Re: No logins

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Mike Chambers wrote:

> 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?

Ok. I'm going to make the assumption that your friend likes gdm (as that
was where I found an answer). I think you can add some commands to
/etc/X11/gdm to accomplish this in the [daemon] section of the file:

AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=root

Not sure if this will work for your stiuation, good luck.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.