HOWTO add login and password when booting Puppy

[netfrog77]

Obviously /etc/inittab has changed since the original solution was posted.

Thanks,
Bob

[Bruce B]

Obviously /etc/inittab has changed since the
original solution was posted.

Thanks,
Bob

I made the original post a little less then four years ago. Things
change, but case, its the same with Lupu 5.20 as it was with
whatever version I was using back then.

Change this line:

tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty -n -l /bin/autologinroot 38400 tty1

To:

tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1

After the change, the boot process with stop and have you login and
provide the password.

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[netfrog77]

Hi,

Thanks for responding; but I'm still not certain what to do.

Here are the tty lines in the current initab:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

There is no 'autologin' option that would be removed by replacing the line.
Do you know if this is a customized version of 'mingetty' that does the autologin?

Thanks,
Bob

[Bruce B]

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

That's for an operating system with run levels. I didn't know any Puppy
used run levels. Which version are you using?

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[netfrog77]

Thanks Bruce B.

Your latest post clued me in to my error.
I mistakenly looked at the etc/inittab file in the file system that appears in Roxfiler when you click on the mounted partition where Puppy is installed.
Since it has been a while since I installed Puppy, I had forgotten it was installed in the file system of another Linux version and did not realize that Roxfiler was not displaying the Puppy file system.

[gerry]

Well, I've had etc/inittab modified for some time, so that a login is required. Then I realised that no grandchildren were scheduled to visit until Christmas, so I modified the file back to normal to save having to log in. Disaster! Puppy (Wary) won't boot any more.

I get-

getty: tty1; can't exec /bin/autologinroot

over and over again until I use the power button to put the poor computer out of its misery.

What to do?

(Live cd with save file)

EDIT: as I can't boot Wary, I dug out my old Puppy 431 cd. That boots, but I looked at /etc/inittab, and found that I had modified it to require login, then commented out the password line and restored the original, and it works. That's exactly what I did with Wary, but the restored file does not work. Huh??

[midmen]

Gorilla no baka, or anyone who knows the answer:

Would you please tell me what file you modified to change the login prompt as seen in your screen shot. I have looked for quite awhile and was unable to find it.

Thank you for your help.

[Burunduk]

Would you please tell me what file you modified to change the login prompt as seen in your screen shot. I have looked for quite awhile and was unable to find it.

Nobody knows where the hostname is stored. In the /etc/hostname maybe.

Still there is another way, although I can't guarantee it won't screw up anything in your system.

Create an executable script /bin/goofylogin similar to this one:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash

echo -en "\\033[1;31m"
echo "Warning! An unexpected error occurred!"
echo "All the data on your hard disk has been deleted."
echo -e "\\033[0;39m"
echo -n "Continue anyway? "

read username

exec login $username

and change the line tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty -n -l /bin/autologinroot 38400 tty1

to tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty -n -l /bin/goofylogin 38400 tty1

in the /etc/inittab file.

[midmen]

Burunduk,

Thank you for your response. I should have been more specific. Changing the hostname will put anything I desire in front of the "login" prompt. What I would like to do is eliminate or change the wording "login" from the screen. What file holds the code at this point in the process? I have narrowed it down to getty or busybox, but I am not an expert on this so I am not sure. Also, how does one access the code within getty or busybox?



Puppy 528 on a USB

[agordon]

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Thank You

[slackfan]

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