I did NOT want my Raspbian Jessie install to automatically boot into the GUI, and I did Not want it to autologin. I know I can run raspi-config to change it, but I like to script things! I finally tracked down the code for the new raspi-config that supports systemd. It can be found here . Here are the commands to change what used to be the run level. Console systemctl set-default multi-user.target