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From: Paolo Brueri on 15 Sep 2005 08:07

"TooManyPutters" <RainyDay(a)TheSwamp.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:ZcVVe.4081$WW6.582404(a)twister.southeast.rr.com...
: Using Ubuntu 5.04. How do I bypass the login and password screen? Or at
: least automate it?

you can have automatic login just configuring the login manager. there are
two options: after xx seconds or automatically during booting.

in more if you want log as super user(similar to root) take a look at "man
sudo" or googoling about -sudo autologin-

ps: about people that answer u with different topic(like is dangerous etc),
dont listen them, probabilly they change the focus only because they dont
know the answer to your question

c u , Paolo
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From: Enrique Perez-Terron on 15 Sep 2005 09:07
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:13:08 +0200, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> "TooManyPutters" <RainyDay(a)TheSwamp.com> wrote in message
> news:H7ZVe.7036$WW6.601186(a)twister.southeast.rr.com...
>>
>> "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
>> news:34nlv2-6sa.ln1(a)news.it.uc3m.es...
>>> TooManyPutters <RainyDay(a)theswamp.com> wrote:

>>>> I guess I don't understand that security feature thenagainst the
>>>> internet. Once I have logged in, haven'tI opened it to the outside
>>>> world? (assuming I have nosecurity features running).
[snip]
> A login that has no password, once you've created it, means that any
> services on that machine reachable from outside that should require a
> password, don't. Things like the SSH shell for logging into the machine
> remotely, FTP, EMAP or POP mail access, etc. may all be vulnerable to
> someone guessing your username from your email or simply randomly
> guessing your username and logging in as you and abusing your system.

I have not explored or tried this myself, but I am thinking
of an alternative:

What about *having* a password on the user account in question,
but tweaking the boot scripts or some other suitable place, so
the computer sets up an X session in the name of the user without
the user first entering a password.

I imagine the situation should be nearly the same as if I had been
present and had entered the password, and then left it alone for
a while.

The difference would be the existence of some script somewhere,
accessible for root from /etc/inittab via some number of inter-
mediate scripts like /etc/rc.d/rc.

In my case, people walking up to my desk and using my computer
is not a big issue, since it's my home computer, and I live alone.
When friends come and see me, I see them too.

-Enrique
From: dave stanton on 15 Sep 2005 15:37

> Friend, *IGNORE* Peter. He likes to pretend that his "advice" has any use
> whatsoever, as he insults the newbies and helps drive people away from
> Linux.

I have to say I don't like the way Peter sometimes talks to people, but he
gives sound and valuable advice, wether you act on it of course is up to
you.

Dave
From: TooManyPutters on 15 Sep 2005 15:50

"dave stanton" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.09.15.19.37.40.735930(a)privacy.net...
>
>> Friend, *IGNORE* Peter. He likes to pretend that his "advice" has any use
>> whatsoever, as he insults the newbies and helps drive people away from
>> Linux.
>
> I have to say I don't like the way Peter sometimes talks to people, but he
> gives sound and valuable advice, wether you act on it of course is up to
> you.
>
> Dave

As the original poster, I did manage to set up automatic login, and I do sit
behind a firewall. I may not have phrased my query correctly, but I just
don't understand how someone seeking help can be called "crazy" and talking
in "psychobabble". Just a cheap shot as far as I was concerned. Why attack
someone. Isn't this group here to help? (Enough said.)


From: Peter T. Breuer on 15 Sep 2005 16:41
TooManyPutters <RainyDay(a)theswamp.com> wrote:
> As the original poster, I did manage to set up automatic login, and I do sit
> behind a firewall. I may not have phrased my query correctly, but I just
> don't understand how someone seeking help can be called "crazy" and talking
> in "psychobabble".

Because that's what it IS! Do you have a problem with being told the
truth? You spouted nonsense, including a fair sprinkling of buzzwords,
in no semantic relation to each other that could be discerned by me!

So please stop doing that. Talk slwly and sensically.


> Just a cheap shot as far as I was concerned.

No, it's not a cheap shot.

> Why attack
> someone.

You're not being "attacked"! Where do you get that from? Do you feel
whips across your body? Cease making drivelling noises and get your act
together ahnd talk coherently. That's all! What would YOU say to
somebody who came at you saying something like

Oh, now I see that my idea about coaches was all funny because I
thought the white side had the roses in, and now I see that I should
have understood that the name of the wheel is what really makes the
difference to whether or not I can rehash the thimble with success.

I think you'd say "pull yourself together man, cease talking drivel,
and start talking sense". How do you interpret it any other way!

> Isn't this group here to help? (Enough said.)

No, of course not! It's not a helpdesk! Did you see a sign out saying
"soothing drinks avalable for free"? If you are going to get some help
you are going to at least prove that you can speak in a straight line
FIRST. Otherwise you are just a pain.

The security message was quite clear - if you take away your front door
because you don't like to have to use a key, don't you see a problem?
What is unclear about that?

Now, you can set up a console-specific login utility that will not
require a password, but that only makes it unavailable to net snoopers,
not driveby cleaner-ladies. If on the other hand you do what YOU
suggested and remove the password, then anybody can get in from
anywhere.

What is unclear?


Peter
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