Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Change Doremi auto login user?

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Posted by Carsten Kurz (Member # 5396) on 08-29-2014, 02:33 AM:

Is there a way to change the default auto login account from 'doremi' to 'manager'?

- Carsten

Posted by Marcel Birgelen (Member # 6801) on 08-29-2014, 03:12 AM:

I've never paid sufficient attention, but aren't they using a standard GDM login manager? If so, just edit:

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

look for a section called [daemon] and the following two lines:

AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=<your auto login user>

Posted by Ioannis Syrogiannis (Member # 3235) on 08-29-2014, 04:41 PM:

Well, I am not sure about that.
First of all, I think it's a wdm display manager. While I am not certain, and I can not be for the time being, there isn't an /etc/wdm or a /doremi/etc/wdm folder.
The password for the default user (doremi) to login is kept in the /doremi/X11R6/etc/login.conf file. (That's according to doremi.)
So after changing the default user to auto login (if someone figure out the way),
shouldn't one at least change that too, with the proper and well known "manager" password?
In all other cases, I suspect that there will be a prompt for feeling in the credentials.

I am curious about the outcome of such an attempt.
Please, feel free to let the rest of us know.

Posted by Marcel Birgelen (Member # 6801) on 08-29-2014, 07:26 PM:

Yeah, I stand corrected. The Windows Manager is WDM and they also use their Login Manager and not GDM. The WDM login manager is some bastardized version of XDM, which is a bitch to configure. Maybe they use it, because it's the only way to get the on-screen keyboard functioning at login?

Look for the wdm-config file, usually in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config, but now probably burried somewhere in /doremi/X11R6/.

Those two lines should do the magic:

DisplayManager*wdmDefaultUser: <user>
DisplayManager*wdmDefaultPasswd: <password>