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Yukimura
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 Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:02 am Post subject: Login without username & password [solved] |
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Hello everyone! 
I'm wondering how could I make Gentoo login on tty1 with given username without typing username and password. I know it's not safe but the machine will be in car for playing music so it doesn't matter.
Hope anyone can help me out.
Kind regards!
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giessie
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if this would work, but couldn't you just edit your inittab to start your music software (or whatever you use) on tty1?
Now you would have something like this:
| Quote: | # TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux |
and you probably want someting like this:
| Code: | # TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/bin/mpg123 ... |
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Yukimura
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:42 am Post subject: |
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| giessie thanks but won't the player be run by root instead of user? |
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swimmer
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:48 am Post subject: |
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I'm using the autologin feature of mingetty for that ... just emerge mingetty and replace this line in /etc/inittab: | Code: | #c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin <YOUR_USER> tty1 |
If you want you can even startup applications automatically: given that the user has bash as his shell you just put those lines in ~<YOUR_USER>/.bash_profile: | Code: | ### startup applications with autologin ###
if [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
<YOUR_APPLICATION> > <YOUR_APPLICATION>.log 2>&1
fi |
HTH
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giessie
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| Yukimura wrote: | | giessie thanks but won't the player be run by root instead of user? |
Well, I guess that would be the case. I didn't think much about the implications since you said, it would be for your car. |
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trilexx
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: |
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Follow swimmer's instructions. They work fine for me
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Yukimura
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you all very much for your help. Mingetty is the thing I wanted. 
Kind regards and thanks for the tips. |
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swimmer
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Glad I could help |
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b00zy
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: |
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This works great. Thanks, swimmer!
The only problem I've encountered is that I no longer have the Shutdown and Restart options when I want to logout of "KDE" after automatically logging in. Is there any way to add these? |
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Yukimura
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| You can change in KDE so it will log one user in by default in Control Center, you really don't need mingetty. |
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