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Ticket Hash: 5aa6b0c3f7723e383e8fda807e1a728054fee3fa
Title: systemd based autologin to simulator
Status: Open Type: Feature Request
Severity: Minor Priority: Low
Subsystem: host integration Resolution: Open
Last Modified: 2018-03-27 22:05:30
7.61 years ago
Created: 2018-03-27 22:05:08
7.61 years ago
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tangent added on 2018-03-27 22:05:08:
It is possible to use systemd to spawn the simulator directly-attached to a getty, as would be useful with a serial terminal when no security is wanted. This mailing list post outlines the idea:

    https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pidp-8/XQyKu7zSSVA/u6JqzMcaAgAJ

Rather than launch `pidp8i` to attach to the simulator already run in the background by a different systemd unit file, we should simply provide an alternate unit that launched the simulator directly, attached to the getty as shown.

We might have to defeat Raspbian's current autologin mechanism and serial console feature to make this work.