Automatic login on command line installation

[Ruben Varela]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Ruben Varela <rovr138 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think I found something... (
>>> http://www.lalitkapoor.com/blog/2008/06/30/ubuntu-server-desktop-autologin/
>>> )
>>>
>>> Install mingetty
>>> Then you will want to edit /etc/event.d/tty1 and change the following:
>>> exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1  to
>>> exec /sbin/mingetty –autologin your_username tty1
>
> Why didn't that work? - I've done similar in the past
>
> Brian
>
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> bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
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I figured it out later like at 4am...

It was giving me some errors,
but then I kept on reading found others mentioned the same procedure,
I didn't pursue it, and then I found another way...

For some reason I decided to read the man pages for mingetty and I
found that it's I was suppose to use two dashes and not just one...

De-commented the line, and changed
-autologin to --autologin (with the two dashes)

I don't know why I didn't read the man pages before...
But I figured it out...

Thank you for asking... I was beginning to worry if someone would read
this and comment...


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