Auto login on a BBB w/ Debian Wheezy

[brett....@gmail.com]

I have a few beaglebone blacks that I want to automatically log in to a console at boot. I have successfully gotten one of them to do this, but I cannot remember for the life of me how I did it. Well, I remember how to disable lightdm so that it has to be started manually by typing 'startx' from the console. Most of the information I have been finding revolves around making changed to /etc/inittab. For instance:

1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f rfid tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1

-or- 

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --autologin debian --noclear tty1

found here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60915

But on the BBB with the working auto login, changing inittab has no effect on its behavior, so I must have changed something else. I unfortunately don't remember what that might have been. Does anyone know of another way to set up auto login not using inittab? Thanks!

[Cody Lacey]

If you are using systemd you must add a service to /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants

I believe you can use serial...@ttyGS0.service as a template.

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[brett....@gmail.com]

aha, yes, that's it!

in this file:

/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/ge...@tty1.service

Change this line:

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty %I 38400

to:

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a debian %I 38400

autologin!

On Monday, July 14, 2014 1:27:38 PM UTC-5, cody wrote:

If you are using systemd you must add a service to /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants

I believe you can use serial-getty@ttyGS0.service as a template.

[ansari...@gmail.com]

But, in my case i m using ttyO0 and unable to find tty1 service..could u please help me?

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 at 12:57:18 AM UTC+5:30, brett....@gmail.com wrote:

aha, yes, that's it!

in this file:

/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service

[Iben Rodriguez]

If you use the “history” command does your system that works show you what other files you changed?