nodm - Man Page
X display manager for automatic logins
Synopsis
nodm [options]
Description
nodm is a minimal display manager that simply logs in as a given user and starts an X session, without asking for username or password.
On a normal computer, using nodm is a big security issue because it would give anyone access to the computer.
However, there are cases where automatic login is needed: for example in an embedded system such as a mobile phone, or in a kiosk setup, or in a control panel for industrial machinery. For those cases, nodm is simple to setup, lightweight, and it should do exactly the right thing.
Options
- --help
print this help message
- --version
print nodm's version number
- --verbose
verbose outpout or logging
- --quiet
only log warnings and errors
- --nested
run a nested X server, does not require root. The server defaults to "/usr/bin/Xnest :1", override with NODM_X_OPTIONS
- --[no-]syslog
enable/disable logging to syslog
- --[no-]stderr
enable/disable logging to stderr
Author
nodm is written and maintained by Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> and Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>.
See Also
xinit(1), xdm(1), gdm(1), kdm(1).