diff -Nru mingetty-0.9.4.orig/mingetty.8 mingetty-0.9.4/mingetty.8
--- mingetty-0.9.4.orig/mingetty.8	Sun Apr 29 20:01:16 2001
+++ mingetty-0.9.4/mingetty.8	Sun Apr 29 20:18:53 2001
@@ -35,12 +35,8 @@
 .IP
 When the autologin option is supplied,
 .B mingetty 
-will check that the controlling terminal is the console (normally
-.IR /dev/tty1 ), 
-that a reasonable username has been supplied, and that this is the
-first autologin request since the system has booted.  If all of these
-conditions have been met, a request for an unauthenticated login is
-passed to the
+will check that a reasonable username has been supplied.
+Then a request for an unauthenticated login is passed to the
 .B login 
 program.  Otherwise, a normal interactive login is performed.
 .IP
@@ -109,7 +105,6 @@
 .SH FILES
 .IR /etc/issue ,
 .IR /var/run/utmp ,
-.IR /var/log/autologin .
 .PP
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR mgetty (8),
diff -Nru mingetty-0.9.4.orig/mingetty.c mingetty-0.9.4/mingetty.c
--- mingetty-0.9.4.orig/mingetty.c	Sun Apr 29 20:01:16 2001
+++ mingetty-0.9.4/mingetty.c	Sun Apr 29 20:16:57 2001
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
 /* AUTO_TTY is the tty on which autologins will be accepted.  If set
    to an empty string, autologins will be accepted on any tty. */
-#define AUTO_TTY "tty1"
+#define AUTO_TTY ""
 
 #include <sys/param.h>
 #define USE_SYSLOG
@@ -461,10 +461,15 @@
            a persistent record of the last time that an autologin
            request was granted.  Deny the autologin request if either
            the file open or file close fails. */
-	if ((fd=open(AUTO_LAST, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644)) < 0)
-		return 0;
-	if (close(fd) != 0)
-		return 0;
+
+   /* 
+    * bonkey: well, i need to autologin on 8 consoles, so don't
+    * bother me with such stuff :-> 
+    */
+//	if ((fd=open(AUTO_LAST, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644)) < 0)
+//		return 0;
+//	if (close(fd) != 0)
+//		return 0;
 
 	/* All tests are okay, so grant the autologin request. */
 	return 1;