Logging In on Multiple Consoles

[Toby Fisher]

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:

> OK, both Bill and Toby said they log onto multiple consoles when they
> boot. I do the same thing. In fact, I have set habits about it, e.g.
> every odd numbered console is a janina login, every even numbered one is
> a root login, console F1 is mail, etc., etc.

Yeah, me too, I like set things on set consoles.

> So, the problem is that this is boring. Is there a way to cause the
> system to come up with these consoles already logged in and open? Yes,
> one can get fast at logging in, but why do it unless necessary?

Um, surely this is obvious?
If someone gets physical access to your machine, they could do anything,
abosultely anything, and you'd have no way to trace it, except that things
had happened that you hadn't instigated.  Personally I'd be very wary of
doing such a thing.  However, I suppose you could use expect to run your
log-ins for you, but hmmm, that's not secure either as your passwords are
then written down on the system.

> PS: On my desktops I no longer shutdown, so this isn't much of an issue.
> Instead, I just vlock -a

Hmmm, sounds like that may be worth a look, though I tinker too much for
that really, my system typically gets a reboot on average about every 3 or
4 days.

Cheers.

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