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From: Nasir Hossain <nhossain@gawab.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pam.d query
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:12:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40DFAFB5.4000902@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40DF81FB.9090508@kevino.org>

mike wrote:

>mike wrote:
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>>Nasir Hossain wrote:
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>>>hi all,
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>>>I have a couple of query's which (till now) I have failed to
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>>answer/solve.
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>>>1) How do I log in directly as root ? Is there some place where I can
>>>give the password for root so I dont have to login every time I
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>>start my
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>>>system. I know knoppix does it... but I dunno how. Please tell me
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>>how to
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>>>do this using /etc/pam.d
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>>I dont know of a reasonably secure way of doing that, perhaps
>>someone else may be able to help.
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>>>2) I am also working on a live cd and I want the kernel messeges
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>>removed
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>>>at startup (the ones which dmesg eventually gets). Is it possible ?
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>>I use Mandrake and it comes with a bootsplash package that in your
>>boot loader you can pass a bootspash=silent in which it just shows
>>the image on booting.Take a look at this site. www.bootsplash.org
>>Note: to use bootsplash you need to use framebuffer.
>>
>>Mike
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>>>thanks
>>>
>>>nasir
>>>
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I took care of the password thing. Since security is really not an issue 
here, editing the /etc/passwd (if shadow passwords are not enabled) and 
/etc/shadow (if they are), and deleteing the encrypted portion removes 
the password for root. Logging in automatically is quite simple after 
that , changing in /etc/inittab :-

1:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/openvt -f -c 1 -w -- /bin/login -f root

that logs. in root in tty1.

As for the silent boot, thanks for the link mike. I'll check it out.

thanks





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      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-28  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-26  5:43 pam.d query Nasir Hossain
     [not found] ` <40DF818A.6070805@kevino.org>
2004-06-28  2:27   ` mike
2004-06-28  5:42     ` Nasir Hossain [this message]

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