ubuntu littered with malicious viruses, some oriented toward Linux

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:58:03AM +0000, Andy Stone wrote:
> >Jspired wrote:
> >
> >>If you go into your login screen setup, you can do this under "general."
> >>There is a choice available to allow for automatic login.
> 
> Sorry, I should have made myself clearer.  When I said I wanted 'certain 
> users' to be able to log on without submitting their password, I meant 
> to imply that there was more than one local user on this machine. 
> Auto-login would not therefore be a suitable solution as it is really a 
> single-user solution.
> 

Apparently some versions of GDM allow this.  I have an installation of
Libranet 2.8.1 with gdm2 installed. This has a file 
/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf which shows:

# A comma separated list of users that will be logged in without having
# to authenticate on local screens (not over xdmcp).  Note that 'root'
# is ignored and will always have to authenticate.
LocalNoPasswordUsers=
 
This feature does not work in the version of GDM in Hoary, however.