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Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed



>> Le 22.11.2012 18:00, Richard Owlett a écrit :
>> >I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner
>> >that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it.
>> >It has intrinsically the best security in place
>> >  Only _*I*_ have physical access to the machine.
>> >  It has no possibility of connecting to the internet.
>> >  It will *never* be updated.
>> >  The installation CD lives in the drive, for various reasons the
>> >hard drive is wiped and reinstall done 2-3 times per week.
>> >When I boot I want to do *ANYTHING*!
>> >HOW?

> /etc/kde4/kdmrc or the equivalent for gdm3 - there should be an option for
> AllowRootLogin = false
> Change to AllowRootLogin = true
> and you should be fine.
>
> AndyC

Or:

Gnome:
/etc/pam.d/gdm3
auth	required	pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet_success
Change to:
# auth	required	pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet_success
and continue being free to do what you want with your OS.


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