Re: Eliminating Linux login.

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From: Joseph Malicki
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 00:00

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Bob G wrote:

> Graham Philip Crowe wrote in message <65t4pi$hka$1@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au>...
> >Modify the /etc/inittab file and remove the mingetty lines and run bash
> >instead. This will not run the login programme but just a command shell.
> >
> >You will always be logged in as root though unless you set inittab to run
> >it under su.
>
> Would you mind showing the line you used in inittab, and the specifics of
> the su approach? I tried:
>
> 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/bash
>
> with no luck. It just gave me a blank screen that echo'ed my input.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Bob

That won't work because I believe the getty's open the tty's and give them to
stdin/stdout.  I believe there is a program called sush or something (for
super-user-shell) in /sbin that does that for you and just calls your shell
instead the login program.  I believe it is documented in the inittab manpage.

--
Joseph Malicki
jmalicki@bigfoot.com
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From: Joseph Malicki <jmalicki@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: Eliminating Linux login.
Date: 1997/12/02
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