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:
>
>
>>Nasir Hossain wrote:
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>>>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
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>>
>>
>>>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.
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>>
>>
>>
>>>2) I am also working on a live cd and I want the kernel messeges
>>>
>>>
>>removed
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>>
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>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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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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prev parent 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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