David Wright wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (rowlett@cloud85.net):David Wright wrote:[snip] Were I to set up a machine at home to autologin, I would not want it to login as me, nor root, nor anonymous. I would configure a user called, say, "kiosk" and that would be my "choice of which user login to auto-login as." IOW no choice has to be made each time you actually power-up the machine.How Squeeze with Gnome2? Jessie with Mate? The user name would be myexperiments. It would have minimal set of privileges.I don't know. I don't really understand your original question. It
said "How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?" [snip] I have 2 machines. One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE. One is Jessie with Mate DE.Desired user name to be "myexperiments" having a minimal set [TBD] privileges.
Power on yields operating system.