I have a few beaglebone blacks that I want to automatically log in to a console at boot. I have successfully gotten one of them to do this, but I cannot remember for the life of me how I did it. Well, I remember how to disable lightdm so that it has to be started manually by typing ‘startx’ from the console. Most of the information I have been finding revolves around making changed to /etc/inittab. For instance:
1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f rfid tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1
-or-
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --autologin debian --noclear tty1
found here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60915
But on the BBB with the working auto login, changing inittab has no effect on its behavior, so I must have changed something else. I unfortunately don’t remember what that might have been. Does anyone know of another way to set up auto login not using inittab? Thanks!