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Re: grub wish



On Monday 24 October 2011 18:03:49 Tom H wrote:
> 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.

I should have had a coffee coming out of a siesta before answering!!
Thierry


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