[techtalk] How do I get rid of login screen

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:09:52 GMT, Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz at snafu.de> said:

>Sorry about that, but why not giving your mother a nice little
>account e.g. called 'mom' without any password but reserve the true
>'root' account for yourself to pre- vent her from destroying the
>system by accident?

The automatic login doesn't ahve to be into 'root'.  You could easily
stick 'su mom -l -c startx' in an init file somewhere.  (Or something
similar.  I don't assert that this command actually works.)

Kelly

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