Automated boot

[Juan]

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[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:01 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Automated boot

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:30 -0500, Juan wrote:
> I installed a SIP server on a FC4 box.
> The computer starts automatically in the case of an power outage but
> FC4 doesn't finish loading till I enter my user name and PW.
> Is there a way to make FC4 not to ask for UN and PW and finish 
> loading?

Unless you have a password set in grub, FC4 will load and run.

If you're referring to the GUI login screen, that's a USER login and TOTALLY
different than saying FC4 hasn't loaded.  You have to be clear on these
things.

If you want to have a user automatically log in, go to:

	Red Hat Logo->Desktop->System Settings->Login Screen

Put a checkmark in the "Automatic Login" section and put in the username you
want automatically logged in.

Unless you have tight control over the machine, I recommend this NOT be
done--and NEVER, EVER have the root user automatically logged in.
That's just asking for trouble!

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Thank you Rick.
I don't have any password set in grub.
I didn't realize I don't need to have a user logged in to have the OS
working.
BTW the user I setup for automatic login is not a privileged one.

I just remembered that "we prefer bottom posting in this list"

Regards 

Juan 
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