From: "Peter T Campbell" <peterc@netc.net.au>
To: <gnaylor@netc.net.au>
Subject: Autologin
Date: Saturday, November 02, 2002 8:38 AM

Hi Greg,

These are the steps I've taken to auto-login user "guest". This
is based on an article in Linux Gazette #72 by Adrian J. Chung

First, make a user "guest" with the adduser command.

Now we have to compile a C program. With an editor, type in
the following program to a file autologinguest.c  (it's almost
a one-liner):

int main() {
	execlp( "login", "login", "-f", "guest", 0);
	}

compile the program with
	gcc -o autologinguest autologinguest.c

Then, as root,
	mv autologinguest /usr/local/sbin

Now, as root, put the following in /etc/inittab

/etc/inittab:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologinguest 38400 tty1

This will log guest into the console.

To auto-start a gui, add
the following to /home/guest/.bash_profile:

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
	startx
fi

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To put up buttons to start/stop an internet connection:

With an editor, create the file /usr/local/bin/ppponoff with the
following content

while [ 0 ]
do
	xmessage -iconic \
		 -geometry +0-30 \
		 -title "Internet Connection" \
		 -buttons Dialin,Hangup \
		 "Internet Connection"
	case $? in
	  101	) pon  ;; # Online was pressed, execute pon
	  102	) poff ;; # Offline was pressed, execute poff
	  esac
 done

and in /home/guest/.xsession add the line:
ppponoff -iconic &

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Pete