Yellow Dog 6.0: constant passwords?

I installed YDL on my PS3 so I can learn, and want to put Linux on one of my notebooks, but I'm finding it quite annoying. I have to login with a username and password every time I reboot, and I need to enter another password every time I want to do something system related. Is there something to configure or modify so I don't have to keep entering my password? I'm the only user and don't need any passwords.

 

Security feature.
Your running yellow dog on your laptop?

 

You really don't want to bypass the root password or you can trash your system....if you're talking about logon passwords and password bank passwords, they can be turned off. YD is Fedora based right?

 

Yup, it's a port for PowerPC, hence it being used on the PS3.

 

No. I haven't been brave enough to install Linux on any of my PC's yet because I'm not familiar with it yet. I installed YDL it on my PS3 hoping to pick it up quickly. So far I'm not too impressed since I don't want to have to enter passwords everytime I want to do something. It wouldn't be so bad if it asked once, but it keeps asking every time I go in and out of "system tools".

 

Thats security, why not?

 

I don't need it, and I don't want it.

 

Have you seen Vista?
Its got terrible security and it ask you for your password to open the start menu(exaggeration).
But seriously, its not good in security with vista, but it still ask you.
I feel that's a good thing.
Your gonna have to deal with it anyway, so why not?

 

I'm running Vista on the computer I'm using right now. It has never asked me for a password..??

I'm not saying security is a bad thing, I just have no need for it.

 

User Acount Control.
You think linux is annoying?

 

I think having to keep entering passwords is annoying. If I can turn the "security" off, then I'll like it much more.

 

If your like that, just use Windows.

 

Actually, with Vista, you have to click on a button to do anything system related, which isn't much different.

Besides, just do everything as root if you don't want to keep entering the root password.

 

I'd say try a ubuntu type distro, sudo keeps from asking your password every time after the first time for, what I believe, 15 minutes.

As for running root, I'd say go for it if it bugs you that much. They say you can mess up your OS but thats only if you tinker with something you don't have a clue about. Most of the time you mess with your system you'll be following some sort of guide, so you should be good.

 

Well, he wants the Windows style full-access-all-the-time setup, and that would be running as root. After messing up something once, he'll understand that it's not so annoying ;/

 

After he messes something up he'll cry about how Linux sucks arse and Vista is better.

Dude, just go back to using Windows. If the root access password bothers you then you don't have a place in the Linux world.

 

Nevermind. Forget I asked. ...To the person that emailed me, you were 100% correct. :laugh:

 

I use a password at login, then that's pretty much it unless I access a password bank for Internet logon say, then I don't do any passwords until the next day. You need to check your settings.

EDIT: yes, doing an administrative task as root you use a password, but really, you do NOT want to log in and run as root! No matter how much you say so....if so, I'd dump linux and go back to something else.

 

If you want to clear a password in Linux it's pretty easy by opening a terminal window and running the unix passwd program. So when you're logged into your user account open a terminal window and issue this command;

Code:

passwd

The program will ask you for your old password, then a new password, and then ask you to retype your new password. If you want to clear your password (have no password), just hit enter twice after entering in your old password. If you want to clear the password on the root account, you can login to your root account and do the same thing. Alternately if you don't want to login to your root account, the passwd program can be used with the user account, to change passwords for any account like;

Code:

sudo passwd root

This would ask you to enter in your own user account password to elevate the command to superuser privilege, then the passwd program would expect you to enter in the old password for the ROOT user account, and then the new password for that account twice. Again hitting enter twice would clear the password. Finally there is a way to make your Linux machine boot directly into your user account, without going through the initial login screen. This is configured depending on what type of system "greeter" you are running. Under Gnome I run the Gnome Display Manager (gdm) to display the initial system login screen, and it can be configured to boot directly into a user account by running the gdmsetup program, like this;

Code:

sudo /usr/sbin/gdmsetup

and then going to the Security tab and enabling Automatic Login and specifying the user account to automatically login with.

Good Luck..