How to Auto Login By root user

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#1

How can I enable “Auto Login” for root user?
In " Yast → Security And Users → User And Group Management → Expert options → Login Settings " is just my own user and there’s no root user to choose.
please help :\

#2

There’s a good reason for this. It prevents you from messing your system up and is more secure.

You shouldn’t need to login as root everytime your computer starts. Use your normal user account then switch to root user only when you need to.

Why do you need to auto login with root?

Take Care,

Ian

#3

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+1

Good luck.

ijbreakey wrote:
> There’s a good reason for this. It prevents you from messing your system
> up and is more secure.
>
> You shouldn’t need to login as root everytime your computer starts. Use
> your normal user account then switch to root user only when you need
> to.
>
> Why do you need to auto login with root?
>
> Take Care,
>
> Ian
>
>
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#4

I’m going a bit further: do you know what you’re asking?

What you are trying is against all measures taken to make linux the safest OS on earth. Virusmakers would be happy if this would be the new trend.
It means you are opening up your system in a terrible way.

So, don’t. Stick to ‘su’, or even better ‘su -c’ for every single command asking for root privileges.

#5

Hi
Maybe a read here may help;
http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root

(wonder if I get a +2 from ab ;))

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.25-0.1-default
up 8 days 18:00, 2 users, load average: 1.64, 0.67, 0.26
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#6

> How can I enable “Auto Login” for root user?

don’t do it! if you do it will be less secure than Windows, and will
be totally unusable quicker than you might imagine.

–
goldie

#7

I agree with everyone else. Nothing really for me to add, so I am not really sure why I am posting this reply :\

#8

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“less secure than windows”

That’s not possible, I do not think… running as ‘root’ is as dumb as
running as ‘Administrator’, though in windows it’s the default and in
Linux you really have to try to do it. In windows people accept it as
normal, and in every other OS in the world you get a long thread by people
who know better telling you it’s a bad idea. In windows you basically
need to do it all the time (for example, to add a toolbar to a web
browser, sheesh) and in every other OS you rarely do. Still, Linux as
‘root’ is probably more secure than windows as Administrator, but both are
stupid.

Good luck.

goldie wrote:
>> How can I enable “Auto Login” for root user?
>
> don’t do it! if you do it will be less secure than Windows, and will
> be totally unusable quicker than you might imagine.
>
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#9

What? Are you serious? Do you have brains?.. Use them and think about what you want to do! Why not just constantly keep open your front door and invite the burglars so they can mess up your house? Would you like that?

#10

your point being?

–
goldie

#11

If you want to do things the MS way why not just stick to MS? If you don’t want to stick with MS get used to the Linux way.

#12

This thread made me laught… just to let you know… So many people saying NOOOOOO!!! rotfl!

#13

OK!! I don want to do that! It just was a question that somebody was asked and didnt know the answer! I get the answer very well! lol!

#14

SOLUTION for SLES 10:

add this line:

 su - -c "/bin/bash startx" root

to /etc/rc.d/after.local

Then change your default run level to 3 in /etc/inittab

done.

WE STRONGLY SUGGEST, THAT NOBODY EVER FOLLOWS THESE INSTRUCTIONS. TO THOSE WHO ALREADY DID SO, PLEASE REMOVE THE CHANGES

#15

kontroncrms wrote:
>
> done

you missed ONE step:

kiss your security, reliability, dependability goodbye!

–
palladium

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Are you crazy???, why do you need it?

VampirD

Microsoft Windows is like air conditioning
Stops working when you open a window.
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#17

sina saeedi82 <sina_saeedi82@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> How can I enable “Auto Login” for root user?
> In " Yast → Security And Users → User And Group Management →
> Expert options → Login Settings " is just my own user and there’s no
> root user to choose.
> please help :\

You REALLY don’t want to do that!

Don’t even login as root.

–
Regards,
Barry Nichols

#18

I doubt Linux will ever become the safest OS on earth. I see at least two reasons:

  • more users, more threads like that one
  • other Unix with cleaner design focusing on security (NetBSD and OpenBSD).

Going back to the original question, exceptionally in this particular case, the answer won’t be neither how? nor why? but simply NO.

#19

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or best yet, sudo

Good luck.

On 08/13/2009 07:56 AM, Knurpht wrote:
>
> I’m going a bit further: do you know what you’re asking?
>
> What you are trying is against all measures taken to make linux the
> safest OS on earth. Virusmakers would be happy if this would be the new
> trend.
> It means you are opening up your system in a terrible way.
>
> So, don’t. Stick to ‘su’, or even better ‘su -c’ for every single
> command asking for root privileges.
>
>
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#20

Just an experiment.
Lets say i do make root login as default. How much am i compromising my system? If i need to do trouble shooting etc, i still have to use root account, right?
So if the issue here is that the root account will be open and active during my desktop session, is it completely exposed to anyone on the internet etc?