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Subject: Re: [9fans] novice question -- how to stop 9load from asking questions?
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:05:38 -0700
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> Hi,
>
> is there a way to urge plan9 terminal to boot without asking about
> bootargs and user name?
>
> David

there's a 'nobootprompt=' plan9.ini(8) variable you can use.

as for the username the only way i can think of is a hack -- boot a
pccpu kernel which will remember the user information and store it in
nvram.  to avoid other people logging in to your terminal (which is
actualy a cpu server) don't start the listen daemon from cpurc...
essentially other users won't be able to login to such cpu server
unless you explicitly add the user that booted it to /lib/ndb/auth so
it can 'become' somebody else.

not that i'm condoning such terminal setup, of course, and not that i
haven't done exactly the same thing it in the past :)

andrey