Remote activation of auto-login
May 10, '01 05:22:18AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
May 10, '01 05:22:18AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
If you want to enable automatic login on Mac OS X remotely you can to this by using ssh and the niutil command. This requires that you have enabled "Allow remote login" in the System Preferences, of course.
1) Open an ssh session to your Mac.
2) type su to become root.
3) To enable the automatic login, the property "username" must be found by loginwindow in the local netinfo database. Here is how you do it:
Replace "user_to_log_in" with the username of the user who will be automatically logged in on restart.
4) Type "reboot" to restart you mac and see if it worked.
1) Open an ssh session to your Mac.
2) type su to become root.
3) To enable the automatic login, the property "username" must be found by loginwindow in the local netinfo database. Here is how you do it:
niutil -createprop -t localhost/local /localconfig/autologin[space](NOTE: shown on two lines; replace [space] with an actual space character and enter on one line)
username user_to_log_in
Replace "user_to_log_in" with the username of the user who will be automatically logged in on restart.
4) Type "reboot" to restart you mac and see if it worked.
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