Ubuntu Server & Desktop Autologin

by Lalit Kapoor on 2008-06-302008-06-30T19:36:30ZY-m-d">June 30, 20082008-06-30T19:36:30ZF j, Y

To autologin to Ubuntu Server you will need to get mingetty

sudo apt-get intall mingetty
Then you will want to edit /etc/event.d/tty1 and change the following: exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 to exec /sbin/mingetty –autologin your_username tty1

To autologin to Ubuntu Desktop do the following

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1 Me January 29, 20092009-01-29T22:27:51ZF j, Y at 6:27 pm2009-01-29T22:27:51Zg:i a: Great, thanks

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2 Graham February 8, 20092009-02-09T00:19:13ZF j, Y at 8:19 pm2009-02-09T00:19:13Zg:i a: This is exactly what I was looking for. The /etc/event.d structure is foreign to me.

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3 MT February 19, 20092009-02-19T05:30:25ZF j, Y at 1:30 am2009-02-19T05:30:25Zg:i a: Now if only a way besides installing a gui on top of base ubuntu-server install.

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4 Lalit Kapoor February 19, 20092009-02-19T05:38:10ZF j, Y at 1:38 am2009-02-19T05:38:10Zg:i a: you don’t need to install a gui to do that. The gui part is for Ubuntu Desktop.

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5 autologin July 20, 20092009-07-20T08:37:24ZF j, Y at 4:37 am2009-07-20T08:37:24Zg:i a: The correct form is

–autologin

not

-autologin

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