Administrator Mode in Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 19 October 2008 12:36, Paul Hurley wrote:
> Hey.
>
> After my venerable M300 lappie died and was reborn recently, I rebuilt
> it with 8.04 and KDE4.  Things are going ok, but one niggle is that
> system settings doesn't have an administrator mode button any more.  I
> want to do things like set my system to login automatically, which was
> easy in KDE3.

> Thanks
>
> Paul.

Hi Paul. I can't help with the missing button, but if you want to set up the 
autologin, and have a bit of practice on the command line at the same time, 
try the following. (By the way, I don't have KDE4 on my HH 8.04, but stuff 
below should still be ok)

sudo kate, then navigate to /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc. Click on "View" on Kate, and 
on the line "Show Line Numbers". Scroll down to line 539, which should read,
# Enable automatic login. USE WITH EXTREME CARE!, if your on the correct line.

Remove the # from the start of line 541, so that it reads,
AutoLoginEnable=true

Now on line 551, remove the # from the line #AutoLoginUser=fred, and change 
"fred" for your user name, unless it is fred.

Save the changes, and that should be job done.

Read all the lines well from line 539 to the end of the file.

If you have more than one user set up on the machine, you should uncomment 
line 548 as well, which should result in the greeter being shown for 10secs, 
giving you a chance to choose a different user to login.

You probably know all the above, but just in case.

All the best.

Nigel.