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How do I setup tty autologin in Ubuntu which is running Upstart

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I was trying to find the /etc/inittab where I do my autologin. But in Ubuntu 11.04 that file seems to be lost. Is this the correct way you do it in Ubuntu?

# Auto Login for Ubuntu how?

# 1. apt-get install mingetty

# 2. vim /etc/init/tty1.conf



# tty1 - getty

#

# This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is

# started until it is shut down again.

start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]

stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn

#exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1

exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin <PUTYOUR_USERNAME_HERE> tty1

^

|____ edited only this line, seems to be working

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answered 3 Years ago fulerio · Accepted Answer

There is no /etc/inittab in Ubuntu, because Ubuntu uses upstart to define startup services and runlevel. And this has not started from the last release of Ubuntu, but a long time ago.

Anyway, you can still use inittab, simply create one. I report a passage from /usr/share/doc/upstart/README.Debian.gz:

How do I change the default runlevel?

-------------------------------------



If you have an /etc/inittab file, edit it.  Locate the following line:



    id:N:initdefault:



Where N is the default runlevel, change this to match.



Most people won't have that file, you can edit /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf

and change the following line:



    env DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=2

but bear in mind that Ubuntu do not use standard runlevel meaning as other linux distros/unix os. Old standard was:

0 - shutdown

1 - single user mode

3 - multiuser text mode

5 - multiuser graphical mode

6 - reboot

but Ubuntu uses:

0 - shutdown

1 - single user mode

2 - multiuser graphical mode

6 - reboot

Finally, if you want to have a virtual terminal with automatic login, then modifying the exec line in tty1.conf seems the correct way, though I do not know mingetty, so cannot say if you used it correctly.