grub.conf

[Timothy Murphy]

tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:

> Right now after our linux system is booted, the customer has to login and
> then run a program (standard linux procedure).
> 
> They were asking me whether there was some way to automatically during
> boot have the system login and run a program? I know bash_profile will
> take care of part of that, but the customer would still have to log in.
> Any ideas? Probably with grub.conf?

At least in KDE there is a way (in Control Centre=>System Administration)
to automatically login in as a specified user without giving a password.
(I use this.)
I think it is easy enough to ensure that a given program runs on login.

But maybe I misunderstood the question.

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