Re: [Sheflug] headless

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 home [at] alexhudson.com wrote:

>
> Not asking for a password: where does it actually ask? Does the BIOS ask for the password? If so, you need to turn off password-on-boot in the BIOS. Is lilo asking for a password? (Unlikely) You need to sort out your booting process :). Do you mean the login: prompt? No, you can't turn that off, and you don't need to. Remember, that's just allowing you to login and do things. That doesn't mean the machine is sitting there doing nothing.

You could just stop getty starting up.

Edit /etc/inittab

# 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

Comment these fellas.

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