[ale] linux personalizations

[Joe Steele]

I'm sure there are several ways to bypass the username/password 
prompt at the console terminal.  One that you might try--

In your /etc/inittab file, find a line that looks like this:

   1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1

and change it to this:

   1:12345:respawn:/bin/su - USER < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1

Of course, replace 'USER' with an appropriate user name.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Stephen Turner [SMTP:artic_knight at yahoo.com]
Sent:	Sunday, October 28, 2001 11:06 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] linux personalizations

i got a stable debian system going.. just the core
from the disk install... im gonna be useing this for
looking at networks and just tinkering around there
wont be any private files or anything so i was
wondering how do i bypass the login prompt? just go
strait to a user and from that user be able to su into
root for the more dangerous tasks? i know i could just
not set password but then i would still have part of
the login process.. also i looked into .bashrc there
is some if active  stuff... should i just remove the
if then line to make it happen all the time? i like my
fancy color screens :P well if you guys could give me
a lil input i would be very grateful... 

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