xdm autologin important for tiny devices

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201855
T> on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing
T>
T> @include common-auth
T>
T> with
T>
T> auth            required        pam_permit.so
T>
T> so that I only need to type the username of the user I want to
T> use. This is not as good as automated login after preconfigured
T> timeout but usable still. (Automatic login without timeout would not
T> be usable in my case since I really want to use different users.)

That is half the way to full automatic login!
Every day for the last 10 years I've had to type in username and
password. Can somebody tell me how to get some relief without having to
switch display managers, for heavens sake.