How to autologin from console with runit?

[Moderator christophe]

I’ve been playing with antiX sid runit. I installed X, but I use startx (xinit) to launch it, so no slim display/login manager. Anyways, I’d like to automatically login. With sysvinit, I’d change /etc/inittab a certin way, but it isn’t working with runit. Web search gives me nothing.
So, how do I login automatically with runit (from console)?

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[Member ex_Koo]

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Control Panel > Maintenance > User Manager > Options > Modify User Account > YOU > Change Autologin Settings > Log in Automatically.

Open Control Panel from console = antixcc.sh

Also if you make a .bash_profile file and add below it will Automatically startx after logging in.

#
# ~/.bash_profile
#

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

[[ $(fgconsole 2>/dev/null) == 1 ]] && exec startx -- vt1

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by ex_Koo.

[Moderator christophe]

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Thanks, Koo.

To clarify, I built this up from core. I don’t have antix control centre. Do you know of another way? (GUI-less, probably.)

But thank you for that code snippet for starting x. I might swap that in, instead instead of my current way, to see the difference.

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[Anonymous]

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christophe, from startpage.com websearch query “runit autologin”
seems to provide an exact answer https://wiki.voidlinux.org/Automatic_Login_to_Graphical_Environment
and, a “working example” posted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/ieyp7l/autologin_on_tty1_just_once/

also, I had bookmarked this (wrapper util, to make the “suckless” sv service manager less sucky)
https://www.daveeddy.com/2018/09/20/vsv-void-service-manager/
and, for logging: https://github.com/bahamas10/svlogger

disclaimer:
I’ve only read the docs/examples, am not a runit user, am not a fan.
For me, the only interesting bit is its freestanding chpst utility.

[Moderator christophe]

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Well. Thank you, skidoo. These look good.
(Interestingly, my web search (duckduckgo) for those exact keywords doesn’t show those sites until much further down, and I didn’t look that far — but it does show this thread! The difference is incredible. I’m switching. )

I’ll give these a go in a bit…

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by christophe. Reason: side-by-side comparison of the 2 web search engines

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Graphical interface for sv – runit
https://github.com/daltomi/xsv

concise runit documentation @ voidlinux
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/user-services.html
after reading the page, click the righthand navigation arrow to also read the “Per-User Services” page

[Member ex_Koo]

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The way I see your auto logging is just remember you need to start your desktop environment as well. What I do with ~/.xinitrc and adding exec i3.

I’ve never had anything auto login, I always like to login even from tty. I will be dumping all login managers as soon as I get my main system running and reinstalling hopefully this weekend. Which will also end my testing of antiX-21a as I won’t be reinstalling it.. And putting away my T430..

[Moderator christophe]

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Koo – Yep. Starting X if logging in from tty1 (only) is better than the way I was doing it. Very good.

skidoo – This is much more complex than I had hoped, lol. The first step-by-step tutorial didn’t work. I’ll have to keep at it, but I think you have aimed me in the right direction. Thanks, again.

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[Member ex_Koo]

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I tried to get it work also with 21a the file names seems to be different from void as they with antiX.

cp -R /etc/sv/agetty-tty1 /etc/sv/agetty-autologin-tty1 (antiX users getty-tty not agetty..) even tried after saving getty-tty1 then renaming agetty-autologin-tty1 to getty-tty1 (No worky)

rm /var/service/agetty-tty1 <<< same here antiX has no var/service file. So I made one /var/service
ln -s /etc/sv/agetty-autologin-tty1 /var/service <<< even after making a symlink ln -s /etc/sv/getty-autologin-tty1 /var/service (No worky)

But I did have one Win got rid of slim and now login with tty. 🙂
Then adding below to my .profile auto start X works. 🙂

 # autologin on tty1
 if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ "$(fgconsole)" -eq 1 ]; then
 exec startx
 fi

I have no intention of ever using auto login. Just wanted to play.

[Moderator christophe]

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Right, Koo. I agree that it’s not so bad. X is loading automatically (and now the other VTs are available to me).
I can handle logging in once each day. 🙂

Thanks, guys, for the help.

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[Member Vincent17]

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I installed antix-21-runit_x64-core on an old Lenovo netbook. I was able to get autologin by editing the file /etc/sv/getty-tty1/run to read
exec chpst -P getty --autologin my_user_name 38400 tty1 linux
The idea came from here

@christophe
Thanks for your “just enough X” recipe . Without it, I would not have been brave enough to try a core install, and it was great fun. 🙂 I had slightly different choice of software and display driver; apart from that it worked exactly as written.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Vincent17.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Vincent17. Reason: typo

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