From: Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>
To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help: Auto login
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:35:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021218123536.GB785@raq465.uk2net.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0212180621300.1088-100000@Vachuska.localdomain>
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 06:24:08AM -0600, Peter L. Vachuska wrote:
> I am trying to set up ELKS running on a 286 laptop in a display case. In
> case of power failure, I don't want to have to login and start the program
> running. So how do I automatically login user1 and start my program?
> (Basically the program would print digits of pi to the screen.)
If you are happy running as root you can use /etc/inittab.
Looks like setuid is in dev86 so you may be able to write a c wrapper to
setuid to user1.
hth
Paul
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2002-12-18 12:24 Help: Auto login Peter L. Vachuska
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