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

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:48:55 -0800,
  msacks <ntwrkd at gmail.com> 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.