I'm building somewhat of a strange livecd and I cannot figure out how to get logged in.

My init actually just starts the bash shell.
From there I want to figure out how to login.

I have compiled login from util-linux and I have an /etc/passwd that looks like: "root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash"

When I type "login -f root" I am still prompted for a password and cannot login even with a blank password. (I did not enable shadow in MCONF)
I did not compile util-linux with PAM support so I'm not sure what is wrong.

If anyone has more information on how I would be able to get logged in I would appreciate it.

Many thanks in advance!

There is probably a smoother way of doing it - but expect can be used as a quick work around until you stumble on the easier way.

Zention do you have any detailed information on how to do it either way?

Thanks

expect will only help if you can log in.

Check out /etc/shadow

that is where the password is actually stored normally, though an x is normally required in the passwd file.

This assumes you are using the shadow-utils package.

You could set a password, and it probably is advisable to do so, if the machine touches the net without a password root will be exposed especially if you run any software which allows a remote login, which means any data on the harddrive is potentially available as well as the machine being usable for the time you have the livedisk running.

root is already logged in, it is running init and bash.

expect will allow you automate things requiring command line input, but I think the first thing to do is to give root a password.

As the system will be root anyhow you can login in as whoever.

It sounds like your problem is to do with auto login really, link below should help:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a...D_from_scratch