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Documentation / Contents - CyLogin

• Overview of CyLogin
  • What It Is
  • What It Is Not
  • The Programs
  • In This Book
• Setting Up
  • What You Need
  • Build and Install
  • Enable With the Helper
  • Linux SysV and systemd
  • NetBSD rc.d
  • PAM Service File
  • Xservers and VT
  • Headless and LXC
  • Competing Display Managers
  • Check That It Works
  • Disable and Rollback
  • Common Mistakes
• Using CyLogin
  • Logging In
  • Faces
  • noiconlogin
  • Session Lock
  • Autologin and Classroom
  • After Login (Session)
  • Failsafe
• Configuration
  • Master Conf
  • Appearance
  • Session Path
  • Unsafe Knobs
  • Autologin Knobs
  • Lock Timeout
  • Classroom Sample
• Enable and Disable Helpers
  • cylogin-enable
  • Every enable Flag
  • cylogin-disable
  • Examples
• Security and PAM
  • Defaults
  • PAM Stacks
  • Empty Password Gate
  • Auth Dir and Cookies
  • Vs XDM and login
  • Lab Matrix
• Command Line
  • cylogind
  • cylogin Greeter
  • cylogin-authcheck
  • cychooser
• Keys and Shortcuts
• Files and Paths
  • System Conf
  • Runtime
  • Share Install
  • Init and PAM
• Troubleshooting
  • Greeter Never Appears
  • No Screens Found
  • PAM Failures
  • Wrong Session After Login
  • Setuid and Nobody
• Copyright

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2026, Swift Griggs and The Cyanotype Project contributors. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause.

CyLogin is part of Cyanotype Blueprint. This help book is plain text for cyhelp (see share/cyhelp/FORMAT.md). Man pages: cylogin(1), cylogind(8).