GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324337
can't disable "automatic" or "timed" log-in features.
Last modified: 2005-12-25 01:27:43 UTC
This bug has been opened here: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21139 "Just installed a fresh copy of Dapper Flight-2, and I notice a werid problem with GDM. I enabled the "timed log-in" option, and also the "automatic" log-in. It works fine. Problem: I then disabled both options, but it has no effect. That is, it will still log me automatically when I start the machine, and if I log-out, it will log me back in automatically after 30 seconds. I thought maybe it could be a problem in gdm-setup which perhaps failed to update the gdm configuration file properly, but no. Here are the relevant (I think?!) lines of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [daemon] # Automatic login, if true the first local screen will automatically logged # in as user as set with AutomaticLogin key. AutomaticLoginEnable=false AutomaticLogin=vincent # Timed login, useful for kiosks. Log in a certain user after a certain # amount of time TimedLoginEnable=false TimedLogin=vincent TimedLoginDelay=30 According to that file, I have indeed disabled both automatic and timed log-in. But gdm somehow acts as if they were still enabled ! Anything I can do to help, just ask..."
This is strange. Did you restart the gdm daemon by running gdm-restart or rebooting the machine? You can try running the following command: gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG daemon/AutomaticLoginEnable" and similar commands for the other keys. This will tell you what the daemon thinks the values are set to. Is the GDM daemon telling you that it thinks the values are true or false? I bet if you blank the AutomaticLogin and TimedLogin values it will disable it. What version of GDM are you using?
(In reply to comment #1) > This is strange. Did you restart the gdm daemon by running gdm-restart or > rebooting the machine? The machine has reboot quite a bunch of time since the update > gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG daemon/AutomaticLoginEnable" > > and similar commands for the other keys. This will tell you what the daemon > thinks the values are set to. Is the GDM daemon telling you that it thinks the > values are true or false? $ gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG daemon/AutomaticLoginEnable" OK false $ gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG daemon/TimedLoginEnable" OK false > I bet if you blank the AutomaticLogin and TimedLogin values it will disable it. Clearing the AutomaticLogin does the trick > What version of GDM are you using? current tarball, 2.13.0.3
I can recreate this problem, and I just fixed it in CVS head.