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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To: Miguel Santana <miguel_santana_mis@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: family laptop autologon
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Miguel Santana wrote:
> Should I try something called kdm? to do this? by
> having do a graphical login? but how do I specify that
> I want someuser to auto-login? in /etc/ttys ??
> 

Dont use kdm; use a dedicated terminal type in ttys. In gettytab
add that new entry and use 'al' and perhaps some other features:
eg:
ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc-auto"         cons25  on
in gettytab
and 
Pc-auto:\
        :ht:np:sp#115200:al=guest

In guests .login use startx or whatever

-Guido


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