Passwordless login

[hairy_Palms]

i recently set up a user for my mum on the home computer, she cant remember a username or password for the life of her, i can fix the username by using a different gdm theme, but the password? hmm so i dug around and found out how

First open up /etc/pam.d/gdm in a Text Editor

the first two lines should look like

auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so

below them add the line below

auth sufficient pam_listfile.so item=user sense=allow file=/etc/X11/gdm/nopassusers onerr=fail

now in /etc/X11/gdm/ create a new text file called nopassusers

users that are to login without a password need their username on its own line in this file.

if you want 1 click login, (ala winxp) then change to a gdm theme with a facebrowser

such as http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. ... tent=48213

SECURITY WARNING!!! DONT do this for the root account, or it will cause a puppy to develop aids and die!