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I want to the carry out automatic login under the linux chararacter console.
How can I achieve that .Thanks !...
- 01-09-2008 #1Just Joined!
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how to auto-login?
I want to the carry out automatic login under the linux chararacter console.
How can I achieve that .Thanks !
- 01-09-2008 #2forum.guy
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I'm pretty sure you can do that with mingetty, so just do a google search for autologin mingetty and you should come across some howto articles that will get you going.
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- 01-16-2008 #3Just Joined!
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Simply do the following:
Originally Posted by iliketolearn 
System > Administration > Login Window.
Head for Security. Check "Enable auto login" Select the user you want to login with.
- 01-16-2008 #4forum.guy
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FeestBijtje, doesn't that only auto-log you into the GUI/desktop? Originally Posted by FeestBijtje
I think this poster was wanting to log into the console only, but maybe I misread the post.oz
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My bad. I thought you had to edit some thing in the file "/etc/profile" or "/etc/passwd" Originally Posted by ozar
Mabe this could help you out: Login Process
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