automatically login a user
 

I need to automatically log the user "joe" to the CLI on startup,
the computer has no monitor keyboard or mouse so if the power goes out i need the computer to autologon. how do i go about this!!!!!!

Re: automatically login a user
 

If the power goes out, the computer won't be running either, so trying to set up an automatic process to log into it isn't going to work. Maybe I misunderstand your question -- J.W.

What os are you doing. I only know of running xwindows in fedora and having it log in. I would say that as the last thing in your rc.local you would add a script there to auto login.

Although someone will disagree with me.

Why would you need to login though 'everything' should be run without a user anyway.

Re: Re: automatically login a user
 

i should have stated if the computer gets restarted (the bios can be set to retain last setting in the event of an power loss.)


Strikeforce: i am using slackware, and i need it to load lynx and only lynx on startup, i think i actually have it working but haveing a su
user -c /path to lynx,

it "apppears" to be working all i need now is to figure out how to write a script that detects if lynx has errored or closed.