Comments on: How to Enable Automatic Login in Ubutnu

By: Adam Hall

Adam Hall — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:08:30 +0000

And if your not running Gnome?

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:33:58 +0000

Old old thread and a bit off topic but still in response to jacrider:
no need to autologin the server to autostart vnc. the simplest and yet clean way I found was to install xrdp. That adds 2 bonuses 1/ you can connect with windows remote desktop client (and your ubuntu equivalents) 2/ there is some acceleration resulting from the use of rdp.

if you feel adventurous try the NX protocol (freenx or neatx) there you have the whole package: speed and security.

By: mastapat11

mastapat11 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:26:51 +0000

kool. Thanks fellas!

By: S

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:20:28 +0000

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

By: Ralph Nunn

Ralph Nunn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:38:23 +0000

mastapat11-

It looks like the file on Lucid is /etc/gdm/custom.conf. The syntax would be the same.

By: mastapat11

mastapat11 — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:47:26 +0000

“You can edit the file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf…”

This file doesn’t exist in Lucid. Does anybody know how to do this from the command line in this newer Ubuntu ver?

By: Tafadzwa

Tafadzwa — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:29:35 +0000

Steve, You can edit the file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to setup auto login which will allow you to vnc to the client.

# Automatic login, if true the first attached screen will automatically logged
# in as user as set with AutomaticLogin key.
AutomaticLoginEnable=true //This line to true
AutomaticLogin=’USERNAME’ // Your username on this line with out the single quote

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:19:14 +0000

Erick,
Did you figure out how to change the auto login setting via the console. We have a machine which we only have console access to and we would like to enable the remote access to the desktop via vnc. If we knew which file the auto login setting was stored in we could change it via the console and reboot.

By: Érick

Érick — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:49:55 +0000

How can I do that on shell?

By: Abhisek

Abhisek — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:09:39 +0000

Nice tip indeed. I get irritated sometimes typing in the same username and pass the hundredth time.

By: uzisuicide

uzisuicide — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:27:50 +0000

Nice tip, thanks you …

By: jacrider

jacrider — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:26:47 +0000

I like this. I have a headless server that is a pain to reboot. This way, I could have it boot and auto login, then lock the screen saver automatically. This way I can RemoteAccess into the box. Now, I can’t seem to get RemoteAccess until logged in the first time at the console.

By: Guru

Guru — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:30:06 +0000

I added the following command to Session (System -> Preferences -> Session)
gnome-screensaver-command --lock

Why? When I login now:
* all programs are fully loaded
* all e-mails are retrieved
* no waiting time after login to work
* computer is locked, so nobody but me can use it

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:21:05 +0000

Automatic login in Ubuntu 8.04 causes that keyboard switching applet stops work.