How to login user to tty from ssh?

Question

I have booted up linux machine sitting at console login screen. Now I connect to that machine via ssh and I want to log user to displayed tty. Basically I want to bypass the login prompt in the console and go to the shell.

However what I do not want is auto-login on boot, I want to manually trigger the login via ssh.

How to do that?

Solution

openvt (a.k.a. open) executes a given program in a given tty. Default program is your shell. Default tty is the first available. If you want to use a specific tty, you have to ensure it is not already used (by getty or an X session for example). The best is to use the default and to switch to the terminal with the -s option.

# openvt -l -s

Comments

[Hauke Laging]

Is this a systemd system?

[graywolf]

yes (12 more charactes to go... sigh :/)

[Raman Sailopal]

You would need to redirect the output of the ssh session to the console tty.