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  From: Barney Wrightson <barney.wrightson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:01:24 +0930

Re: auto login

David Lloyd wrote:
> Where you have the parts that say "respawn" in /etc/inittab, replace
> anything referring to a "getty" with a "shell"...
> 
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> 
> ..i.e. get rid of /sbin/getty ... and have
> 
> 
> 1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash
> 
> ..that's working for me however it does funnies with the "ping" command
> which I can't ctrl+c but can kill from another virtual terminal.
> 
> 
> DSL
> 

What user does this bash open for? (I am guessing root - how do/can you 
you specify a user?)

Barney

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