From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 31 10:23:24 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 A489D37B884 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:23:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA22140; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:23:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:23:14 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic log in Message-ID: <20000731122314.A21237@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000731115239.A18962@dan.emsphone.com> 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 Mon Jul 31 13:05:56 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message