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  From: Barney Wrightson <barney.wrightson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  To  : Ben Kramer <ben@voicetronix.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:57:19 +0930

Re: auto login

Ben Kramer wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> well Ive had a look through man pages and searched /usr/share/doc but I
> cant seem find the info I want.
> I have a machine that we use for testing hardware and it gets rebooted
> alot. It now boots from a limited distro from a flash disk which is
> pretty quick, how ever it would be really nice if we didnt have to login
> each time we reboot!
> Can anybody give me pointers?!?!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben.
> 

this suggests a way:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kodis.html

unfortunately it seems to require patching mgetty.

Assuming you don't care about security and that single user mode is ok 
(untried): Maybe booting into single user mode with a passwordless root 
will work, but maybe you will still need to hit enter...

I think Knoppix may do it also, when you boot in console only mode - it 
definately does for KDE mode. So you could se how it manages it if you 
have access to a copy.

HTH,
Barney

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