Hi,

 

I'm working with bananapi M1+ and downloaded a raw image for banana pi A20 from armbian.com

Now I want to work in a root account so that later, I possibly remove the pi account and use only the root account.(for embedded)

Is there any way to boot as root?

 

Thanks in advance!

Boot as root to... hdmi screen? ssh?

My final goal is to use lcd screen, but for now hdmi is fine. I'm used to LXDE, so do not know much about armbian operating system.

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I propose , read a little bit about the basics of Linux ... Debian  is the simplest and easiest distro -  Armbian  === Debian - but for arm cpu . Alternatively, you can throw the plunge: gentoo , or Crux     (LFS is very nice too)  . Anyway - there will never be a "boot as root".

 

You can at most (!) - .... login as root

 

Great

eW

I'm not quite sure about LXDE but some others desktop environment allow "auto login" but normally not for root.

I don't know if autologin as root is possible... because I have never tried that. That is given the keys from your home to anyone, I strontly recommend never do that. Even on embebded at-home not-network systems

I'm not quite sure about LXDE but some others desktop environment allow "auto login" but normally not for root.

 

Using nodm unfortunately this is possible. Just set NODM_USER=root in /etc/default/nodm and the mess is already done. That's the best way to get a compromised system in shortest time possible when one takes care the OS has Internet access too.

With LightDM there is no problem to login as root in LXDE. I used to deal with Gnome in Armbian before (bad idea) and remember, GDM wouldn't let me login as root, but with LightDM i think should work in all desktops.

Using nodm unfortunately this is possible. Just set NODM_USER=root in /etc/default/nodm and the mess is already done. That's the best way to get a compromised system in shortest time possible when one takes care the OS has Internet access too.

This was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!!

You were exactly looking for a compromised system?

You were exactly looking for a compromised system?

What do you mean by a compromised system?