[mythtv-users] Using gdm for automatic login/re-login

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Monday 26 January 2004 10:31, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
> When I setup my MythTV box, I searched through the list looking for
> suggestions on the best way to setup mythfrontend to automatically
> startup. I found several ways, including using the automatic login feature
> of gdm of kdm. However the ways described will only login the mythtv user
> the first time after startup, and if mythfrontend crashes or the user
> exits the frontend, you have to re-login via the keyboard.
>
> After looking into it more, I found the timed login feature of gdm, which
> I think is very well suited for a mythtv box. Here is the section from my
> gdm.conf file:
>
> # Timed login, useful for kiosks.  Log in a certain user after a certain
> # amount of time
> TimedLoginEnable=true
> TimedLogin=mythtv
> TimedLoginDelay=5
>
> This logs in the mythtv user after 5 seconds if you don't login manually,
> and has the advantage of working every time the system ends up at the
> login screen, so it will re-login as mythtv if the frontend crashes for
> some reason. Also, the 5 second delay is useful, so that if you want to
> login as another user to do some sort of maintenance, you can exit
> mythfrontend, and then you have 5 seconds to login as root or another user
> before it logs back in as mythtv.
>
> Of course, you still need to have an .xinitrc or .Xclients, or whatever
> makes sense for your distro. I have an .Xclients-default that starts up
> fvwm and mythfrontend.

Hm... gdmconfig (aka gdmsetup, depending on distro) has always had a GUI 
option for "automatically log this user in after X seconds" for as far back 
as I can remember, at least in Red Hat strains... (just double-checked; its 
there back at least as far as RHL7.3/Gnome 1.4).

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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