XFCE starts as root w/o login screen

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mark Neis <neismark at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi Doug,
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> thanks for taking the time to answer.
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> You said:
>> Since XFCE is only the desktop, your problem is further up, or back.
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> That's exactly my problem. I'm not sure where to look.
> My understanding so far has been that the display manager asks for a
> login. Hence I should probably try to install and start xdm...
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>> You need to have a user account in the OS, and login as that user.
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> I do have a user account on the system (I created one), but finding a
> way to make the system require a login beats me. It does on the
> console (i. e. on a different tty), but not when starting X.
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>> http://fos.foxconn.com/index.php?lanmu_id=44
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> Documentation about FoxOS is virtually non-existent. I also tried
> Fedora, but as they use Gnome or KDE by default, that didn't take me any
> further, either.
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> Mark
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What's in your /etc/inittab file? I have a couple of machine I do
auto-login setups on by modifying that file. Maybe these FoxOS guys
did something like that?

Cheers,
Mark