From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 22 15:36:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F83737B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:36:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlantis.homeip.net (d102207.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.102.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9B5643FB1 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wvengen@stack.nl) Received: (qmail 55478 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2003 23:36:34 -0000 Received: from jeremy.ourhome.nl (HELO localhost) (192.168.1.4) by atlantis.ourhome.nl with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 23:36:34 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:36:01 +0100 From: Willem van Engen To: "Emilio Manuel" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot without user and password Message-Id: <20030323003601.62d41170.wvengen@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message