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    how to disable the login screen?

    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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

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    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).

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    Quote 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

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