No, no, not just startx..
And not starting into X with Runlevel 5.

But how do you autologin a user, and than start X *automatically?
Basically i just want one X screen, while my other tty# screens will be login prompts.

I tried fooling around with the inittab by editing the first tty1, but to no avail..

I am doing this because I want my mythfrontend to start on bootup. But,
one, it needs X
two, I dont want it to load with root anymore. (going back to school, no need to have anyone fooling around wiht stuff they shouldnt).

I can get mythfrontend to load when I type "startx" that is easy.
And I am running Slack 10.0




VNC:
And with VNC when you put it in the rc.local to load a server on startup. What are you supposed to do to have it load a non-root user?
I have:
su -c -l "vncserver :1"
I have tried su -c USER -l "
su -l vncserver :3 -name USER-depth 16 -geometry 1024x768

But those dont work

Thanks in advance!!

well did the first part. Just relized how unsafe this is, but ohwell.. lol


I followed this page(incase someone else needs help):
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/chung.html

creating the script autologin.c:
int main() {
execlp( "login", "login", "-f", "USER", 0);
}

$ gcc -o autologin autologin.c

# cp autologin /usr/local/sbin/


than edited inittab with:
c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin 38400 tty1

I also had to mess with /etc/login.defs and allow tty1 to let non-root users log in without passwords:

from: NO_PASSWORD_CONSOLE tty1:tty2:tty3:tty4....
to: NO_PASSWORD_CONSOLE tty1


than i had to create .bash_profile in that users ~ dir and have it say
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
startx
fi

Still need a little help with the VNC part though..