Automatic login to virtual console

Gentoo supports different init systems. Each init system requires their own solution for auto-login.

All involve passing  to the terminal handler called agetty, but how this is done differs per init system

sysvinit
Edit as follows:

openrc-init
Start with the openrc-init instructions, and adapt it for auto login on the first tty as follows:

Create a file :

Replace the agetty.tty1 service with one called called agetty-autologin.tty1:

Continue with starting an X session
This is described at X without Display Manager.