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Old 01-01-2007, 08:17 PM   #1
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Adding root privaliges to user accounts or auto login as root


Hello, I am tryig to find out how to auto login as a root user or to give root privaliges to a user account.

All I can find is people saying it is a bad idea (which I agree with but I am building a live os so damage cannot be done!!)

Can anybody let me know how it is done

The system I am running is a derivative of Mandrake and running KDE!

Regards

Jym
 
Old 01-01-2007, 08:25 PM   #2
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I've played with Knoppix, and they seem to have just turned off the passwords. A user still has to type "su", of course.
 
Old 01-01-2007, 08:43 PM   #3
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Hi so you are saying I should just change the user root password to nothing

Jym
 
Old 01-01-2007, 08:44 PM   #4
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If you need a system for allocating various root tasks to ordinary users, solutions are readily available. Check out the sudo and super programs, which are included in most Linux distributions.

running as root is bad because?... - LinuxQuestions.org
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=240613
 
Old 01-01-2007, 08:47 PM   #5
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I agree that running as root is bad when not sure what your doing. But for a livecd to run as root is ok as you just need to restart and all settings are back to norm
 
Old 01-01-2007, 11:21 PM   #6
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"Hi so you are saying I should just change the user root password to nothing"

It does kind of defeat the purpose of a livecd if the user has to be bothered with a password, doesn't it?
 
Old 01-02-2007, 06:28 AM   #7
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Yea, a live cd should just auto login and have no passwords, I'm just trying to find out how to auto login as root as this distro is designed for restoring lost partitions and files on your hdd etc... so most of the apps on it require root privilages.
 
Old 01-02-2007, 10:33 AM   #8
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Just an update... I cant exactally tell you what I have done because I have tryed soo many things, but my system is now auto logging in as root, wont be long now and the first beta release will be fully compiled.

Cheers for your help
 
Old 01-03-2007, 09:37 AM   #9
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Well, Val-Ent, I'm sure that we will be hearing from you again soon, in a very different context.

You've just taken all your system's clothes off, you know. And laid bare every file on it. Just like the good ol' days of MS-DOS?

And you will regret it, soon enough.

You apparently accomplished what you set out to do, but you will surely rue the day you did it.
 
Old 01-04-2007, 01:57 AM   #10
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dont worry i know what i am doing well enough to not to mess up the system... and even if i do i have got restore points all the way backed up in an iso folder on my desktop - I've spent long enough working on the Cisco IOS in root mode and never had to restore... but cisco network associates are trained to know that

Besides the point what good is a live cd that needs a password to install it? It isn't any good is it?
 
Old 01-04-2007, 04:51 AM   #11
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Hi there it's not YOU who will be messing up the system but if this machine is connected to the Internet in anyway whatsoever you'll just be inviting people to use this for all sorts of dubious pratices.

It's not only YOUR machine that will be hosed up --If someone can remotely logon as Root to any machine anywhere on the Net on the entire planet almost anything is possible -- and if anything criminal takes place the IP address will be traced back to your machine and you will be held responsible even if you were nowhere near your machine at the time.

Root should only be used in very special circumstances and never ever allow a remote ROOT login (especially passwordless) from the Net.

If you want to access your machine remotely use a normal logon and use commands like su or sudo to perform root level tasks.


If you just want to tinker well it's not a good practice but it's Ok to learn but DON'T be on the net while you do this.

Cheers

-K

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Old 01-04-2007, 05:59 AM   #12
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There is no access to remote login, and I am not just tinkering...

Why can't people stick to answerign a question instead of telling me why I dont want to do what I DO want to do (with good reason)
 
Old 03-02-2010, 12:18 PM   #13
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Solution:

SOLUTION:

add this line:
su - -c "/bin/bash startx" root

to /etc/rc.d/after.local

Then change your default run level to 3 in /etc/inittab

done.
 
Old 03-02-2010, 12:34 PM   #14
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OK, so it's a live cd. Does that stop some malicious code (or a malicious attacker) mounting your disk drives and shredding everything on there? I'd imagine not.
 
Old 03-02-2010, 02:16 PM   #15
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kenb,

This thread is THREE years old. Please do not resurrect dead threads.

And you have FIVE posts to LQ in EIGHT years ?

And the OP, Val-Ent hasn't posted here since 10/1/2007 !

What are you trying to achieve here, apart from offering bad advice ?

Please let sleeping threads lie in peace.
 
  


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