I have seen the hell of FreeBSD

The task was easy, just try to get in with gdm without entering a
password. Such an easy task, such a total fucked up FreeBSD system. On
ubuntu it was clicking through the user interface and worked
instantly.

On FreeBSD 6.2 i now give up after 3 hours.

First browsing the GUI shows there is no menu item in the Gnome
Desktop. Only a login picture could be changed. With Ubuntu the task
was almost over at this point.

So i started to use google. This told me that the login screen has a
lot of things to offer. Hmmm. Second very bad and this time first
stupid idea. I couldn't check the mentioned gdmsetup GUI tool because
i don't have internet access on this machine at the moment and this
tool was not installed by default - *** you package management team
if i say gdm i don't care about a fucking few bytes of diskspace i
want everything that might be usefull for gdm.

So i found the configuration settings in the login screen, but they
don't work. The autologin on boot still does ask me for a password.
Tried to set an empty password nothing helped.

Then i did "man gdm". A total insane man page written in ancient times
told me almost nothing. A website link that was out of date, but
luckily there was a redirect. The man page mentioned file locations
for default.conf at /etc/gdm/custom.conf and /usr/share/gdm/
custon.conf but there was nothing. So i did a 'find / -name "gdm"' to
to find out that this does not display matching directory names (whats
the option?) but never mind "find / -name "*gdm*" helped to me to that
it is in "/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf". So this was a first success.
But i couldn't find an additional option. Some texts i found with
google told me that

[daemon]
PasswordRequired=false

should do it. No it does not work. The documentation of
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.20/configuration.html
does describe this has a different purpose.

Then i looked here

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-12777.html

This seemed nice. I don't know anything about PAM and i really really
hope that this will not change. I'm just not interested in it. I have
a simple wish and i want to get this whish not a brainwash thats
putting hunderts of pages of documentation and concepts in my mind
which works perfect without knowing about this.

I tried this hint just by following the mini-faq. Okay my /etc/pam.d/
gdm file looks much different, but i try anyway. Added the lines and
logout. Just to see a shocking thing - all authentification stopped
working. Congratulation i thought, no network means no ssh to fix the
fucking file.

So i did a restart and well the first nice thing happend. It switched
to console login and showed me a message that pam_listfile.so does not
exist. Good. I could use pico to remove the line just added.

So i wasted 3 full hours reading about some part of software that is
widely used, terrible documented and where the usual 100 answers from
100 different script kiddies (aka admins) does not work on this
FreeBSD system.

So please can somebody tell me what i should do now?
I'm really really disapointed again. Is this the quality of free
software. Unfortunately i'm scared that the answer is yes because it
is far from being the first time. I'm using Unix systems since
university days in 1992 and everytime i had to configure something it
was just as stupid complex designed without any user help (well the
later was not true for solaris - there it was to much documentation
that i had to read).
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