Re: [Sheflug] headless

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Will Newton (will [at] misconception.org.uk) wrote:
> 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
> 

Not until you're sure its working :)
best to leave the monitor and keyboard on and test it will come up
unattended, and start the services its meant to, etc :)

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