linux and users

Lee Maschmeyer lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu
Tue Mar 15 20:42:00 UTC 2005


If your system uses the mingetty program instead of getty, you can use 
the --autologin parameter. I'm not on Linux right now so am typing this off 
the top of my head, but my command is approximately:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin myid tty1

The screen shows the login prompt, followed by your ID as if you had typed 
it, followed by "<automatic login>".

Hmm. I wonder if I add "&>/dev/null" if that might hide the display of the 
ID. I've already got .hushlogin...

-- 
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
     --Lewis Carroll 





More information about the Blinux-list mailing list