Auto Booting Options ?

[DjTaz]

I have managed to install BT4 onto one of the partitions of my Acer one (have Mac OS and Win XP on it as well) and it works great except for one little thing that annoys me.

When it boots it asks for the login and username , and then i have to type startx every time.

The Acer one screen is a bit limited for the control panel and i dont see the bottom of the user manager sections and cant hit apply or ok , so i cant really get it to auto log in that way.

What files do i need to nano in order to get this working so that it just boots in without me having to enter :
root
toor
startx

every time it boots ?

Thanks in advance guys and i hope someone can help me with this.

[kidFromBigD]

I have managed to install BT4 onto one of the partitions of my Acer one (have Mac OS and Win XP on it as well) and it works great except for one little thing that annoys me.

When it boots it asks for the login and username , and then i have to type startx every time.

The Acer one screen is a bit limited for the control panel and i dont see the bottom of the user manager sections and cant hit apply or ok , so i cant really get it to auto log in that way.

What files do i need to nano in order to get this working so that it just boots in without me having to enter :
root
toor
startx

every time it boots ?

Thanks in advance guys and i hope someone can help me with this.

Care to go back to BT3?
http://forums.remote-exploit.org/sho...ight=autologin

If you stick to BT4, then I suggest you search beyond these forums. It's a debian distro now, and many such questions can be answered elsewhere.

Keep searching...

[Archangel-Amael]

What files do i need to nano in order to get this working so that it just boots in without me having to enter :
root
toor
startx

Might wanna have a look at minigetty or rungetty packages.

[DjTaz]

Thanks guys - and no i want to stay on BT4 , dont really want to go back to 3 as i have 4 working nicely other than the login part and i know its possible to get going , i just need a point in the right direction.

[DjTaz]

Thanks for the pointers archangel

Got it going - heres what i did :
opened a terminal and typed
apt-get install rungetty

Then nano /etc/event.d/tty1 and edited the last line

#exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
exec /sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin root

then nano /root/.bash_profile

 startx

now it autologs in and boots by itself. The pointers were appreciated Thanks again.

[Archangel-Amael]

No problem glad you got it working and it seems rather easy for others who wish to do the same.

[Spiralnebel]

thanks for the tip

works fine!

[wallacengrommet]

After searching for an eternity I finally stumbled on this post, it details the exact same problem I have - after installing BT3 onto my hard disk I now have to enter root,toor & startx.

tried the apt-get install rungetty command and i get the response 'command not found'


I believe this must be specific to bt4 - is there an equivalent fix for bt3 ?

TIA.

[Barry]

After searching for an eternity I finally stumbled on this post, it details the exact same problem I have - after installing BT3 onto my hard disk I now have to enter root,toor & startx.

tried the apt-get install rungetty command and i get the response 'command not found'


I believe this must be specific to bt4 - is there an equivalent fix for bt3 ?

TIA.

Backtrack3 is slackware based, so no apt. Look for slackware installs for rungetty.

[Archangel-Amael]

I believe this must be specific to bt4 - is there an equivalent fix for bt3 ?
TIA.

Yes it is. Instead you have slapt-get (also slackpkg) for bt3 but there is no dependency resolution. It would be best to download from source and compile as per the application's instructions.