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Asked by frogmed

i want to be able to turn on my computer and have boot without having to type in any passwords. can anybody explain how to do this? this is not my main computer, nothing personnal is ever stored on it so im not woriied about security. i just want the convenience of not typing in my user name and password everytime i want to use it.

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

go to System->Administration->Login Window then the Security tab. You can enable Automatic Login here.

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frogmed (b-small) said : 		#2

did that, now network manager is asking for password on boot up.

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#3

Network Manager uses the Gnome-keyring to store the (probably) wireless AP passwords.

You will have to provide your old login password to get it. Depending on your version, there are ways of setting the Gnome-keyring without password.

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frogmed (b-small) said : 		#4

this is a resh install, only one user. well 4 people use it with only one account. i tried going through system-administration-authorizations-network manager settings. still cant figure it out.

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#5

go to System->Administration->Authorizations look for network-manager-settings, System, Modify system connections.

here you can tell it anyone can have authorization to make changes such as connect to a network.

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frogmed (b-small) said : 		#6

i went to system->admin->author-> found the network manager settings. there were several choices. i picked yes for all. did not work. im gonna try other settings and see if that works. if it works ill let you know.

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frogmed (b-small) said : 		#7

nothing i try works. here is exactly what the screen says. Application networkmanager applet' (/user/bin/nm-applet) wants access to the default keyring, but it is locked. i then type in the password from when i installed ubuntu 8.10 and it boots up and runs great.

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frogmed (b-small) said : 		#8

going to close this question and ask it again differently