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

autologin

The correct form is

--autologin

not

-autologin
Lalit Kapoor

you don't need to install a gui to do that. The gui part is for Ubuntu Desktop.
MT

Now if only a way besides installing a gui on top of base ubuntu-server install.
Graham

This is exactly what I was looking for. The /etc/event.d structure is foreign to me.
Me

Great, thanks