[yocto] How to have Poky automatically login at boot?

[Andre McCurdy]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Aaron Schwartz
<aaron.schwartz at logicsupply.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to have the busybox getty in Poky login as root automatically but
> I can't seem to get it working.

This may be a possible solution:

  https://git.linaro.org/openembedded/meta-linaro.git/tree/meta-linaro/recipes-linaro/auto-serial-console/auto-serial-console_0.1.bb

> So far I have a sysvinit-inittab_2.%.bbappend:
>>
>> PR := "${PR}.1"
>> SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS="1 2 3 4"
>> do_install() {
>>     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
>>     install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/inittab ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>     install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
>>     install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/start_getty ${D}${base_bindir}/start_getty
>>     set -x
>>     tmp="${SERIAL_CONSOLES}"
>>     for i in $tmp
>>     do
>> j=`echo ${i} | sed s/\;/\ /g`
>> l=`echo ${i} | sed -e 's/tty//' -e 's/^.*;//' -e 's/;.*//'`
>> label=`echo $l | sed 's/.*\(....\)/\1/'`
>> echo "$label:12345:respawn:${base_bindir}/start_getty ${j} vt102" >>
>> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>     done
>>     if [ "${USE_VT}" = "1" ]; then
>>         cat <<EOF >>${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>> # ${base_sbindir}/getty invocations for the runlevels.
>> #
>> # The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
>> # characters of the device (after "tty").
>> #
>> # Format:
>> #  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
>> #
>> EOF
>>         for n in ${SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS}
>>         do
>>             echo "$n:12345:respawn:${base_sbindir}/mingetty --autologin
>> root 38400 tty$n" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>         done
>>         echo "" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>     fi
>> }
>
>
> I have tried a number of flags with the default getty, including using a
> shell as login.  I tried adding mingetty to my image to see if that would
> work with it's "--autologin" flag, but I still got the busybox getty yelling
> at me about unrecognized flags.
>
> Is the best approach to adjust the ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY for either the
> busybox getty or mingetty to have update-alternatives select mingetty, or is
> there an easier modification to my sysvinit-innittab bbappend above that
> will enable autologin?
>
> Thanks for the help!
> Aaron
>
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