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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Cant log in from external monitor on laptop with broken screen. Post 303029759 by bakunin on Thursday 31st of January 2019 03:42:17 PM

01-31-2019

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Originally Posted by debpleb293

Or maybe a way to have a boot command that auto logs me in?

Depending on the desktop you use (sorry, i don't know Kali Linux) you can automatically login with a certain user. You will have to have a running desktop for that to configure, though.

I think for a test or just to get unstuck for the moment it is possible to set the password to "" so that you only have to press <ENTER>. It may be that the user itself is not allowed to set NULL passwords but root will be able to do that for the user:

Code:

passwd -d [username]

Notice, though, that this user cannot use the administration features of the desktop. Most desktops have a "built-in su" so to say - i.e. you can start some graphical package manager and install packages (which only root is allowed to do) but you have to identify yourself to the tool with your password. Such things are not possible wih a passwordless user.

I hope this helps.

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GRUB-REBOOT(8)						  System Administration Utilities					    GRUB-REBOOT(8)

NAME

       grub-reboot - set the default boot entry for GRUB, for the next boot only

SYNOPSIS

       grub-reboot [OPTION] MENU_ENTRY

DESCRIPTION

       Set the default boot menu entry for GRUB, for the next boot only.

       -h, --help
	      print this message and exit

       -V, --version
	      print the version information and exit

       --boot-directory=DIR
	      expect GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub instead of the /boot/grub directory

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       grub-set-default(8), grub-editenv(1)

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