[Fedora-livecd-list] [SOLVED] Automatic root login on livecd

[Lars Bjørndal]

msacks <ntwrkd at gmail.com> writes:

> The mingetty modification worked. Thank you to everyone on the list.
> You all are a great help.
>
> Just for reference here is how I modified my /etc/init/tty.conf to
> bypass the login on a console-only machine:
>
> sed -i s/"exec \/sbin\/mingetty $TTY"/"exec \/sbin\/mingetty
> --autologin root $TTY"/ /etc/init/tty.conf
>
> which gives you:
>
> #tty.conf
>
> stop on runlevel [016]
> respawn
> instance $TTY
> exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin root $TTY

What can I do if I want to have only TTY1 automatically logging in as
root, and have the other TTY's ready for logging in as other users after
the livecd has started up?

Lars