Greetings Donald,
The model that many debian packages has preferred over the years is that
of a "rootless" security model. In this configuration you must log in as
a user and then "sudo" to root. In order to do this you must be in the
sudoers group or be explicitly mentioned in /etc/sudoers. If you are
explicitly cited in /etc/sudoers, then when you get to the "Enter
root password or CTL-D to continue" prompt on your way to busy box - not a
plesant or optimal situation you can enter your password and get buzy
fixing whatever broke.
I really am very happy with this "rootless" model, it is uncommon in RHEL
and SuSE.
Sincerely,
Flint
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Donald Russell wrote:
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:17:07 +0000
From: Donald Russell <russell....@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0
I run a SLES 11 (for emergency recovery) and RHEL 7 system on zVM 6.3/6.4
Sysadmins can LOGON BY to get to the zLinux console if necessary.
How/what do I have to configure so logging onto the 3270 console gets me
logged into root in a bash shell automatically? Similar question for
sometimes the system has problems coming up and it's prompting for "Enter
root password or CTL-D to continue". How can that be bypassed so it just
goes into a bash shell logged in as root?
I've searched google and see reams and reams of "autologging root is a bad
idea"... I say that depends.... I think the zVM userid/password protecting
access to the zLinux console is sufficient, the "bad idea" view is based on
a physical machine that anybody could access, that's not the case for
ZLinux on z/VM.
Thanks,
Donald Russell
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