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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2013 7:02 am    Post subject: Login during boot process [SOLVED] Reply with quote

Hi friends,
Is it possible to spawn a login shell before the whole start-up is finished?
I want to give username password while the boot finishes in the background

My ~/.bash_profile contains startx, so I have dependecies to think about

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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2013 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

McC0dy,

Welcome to gentoo.

Please describe your problem rather than your perceived solution.

If I was doing what I think you want to do, I would use a graphical login manager of some sort and run it from the startup sequence by adding xdm to the default runlevel.
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2013 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Neddy, thank you. it's good to be here.
I think you got me back on track - I'll try out setting up xdm with something minimalistic.
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PostPosted: Tue May 21, 2013 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SLiM is a very ... slim graphical login manager.
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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naib wrote:
SLiM is a very ... slim graphical login manager.


Thanks for the tip, Naib. I tried it out and it looks nice, but it crashes if I try to start it before default runlevel.
I guess my problem is not related to SLiM but rather xdm. I wouldn't mind having something as simple as agetty or getty - as long as it can start during boot.
Any advice on starting agetty that early?
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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, what you're attempting will cause problems. The default runlevel is the first place where the OS is really up enough enough to support a login. I'd say this isn't something that would end well or, if you got it working, would not work reliably over time.

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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John R. Graham wrote:
Actually, what you're attempting will cause problems. The default runlevel is the first place where the OS is really up enough enough to support a login. I'd say this isn't something that would end well or, if you got it working, would not work reliably over time.

I see. That's bad news though :(
I'm going to stick with SLiM or agetty for now - haven't decided yet.
Thank you guys very much!
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