gdm autologin capability and new sf project

[Michael P. <lin...@gr...>]

For those wanting to have multiple xservers auto or timed login with 
gdm, we have just patched a gdm 2.8 ubuntu package to allow that.  Files 
are at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141732
We will begin using that SLIM sourceforge project as a central point for 
talking about and releasing files for simultaneous local independent 
multi-user capability.  The linuxconsole project name doesn't really 
even apply anymore given the evdev approach and other important 
multi-user aspects like sessiond for sound.  There was some discussion a 
few months ago over a "new" project name, but there was no consensus, so 
if other people want to help, great.   I invite everyone to help admin 
and mold the SLIM project as they see fit.  I would really love to see 
all of the great new multi-user documentation in a central place.    We 
are almost done moving over to Ubuntu, and we will have a lot of new 
multi-user scripts to release shortly, including a live Ubuntu 
multi-user capable CD. 

Back to talking about the patched gdm:
In the past we have just used our own inittab with respawn to launch X 
servers instead of gdm, but sometimes gdm is nice.  Maybe auto/timed 
logins for all displays should be handled on a per-server basis, because 
some people wouldn't want the auto/timed login on non-primary displays.  
In my hack you don't get a choice, auto/timed login applies to all local 
displays.
Questions can be sent directly to me via email or you could try the help 
forums at:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=141732

Thanks,
Mike Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
http://open-sense.com
1-888-323-1742

Re: automatic login for second X server
 > Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:13:05 +0300
 > CC: Andrej van der Zee <ma...@ya... <mailto:ma...@ya...>>
 >
 > On Sestdiena, 8. Oktobris 2005 01:36, Andrej van der
 > Zee wrote:
Now I want to automatically login for the
 > second X server (no
 > > keyboard). Unfortunately, options in gdm only
 > allow this for the first X
 > > server. Automatically login for both X servers
 > would also be fine for me.
 > >
 > > Does anybody have a solution? Maybe get rid of gdm
 > totally and start X
 > > from a startup script? Any suggestions?