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Re: making me automaticly logged in?

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On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 03:35:04AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings all;
>
>I have one of my wheezy machines that has decided it shouldn't start any
>services until I have logged in on its own keyboard. I can't even ping
>it from the rest of my network now until I have logged in on its own
>keyboard.  It did not originally, and as recently as 2 months ago, it
>started everything and quietly waited showing the login dialog, while I
>was logged in with an ssh -Y session and doing anything I could from a
>terminal-4.8 console on this machine.
>
>What does it take to automaticly log me in, so that the rest of the
>machine can function normally again. I am normally the only user on
>these machines. dd-wrt stands guard between my network and the cable
>modem, and has not been penetrated in 10+ years, so I am not concerned
>about the black hats crowd.

That's a bit of a thorny issue. At the simplest, you could try 
installing something like nodm, which will start an X session for the 
configured user at boot.

If you're wanting automatic login at the console, then apparently you 
can pass the "-a $USER" (e.g. "-a bob" or "-a fred") argument to 
/sbin/getty. There's some more details on StackOverflow about that: 
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10282981/automatic-login-on-angstrom-linux#14148494>

However, I don't entirely know how these interact with PAM, or even with 
other services. So if some process is waiting for you to actually 
authenticate yourself (for example, cryptdisks or kerberos or anything 
security-based, I suppose), then these 'hacks' might not be sufficient, 
and you'd be better off finding out the root issue.

>
>Cheers, Gene Heskett
>-- 
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> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
>

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making me automaticly logged in? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-18 09:40 +0200
  Re: making me automaticly logged in? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-09-18 11:20 +0200
    Re: making me automaticly logged in? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-18 17:20 +0200
      Re: making me automaticly logged in? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2017-09-18 17:40 +0200
        Re: making me automaticly logged in? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-18 19:20 +0200
        Re: making me automaticly logged in? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-18 23:50 +0200
          Resetting USB devices (was Re: making me autocratically logged in?) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2017-09-19 08:00 +0200
            Re: Resetting USB devices (was Re: making me autocratically logged in?) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-19 13:30 +0200

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