Gdm

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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.

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 

 [daemon]
 AutomaticLoginEnable=True
 AutomaticLogin=user1


Login with no password

  1. Add the following entry to `/etc/gdm/custom.conf` file to ensure the user name appears in login chooser
 [greeter]
 Include=user1, user2
  1. Add the following line next to the line `auth required pam_env.so` in `/etc/pam.d/gdm` file 
 
 auth sufficient pam_listfile.so item=user sense=allow file=/etc/gdm/users.txt onerr=fail
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