Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Ron Johnson writes:

> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> Jeff Elkins writes:
>>
>> > Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin,
>> > giving me an authentication failure.  Is there a workaround for
>> > this?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a known problem.  I have added the following text to
>> http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE:
>>
>> ** Passwordless logins don't work in kdm.  This is a known problem
>> with a known fix.  Replace the file /etc/pam.d/kdm-np with the one
>> from http://www.kde-debian.org/~domi/kdm-np as an easy fix.

> Should passwordless logins even be allowed?

It's the admin who decides about them, so I don't see a problem.

cheers
domi