2005/8/11, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 8/11/2005, "phyrster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up? > > > >The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other > >remote control sort of things. For the convenience of a local user (non > >root), how to make bash login a user automatically? > > I have never actually done this, but as a tip for a starting point: > > Virtual console login is handled by getty via /bin/login > getty invocation is configured in /etc/inittab > > from looking at the manpage of getty, you might be able to have it run > /bin/bash instead of /bin/login > > This would be done by editing /etc/inittab to have a line like > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -l /bin/bash -n 38400 tty1 > What user will own /bin/bash? Isn't it root?
> instead of what you've already got on tty1 > > Please let me know if that works. > > -Mark > > -- > Mark Roach > >
