Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:16:16 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: autologin on default shell /bin/sh Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcN7px94fjidvTkdB53Kc7KNO9939kpk%2BAmUohqc_7m%2BMA@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear folks, I have several FreeBSD boxes three 8.2 amd 64 with autologin working fine but with bash shell, /usr/local/bin/bash. I have used bits & pieces from several places and thanks to kind folks like Polytropon and others(hope I don't offend anyone), I was able to login automatically and startx as well from ~/.bash_login file. <quote> FreeBSD autologin How to make some user login automatically? Add to the /etc/gettytab file the following strings: test:\ :al=test:ht:np:sp#115200: test:\ - entry name, autologin will use this username; al=test - autologin username; ht - terminal has real tabs; np - 8-bit chars; (optional) sp#115200 - line speed; Edit /etc/ttys file: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty test" cons25 on secure Usual Pc changed with test. </quote> http://keyhell.org/advices.html and a .bash_login file [olivares@quadcore ~]$ cat .bash_login # if test ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi that runs startx automagically. I have a 9.0 BETA 2 amd64 machine and I am using /bin/sh shell or default shell when one installs FreeBSD. I want to be able to setup autologin and automatic startx as well like I have on the other machines I tried to edit ~/.cshrc and copied W Block's example, but it did not work https://freebsd-forums.liquidneon.com/showthread.php?t=22304 How can I get it without using bash? Do I need to create a ~/.csh_login file and add the code to startx? I have tried to add to ~/.cshrc the code: if [ `/usr/bin/tty` = '/dev/ttyv0' ]; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi and it does not work. As always, thanks for any pointers to solve this problem. I will get to the machine tomorrow at work, but I want to try some options and then report back which option/options helped solve the problem. Regards, Antonio
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