Skip login window?

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Joined: 10/14/2012

I've just installed trisquel 6.0 on two machines in a public library. It's great! (no more having to tell people where to find the "close window" button in Unity, etc)

It would be ideal if we could completely skip the login screen. (We just have one account, "public". Admin tasks can be done with a sudo password.) At the moment people have to click on "public", which is okay, but I could envisage problems if someone clicks on "Other" by accident.

thanks.

Sachin
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Joined: 06/02/2012

System Settings > Users and Groups
password: Asked on login
click on change

I think you should not allow the user "public" to use sudo.

Sachin
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Joined: 06/02/2012

I think lightdm can skip itself

lembas
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Joined: 05/13/2010

lightdm isn't installed in Trisquel but gdm. And the problem isn't password but having to choose user.

What is needed is autologin. To enable it, edit (or create, dunno if it exists by default) /etc/gdm/custom.conf, add

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=public

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Just to confirm that this does work (thanks lembas).