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Hotmail wrote:
>
> I am trying to use BasicLinux as the OS for an embedded 
> device. Since it will not have a keyboard permanently 
> attached to it, I need some way of automatically logging 
> into a user.  How do I get it to auto-login?

There are several ways to do this.  Basically, you want 
to bypass the login.  A simple way to do this is to add 
the following parameter to the loadlin line in boot.bat:
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init=/bin/bash
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That bypasses the entire init process and goes straight to
a bash shell.  /bin/bash is just an example, you can put a
different executable there if you wish.

You can do the same sort of thing inside the filesystem by
replacing /sbin/init with your executable.  It needs to be
named /sbin/init because that is what the kernel looks for.

Init does a lot of useful things, so you may not wish to
bypass it entirely.  It is possible to let /sbin/init run
as normal, but edit /etc/inittab to stop it going too far.
For example, you could remove the virtual consoles from
/etc/inittab and run everything from the startup script
(in the rc line).

Cheers,
Steven