Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?
On 11:04 Thu 11 Aug 2005, Mark Roach wrote:
>
> On 8/11/2005, "phyrster" <phyrster@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up?
> >
> >The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other
> >remote control sort of things. For the convenience of a local user (non
> >root), how to make bash login a user automatically?
>
> I have never actually done this, but as a tip for a starting point:
>
> Virtual console login is handled by getty via /bin/login
> getty invocation is configured in /etc/inittab
>
> from looking at the manpage of getty, you might be able to have it run
> /bin/bash instead of /bin/login
>
> This would be done by editing /etc/inittab to have a line like
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -l /bin/bash -n 38400 tty1
>
> instead of what you've already got on tty1
>
> Please let me know if that works.
It worked. Thank you for this tip. It indeed logged in automatically as root.
Is there a way to make it login as user instead?
regards
bxuef
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