Re: make system boot straight to browser connection
On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:06:24 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 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?
Replace the init system when nodm is available just to get autologin?
Madness.
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