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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:25:36 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Wout =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Decr=E9?= <wout@delta-design.be>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GDM auto login
Message-ID:  <1223943936.59852.19.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1220463705.5968.10.camel@wout-desktop>
References:  <1220458205.6019.13.camel@wout-desktop> <1220463705.5968.10.camel@wout-desktop>

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On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 19:41 +0200, Wout Decr=E9 wrote:
> Hi again, just noticed that there should also be a minor adjustment for
> the gdm-autologin file. According to /usr/src/UPDATING
> auth	required	pam_nologin.so no_warn
> should be changed to:
> account	required	pam_nologin.so no_warn
>=20
> So I think a better gdm-autologin file would be:
>=20
> auth       required     pam_permit.so
> account    required     pam_nologin.so
> account    required     pam_unix.so
> session    required     pam_permit.so
>=20
> I guess someone should verify this, cause I'm no PAM expert. I have done
> it like this on my laptop, the auto login works and I don't get any
> error messages anymore.
>=20
> The error message was:
>=20
> gdm-binary[2463]: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so:
> no_pam_sm_setcred()
> gdm-binary[2463]: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no
> pam_sm_authenticate()

Did auto-login work with the FAQ example?

Joe

>=20
> Kind regards
>=20
> Wout
>=20
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 18:10 +0200, Wout Decr=E9 wrote:
> > Hi, according to the GNOME FAQ question 23 (How do I configure GDM for
> > automatic logins?) you should create a gdm-autologin file and put it
> > under /etc/pam.d, but wouldn't it be more elegant to put it
> > under /usr/local/etc/pam.d?
> >=20
> > I also noticed the file /etc/pam.d/gdm_disabled, but what is it's use?
> >=20
> > Thanks for the great job on GNOME, I'm a very happy FreeBSD user for
> > over 5 years on my servers, and decided to also use it on my new laptop
> > as a workstation (I'm using a boot password, so that is why I use the
> > auto login feature), you guys made it a peace of cake :)
> >=20
> > Wout
>=20
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