Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Automatic root login on livecd

[James Heather]

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 17:51 +0000, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>  On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:48:55 -0800,
>    msacks <ntwrkd(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Hello List,
>  > I am creating a diagnostic livecd that will run a custom script as
>  > soon as it boots.
>  > I'd like to bypass the login screen altogether and automatically log
>  > in as the root user.
>  > 
>  > I was considering creating a custom rpm with the following lines in
>  > the following files like so:
>  > 
>  >  /etc/gdm/custom.conf AutomaticLoginEnable=true
>  > AutomaticLogin=root
>  > 
>  > and my /etc/pam.d/gdm
>  > #auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
>  > 
>  > Is there a better way to achieve this than customizing these config
>  > files and over-writing them in an RPM?
>  
>  One way people do stuff like this is in the %post section write commands to
>  a file that gets run when the live image boots up. You can probably do
>  what you want there. Then you would have a custom ks file instead of
>  a custom rpm. 

Yes: 'sed -i' is your friend here.

If you install spin-kickstarts and then look
in /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-live-desktop.ks, you'll find some
examples.

James