Monday, May 31, 2010

Fedora automatic login

For the longest time I've been using a timed login in gdm's custom.conf as a kludge to automatically login to my machine at home. But I will be kludging no more! Apparently there is a setting for just such a desire.

Place the following in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, and fedora will boot straight to your desktop.

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=<user name>

Of course, this is completely insecure, but I figure if someome has access to my box at home, I have bigger things to worry about.