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#114267 - 31/08/2002 22:39 Automatic linux user login help
muzza
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Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
Could anyone point me in the right direction to have a linux box boot and automatically log in as a default user (luser?).

The assignment I have requires that we create a package that can be installed on a 486 w/16M & 500M Hdd; startup and automatically log in as a default user; attach to a windows server and run a session through rdesktop.

Any hints are greatly appreciated.

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#114268 - 31/08/2002 23:05 Re: Automatic linux user login help [Re: muzza]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
You probably don't need to log in as a user, which is fortunate, since it's bad design and probably not possible without a lot of hacking.

Take a look at how your Linux machine starts up gdm/xdm (probably via init and it's config file, inittab). It should give you some ideas about how to implement this.

Basically, your system will start an X server and then run rdesktop on top of it. No login will be needed, since, effectively, root will be telling it what to do, but doing it as a different user.
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#114269 - 01/09/2002 03:29 Re: Automatic linux user login help [Re: wfaulk]
muzza
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Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
I think I understand, Thanks

I'll let you know how things go.
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#114270 - 01/09/2002 13:16 Re: Automatic linux user login help [Re: muzza]
Tim
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Registered: 25/04/2000
Posts: 1525
Loc: Arizona
There is a Howto on creating a kiosk that went into stuff like that. You can find it at tldp.org .

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