OK, took a while to find this gem again. In /lib/systemd/system/getty@service
In the [Service] section, replace ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --noclear %I $TERM with ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --noclear -a root %I $TERM That's it, very simple. Affects all virtual consoles and X after startx For X, if you're using lightdm there's a different method, that's upstairs. I have a Pi with the touch lcd screen which does autologin as root, had to change a PAM file to do it (in Raspbian). On 7/22/18, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.debian-...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > On 22/07/18 15:15, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 22 July 2018 10:11:04 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> >>> On 22/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> I have a bunch of locale related errors too. >>>> Was a stretch-minimal install by ayufan, has xfce for desktop >>>> >>>> What am I missing? >>> >>> The traditional command for that was tzconfig, but these days it will >>> tell you to run dpkg-reconfigure something... >>> >>> WARNING: the tzconfig command is deprecated, please use: >>> dpkg-reconfigure tzdata >> >> Worked a treat, thank you. > > It's regrettable that dpkg-reconfigure doesn't have something like a > --list command which summarises the packages to which it may be applied, > or even a --search which works by analogy with apt-cache etc. > > -- > Mark Morgan Lloyd > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] > > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
