From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike Subject: Re: pam.d query Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:27:07 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40DF81FB.9090508@kevino.org> References: <40DD0D1E.2040100@gawab.com> <40DF818A.6070805@kevino.org> Reply-To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40DF818A.6070805@kevino.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org mike wrote: > > Nasir Hossain wrote: > >>hi all, >> >>I have a couple of query's which (till now) I have failed to > > answer/solve. > >>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 > > start my > >>system. I know knoppix does it... but I dunno how. Please tell me > > how to > >>do this using /etc/pam.d > > > I dont know of a reasonably secure way of doing that, perhaps > someone else may be able to help. > > >>2) I am also working on a live cd and I want the kernel messeges > > removed > >>at startup (the ones which dmesg eventually gets). Is it possible ? > > > 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 > > >>thanks >> >>nasir >> > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs