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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:53:26 -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:  <20000730205326.A18493@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007302134530.28677-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Sun Jul 30 21:37:31 GMT 2000
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007302134530.28677-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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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


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