Red Hat 7.3, Auto Log In, Auto LILO, No Input on Startup??

[lodown]

Hi

I am a Newbie to Linux, i just installed Red Hat 7.3 last week, i am wanting to set up linux firewall, which i have nearly finished doing. however i was wondering if there is a way so the machine automatically boots to linux at the LILO screen. (Only linux is installed on this machine, but it still boots to this screen).

And secondly is there anyway, like you can do with Windows 2000, to automatically log in as a user.

Basically i want it to start up without having to have any input from the keyboard.

thanks

Matthew

 

[flugh]

Edit

/etc/lilo.conf

, delete the lines with

timeout=...

and

prompt

. Save the file, run

lilo

, and the next time you boot up, there will be no delay. I believe lilo defaults to the first entry in the file, or you can specify the kernel or operating system with a

default=<path and filename of your kernel>

. All of these options are explained more sanely in the lilo manpage (

man lilo

).

As far as automatically logging in a user, I don't know. I use Mandrake. It has an option for this. Try

grep

'ing for autologin in your

/etc/sysconfig

directory.

Hope that does the trick.