From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 18:53:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5584137B9BB for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA18552; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:53:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:53:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic log in Message-ID: <20000730205326.A18493@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Sun Jul 30 21:37:31 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 30), Zhihui Zhang said: > > A wild thought. If I am the only user of a FreeBSD machine, can I set the > machine so that it automatically logs into my account after reboot? > Thanks. You can create a custom getty entry in /etc/gettytab with the "al" capability, then assign that getty entry to a vty in /etc/ttys. That should do it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message