Suppressing logins

[Glenn Burkhardt]

> At the installfest, Pamela King wanted to know if there was a way to suppress the need for a login. 
> (I know that I can write a replacement for login and getty) I don't know of a simple way to configure 
> a Linux system not to require a login. I know that Pamela and many other Windows and Mac 
> people don't understand what a login is, and the concept of a priviledged user vs. a regular user. 

There's a standard way to do it on Mandrake systems.  There's an autologin
feature.  It works on RedHat 7.0 as well, but I don't know if it's a 
standard feature.

When X comes up, it starts the desktop for the "default user", without a 
login screen, instead of running 'xdm' (or 'kdm', or 'gdm'...).

It can be configured after the fact in the Mandrake control center, under
boot config.  

We use this feature in our product, so the machine just comes up with the 
default application running.

Check out http://www.linux-easy.com/development/autologin