* Stephen Gran (gashuffer09@comcast.net) [020725 12:31]: > This one time, at band camp, Vineet Kumar said: > > * Johan Ehnberg (johan@ehnberg.net) [020725 07:25]: > > > I'd like to use automatic login to gnome, but doing that puts me in a > > > dead circle as I cannot reboot or shutdown from gnome. Logging out > > > automatically logs me in again. How can I make the reboot and shutdown > > > buttons appear in my logout options? > > > According to gnome help, I need rights to execute /sbin/shutdown, and I > > > have. At least I can reboot, poweroff and shutdown in a terminal. > > > > What I've set up at my home is to just create a pam config for gdm that > > allows login without a password instead of auto-login. I just added this > > line: > > > > auth sufficient pam_listfile.so \ > > file=/etc/gdmusers sense=allow onerr=fail item=user > > > > Did you add this to /etc/pam.d/gdm2 ? I tried that and it hasn't worked > for me yet. 'Course, it may be that gdm2 just isn't working quite right > yet, but everything else seems to be fine with it. I''ve got: ii gdm 2.2.5.5-2 GNOME Display Manager Haven't tried gdm2. I don't know where that would put its pam config, but my guess would be /etc/pam.d/gdm2, or maybe /etc/pam.d/gdm if it Conflicts: gdm. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -- Albert Einstein
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