i'm trying to setup a machine to autologin as a user on startup. i've tried to set inittab so that the following line respawns at runlevel 4 exec su -l -c startx user however i get a message that PAM authentication failed due to lack of console ownership. i realize in general this is not secure, but the machine is in a safe environment. how can i get pam_console to see this login as a console login? or is there a better solution? btw, running redhat 7.1 thanks, sam