[SOLVED] Automatic Login to Openbox

Question

Since I'm on a single user machine and have a bios based password prompt at startup, I would like to log in as user automatically and start openbox the same way.
At the moment I have to log in as usual and can start openbox via startx since I have put
exec openbox-session
into ~/.xinitrc.
How can I automate these steps? I tried it with rc.local, but that way it logically logs in as root which isn't my goal. I would like not to use SLiM if possible.
Last edited by Flylow (2010-08-06 07:50:53)

Answer 1

Summary of what I've done to get things work. Maybe somebody can use this as it's a quick version of the wiki - just make sure to replace USERNAME with yours and you've added "exec openbox-session" to your ~/xinitrc.
Created autologin.c
#include <unistd.h>
int main()
execlp( "login", "login", "-f", "USERNAME", 0);
Compiled and copied into the right place
gcc -o autologin autologin.c
sudo cp autologin /usr/local/sbin/
Edited /etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin 38400 tty1 linux
x:5:once:/bin/su USERNAME -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c /usr/bin/startx >/dev/null 2>&1"
Last edited by Flylow (2010-08-06 08:53:36)