minnie_eg
amany.elguindy@gmail.com
2012
Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3756@gmail.com
2012, 2013
Petr Kovar
pknbe@volny.cz
2014
Log in automatically into a user account on startup.
Configure automatic login
minnie_eg
This assumes the reader knows how to edit files as root user.
By the end of this page, the reader will be able to enable autologin
and select a user to automatically login.
A user
with an Administrator account type can
enable Automatic Login
from the Settings panel. You can also set up autologin
manually in the GDM custom configuration
file, as follows.
Edit the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and make
sure that the [daemon] section in the file specifies the
following:
custom.conf
[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=username
Replace the username with the user that
you want to be automatically logged in.
The custom.conf file can usually be found
in /etc/gdm/, but the location may differ
depending on your distribution.