On Mon, 21 May 2001, you wrote:
>I believe that you should login as normal user and then su to root. In
>terms of security it is a bit safer than allowing direct root tty logins.
Ah well of course if one has simply installed the RPMs then there are no normal
users, but /etc/passwd contains a root account with no password. However, now
that I know about this problem I can either edit /etc/securettys whilst it is
still mounted below my current system or do a 'chroot adduser'. The thing that
stymied me was that PAM just produces 'authentication failure' errors and gives
no hint as to the cause (I guess that is another security weeze).
>I think it should be libcurse5-devel which contains this.
OK, so that's just a simple dependency change then.
>For flex I am aware of this, since aicasm which BTW we don't include that in the
>kernel rpm anyway, Chmouel told me is obsolete, needs flex.
Well, I will check tonight (I'm at work at present), but the vanilla 2.4.4
seems to contain only one aic7xxx driver which I assume is the new Adaptec one.
I will try to compile a kernel from the Mandrake source and see what
dependencies I hit.
>Yes, we don't have an installer for the latest cooker yet. ;) In particular,
>we need to build a newer Alpha BOOT kernel, along with the modules. Otherwise,
>everything else in the installer should be (fairly?) portable.
Good luck!
Richard Simpson
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