How do I...?

[Barry Brimer]

Maybe I am not fully understanding your question.  Are trying to have a system
that doesn't provide a login prompt whatsoever .. but automatically logs in and
provides a shell .. runs a program, etc?  My solution was to not require a
password to a login.

Quoting Stephen Goggin <sgoggin at NetEffect.com>:

> Thanks for the quick reply!
>
> However, this didn't do the trick, it still gives no login prompt...
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: pam-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:pam-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Barry Brimer
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:14 PM
> To: Pluggable Authentication Modules
> Subject: RE: How do I...?
>
>
> 1.  Backup /etc/pam.d
> 2.  Have a bootable CD that you can use to regain access to your system
> if this
> encounters any issues.
> 3.  Double check steps 1 and 2.
> 4.  Open 2 root terminals in case you accidentally close one of them
> 5.  Delete the contents of the /etc/pam.d directory
> 6.  Create a file named 'other' in /etc/pam.d
> 7.  Put the following in /etc/pam.d/other
>
> auth              sufficient   pam_permit.so
> account           sufficient   pam_permit.so
> password          sufficient   pam_permit.so
> session           sufficient   pam_permit.so
>
> 8.  Test.
> 9.  If this doesn't work, replace sufficient with required in all lines
> above.
>
> Quoting Stephen Goggin <sgoggin at NetEffect.com>:
>
> > All of the above. I've spent a week trying to find the answer to my
> diskless
> > RHEL4 setup, and I'm sure my boss expected more results. No one on any
> > mailing lists or web forums were of any help whatsoever...
> >
> > So, Our PXE network is entirely contained. We don't even need the
> security we
> > have using cleartext over rlogin, which is none...
> >
> > I need a small, simple setup with scanpci and rlogin to run tests
> on...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pam-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Barry Brimer
> > Sent: Mon 10/29/2007 3:55 PM
> > To: Pluggable Authentication Modules
> > Subject: Re: How do I...?
> >
> > Quoting Stephen Goggin <sgoggin at NetEffect.com>:
> >
> > > How would one go about setting up a RHEL4U4 or FC4 or FC5 box
> without any
> > PAM
> > > whatsoever?
> >
> > What is your goal exactly?  Elimintating PAM, having logins that don't
> > require
> > passwords, or something else entirely?
> >
> >
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