[mythtv-users] Auto login as user and start Myth.

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:07:26 -0600
Robert Denier wrote:

> This is probably easy, but I can't think of an obvious way to automatically 
> login as a user.  From that point you need to start X and mythfrontend, but 
> that is probably easy as long as one can figure out how to execute a script 
> as a particular user.
> 
> The overall idea is to have the system get to the point that you can use the 
> remote automatically after you turn it on.  I'm using Gentoo Linux.  This 
> shouldn't be that hard, but I just don't see an obvious starting point other 
> than maybe figuring out the init process from inittab or maybe something like 
> xdm that does autologins.

make a shell program that changes user and then executes the program you want.

su changes user

su - username -c script_to_start_mythtv

will do what it suggests

stick it in the /etc/conf.d/local.start

make sure /etc/init.d/local runs on startup.

rc-update add local default


> 
> -Robert Denier
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Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>