As I am the single user of my laptop run on Fedora 10, entering username & password each time is troublesome for me. So I need to automatic login feature. It is very easy in Ubuntu but not in Fedora. After searching online, I have seen it is not very hard to configure in Fedora too.

Fedora 8 – Automatic Logon

Open the file:

vim /etc/gdm/custom.conf

Put the following lines in the file.
[daemon]
AutomaticLogin=username
AutomaticLoginEnable=true

Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 – Automatic Logon

Fedora 9 requires a slightly different configuration.
Fedora 10 also requires this configuration.
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