[lug] Linux Single User/Embeded (HELP?)

[Alan Robertson]

Archer Sully wrote:
> 
> George Sexton wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried making this program their shell in /etc/passwd?
> >
> 
> The problem isn't getting the program to run when the user
> logs in, the problem is that he wants the system to come up
> logged in as the test user.  The way to do this is to make
> clever use of agetty, which I just now looked at (thank
> goodness Linux runs on laptops!).  Used with the -l (something
> other than /bin/login) and -n (don't prompt for a username)
> you should be able to get Linux to come multiuser running
> your application on the first virtual terminal.  You do
> this by making changes in inittab to the virtual consoles
> section (c1..c6 on my slackware distro, YMMV, of course).

One could also put an inittab entry in that says:
	su user -c "command"

or something like this.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com