Auto Login on Fedora Core 9, 10 & 11

As you may not I’m a big fan of mythtv and I want to have Fedora Core 9 (it’s works for 10 and 11 too) login automatically when the PC is booted up.

For some reason on Fedora 9 gdm is different and you can’t easily configure it to auto login through the GUI, but here’s another way.

Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add this to the file. You could use gedit or vi whatever suits you, but you need to do it as root.
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=username
TimedLogin=username
TimedLoginDelay=0

Obviously you would replace “username” above with the actually “username” you wish to login automatically.

Now reboot and test it!