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<H1>[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx</H1>
<B>Jose Jorge</B>
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<I>Sat Apr 7 08:08:22 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le 06/04/2012 22:53, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
><i> Couldn't agree more. I'd say we can happily provide a tool to configure
</I>><i> autologin, but if that is configured, it basically just sets the DM to
</I>><i> gdm, and lets' it do the autologin.
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</I>><i> The fact that gdm is used should be mostly hidden from users.
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</I>><i> > From what I've seen, gdm seems to be the best implementation of the
</I>><i> whole pam and authentication stuff, so this would be my personal favourite.
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</I>><i> Col
</I>Please note that autologin is lightweight and fast, so I use it for very
old systems, where even the 30Mb of RAM eaten by gdm count.
But I just can agree that if no one has time to fix it, we can drop it.
I'll be away from computers for 15 days ...
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