Re: [Sheflug] headless

[nospam [at] alexhudson.com]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:33:25PM +0000, Will Newton 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.

Hmmmm, that doesn't exactly 'stop it asking for the password', does it? 

Will, I think you ought to teach parenting classes :) 

Q: "How do I stop my kids asking for ice cream all the time?"

rm -rf /dev/children :)

I think the point I was tring to make was; you can't make Linux behave as DOS does (well, you can, not easily). It's not going to just boot and sit at a command prompt for you, and even if it's sitting at a command prompt, that doesn't mean it's not doing things.

I think it's part of the DOS/Windows brain-damage a lot of users have when they start using Linux - that X on Linux is like Windows on DOS, that you can't have sound at the command line even though you can in X, etc.

Cheers,

Alex.
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