[mythtv-users] OT: inittab autologin trick (for frontends)

Chris Picton chrisp at tangent.co.za
Fri May 27 07:58:03 UTC 2005


> > I have a diskless frontend and had a hard time with xdm autologging
> > and also wanted to have a lightweight session so I have been looking
> > off and on for a different autologin method.  Just finished using the
> > tip in the link for inittab and it works great.
> > 
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-241621.html
> 
> Part 6 of my MythTV installation tutorial discusses this as well.  
> 
> http://www.magicitx.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=12&page=1

This is what I am using, and it works perfectly

tv:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin mythtv --noclear tty1



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