Re: Autologin from remote terminals

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:41:30AM +1030, Mike OConnor wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> 
> I have spent a large amount of time of the last few weeks trying to find
> out how to get a Display Manager to do autologin from a remote terminal.
> 
> Most like GDM will do autologins for one terminal, but none I have been
> able to find, will do an autologin for a different user per remote
> terminal.
> 
> It would be great if GDM could using the hostname of each terminal as a
> config file marker allowing each terminal to have indivudual
> configurations.
> 
> Has this been done/looked at by any one ?

It is possible to do timed login different for each host.  Itis slightly
undocumented I think (slightly == a lot undocumented).  Tehre aresome % fields you
can put in the username, also if the first character is a ! it will run a script to
figure out the name.  I'm not on a machine ableto check this out so I can't
tell you more other then from memory.

George