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= Linux Gnome Desktop Manager (GDM) =

The Gnome Desktop Manager is the responsible application to ask for login authentication and gets call gnome session after login.

== How to setup automatic system login ==

The following settings produces that systems goes into the user session after boot process.

To get this working just add the following lines under `daemon` section in `/etc/gdm/custom.conf` file

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[daemon]

AutomaticLoginEnable=True

AutomaticLogin=user1

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== How to login with no password ==

# Add the following entry to `/etc/gdm/custom.conf` file to ensure the user name appears in login chooser

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[greeter]

Include=user1, user2

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# Add the following line next to the line `auth required pam_env.so` in `/etc/pam.d/gdm` file

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auth sufficient pam_listfile.so item=user sense=allow file=/etc/gdm/users.txt onerr=fail

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