Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Brian wrote:
> On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
>
> > Richard Owlett writes:
> >
> > > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours]
> > >
> > > How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?
> > >
> > > http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1
> > > gave no relevant links.
> > >
> > > A Google search gave only decade old or DE related links.
> > >
> > > I currently use Mate, but exploring other desktops(avoiding Gnome
> > > 3!!!;}.
> > > I'd like something similar to autoexec.bat from DOS/CPM days.
> > I've used runit for such things successfully, most recently for starting
> > kodi at startup on my HTPC.
> apt-cache show runit has as part of its output:
>
>   runit service supervision can run under sysv init or replace the init
>   system completely.  Complete init replacement requires some manual
>   configuration described in the supplied documentation.
>
> So the standard systemd init system needs replacing to get autologin in
> a DE independent way? Technically you might be correct but are you
> serious? It doesn't seem very elegant.

With sysvinit, all you need to do is drop a line or two into 
/etc/init.d/rc.local - to set up the environment, su to the appropriate 
user, then start a browser.  What's the big deal?

Miles Fidelman

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