HOW TO : disable autologin

[janss]

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Didn't find a topic about this one yet, so I thought I'd post one.

I prefer to keep some sort of security on my computers, and the One logging in automatiacally really bugs me, but after hours of surfing on the web and looking through the system I havent found a way to disable the feature. The system does have GDM installed, but GDM says autologin is disabled, so it's made somewhere else...

Has anyone found a way to do it or maybe found out that it can not be done at all..?

Oh, and I tried the BIOS password, but it sucked big time because it only supports 8 characters and they have to be IN CAPITALS which is pretty annoying.




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[jack]

gdm is installed but is not running.

X is started directly with the call to xinit in /etc/rc.d/rc.S

You could try commenting thta line out and running gdm from there maybe?

[janss]

Thanks for the info, I'll try to look up what I can do from there

gdm is installed but is not running.

X is started directly with the call to xinit in /etc/rc.d/rc.S

You could try commenting thta line out and running gdm from there maybe?

[janss]

Damn... couldn't get anywhere from there with this...

Any other ideas or preferrably solutions?

[jack]

Just tried running gdm from rc.S and it worked fine for me.

What specifically is going wrong?

[janss]

What kind of edits did you do to the rc.S?
I was trying to look for something connected with autologin from there, but now I see you meant that I should run gdm from there (I can sometimes be a bit illiterate ). Can you post a little description of what you did to it and how it affected your system?

I'm just a bit worried that I'll end up locking my whole system if I screw with it.

Thanks for your help!

Just tried running gdm from rc.S and it worked fine for me.

What specifically is going wrong?

[jack]

Sure,

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.S

Find the line '/usr/bin/xinit -- -br>/dev/null 2>&1 &' and comment it out (Stick a # at the start of the line).

On a new line after that, put

/usr/sbin/gdm

Save & reboot.

Remember that the username is 'user' and the password is whatever you set up during install.

I would also comment out the DontVTSwitch line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, so if the GUI has any major problems you can get to a text console and re-edit files from there.

[janss]

Thanks man, that's great!

I'll try that as soon as I get home from work.

[janss]

Just tested what you said and it works like a charm!
GDM is enabled and I get a login-screen on boot-up, perfect

Thanks once more!

[daymz]

I was looking for a way to do this also and the solution described here works great !

The DontVTSSwitch set to "no" also works fine. Xfce4 is running in console 7 (Alt+Control+F7) and the shell is in console 1 (Alt+Control+F1) -- which has the bootup Acer background and looking funny, but otherwise fully functional.

Thanks !