How to autologin as a superuser

[harshavardhanreddy mandeepala]

hi
I am using Linux fedora core 3.
How can i  autologin as a  superuser (root).
i am able to autologin as a non-root user  but not as a  root.
i can hande the security issues if i can autologin as a  root.
so if u know the solution  mail me  to               hvreddy11110(a)gmail.com

thanks in advance.

Regards
M.Harshavardhan Reddy

[Tony Crouch]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 10:31 +0530, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
>  hi
>  I am using Linux fedora core 3.
>  How can i  autologin as a  superuser (root).
>  i am able to autologin as a non-root user  but not as a  root.
>  i can hande the security issues if i can autologin as a  root.
>  so if u know the solution  mail me  to               hvreddy11110(a)gmail.com
>  
>  thanks in advance.
>  
>  Regards
>  M.Harshavardhan Reddy
>   
Once you have logged in as a user you can you can also log in as root
(or superuser) at the terminal prompt typing:

$> su

It will then prompt you for your root's password and you should get
another prompt symbol to denote the high right in privileges. On my
system, FC3, 

#>

You can also log in as root when your computer boots by changing the
log-in name to "root" and then entering your password.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, 
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[Jonathan Horne]

I would recommend su - (with a dash).  Su alone, will give the current user
roots rights and permissions, but with the users environment paths.  The
dash causes a new session to begin.  Try an su, and see how many files will
give command unknown errors, but su - will take care of that problem.

Jonathan

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Subject: Re: How to autologin as a superuser

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 10:31 +0530, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
>  hi
>  I am using Linux fedora core 3.
>  How can i  autologin as a  superuser (root).
>  i am able to autologin as a non-root user  but not as a  root.
>  i can hande the security issues if i can autologin as a  root.
>  so if u know the solution  mail me  to 
hvreddy11110(a)gmail.com
>  
>  thanks in advance.
>  
>  Regards
>  M.Harshavardhan Reddy
>   
Once you have logged in as a user you can you can also log in as root
(or superuser) at the terminal prompt typing:

$> su

It will then prompt you for your root's password and you should get
another prompt symbol to denote the high right in privileges. On my
system, FC3, 

#>

You can also log in as root when your computer boots by changing the
log-in name to "root" and then entering your password.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, 
Tony Crouch
-- 
EPC Network Officer
EPC Fashion Parade Technical Officer
EPC Mathematics Academic
UNE Student Representative RDLO/DCO Committee

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[Andy Pieters]

On Saturday 25 June 2005 07:01, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
>  hi
>  I am using Linux fedora core 3.
>  How can i  autologin as a  superuser (root). 
Why do you want to do that?  Are you looking for a system that is vulnerable?  
If so, you might get more kicks out of windows.

I urge you to use a normal account for everyday use of your system.  This 
gives you a lot of protection against break in attacks, against programs that 
misbehave and it will prevent the end user to make changes to critical parts 
of the system.  Doing it this way, gives YOU control over the computer.  

Using your computer with the root account, puts EVERYONE in control of your 
computer (programs, virus, hackers,...)

A real root login is only required in very few cases.  In general if you want 
to change a critical part, just do su -c 'critical command here' and the 
system will ask for the root password, execute the command and go back to the 
user.

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[Neil Dugan]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 10:31 +0530, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
>  hi
>  I am using Linux fedora core 3.
>  How can i  autologin as a  superuser (root).
>  i am able to autologin as a non-root user  but not as a  root.
>  i can hande the security issues if i can autologin as a  root.
>  so if u know the solution  mail me  to               hvreddy11110(a)gmail.com
>  
>  thanks in advance.
>  
>  Regards
>  M.Harshavardhan Reddy
>   
Another option is to setup 'sudo' command to allow a particular user to
do everything.  Then you can use 'sudo xxx' to run 'xxx' as the
superuser.  It is a bit more secure than, login as root.

Regards Neil.

[Thufir]

On 7/11/05, Neil Dugan <fedora(a)butterflystitches.com.au&gt; wrote:
..
>  Another option is to setup 'sudo' command to allow a
> particular
>  user to do everything.  Then you can use 'sudo xxx' to run 'xxx'
>  as the superuser.  It is a bit more secure than, login as root. 
..

I'm not clear on how sudo works.  Rather than typing "su -" followed
by root's password, can I set it up so that I just type "sudo" and
then I *am* root until I exit?  Or, must each and every command be of
the form "sudo foo"?  I prefer the former, but is it insecure?  Can I
have an icon in gnome to click to open the root terminal, perhaps open
nautilus as root?

Thanks,

Thufir

[Tim]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:20 -0500, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
>  I'm not clear on how sudo works.  Rather than typing "su
> -" followed
>  by root's password, can I set it up so that I just type "sudo" and
>  then I *am* root until I exit? 
Why do you want to make "sudo" work like "su -"?  Just use "su
-".

If you're hoping to avoid typing in any password, that's a very bad
thing.  All it would take is for some exploit to use sudo (alone,
sans-password), and it could do anything that it wanted.  Likewise for
any other technique of granting root privileges without typing in the
root password.

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THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

>  I'm not clear on how sudo works.  Rather than typing "su
> -" followed
>  by root's password, can I set it up so that I just type "sudo" and
>  then I *am* root until I exit? 
Well, as other people have pointed out, there are many security issues. 
But there is a way to do exactly what you want:

1. Run 'visudo' as root

2. append the following below the "root   ALL=(ALL)   ALL" line:
	your_user_name  ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/su

3. Save and exit vi

Now, you can just type 'sudo su -' and you'll get a root shell. Of 
course, it's a good idea to do a 'man sudoers' first!

>  Thanks,
>  
>  Thufir
>   
Best,
-M