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From: Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>
Subject: Re: Help: Auto login
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:35:37 +0000
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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