code to auto login without *dm

[sonix]

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

[sonix]

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]

@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:

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source /etc/profile

That might not actually be necessary, but it doesn't cause any problems to be cautious.

[MerlinTheWizard]

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

[broken_chaos]

Write a script to do it for you.

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#!/bin/bash
sudo /etc/init.d/autostartx stop
sudo reboot

This assumes you have a sudoers file setup to allow your user access to those commands without a password. You could also use gksu or similar instead, to add a graphical interface to it all.

I'm working on an ebuild for this, by the way, somewhat tweaked to work a bit better.

[broken_chaos]

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.)

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#!/sbin/runscript

depend() {
   need local
   use xfs
}

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

stop() {
   ebegin "Stopping X11 as ${X11USER}"
   start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --user ${X11USER} --pidfile ${PIDFILE}
   eend $?
}

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# /etc/conf.d/startx

# Set to the user you want auto-logged-in.
# Remember, this is terribly insecure.
# Only use this if you know what you're doing.
X11USER="username"

# Set this to your homedir. Probably /home/youruser.
X11HOME="/home/username"

# Pid file location. Probably don't need to touch this.
PIDFILE="/var/run/startx.pid"

1. Make these two files in the indicated locations.
2. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/startx
3. Edit /etc/conf.d/startx as appropriate for your user.
4. "/etc/init.d/startx start" as root to test it out. "/etc/init.d/startx stop" as root to stop your X11 instance.
5. "rc-update add startx default" as root to add it to your default runlevel. Works like a charm for me.

[naseweis]

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...

[ryo-san]

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]

ryo-san, does it really freeze your keyboard, or does it just send your keyboard input to another tty?

[jwyeo2]

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]

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?

[linuxtnt]

Thanks broken chaos , your script works like a charm

[pezzzz]

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]

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 :

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setenv("LANG", "fr_FR.UTF-8", 1);

Then i recompile it, but it doesn't help anymore. Any clue please ?

[Fenril]

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 :

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setenv("LANG", "fr_FR.UTF-8", 1);

Then i recompile it, but it doesn't help anymore. Any clue please ?

OK, i do so complicated... I've fixed it. Just add "env-update" in xinitrc file before running my DE.

[eniac]

I was trying the same thing before finding this post.

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

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#c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -n -l /root/bin/autologin 38400 tty1

autologin contains:

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#!/bin/bash
exec login -f eniac

Next my .bash_profile contains:

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if [[ $(expr index "$(tty)" y) -ne 0   ]];
then   
        startx
fi