Re: [gdm-list] GDM AutoLogin Question

[Ray Strode <halfline gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Victor Magana <vicmagana hotmail com> wrote:
> Do you know if Auto Login for root is controlled by GDM?
It's controlled by the pam configuration.  By default GDM uses a pam
configuration for normal logins with:

auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

which disables root logins.  For AutoLogin however, the administrator
has to explicitly put the user to log in as in the root-writable
config file,
and the pam config doesn't disallow it out of the box.

--Ray