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+**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