automatic login, too. so i just implemented it > for xdm, kdm and wdm (wdm not tested). i thought about gdm, too, but it > seems

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > i became interested in automatic login, too. Just a stupid question, why are ppl using xdm in the first place if they want an auto login? Whats

RE: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bill Barnes
>= Original Message From Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > > >ps: are there already other implementations of x-based auto-login? ;-/ > libranet.com has done a nice distro of debian 2.2 which includes an auto-login. >pps: please cc me, as i unsubscribed

annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
announce this, :-( but as the idea was brought to me at debian-user ... :-) have fun! ps: are there already other implementations of x-based auto-login? ;-/ pps: please cc me, as i unsubscribed from the lists due to a lack of time. well, at least on debian-user cc-ing is the normal procedure anyway

Auto-Login

2000-04-13 Thread Fish Smith
A while back I inquired as to how I would go about setting my machine to automatically login on startup and start and X console. Somebody said to use wdm and configure it to automatically login. I know have wdm installed and I would like to know specifically what line in the config file to change

Re: How to auto-login

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/1/2000 Fish Smith wrote: I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want it to automatically login to a default user account. (i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it assumes login is "user", user account having null password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the m

How to auto-login

2000-01-16 Thread Fish Smith
I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want it to automatically login to a default user account. (i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it assumes login is "user", user account having null password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the machine being root and user. (Par

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:43:59PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a > command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I > haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to > PPP. a

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Jeremy
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a > command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I > haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to > PPP. # usermod -G dip

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a > command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I > haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to > PPP. Lance, If I remember correctly, the faq-o-

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
an across this > program. Not being a C programmer I don't really understand what is > happening in this program. It looks as if a password can be accepted as > an argument but in the example there is no password mentioned > > dboot tty userid command > > Can this be us

Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
ut in the example there is no password mentioned dboot tty userid command Can this be used to auto login under numerous terminal under different user id's and passwords. i.e. dboot tty userid password command I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under