[colinsane]

here's a terrible script which runs as root on all my boxes (as `redirect-tty /dev/tty1 unl0kr`): https://git.uninsane.org/colin/nix-files/src/commit/9189f18c...

none of the Linux greeters meet all my needs, so i fall back to `login`. but i still need a graphical program for actually entering in my password -- particularly because some of my devices don't have a physical keyboard (i.e. my phone). so i take the output of a framebuffer-capable on-screen-keyboard [1] and pipe that into `login`. but try actually doing that. try `cat mypassword.txt | login MobiusHorizons`. it doesn't work: `login` does some things on its stdin which only work on vtty. so instead i run login on /dev/tty1, and pipe the password into /dev/tty1 for the auth.

yes, this solution is terrible. a lot of things would make it less terrible. i could fix one of the greeters to work the way i need it (tried that). i could patch `login` (where it probably won't ever be upstreamed). i could integrate the OSK into the same input system the ttys use... or i could reach for `ht`. everything except the last one is a day or more of work.

1: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/buffybox/-/tree/master/unl0k...