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Old 02-21-2008, 05:23 AM
Jordan T. Cox
 
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Default Re: autologin

Soren Hauberg wrote:
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> Philipp Becker wrote:
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>> Soren Hauberg wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>> I have gentoo on my old laptop. And basicly I'm sick of needing to log
>>> in every time I start the machine. Does anybody know of a way to login
>>> automaticly?

>>
>>
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>> If you're using KDE: There's a feature like that available
>> (Control Centre => System Administration => Login Manager =>
>> Convenience or
>> something like that...)
>>

> No I'm using xdm (it's a 300 mhz celeron, so kde/gnome is not an option)
> but I would like to get rid of xdm and log directly into X.
>
> Soren
>

I would also be interested in hearing about this. I have a laptop as
well, and I'm pretty sure that security is not that much of an issue for
me; as ultimately convenience is. If you find an answer to this, please
cc it to this group. Thanks!

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