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Hi all, I was wondering if someone knows how to "automatically" login as root with gdm and gnome. I have been doing some searching, and havent been able to find a method. I dont want to login automatically all the time - its just part of install setup. 1) kickstart install 2) post section do somethings 3) setup so on reboot auto login as root 4) complete installing some things and

Under centos 5 I modified /etc/gdm/custom.conf to auto login with the following: [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=myuser TimedLoginEnable=true TimedLogin=myuser TimedLoginDelay=0 This doesnt seem to work in Centos 6. What is the new way to accomplish auto login under X11. Thanks, Jerry

I am having an issue I have not ran into before... I set my box to "auto" login by changing the file: more /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=silentm TimedLoginEnable=true TimedLogin=silentm TimedLoginDelay=0 [security] [xdmcp] [greeter] [chooser] [debug] It does auto login - however then when I try to VNC into the box I get the message about the "gnome remote desktop enter password for default keyr...

In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0 After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options. Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores anything put into custom.conf as far