Start Raspberry Pi without login

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I would like to ask you if there is any way to start raspberry pi (using Raspbian) without login and password and to move directly to the GUI. Like Windows for example.

This should belong to http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/ – Andrejs Cainikovs Jul 24 '13 at 09:57 — Andrejs Cainikovs, Jul 24 '13 at 09:57
Thanks for the keeping this up to date! – Digital Brent Jan 13 '19 at 18:14 — Digital Brent, Jan 13 '19 at 18:14

Andrejs Cainikovs · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-21T19:41:30.603

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Raspbian Wheezy:

Following was taken from eLinux.org RPi Debian Auto Login page:

Auto Login:

In Terminal:

sudo nano /etc/inittab

Scroll down to:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty1

and change to

#1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty1

Under that line add:

1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f pi tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1

Ctrl+X to exit, Y to save followed by enter twice

Auto StartX (Run LXDE):

In Terminal:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Scroll to the bottom and add the following above exit 0:

su -l pi -c startx

Raspbian Jessie:

Use raspi-config. If, for some magic reason this tool is not present on your system, install it:

sudo apt-get install raspi-config

Hard way:

Link. Link.

UPDATE 2019.05

In recent distro there's a simpler way to fix this:

At command prompt, type sudo raspi-config, then:

select option 3 in menu (Boot Options)
select option B1 (Desktopp/CLI)
select option B2 (Console Autologin)

Hit OK, exit all the way and restart.

Update 2019.05 credit belongs to Hasan A Yousef.

edited May 21 '19 at 19:41

answered Jul 24 '13 at 09:54

Andrejs Cainikovs

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Thank you for posting this. – K2Digital Jan 20 '14 at 17:05
Is there a way to extend this so it automatically opens IDLE and runs a python module at startup? – K2Digital Jan 20 '14 at 17:06
You can configure LXDE to autostart programs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE#Autostart_programs – Andrejs Cainikovs Jan 21 '14 at 13:14
This does not automatically log me in. I still get prompted to enter username/password every time. – IgorGanapolsky Jul 18 '16 at 02:01
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This no longer works as /etc/inittab doesn't exist. – Nov 29 '16 at 20:36
Use `raspi-config`. – Andrejs Cainikovs Nov 29 '16 at 21:10
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@AndrejsCainikovs It still asks for password. – piepi Jan 01 '17 at 03:20

Start Raspberry Pi without login

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Raspbian Wheezy:

Raspbian Jessie:

UPDATE 2019.05

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