Re: [gdm-list] Auto-Login on more than one local display

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Dean:

Refer here:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2007-June/msg00039.html

Brian


> I am attempting to build a machine with several quasi-independent
> local X terminals which all log in automatically with different
> users.
>
> I have four video cards installed, each with two outputs.
> With a number of usb mice and keyboards, and using gdm i have
> been able to set up 8 independent displays with their own
> mouse and keyboards - all running thanks to GDM's [servers]
> section.
>
> The trick is that i want to have all of them auto-login.
> i have made a shell script which creates the username based
> on the display number using the %d substitution.
>
> The problem is that only display :0 logs in on its own.
> (the other displays work perfectly... just manually)
>
> With GDM in debug mode i can see that the second (and third
> etc) display calls the script correctly. similarly, if i
> add lines to the script to output to a log file, i can
> see that the script is being called correctly for each
> screen.
>
> There are wiffs here and there that only the first local
> screen will autologin - but nothing explicit
> (see "AllowRemoteAutoLogin" for such a mention,
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.8/configuration.html)
>
> Certainly, when i change the script to return nothing
> for display :0, and names for the others - nothing
> logs in!
>
> I would appreciate any feedback.
>
> Dean
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