Auto Login and Auto Start in Raspberry Pi

nobody are in "sudo nano /etc/inittab" It's notting . what should i do?

Hello I've got problems with these instructions after i reboot. Run a Script after login How to automatically run a script after login. Step 1: Open a terminal session and edit the file /etc/profile sudo nano /etc/profile Step 2: Add the following line to the end of the file . /home/pi/your_script_name.sh replace the script name and path with correct name and path of your start-up script.

inittab no longer exists in raspbian jessie

I created my own user account and completely removed the 'pi' user account. Since now raspi-config refuses to run without a 'pi' user, I had to manually edit the config file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf scroll down and change: #autologin-user= to: autologin-user=username or whatever account you use.

how to run the program as soon as I put in alimentaion raspberry pi

auto-login worked very well when i rebooted for the first time. however, after i shut down and powered off/on there is no more output on HDMI. (B+) any idea?

I deleted user "pi" and i like to autologin and autostart lxde with another user. How to config that?

I deleted user pi and i would like to achieve auto start desktop. How to configure?

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my raspberry don't have inittab file help

Thanks, very helpful.

for SYSTEMD autologin: (inittab not working on new distro) 1 - Create the directory: sudo mkdir /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d 2 - Create file: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf 3 - Insert: [Service]
 ExecStart= 
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin --noclear %I 38400 linux 4 - Save and Quit 5 - Reboot Worked here

My raspbian system is running systemd so the inittab edit doesn't work. How do I do this in a systemd system? Thanks

No it's not, cause if you autologin, everyone has root permissions if he hacked your raspberry pi even if you autologin into pi user!

Is this practice safe? As in does this create a security vulnerability?

Its ok, I got it working a few days ago.

I was looking at your tutorial which is perfect for my project, thank you. It allows me to log in straight away and run a bash script from start. However I need to login from the start as root to use the bash script to its full extent. Do you have any idea how to do this? Thank you.

Works great with my print server (cups) first auto logs in next automatically starts cups and raspberry pi is plugged in extension lead so that both turn on

To solve the "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" errors, make sure the line 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f pi tty1 /dev/tty1 2>&1 is correct. If you have the path /sbin/login (because of lazy editing) it will not work and you will receive this error. If everything is done correctly this works on Raspberry Pi model B+

works fine from first correctly written line thanks

Getting the "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" error at login can be avoided by getting rid of the dot (.) in the beginning of the shell script autostart row in the /etc/profile example above. Just starting the row with the absolute or relative path to the script (and no dot+space) will work and will not produce the respawning error. Another alternative is to use .bashrc

Worked perfect on my Raspberry 2thank you

Cntl+Alt+F2 at the respawn too fast got me to a command promt so I could re-edit the line. Undo the edit, re-boot and I was good to go! Hope this helps. Total noob to linux and Pi. Google everything so far to learn. Still want to know how to do this 'no username/password/run a script' thing.

Joe Pi User is right!! I had the same problem with B+ and would not recommend this method.

Excellent article, may I suggst that you could do cd /etc cp inittab inittab.bak then edit init4921818766188776itb as above, that way you have a back up, if there is a problem, put card in to a Linux box, mount, and rename the backup. I would assume this would work fine. Paul

BEWARE this caused boot errors in my Raspberry B+. Couldn't get it to complete the boot - just got "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" errors. Had to use a fresh Raspbian install on 2nd SD card, mount the old card via USB, then return it's /etc/inittab to original config. Burned 3 hours of my time. I'll find a different way to auto-login.

Thanks dude it was very helpful

Can't I change it back to displaying the login?

Hi all, This does not work on my Pi. All changes in inittab have been saved and are still ther after a reboot, but I still need to login manually. I have the same problem with startup programs and changes made in config.txt. Any changes I make in config or inittab are saved but have no effect on startup. I'm using Noobs: is it possible that Noobs overrides my startup parameters with its own ?

Thanks for the article, worked great. One note for other people trying the auto login, when I edit inittab the line of data doesn't show exactly as you have here with 115200. Mine had --noclear 38400 but as this was removed with the # i guess it makes no difference.

Thank you for your help but /sbin/login fails because there is no "login" file in the /bin directory

cannot config with sudo rasp-config

works great man. thanks a lot

Thanks!

remove the scratch entry from the file /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

I accidentally auto booted to Scratch how do i boot back to my Raspberry pi os? Thanks