Automatic login to virtual console

Gentoo supports different init systems. Each init system requires their own solution for auto-login. All involve passing "--autologin " to the terminal handler called agetty.

Auto login with System-V init
You can set automatic login by editing :

Auto login with openrc-init
Assuming you have followed instructions at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC#openrc-init, you can adapt it for 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:

Continue with starting an X session
This is described at https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=X_without_Display_Manager.