the only drawback you have is that the console will not be owned
by you if you do this.
As a consequence you will find many things not working
mysteriously -- you could kluge it by giving yourself sudo perms
and running sudo chown in your login sequence.
>>>>> "Janina" == Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Janina> Thanks, TV. It's useful to know this. What I like
Janina> about the su command in inittab, is that I can set up
Janina> my various consoles in the way I've come to like them
Janina> setup. My thought is to just put vlock in
Janina> /etc/rc.local, so it will all still be somewhat
Janina> password protected, but I'll only need to enter
Janina> root's password once, and all configurations will be
Janina> up and ready to go.
Janina>
Janina> This makes a lot of sense ot me with my laptop,
Janina> primarily. The office/home desktops aren't such an
Janina> issue because they're always sporting great
Janina> uptimes. But the laptop is shutdown quite a lot when
Janina> I'm on the road, so having autologin seems like a
Janina> nice benefit.
Janina>
Janina> T. V. Raman writes:
>>
>> Janina -- Incidentally, if you then want to create other
>> Virtual Consoles without having to type a password, from
>> the shell that you got on tty1 just type open <program
>> name>
>>
>> this will launch the program <program name> on the next
>> available VC which in a standard inittab situation is VC7
>> -- so you'd hit alt-7 to get to it and so on.
>>
>> In fact this is what X does during xinit which is why the
>> first desktop is on VC77
>>
>>
>> >>>>> "Janina" == Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> writes:
Janina> Samuel Thibault writes:
>> >> Shaun Everiss, le ven 25 fév 2005 05:56:41 +1300, a
>> dit >> : > ... is there a autologon or something?
>> >>
>> >> There is no standard I'm aware of for text mode, but
>> you >> may build your own: in /etc/inittab, there are
>> lines like: >> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>> >>
>> >> You may replace this by 1:2345:respawn:/bin/su -c sh -
>> >> yourlogin < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1
>> >>
Janina>
> Very, very cool, Samuel. Thank you. I have been looking for
Janina> something like this to use on my portable machine for
Janina> a long time. Thank you, thank you, thank you! <grin>
Janina>
Janina> Now, one little refinement:
Janina>
Janina> I suggest taking out the '-c sh' as it's superfluous
Janina> and only launches a subshell and does not execute
Janina> default configuration scripts.
Janina>
Janina> So, I think a better invocation is:
Janina>
Janina> 1:2345:respawn:/bin/su - yourlogin < /dev/tty1 >
Janina> /dev/tty1 2>&1
Janina>
Janina>
Janina> Sweet. Very sweet.
Janina>
Janina> Janina
Janina>
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Janina>
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Janina>
Janina> If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need
Janina> a different problem.
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