Automatic login to the console

OdinsDream · Veteran Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 1057

I'm setting up a kiosk of sorts. I'd like the system to automatically log in as a certain user, and execute the .bashrc file, to load up some basic things.

How can I do this?
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wdconinc · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:28 am Post subject:

Hi,

I haven't tried this, but I remember having done this with a cd-player program!

If you put the next line in your /etc/inittab

blubber · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:30 am Post subject:

Use mingetty instead of agetty. It has an --autologin function...

mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

If you're using X on this box either kdm or gdm will let you autologin a user when the machine boots up.

axxackall · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 2:57 pm Post subject:

If you use GDM or KDM autologin, how are you going to handle xscreensaver?

I mean that when the system is rebooted (as scheduled or b/c of power interruption), then nobody is in the front of the kiosk and it would be nice to turn the system into stand-by mode, which is most likely the xsreensaver. However, in other situations, when a user has left the kiosk inactive for some time, xscreensaver must come after some time period. So, somehow xscreensaver should have timeout == 0 right after reboot and (let's say) timeout== 5 after a real user session.

Playing in scripts with gconf (having xscreensaver's timeout == 0 after reboot and changing it to 5 minutes after xscreensaver has started for its first time) is unstable IMHO. May I mistake? How can I change that timeout config value from scripts?

pubecon · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject:

I am looking for a similar thing (I don't want to have to install the bases for kdm/gdm):

logging in automatically then doing startx