[Nottingham] Booting Headless

[Chris Dawson]

Rob

Thanks - didn't know they were available (not been in to Linux for that long
really) 

I'll go look :-)

Thanks


Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Robert Hart
Sent: 18 August 2005 21:19
To: roger at atchoo.org; nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Booting Headless

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Roger Light wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> > I've setup a PC running Fedora 4 and I'm using VNC to access the 
> > desktop locally. However, I now want to move the machine into a 
> > remote part of the property without a keyboard or monitor. I'd like 
> > to be able to vnc in to Gnome and access the machine completely
remotely.
> > 
> > I'd like to boot it headless but I can't seem to find a way to avoid 
> > logging on with username and PW.

Are you talking about X? gdm, and maybe other similar programs have an
option to autologin a particular user after a certain amount of time.

Rob


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