CentOS / RHEL 6 – AutoLogin

11 Responses to CentOS / RHEL 6 – AutoLogin

1. Peter says:

   August 5, 2011 at 12:06 PM

   You just need to type “true” with a capital “T”, i.e.:

   [daemon]
   AutomaticLoginEnable=True
   AutomaticLogin=username

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   • Sudhaker says:

     October 23, 2011 at 3:36 AM

     My setup is working as expected with “true”. Not sure why do you say that “True” is needed.

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2. allan says:

   August 23, 2011 at 9:48 PM

   Thanks for that tip. The user/manager of CentOS doesn’t provide that functionality.

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3. Steve says:

   September 2, 2011 at 5:42 PM

   Worked great for me with CentOS 6, thanks. I was expecting to find the “Login Screen” option under System > Administration like with previous versions.

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4. nixdog says:

   October 12, 2011 at 1:41 PM

   for text based autologin in RHEL6, edit /etc/init/tty.conf
   where: exec /sbin/mingetty $TTY
   chgto: exec /sbin/mingetty –autlogin username $TTY

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5. Wes Jones says:

   November 22, 2011 at 12:49 AM

   The problem I’m seeing with the text based way is that ALL tty’s do an auto login and any script made to start, all start at the same time. Thus causing things to crash and lock up on me. How can I do this with only tty1?

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   • Sudhaker says:

     November 24, 2011 at 4:04 AM

     You can do something like this…

     if [ `tty` == "/dev/tty1" ]
     then
       do my great stuff
     fi

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6. Ryan says:

   December 1, 2011 at 9:26 PM

   Thanks for listing this! I really appreciate it. This worked for me on my Scientific Linux 6.1 install.

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7. prasath says:

   December 20, 2011 at 7:54 AM

   This setup not working in redhat 6.

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8. Brett Gardner says:

   January 4, 2012 at 5:40 AM

   I got it to work by doing

   /etc/init/start-ttys.conf

   #
   # This service starts the configured number of gettys.
   
   start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
   
   env ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-6]
   env X_TTY=/dev/tty1
   env TTY_AUTO_LOGIN=/dev/tty1
   env AUTO_LOGIN_USER=mythtv
   task
   script
     . /etc/sysconfig/init
     for tty in $(echo $ACTIVE_CONSOLES) ; do
       [ "$RUNLEVEL" = "5" -a "$tty" = "$X_TTY" ] && continue
       if [ "$TTY_AUTO_LOGIN" = "$tty" ]
       then
         initctl start tty-auto-login AUTO_LOGIN_USER=$AUTO_LOGIN_USER TTY=$tty
       else
         initctl start tty TTY=$tty
       fi
     done
   end script

   and

   /etc/init/tty-auto-login.conf.
   Note this filename matches the second argument to initctl in /etc/init/start-ttys.conf above.

   # tty - getty
   #
   # This service maintains a getty on the specified device.
   
   stop on runlevel [S016]
   
   respawn
   instance $TTY
   instance $AUTO_LOGIN_USER
   exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin=$AUTO_LOGIN_USER $TTY

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9. fack says:

   February 20, 2012 at 5:43 AM

   or as timed login

   [daemon]
   TimedLoginEnable=true
   TimedLogin=centoslive
   TimedLoginDelay=10

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