So I just installed raspbian jessie lite on my pi 2. But I can't get it to login automatically. I first tried with raspi-config, which didn't work. Then after googling a bit, I found a tutorial which I'm suppose to edit inittab
but when I try to access it, it's empty.
I found a solution that uses raspi-config. I played around with it for a bit, and found something (NOTE: You may need to update raspi-config)
To enable Auto-login with raspi-config:
Run: sudo raspi-config
Choose option 3: Boot Options
Choose option B1: Desktop / CLI
Choose option B2: Console Autologin
Select Finish, and reboot the Raspberry Pi.
You should then be logged in automatically on every reboot. It's as easy as pi! :)
I have the same Rasbian Jessie on a Ras Pi 2.
Try THIS (solution via raspberrypi.stackexchange) will probably help!
Good luck
First create a new service similar to getty@.service:
# cp /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service \
/etc/systemd/system/autologin@.service
# ln -s /etc/systemd/system/autologin@.service \
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty8.service
then edit ExecStart, Restart and Alias values, like this:
...
ExecStart=-/sbin/mingetty --autologin USERNAME %I
Restart=no
...
Alias=getty.target.wants/getty@tty8.service
and finally reload daemon and start the service:
systemctl daemon-reload systemctl start getty@tty8.service
Note that if you exit tty8 session, you wont be able to use it until next reboot or manual start by systemctl, except if you leave Restart as ‘always’, but I highly recommend to avoid this according to security reasons.
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The simplest way I have found using Raspbian, is to edit the raspi-config file. Do this by opening /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
and setting the autologin-user=
parameter.
Change: autologin-user=pi
to autologin-user=username
where username
is your username.
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Since when did
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.con
[sic] became "the raspi-config file"? Never mind that there's simply no such file in the first place on Raspbian lite. – Dmitry Grigoryev Feb 7 '20 at 8:10
inittab
won't. Indeed most of the tutorials before mid 2015 (and many after) are for SysV and won't work. Some will actually interfere with normal operation. – Milliways Jan 2 '16 at 0:57