Regarding Issue #2: Try looking in /etc/gdm/custom.conf for lines 
beginning with

AutomaticLoginEnable
AutomaticLogin

Steven Yellin

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Radu-Cristian Fotescu wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I might be polluting this list, but I'm having several questions and
> observations, so I thought that sending a mail to Urs wouldn't be the bes
> t
> choice.
>
> I was looking for a *reliable* Linux distro that would work fast with a
> 8-y.o. low-end laptop (HP Omnibook XE3, Celeron-128k, 850 MHz, 256 MB RAM
>
> PC-100, slow CD-ROM).
>
> Believe me or not, after having tried and ditched (or just ditched) sever
> al
> "lightweight distros", I've found SL 5.2 "mini_livecd" with IceWM as bein
> g
> remarkably fast and light, and this... even as a LiveCD!
>...
>...
> ** Issue #2: Maybe I'm dumb, but the installed system was with autologin
> on
> sluser. As I am not used with autologins under Linux, I pathetically fail
> ed
> to change this behavior. What should I have done? Can't this default
> behavior be changed?
> ...