aha, yes, that's it!

in this file:

/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/[email protected]

Change this line:

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty %I 38400

to:

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a debian %I 38400

autologin!

On Monday, July 14, 2014 1:27:38 PM UTC-5, cody wrote:
>
> If you are using systemd you must add a service 
> to /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants
> I believe you can use [email protected] as a template.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:57 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> I have a few beaglebone blacks that I want to automatically log in to a 
>> console at boot. I have successfully gotten one of them to do this, but I 
>> cannot remember for the life of me how I did it. Well, I remember how to 
>> disable lightdm so that it has to be started manually by typing 'startx' 
>> from the console. Most of the information I have been finding revolves 
>> around making changed to /etc/inittab. For instance:
>>
>> 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f rfid tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1
>>
>> -or- 
>>
>> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --autologin debian --noclear tty1
>>
>> found here:
>>
>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60915
>>
>> But on the BBB with the working auto login, changing inittab has no 
>> effect on its behavior, so I must have changed something else. I 
>> unfortunately don't remember what that might have been. Does anyone know of 
>> another way to set up auto login not using inittab? Thanks!
>>  
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