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How to switch users without entering password

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Mar 15, 20266269 views
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I'm a newbie running Ubuntu 9.10. I have two users (wife and me), and each user's screensaver is set to lock so that on wakeup, we get to choose which user's desktop to go to. However, Ubuntu requires a password, so this is pretty tedious. I'd like to switch users without entering any password. I k…

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Fix for: How to switch users without entering password

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There is a way to achieve password-less logins in GDM by monkeying with GDM and/or PAM configurations. This is not the same as setting an empty password, or having GDM auto-login a given user; and it only works in GDM -- logging in on the text conso…

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