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Topic: Boot as 'root' instead of 'dsl'

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Gregus

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Posted: Jan. 18 2005,14:32

I am using a remastered version of the LiveCD running on a CompactFlash drive setup as a HD. I need the system to boot and login as root (instead of dsl) before running X - how can I do this?

Greg

mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 18 2005,18:55

use the boot option 'dsl 2'

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henk1955

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Posted: Jan. 18 2005,20:19

this is the "mainloop" of dsl
/.bash_profile

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
RUNLEVEL=`runlevel|cut -f2 -d' '`
if [ $RUNLEVEL -eq 5 ]
then
export HOME=/home/dsl
cd $HOME
while [ 1 ]; do
su - dsl
done
fi

this is /home/dsl/.bash_profile

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
export IRCNICK=DSL
SSH=`env | grep SSH_CONNECTION`
if [ -z "$SSH" ]; then startx; fi

i think if you change: su - dsl
to: startx
you run X as root user

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