> Ah - so that begs the question - how do you have a root shell running on > the console without signing on first?
Its best to have a sign in process run just to set up the environment but running a straight /bin/sh as root from /etc/inittab is quite possible if you want to do it that way. You may want to run it via "su - root" just to force a sane environment For a simple patch to mingetty (the normal console set up) see http://users.jagunet.com/~kodis/autologin/autologin.html.
