FC5 - auto-login not working?

[Nikhil Fernandes]

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 09:45 -0400, B Wooster wrote:
> On my FC5 VMWare box, I'm trying to set it up to autologin on a user
> account called "cgi".
> 
> This user exists, I can manually log in.
> 
> But when I go to the "Login Screen" administation tool, on the
> "Security" tab, when I check-mark  "Enable Auto-Login" and go to
> select the user, there is no user in the pull-down text field - it is
> all blank. I can type in the word "cgi" in here, but this is lost next
> time I go into Login Screen, and I also tried rebooting, and it does
> not auto-login.
> 
> Which system config files are used to enable auto-login? Maybe I can
> manually set this up, and not use gdmsetup.
> 


I had the same problem. In gdmsetup go to the Users tab and add the user
you want to autologin to the include list (the left pane) and apply user
changes. Then they will appear in the dropdown box for the auto-login.

Nik