Ok, I guess I was a bit confused, I am using a text-only login so GDM wont help me here.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:11 AM, msacks <[email protected]> wrote: > Got it. sed in the post scripts to modify the config files. > So I did that with the following commands in my kickstart: > > #enable root login > sed -i s/"auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root > quiet"/"#auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet"/ > /etc/pam.d/gdm > > #enable automatic login as root > sed -i s/"daemon]$"/"daemon]\nAutomaticLoginEnable=true\nAutomaticLogin=root"/ > /etc/gdm/custom.conf > POC > > > For some reason it still displays the login screen. > If I type root and hit enter it goes into a shell prompt with no > problem. I'd like to have to avoid typing anything. It seems that > changing these commands in the post scripts is a bit late to get the > desired effect. > > > > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:21 AM, James Heather <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 17:51 +0000, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:48:55 -0800, >> msacks <[email protected]> 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 >> -- >> livecd mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd >> > -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
