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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How would you do this ?
Date: 14 Aug 1995 15:44:11 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <aak2.808401125@ra.msstate.edu>, Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>
>I put the command "start-my-program" in file /etc/rc.local but don't
>know how to autmate enternig the password. I can't be near the machine
>and remember to enter the password everytime it reboots. Any help would
>be appreciated. Thanks.
Dumb question... but if you want to automatically enter the
password so it will be able to boot unattended, what's the point of
having a password there in the first place?
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org