code to auto login without *dm

sonix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 102

should i replace @USER with @myusername or myusername?
do i need my password anywhere?

sonix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 102

start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/autostartx.pid --make-pidfile --exec /sbin/autostartx -- @USER

that command gives me an error "unable to start /sbin/autostartx: exec format error" anyone know how to correct this?

broken_chaos · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject:

@USER should be replaced by your username (i.e. justin is mine, so it's justin that I put there, not @justin).

Also, the wrapper shell script doesn't work. Just remove it and move /sbin/autostartx-bin to /sbin/autostartx.

And you'll want to put this line as the first line of your ~/.xinitrc or whatever file you use to start X:

MerlinTheWizard · Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 270

Nice, but is there any way to shut down the computer without having to type the shutdown command after logging out?

broken_chaos · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Write a script to do it for you.

broken_chaos · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

I've found a much better way to do this, and will package this new method into an ebuild when I get the chance. For now, I'll tell the manual way. It's dead simple.

And much more flexible - no environment problems!

(For lack of confusion, and so you can try this out with the other method still on your box, I've changed the name of the init script to startx.)

naseweis · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:35 am Post subject:

Looking for a way to auto-login a user (I didn't want to run startx but stay in vga), I found your threat and this *old* piece of documentation, which works like a charm: http://linuxgazette.net/issue72/chung.html
Running startx is included as well. If somebody still cares...
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ryo-san · l33t Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 710

hi

i do naseweis

, moowei's method seems to freeze my keyboard on login with xorg 7.0, so i will give it a try.
Thx to both of you.

freez · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 37 Location: austria

ryo-san, does it really freeze your keyboard, or does it just send your keyboard input to another tty?
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jwyeo2 · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 9

I was using moowei's autostartx-bin method for over a year and it was working fine. I brought my PVR system up to date to support schedules direct and the autostart didn't work any more. Tried a bunch of stuff, and many of them ran into the unresponsive keyboard. The reason for the keyboard issue is outlined in the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm, and indeed a garbled version my "ignored" keystrokes were being seen on vc2. Adding 'need local' to the depend() function seems to resolve the keyboard.

As a result of this, I am now using the scripts provided by broken_chaos that utilize su. I like that I no longer need to compile a helper binary. BTW, this method ran into the keyboard problem too as I had copied over some old depend() contents. Again, 'need local' fixed as posted did the trick.

Thanks to all - this is a great thread!

PS: I wondered at one point if it were possible to write a custom dm script that would work with the existing Gentoo xdm init scripts. If you were willing to place the user name in the dm script it would start, but for stopping I couldn't see a way to tell start-stop-daemon how to identify the process. Maybe someone with deeper knowledge than myself can figure it out.

mudfly · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject:

The solution that broken_chaos provided still works like a charm. This is easy enough, but was there ever an ebuild created for this or something similar?
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linuxtnt · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

Thanks broken chaos , your script works like a charm

pezzzz · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:21 am Post subject:

Found a problem with framebuffer decoration: console does not switch to X when startx is called. It needs a little sleep before startx:

start() {
ebegin "Starting X11 as ${X11USER}"
start-stop-daemon --start --background --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --make-pidfile --chdir ${X11HOME} --exec /bin/su -- ${X11USER} -lc "sleep 5; startx"
eend $?
}

Fenril · Apprentice Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 192

Hello guys,

Sorry to up this old thread, but i would use this code to have an autologin on one of my computers. X is well launched but my locales aren't set correctly. I modified the code and put a line in autostartx-bin.c like this :

Fenril · Apprentice Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 192

eniac · Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 10:51 pm Post subject:

I was trying the same thing before finding this post.

The way I did it was edit /etc/inittab like this: