Auto login

[Asmo Koskinen]

Alfred Nutile kirjoitti:
> could you explain a little more this process of setting up the lts.conf
> to auto login.
> Thanks
> 

I try to explain what I have done, Dapper 6.06.1 + LTSP 4.2.

I need some kind of Into-TV-solution for a school. There is already full 
LTSP system running on that school. I figured out that I might do that 
with autologin and simple web page (now I have to figure out how to push 
web page in that client's fullscreen browser ).

There is few tutorials, Google is your friend:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2002-November/msg00015.html
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#Public_and_private_use_of_the_wo
http://www.k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/A_more_complete_How-To_for_setting_up_autologin_of_clients_using_Gnome_and_GDM

1. Client in /etc/hosts-file

192.168.1.101  		ws101.ltsp	ws101

2. New login name "infotv" and new /usr/bin/autologin-file

#!/bin/bash
CLIENT=$(echo $DISPLAY | cut -d. -f1)
case "$CLIENT" in
     "ws101")    disp=infotv;;
esac
echo $disp

3. Some change in GDM

/etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom

[daemon]
RemoteGreeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=/usr/bin/autologin| # There have to be | at end
TimedLoginDelay=5

[security]
DisallowTCP=false
AllowRemoteAutoLogin=true

[xdmcp]

[gui]

[greeter]
GraphicalThemedColor=#ddbc78

[chooser]

[debug]

[servers]

4. Firefox with Autohide and fullscreen

Infotv-Firefox need one extension "Autohide" and then you can put 
Firefox with "-fullscreen" option on the Gnome desktop session as 
automatic launched.

http://www.krickelkrackel.de/autohide/

5. You don't have do anything with lts.conf.

6. I do not know how to get off that annoying X restarting for Dapper, 
there is patched rpm for Gnome, but I do not how to use it in dapper 
(*.deb).

7. Now I got one or more clients for Info-TV purpose on the ordinary 
LTSP system.

Best regards Asmo Koskinen.