From: Joshua Allen Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: 56958@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at
Subject: bug#56958: auto login to tty only works for tty1
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:33:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735eb92ae.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmhhxj9p.fsf@dismail.de> (Joshua Branson's message of "Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:40:50 -0400")
Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> writes:
> Hey guix family!
Hey Leo, you helped me create this cookbook guide initially. I thought
you deserve to know that auto-login to tty is not working like it used
to. I am not asking you to drop everything and fix this. Instead I am
just letting other interested parties know.
Thanks!
Joshua
>
> The cookbook decribes a method of auto login to tty. I have noticed that since
> the latest shepherd upgrade (that's my best guess as to when the error occured),
> I have been unable to auto login to any tty as the cookbook describes. I have
> created a minimal guix system vm, to test the auto-login to tty. I have set up
> ttys 2 - 4 to auto login my user joshua, but when I boot the vm only tty1 is
> auto logged in. The other tty's are not logged in. Is auto login supposed to be
> restricted to one partiular tty?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joshua
>
> P.S. Here is the test vm.
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell :dir ~/prog/gnu/guix/guix-config :results verbatim :exports both
> cat bare-bones-with-autologin.scm
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> #+RESULTS:
>
> #+begin_example
> ;; Copyright © 2021, 2022 Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
>
> (use-modules (gnu))
>
> (use-service-modules networking
> ssh)
>
> (use-package-modules ssh)
>
> (define (auto-login-to-tty config tty user)
> (if (string=? tty (mingetty-configuration-tty config))
> (mingetty-configuration
> (inherit config)
> (auto-login user))
> config))
>
> ;; add an autologin to tty for a tty 2 - 4.
> ;; When you run this vm, only one will be auto-logged in.
> (define %my-base-services
> (modify-services %base-services
> (mingetty-service-type config =>
> (auto-login-to-tty config "tty1" "joshua"))
> (mingetty-service-type config =>
> (auto-login-to-tty config "tty2" "joshua"))
> (mingetty-service-type config =>
> (auto-login-to-tty config "tty3" "joshua"))
> (mingetty-service-type config =>
> (auto-login-to-tty config "tty4" "joshua"))))
>
> (operating-system
> (host-name "autologin")
> (timezone "America/Indianapolis")
> (locale "en_US.utf8")
> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
> (bootloader grub-bootloader)
> (targets (list "/dev/sda"))))
> (file-systems
> (cons*
> (file-system
> (mount-point "/")
> (device "/dev/sda")
> (type "ext4"))
> %base-file-systems))
>
> (users (cons* (user-account
> (name "joshua")
> (comment "Joshua Branson")
> (group "users")
> (home-directory "/home/joshua")
> (supplementary-groups
> '("kvm" "netdev" "wheel")))
> %base-user-accounts))
>
> (packages %base-packages)
> ;; Add services to the baseline: a DHCP client and
> ;; an SSH server.
> (services
> (cons*
> (service dhcp-client-service-type)
> (service openssh-service-type
> (openssh-configuration
> (openssh openssh-sans-x)
> (port-number 2222)))
> %my-base-services)))
> #+end_example
>
>
> To try it for yourself:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell
> $(guix system vm bare-bones-with-autologin.scm)
> #+END_SRC
>
> Ctrl-Alt-G (make sure Ctrl and Alt are the left most keys) to grab focus
> inside the vm. Alt-right to switch to a different console. Ctrl-Alt-G to
> ungrab focus from the vm.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-04 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-03 18:40 bug#56958: auto login to tty only works for tty1 Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-03 18:50 ` Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-04 20:33 ` Joshua Allen Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
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