Automatic login to virtual console

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

Auto login with System-V init
You can set automatic login by editing. You must add -a username to login the specified user automatically.

Auto login with openrc-init
Assuming you have followed instructions at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC, you can adapt auto login on the first tty as follows:

Create a file /etc/conf.d/agetty-autologin:

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