Re: No logins

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris opensourceadvocate org>]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Mike Chambers wrote:

>Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 07:18:20 -0500
>From: Mike Chambers <mike netlyncs com>
>To: RedHat - SeaWolf <seawolf-list redhat com>
>Reply-To: seawolf-list redhat com
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>Subject: No logins
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>I am asking for someone else on another mailing list, and evidently this
>person is doing some sort of project at home or something, not exactly sure
>what/why they are doing what their doing.  But please do not answer with
>"that isn't secure" or "you should never setup like that" or anything of
>that nature revolving security.  It's not involved using the internet or
>anything and he lives by himself so no other people to worry about.  So
>please no rants on security or anything else, just how can it be setup to do
>below.
>
>What would it take to make RH 7.1 boot up and not require a login?  Then
>what would it take to change to root or boot up with root privileges but not
>require to login as root?
>
>In other words, how do you make it so no passwords are required or at least
>asked for?

BIG FAT WARNING:  THIS COMPLETELY BYPASSES LOGIN AUTHENTICATION

BIGGER WARNING:  IF YOU USE THIS, *BACKUP* your existing
/etc/inittab *FIRST*.  If you upgrade your distro to a newer
release at any point, RESTORE the original inittab FILE you
backed up *FIRST* before upgrading.  Otherwise the upgrade
process will REPLACE my customized mingetty and when you reboot
you'll be unable to log in because standard mingetty does not
grok my changes to the commandline.  I plan on changing this in
the future but I don't care about it right now.  ;o)

ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks/mingetty/

Enjoy.

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