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I have been creating a custom live CD of Ubuntu 11.10 using remastersys, everything goes well except that the live session asks for a login. the login is automatically set as "custom" and the password is blank. this is fine, but I would rather it went direct to the desktop in a live session as you would expect from other distro live cds.

I have asked on the remastersys forums, the question has gotten a lot of views, but no answer as of yet, I am wondering has anyone here remastered a distro and come across the login problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

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Is this helpful? – Manish Sinha Nov 13 '11 at 20:55
Im not sure, is this telling how to remove autoligin for a live session, when i want autologin for a live session, so if i do the reverse, the live session will go direct to the desktop? will this adversely affect login once the sysytem is installed? thanks for your help – Jayo Nov 21 '11 at 23:47

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Maybe this Gentoo documentation helps:

Build Your Own LiveCD or LiveDVD - AutoLogin

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im not sure, this looks specific to gentoo? – Jayo Nov 25 '11 at 22:28
If you're about to create a LiveCD, you probably can figure it out with this howto even when aimed for Gentoo. – Marc-André Appel Feb 24 '12 at 18:29
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Try configuring your login manager on the system to be remastered. Enable autologin there and I believe it will be the same in LiveCD. My root account password saves on remastered LiveCD and on installation of this remaster, so login manager's settings mostly save.
This is just a guess, though.

And you could also look at the new version of remastersys here, they added some options for grub customization and plymouth theme, so I believe you can enable autologin with that version aswell.

If anyone posts any good response, please ignore this one, since these are just guesses.

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thanks for the reply, i should have mentioned that i am already using the latest remastersys and also fragadelic, the dev, earlier offered that having autologin would actually cause problems, though in my case i dont have autologin enabled – Jayo Nov 25 '11 at 15:26

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