Automatic login with Fedora 12

Here’s how to automatically login to a Fedora Linux box. Useful when you run a headless machine as home server, in my case Amahi Home Server.

Fire up terminal, locally or via SSH and log in as root.

Edit the following file:

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

Example:

nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf

Add the following to the end of the file:

[daemon]
 TimedLoginEnable=true
 AutomaticLoginEnable=true
 AutomaticLogin=yourusername
 TimedLogin=yourusername
 TimedLoginDelay=0

Save and exit. On reboot, the machine should autologin with the username you specified.