**Autologin**
Table of Contents
Creating john
Autologin john
Autostarting X
This page describes how to create the user john and automatically log him in when booting Arch Linux. We assume that you're issuing all commands described here on your device.

Creating john

# useradd --create-home john
This will add the user john and create the directory /home/john.

Autologin john

Next we need to edit the /etc/inittab file to launch a custom login script instead of /bin/login. Find the line

''c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux''
and change it to

''c1:2345:respawn:/bin/autologin john''
Of course we have to create the file /bin/autologin which takes care of logging the user which is passed as argument.

''#! /bin/bash''

''exec /bin/login -f $1''

Put this shell script under /bin and make sure it is owned by root:root and has the correct permissions -rwxr-xr-x.

# chown root:root /bin/autologin
# chmod 755 /bin/autologin
Now you can reboot your smartphone and be already logged in as john. Have fun! :-)

Autostarting X

If you automatically want to log into X you can just add the following line to your shell's startup file (e.g. ~/.bashrc for bash)

exec startx