<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Kind Systemd mailing list,<div><br></div><div>I'm currently facing lots of problems in setting up autologin on a minimal install (no xserver) of Fedora 20: up until now I followed the guide at this link <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_set_automatic_login_on_a_virtual_console_terminal.3F" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_set_automatic_login_on_a_virtual_console_terminal.3F</a></div><div><br></div><div>with only these main differences:</div><div><br></div><div>1. - the symbolic link replaced the original <span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.1em;">getty@tty1.service (single user system, logging always on tty1, it's a computer for scientific purposes).</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">2. - consequently I changed also the Alias to reflect the change at point 1</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">3. - the user that needs to autologin is root so the syntax for autoexec I used is: "-sbin/agetty --autologin root %I"</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">4. - restart was set to yes since it has to happen at every boot.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 17.600000381469727px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">The system keeps ignoring all of this and prompts me a login mask at boot...where did I go wrong?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.1em;"><br></span></div> </div></body> </html>