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Re: How to allow password-less login for guest in GDM?



* Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> 2005-11-02
> Guest user has empty password. But when guest tries to login from GDM, it
> asks for a password and does not allow login with an empty password.
> 
> How can I allow password-less login for guest in GDM? I could not find any
> option in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf . Am I looking in the right place?

In /etc/pam.d/common-auth , changing:
    auth    required        pam_unix.so nullok_secure
to:
    auth    required        pam_unix.so nullok
appears to solve the problem.

If this is not the right method, do let me know.
-- 
Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>



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