xorloser wrote:Ok it seems it does work, just not for the root account.
Yes I know it's a bad idea to login as admin, but I am just mucking around on this PS3 locally..
I can see how this should be a simple thing that would take someone who knows what they are doing 10 seconds, unfortunately it took me most of a day of reading different pages on it, not realising that my error was due to trying to login as root
It's not a bad idea to login in as root - if you're administering the system. That's what it's for.
NOTE: Red Hat system admin theory is different from Ubuntu/Debian. They prevent logging in as root at all. You have to use sudo for everything. Red Hat/Fedora systems realize there's times when you either need to elevate a terminal session to root, log in a text console as root, or start your whole GUI as root.
It's just a bad idea to autologin as root - and it's a bad idea to use root for your day to day Linux computing - that's all. But - root logins for system administration? Perfectly fine.
And - apparently - Linux prevents root autologin. I didn't realize that they had already thought of that - I assumed it was up to the user not to do that.
xorloser wrote:How can I set it to auto logon if I am using enlightenment?
That link along with the rest of the pages I've read on the net gives details for kde and gnome etc that do not work for enlightenment as they refer to non-existant files.
As for Enlightenment, if you read through the link I posted, you may have noticed a dialog box in Gnome called "gdmsetup". If you run that program from a terminal window in Enlightenment, you could have used the rest of the procedure.
You're not doing anything wrong - gdmsetup modifies the custom.conf file you mentioned. In fact, you're doing it the "Unix" way.
YDL uses GDM for the initial login screen to launch both Enlightenment and Gnome. (And any other Window Manager you install like KDE, XFCE, etc.)
By the way - Gnome is already installed on your YDL box, along with Enlightenment. You can select it from the login screen using the Session pick.
Cheers,
Paul