FreeBSD Auto Login

[Joost Bekkers]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 09:16:52AM -0400, Joseph Wright wrote:
> How do I set FreeBSD 4.6.2 to automatically login as a specific user
> during bootup?
>

Assuming you want to autologin on one of the virtual terminals:

First edit /etc/gettytab, find the one for 'Pc' and duplicate it
with a unique name and add al=<username>:

For 4.5R you would end up with something like:

P|Pc|Pc console:\
:ht:np:sp#115200:
Pc-foo:\
:ht:np:sp#115200:al=user:

Next edit /etc/ttys and change the line for the terminal you
want to auto-login on from

ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure

to

ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc-foo" cons25 on secure

And finally let init(8) know we changed something

kill -HUP 1

But before you start doing this think 2 or 3 times about the
insecurity you're creating with this.

-
greetz Joost
jo...@jodocus.org

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