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From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How would you do this ?
Date: 14 Aug 1995 15:53:25 -0500
Organization: Mississippi State University
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taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes:

>In article <aak2.808401125@ra.msstate.edu>, Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>>
>>I put the command "start-my-program"  in file /etc/rc.local but don't
>>know how to autmate enternig the password.  I can't be near the machine
>>and remember to enter the password everytime it reboots.  Any help would
>>be appreciated.  Thanks.

>    Dumb question... but if you want to automatically enter the
>password so it will be able to boot unattended, what's the point of
>having a password there in the first place?

 
 Because I didn't write the program.  And I am not as worried about the
 security aspect of the program as much as I am about it working "all the time"

Atif Khan
aak2@ra.msstate.edu