How to auto-login as root in Fedora 15 in runlevel 3?

southp · #1 28th July 2011, 12:21 PM

Hi,
How to auto-login as root? Our target runlevel is 3.

Since Fedora 15 use systemd, it seems that all the tricks I did before with initd are deprecated now. I know it sounds inconsiderate to auto-login as root, but I'm setting up Fedora 15 in a closing environment where convenience tops safety.

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!

jenaniston · #2 28th July 2011, 04:39 PM

I would like to know this as well - again no security concerns of running as root in my application either.

I have ran F14 LXDE Live CD iso from runlevel 3 by just adding in

Code:

... runlevel 3 ...

in the kernel arguments at boot,
and would use <root> when it asked for a password.

phantomrob · #3 27th August 2011, 05:57 AM

I've been trying to figure this out for my xbox media center (xbmc) from a Fedora 15 minimal install. Looks like you just need to install a systemd service that does the autologin.

Here's what I got to autologin user "xbmc". Create this systemd service:

Code:

[Unit]
Description=xinit for %i

[Service]
User=%i
ExecStart=/bin/bash --login -c startx
Restart=always
RestartSec=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Put the above file in

Code:

/etc/systemd/system/xinit@.service

Add a symbolic link to it from

Code:

/etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/xinit@xbmc.service

You can do something similar by replacing "xbmc" with your user name of choice

Source:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic....882191#p882191