Tom Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TG> I'm developing an app to run on an embedded system. There will TG> not be a keyboard, so I need to have the system boot (single user, TG> no x-windows) without requiring a password.
What's really going on? It sounds like you want a particular program to run, without you actually logging in. In this case, the best things to do probably are: -- Make sure none of the X packages are installed. In particular, make sure that none of xdm, gdm, and wdm are installed; these are the X display managers that provide a graphical login. For your purposes you probably don't need or want anything X-related at all. -- Write a script in /etc/init.d to run your program; this can be modeled on one of the other scripts there. -- Set up a runlevel to run just the programs you want. This involves tweaking the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d; if you wanted to make runlevel 5 be "your setup", you'd modify /etc/rc5.d. Make sure you add a S??foo symlink to the init script you wrote before. -- Edit /etc/inittab, and change the default runlevel to what you want (probably after testing it first via telinit(8)). At this point, when your system boots, it'll run your program, regardless of whether or not anybody logs in. You should be able to take the various getty lines out of /etc/inittab if you *really* don't want a login prompt at all. Good luck... -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
