Re: Allowing login via (serial) console by default

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:58:26PM +0100, Vincent Caron wrote:
>   I've been using permanent login-less consoles in my LXC containers,
> because it's very convenient. They actually launch 'getty -l bash ttyXX'
> which bypasses the password issue. Thus from my point of view having a
> login-less access is orthogonal to the root password question - and actually
> I prefer root having no password (and thus no possible interactive login).

Hmm, thats a different solution.  Just overriding the getty launched by
serial-getty@.service with the following should force it to auto-login
as root:
| ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin root -o '-p -- -f \\u' --keep-baud 115200,38400,9600 %I $TERM

Thanks for the suggestion.

Regards,
Bastian

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