Automatic login on command line installation

[Ruben Varela]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Ruben Varela <rovr138 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> 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...
>
> I never said anything (and other likely too) because it seemed like
> you had it  all figured out by the time we saw it :-)
>
> FWIW, many but not all programs follow the convention of single dash
> for single letter and double dash for whole word options.
>
> e.g. -h and --help
>
> Gnu programs do that, and most people followed that convention, except
> for the X stuff which just uses whatever it felt like at the time
> (e.g. X -v +xinerama c :0)  and some of the newfangled stuff like bzr
> which just don't use dashes at all (e.g. bzr help)
>
> Glad you got it figured out.
>
> Brian
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Well, that's what happens when you copy & paste... and then transfer
the file :/  (it's an EEE... Sometimes you don't want to write in it's
keyboard...)


Rubén O. Varela Rosa
http://www.rovr138.com
rovr138 at gmail.com