Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:40:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic log in Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007311232540.672-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000730205326.A18493@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > Thanks for your reply. I searched the mailing list archive. It seems to me that I need to hack getty to achieve this. "al" was not mentioned at all. Maybe newer versions of FreeBSD make this easy. But at least I should have to specify the username somehow. If this can be done without hacking any code, please give me more specific instructions. Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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