Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:52:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic log in Message-ID: <20000731115239.A18962@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007311232540.672-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Mon Jul 31 12:40:30 GMT 2000 References: <20000730205326.A18493@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007311232540.672-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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In the last episode (Jul 31), Zhihui Zhang said: > 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. What version of FreeBSD are you running? It was added for version 3.2. Just edit /etc/gettytab, copy the "Pc" entry to something like "Pcautologin", add an "al=root" to it, then edit /etc/ttys and change one of ttys from "Pc" to "pcautologin". revision 1.25 date: 1999/04/04 04:36:50; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +21 -4 Add an 'al' (autologin username) capability to getty/gettytab. This is a damn useful thing for using with serial consoles in clusters etc or secure console locations. Using a custom gettytab entry for console with an entry like 'al=root' means that there is *always* a root login ready on the console. This should replace hacks like those which go with conserver etc. (This is a loaded gun, watch out for those feet!) Submitted by: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@purdue.edu> -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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