Pidora No Password Login

[renenijman]

Hello,

I have installed Pidora on my Raspberry Pi and since i will be using it in a project without a monitor, I would like to be able to boot into Pidora without entering a password. I have searched around many forums, but have not been able to come up with a solution.
Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
René

[bob]

Check the Fedora Set-Up Guides (above). AutoTen and other scripts will set up auto-login.

[renenijman]

Check the Fedora Set-Up Guides (above). AutoTen and other scripts will set up auto-login.

I'll give it a go. Thanks for the quick response!

[renenijman]

Check the Fedora Set-Up Guides (above). AutoTen and other scripts will set up auto-login.

I tried that and apparently Autologin is already installed, but I have no idea how to activate it.
Using passwd I deleted the password for the user, but it still shows a prompt at login (similar to this one: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7327/8...40fffede_z.jpg).
I have also tried editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, but to no avail.

Any suggestions are more than welcome.

BTW, I'm using Pidora (Xfce 4.10)

[stevea]

First determine exactly which display manager you are using - gdm or lightdm.
The contents of /etc/sysconfig/desktop may have lines like "DISPLAYMANAGER=..." or "PREFERRED=...". If not the default is gdm (which IMO stinks).

[renenijman]

First determine exactly which display manager you are using - gdm or lightdm.
The contents of /etc/sysconfig/desktop may have lines like "DISPLAYMANAGER=..." or "PREFERRED=...". If not the default is gdm (which IMO stinks).

Thanks. There doesn't seem to be a file or folder named Desktop in /etc/sysconfig/. Does that mean I'm using gdm?

[stevea]

Well things are a little differnet on pidora.

Pidora distro comes with gdm and lightdm and lightdm is the default service selected by the systemctl scheme [a good choice IMO].

So for autologin you want to add lines to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf lik these in bold ....

#autologin-user-timeout=0
#autologin-session=UNIMPLEMENTED
#exit-on-failure=false
autologin-user=stevea
autologin-user-timeout=0
autologin-session=default

(untested on Pidora, works on F19).

You need to edit the file with root privileges.