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I would like to have my fedora installation boot up with 2/3 users automatically logged in. That is: non-root users logging in without password prompt.

Naturally they need not all have GUIs. I only need to be able to execute CLI programs and set processes to run at startup for each of these users.

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  • After booting, do you mean that two users are logged in at the console, while the third (root) user is not? In other words, a shell for each of those two users?
    – Camille Goudeseune
    Commented Jul 11, 2019 at 16:28
  • Yes that's correct. In fact, even if root gets a shell @ boot it wont make much of a difference (being that I can subsequently 'su' from anywhere, or just log in directly). What I'm after essentially is that users (perhaps 2/3) auto-login AND thereafter have commands /scripts that run automatically on each account. Surely there is a way one can achieve this...right?
    – tyler Johnson
    Commented Jul 15, 2019 at 22:48

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https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/137443/60622 works on Fedora 19, for one user. For more users, try adding more AutomaticLogin= lines. (I don't have a Fedora to try this on. Years ago Slackware could autologin multiple text-mode consoles with NO_PASSWORD_CONSOLE tty1:tty2:tty3:tty4:tty5:tty6, so on some Linuxes it's possible.)

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  • Ok. this looks promising. And I'm getting an idea of how I might do this already. Thing is I dont use GDM, I use LXDE. Could you possibly specify a similar procedure for LXDE? And am I right in suspecting this kind of automation is achieved via / after desktop initiation?
    – tyler Johnson
    Commented Jul 16, 2019 at 3:27
  • Ok. No such option exists under System >> Administration >> Users&Groups. Also. I found autologin-user= (username) in the directly called lightdm. Setting those variables to the recommended values achieves nothing however. Back to the drawing board. Really - i want some apps to run on multiple user accounts, but I want them to log in automatically because to start them each manually would be a major Pain. Currently looking into this: linuxforums.org/forum/slackware-linux/…
    – tyler Johnson
    Commented Jul 16, 2019 at 4:16
  • (I'll let someone answer who can actually test on Fedora what they find online.)
    – Camille Goudeseune
    Commented Jul 17, 2019 at 3:16

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