how to disable the login screen?

**sgoodall** · 04-29-2004, 12:06 PM

Hi,
I've been trying to remaster a version of knoppix. It mostly seems to work as expected, however unless i explicity put it into single user mode (and loose directly booting into X), i get a login prompt. I assume this is because I've upgraded a load of packages, and removed many other ones I dont need. Can someone point me towards how I can fix this. I would rather not have to start from scratch if I can help it.

Simon

**garyng** · 04-29-2004, 01:18 PM

if you mean the text login console, there is a utility to do autologin. You can also change /etc/inittab to launch /bin/bash rather than getty.

**sgoodall** · 04-29-2004, 01:37 PM

I get a graphical login screen. One thing I have removed is KDE in favour of a lighter window manager. Would this affect the startup?

Simon

**arkaine23** · 04-29-2004, 06:10 PM

Doing package updates will add a bunch of init scripts to your runlevels. Check in /etc/rc5.d. There should nothnig in there by default. Just add what you need to by creating softlinks to the init scripts found in ../init.d

The culprit for your graphical login prompt is most likely /etc/rc5.d/S99kdm

**garyng** · 04-29-2004, 06:53 PM

don't know about KDM but GDM has an autologin feature too. If you want to disable it altogether, just remove the package but then you would get the standard getty one(text).

**sgoodall** · 05-02-2004, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by arkaine23

Doing package updates will add a bunch of init scripts to your runlevels. Check in /etc/rc5.d. There should nothnig in there by default. Just add what you need to by creating softlinks to the init scripts found in ../init.d

The culprit for your graphical login prompt is most likely /etc/rc5.d/S99kdm

Thanks, this fixed the problem

Simon