SLED 11 with KDE and autoyast- autologin and start the X

SUSE Product Topics SLED Install-Boot
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Hi.

I’m trying to do an unattended install of SLED with KDE.
After the install, reboot and preconfiguration the system just boots into the console and ask me to login.
After the manual login and “startx” command everything is fine but I want those to be automated.

The runlevel is set to 5

<runlevel> <default>5</default> </runlevel>

And the displaymanager is set to autologin as root:

<sysconfig config:type="list" > <sysconfig_entry> <sysconfig_key>DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN</sysconfig_key> <sysconfig_path>/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager</sysconfig_path> <sysconfig_value>root</sysconfig_value> </sysconfig_entry> </sysconfig>
The autologin_user is also fixed:

<login_settings> <autologin_user>root</autologin_user> </login_settings>

I know it’s now safe to autologin as root but I need it on a test machine (not connected to the Internet)

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Hi
Autologin as root into X??? yikes!

Have via YaST /etc/sysconfig editor, I’m pretty sure it’s disabled for
root user to autologin.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 1 day 1:25, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.42, 0.52
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;6653]Hi
Autologin as root into X??? yikes!
[/QUOTE]
I know it’s now safe to autologin as root but I need it on a test machine (not connected to the Internet)

I’ve tried it also with a normal user, with the same result
What exactly do I have to modify to make it work?

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Hi
These settings worked for me;

DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN = all
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN = root

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 11:27, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.04, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU