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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:36:01 +0100
From:      Willem van Engen <wvengen@stack.nl>
To:        "Emilio Manuel" <curioso1100@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot without user and password
Message-ID:  <20030323003601.62d41170.wvengen@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <F34EMDpCnJ711HZv7FD00003d45@hotmail.com>
References:  <F34EMDpCnJ711HZv7FD00003d45@hotmail.com>

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There is also the autologin (al) option in gettytab(5) that logs in a user
instead of prompting for a username/password. You can run X from his .profile

btw. isn't this more appropriate for freebsd-questions instead of -hackers?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:18:43 +0000
"Emilio Manuel" <curioso1100@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I want to know how a FreeBSD box, just after finish booting process,
> can start automatically a session with a predeterminate user without
> doing the normal login process (ie, without typing user and password).
> 
> I wan to do this under Xwindows because I pretend to use this box as a
> "dumb X terminal" that can display messages send from another UNIX
> machine.
> 
> Security themes don't bother me, cause I use this box in a small local
> 
> network without conflictive users.
> 
> Thank you in advance.

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