Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Auto login

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 19:52 +0200, Andreas Rueckert wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 19:37, Wolfgang Müller wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks for all your work.
> >
> > I am currently trying to get catalyst working in order to demo some of the
> > work done in our group using kool live CDs :-D . After some tries, I have
> > finally gotten through to the point that my live cd (directly derived from
> > stage 2) boots. However, it does not automatically login, and as there is
> > no password for getting in, I do not get as far as I would like to. Could
> > anyone point me to where to fix this?
>
> One option is to add a special user with password in fsscript.sh
> ==================
> useradd -g users -G wheel,portage -m -p test gentoo
> ==================

Bah... or use livecd/users in livecd-stage2... :P

> and then use KDE to log this user in. We do this with an overlay file under
> /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

I do something similar to auto-login via GDM on my LiveCD.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux