Bug#597504: Remote autologin is neccessary

[Erik Thiele]

Hello,

I read in this thread, that remote autologin is not useful. In my
installation I have about 20 client computers running LTSP (so they
become remote X terminals). all clients do autologin to a central server
and run specific software depending on their hostname. each computer is
next to a mechanic production machine and needs to display the
informations for that machine.

my gdm conf sais:

[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLoginDelay=1
TimedLogin=/etc/gdm/autologinchooser.sh|


and the autologinchooser.sh script reads:

#!/bin/bash

set -e

if [ "${DISPLAY/:*/}" == "192.168.30.72" ]; then
    echo fox
    exit 0
elif [ "${DISPLAY/:*/}" == "192.168.30.94" ]; then
    echo brown
    exit 0
.... and so on.
fi
exit 1


I think remote autologin is a very important feature.

thanks!
erik