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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:23:14 -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:  <20000731122314.A21237@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007311303120.672-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Mon Jul 31 13:05:56 GMT 2000
References:  <20000731115239.A18962@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007311303120.672-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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In the last episode (Jul 31), Zhihui Zhang said:
> It works now (4.0-Release). The catch is that I can not log out of it.

I'm the genie that grants you exactly what you wish for, and nothing
more.

You only asked for a way to automatically log in :)

What you really want is to stuff a login/password pair onto an exsting
getty session.  I don't know if there are any programs that already do
this, but a 20-line C program should be able to do it via /dev/snp*.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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