live cd autologin

On the Ubuntu and Kubuntu live CDs, this works correctly, so the problem appears to be specific to Xubuntu.

casper knows how to configure gdm and kdm for automatic login; what does Xubuntu use?

xubuntu uses gdm. I thought asking for passwd was default in the other live CDs (which I did not test to see if this was true). I agree that autologin would make alot more sense for xubuntu too.

On 4/23/06, Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden> wrote:
> On the Ubuntu and Kubuntu live CDs, this works correctly, so the problem appears to be specific to Xubuntu.
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> casper knows how to configure gdm and kdm for automatic login; what does Xubuntu use?

xubuntu uses gdm, but now i know this, it may be because of the
gdm.conf within xubuntu-default-settings pkge.

i'll check that file, in the mean time could you briefly explain me
how this is done in ubuntu ? does it use same gdm.conf as the
installed system ?

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This was done for edubuntu I wonder why it does not work for us

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/37467

On 4/23/06, Jani Monoses <email address hidden> wrote:
> This was done for edubuntu I wonder why it does not work for us
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> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/37467
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well .. .that's still the gdm.conf issue :) .. it seems.

apt-get source edubuntu-artwork

debian/gdm-cdd.conf.

* fixed gdm theme handling (using gdm-cdd.conf now)

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related but not quite the same thing

edubuntu and xubuntu use /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf to override default gdm settings (mostly the greeter theme). See /etc/init.d/gdm.

On the livecd the installed gdm config file is further modified to default to autologin. In a qemu xubuntu live session I am looking at, even if /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf is installed, /etc/gdm/gdm.conf was touched instead by casper-bottom/autologin.
So the xubuntu theme is there but autologin is not.

xubuntu-artwork (I think) currently ships /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf using alternatives which means it's a symlink. Please don't do that, make it a real file.

   [ Tollef Fog Heen ]
   * Turn on debugging of the X config.
   * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
   * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
   * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
     gnome-panel-data is installed.
   * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
     127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
     "localhost".
   * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
     from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
   * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
   * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.