Joshua Branson <jbra...@dismail.de> writes: > Hey guix family!
Hey Leo, you helped me create this cookbook guide initially. I thought you deserve to know that auto-login to tty is not working like it used to. I am not asking you to drop everything and fix this. Instead I am just letting other interested parties know. Thanks! Joshua > > The cookbook decribes a method of auto login to tty. I have noticed that since > the latest shepherd upgrade (that's my best guess as to when the error > occured), > I have been unable to auto login to any tty as the cookbook describes. I have > created a minimal guix system vm, to test the auto-login to tty. I have set up > ttys 2 - 4 to auto login my user joshua, but when I boot the vm only tty1 is > auto logged in. The other tty's are not logged in. Is auto login supposed to > be > restricted to one partiular tty? > > Thanks, > > Joshua > > P.S. Here is the test vm. > > #+BEGIN_SRC shell :dir ~/prog/gnu/guix/guix-config :results verbatim > :exports both > cat bare-bones-with-autologin.scm > #+END_SRC > > > #+RESULTS: > > #+begin_example > ;; Copyright © 2021, 2022 Joshua Branson <jbra...@dismail.de> > > (use-modules (gnu)) > > (use-service-modules networking > ssh) > > (use-package-modules ssh) > > (define (auto-login-to-tty config tty user) > (if (string=? tty (mingetty-configuration-tty config)) > (mingetty-configuration > (inherit config) > (auto-login user)) > config)) > > ;; add an autologin to tty for a tty 2 - 4. > ;; When you run this vm, only one will be auto-logged in. > (define %my-base-services > (modify-services %base-services > (mingetty-service-type config => > (auto-login-to-tty config "tty1" "joshua")) > (mingetty-service-type config => > (auto-login-to-tty config "tty2" "joshua")) > (mingetty-service-type config => > (auto-login-to-tty config "tty3" "joshua")) > (mingetty-service-type config => > (auto-login-to-tty config "tty4" "joshua")))) > > (operating-system > (host-name "autologin") > (timezone "America/Indianapolis") > (locale "en_US.utf8") > (bootloader (bootloader-configuration > (bootloader grub-bootloader) > (targets (list "/dev/sda")))) > (file-systems > (cons* > (file-system > (mount-point "/") > (device "/dev/sda") > (type "ext4")) > %base-file-systems)) > > (users (cons* (user-account > (name "joshua") > (comment "Joshua Branson") > (group "users") > (home-directory "/home/joshua") > (supplementary-groups > '("kvm" "netdev" "wheel"))) > %base-user-accounts)) > > (packages %base-packages) > ;; Add services to the baseline: a DHCP client and > ;; an SSH server. > (services > (cons* > (service dhcp-client-service-type) > (service openssh-service-type > (openssh-configuration > (openssh openssh-sans-x) > (port-number 2222))) > %my-base-services))) > #+end_example > > > To try it for yourself: > > #+BEGIN_SRC shell > $(guix system vm bare-bones-with-autologin.scm) > #+END_SRC > > Ctrl-Alt-G (make sure Ctrl and Alt are the left most keys) to grab focus > inside the vm. Alt-right to switch to a different console. Ctrl-Alt-G to > ungrab focus from the vm.