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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: AmiTCP!
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 15:58:05
- Organization: Private node.
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- Message-ID: <19960116.410670.E18F@an220.du.pipex.com>
- References: <464.6588T859T428@mailbox.swipnet.se> <19960115.3F9188.116B0@an052.du.pipex.com> <4dflrt$ke4@homer.alpha.net>
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- Brian (hoggy@coretech.com) wrote:
- : Torbj÷rn Aronsson (Torbjorn.Aronsson@mailbox.swipnet.se) wrote:
- : : How should i do to *not* having to type in the password eatch time
- : : after a reboot? Is there i line in one of the configfiles that's missing
- : : something... ?
- : :
- : In the startnet script you should find a 'login' command.
- :
- : Change it so it reads something like:
- : login -f (username)
- : The -f tells it that no password is required.
-
- Nope. It allows you to specify a default user without having to type the name
- in every time. A password is still required at the first login (in the demo
- version at least).
-
- : The (username) is, of course YOUR username.
- : (ex. MY E-mail address is hoggy@coretech.com, my username is hoggy, so for
- : my login command, I have 'login -f hoggy'
- :
- : as far as what was said in (Message-ID: <19960115.3F9188.116B0@an052.du.pipex.com>),
- : the previous message, I still have the original passwords file that came with
- : my registered AmiTCP 4.2, and I have not yet been asked to enter a password.
- : And, in that file there is no MENTION of me(meaning, the instllation obviously
- : didn't alter it for me)
-
- Ah, login -f may work differently in the registered version, then.
-
- For the demo version, removing the password from db/passwd is the only way to
- do it. Or you can, I believe, simply "emulate" login by setting up the
- required environment variables ($HOME, $USERNAME etc.). But that's cheating ;)
-
- -- Mat.
-