Re: grub wish

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> wrote:
> On Monday 24 October 2011 17:28:34 Richard wrote:
>>
>> is it possible on boot up to go to the login screen wait 10 seconds, and
>> the automatically login a selected account?
>>
>> So on boot up it goes to the login screen and you have 10 secs to login to
>> any of the accounts, if not on timeout it logs in the primary user, (
>> selected somewhere).
>> ie automatic logins with a pause to login on another account.
>
> Maybe havea look at /etc/grub.d/readme and then /etc/defaults/grub

It sounds more like you have to look into GDM. GRUB doesn't control
the login screen.

I no longer use GDM but I remember a "TimedLoginEnable" variable.