Re: tlug: automated login & startx, etc

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, BOTi wrote:

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>    > > Since I'm the only user of my home computer I'd like to get X started as
>    > > user boti without logging in.
>    
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    
>    > > I tried to put the following line into /etc/inittab :
>    
>    > > 1:2345:once:/bin/su -m - boti -s /bin/bash -m /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
>    
>    > this is kind of ugly.  Why don't you just make runlevel 5 your default
>    > runlevel (edit the 'initdefault' line in /etc/inittab)?  On all linux
>    > distros that I've seen, this starts up X at boot and gives you an xdm
>    > login screen.
>    
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^
>    
>    I know that it is ugly, that's why I'm asking for help ;)
>    But my question was to log in and start up X automatically 
>    [khmm, just like win95 boots up] . XDM does not accomplish this
>    since you have to login in just like via a console getty. 
>    Doesn't save time.
>    
>    Any more ideas?

1. Install windoze ;)

2. hack xdm (modify the xdm authentification widget so that it
   does not wait for userid/passwd input.)

3. continue with present "ugly" solution

Selva

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