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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:40:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: automatic log in
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007311232540.672-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000730205326.A18493@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jul 30), Zhihui Zhang said:
> > 
> > A wild thought. If I am the only user of a FreeBSD machine, can I set the
> > machine so that it automatically logs into my account after reboot?  
> > Thanks.
> 
> You can create a custom getty entry in /etc/gettytab with the "al"
> capability, then assign that getty entry to a vty in /etc/ttys.  That
> should do it.
> 
Thanks for your reply.  I searched the mailing list archive.  It seems to
me that I need to hack getty to achieve this. "al" was not mentioned at
all.  Maybe newer versions of FreeBSD make this easy. But at least I
should have to specify the username somehow. If this can be done without
hacking any code, please give me more specific instructions. Thanks.

-Zhihui



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