Autologin a user & autostarting a application.

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Green_Bandit

I've searched all over google for a easy way to let Freebsd Autologin a non-root user, and execute a script to start a application after login.
All the guides that I could find, were from 2004 to 2006, and all my tests in virtualbox gave me something like this:

Just_autologin_already.png

(Used the username server in this test example)

I even checked for spelling mistakes, and accidental uppercase or lowercase letter, but i still get the same results.

So can anyone explain to me how i can make Freebsd do as i want, instead of being dependent on manual login and starting a application?
 
The crontab option will only start an application for a user at boot time. It does nothing else, so no auto-login is supplied. I guess you want a user to boot straight into an aplication without any login. What you want is possible, and I've seen it done (booting straight into a menu with choices), but I can't remember what has to be done ;)
 
Green_Bandit said:
dependent on manual login and starting a application?
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IPC?
need to open pseudo terminal?

IPC::Run - system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
# Refusing to accept input unless stdin is a tty.

Some programs, for security reasons, will only accept certain types of input from a tty. su, notable, will not prompt for a password unless it's connected to a tty.

If this is your situation, use a pseudo terminal ('<pty<' and '>pty>').
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I think it might be useful if you posted some details on what your script looks like and what you did to run it.
I remember having done this, but it's 10+ years ago (in the days of 3.x).
As I recall it was done by replacing getty on the tty with a custom script/cmd or something?

If you have pointers to those guides you mention, that may trigger my memory.
 
jalla said:
I think it might be useful if you posted some details on what your script looks like and what you did to run it.
I remember having done this, but it's 10+ years ago (in the days of 3.x).
As I recall it was done by replacing getty on the tty with a custom script/cmd or something?

If you have pointers to those guides you mention, that may trigger my memory.
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Here's two of those i still could find in my web history, that i've tried.
Gonna try once more in Virtualbox
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...0J:keyhell.org/advices.html+freebsd+autologin
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...d.org/showthread.php?t=6782+freebsd+autologin
 
1. Xfce has a native method for autoloading applications;
2. You could modify the last lines of the /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc script which I believe is used by default when a user lacks ~/.x* files;
3. You could use your "default" user's ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession files.
 
Ended up using xfce4-session-settings, since i also had installed XFCE, and had already configured it to autologin & autostart xfce.
Does exactly what i want, and easy to use.
 
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