[ILUG] auto-login

[kevin lyda]

Brian Parris wrote:
> I currently have 24 virtual terminals setup with linux and i was wondering
> if there was a way to get certain terminals to auto-login as the user i
> select and start running a certain program when the system boots, like on
> /dev/tty12 i want it to login as root and run tail -f /var/log/messages,
> and for /dev/tty24 i want it to login as root and run trafshow(a
> sniffer) and on /dev/tty13 i want it to login as the user i irc with and
> start BitchX, and on /dev/tty14 i want it to login as the user i use for
> e-mail and start pine.

maybe the rungetty thing someone else mentioned and a shell script like:

#!/bin/sh
export VAR stuff
export OTHER_VAR other_stuff
su -c 'command -flags' - user

thanks for the "howto run 24 v terms".  not sure if i'll use it, but
it's nice to know.

kevin
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