Mandrake Cooker AXP Archive
Re: [cooker-axp] Good God, it works!

Subject: Re: [cooker-axp] Good God, it works!
From: Geoffrey Lee (snailtalk@linux-mandrake.com)
Date: Mon May 21 22:16:13 2001

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:24:27PM +0100, Richard Simpson wrote:
> 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).
>

Well that would be because we don't have a proper setup on the Alpha yet ...

Normally, the setup would ask you to create a normal user.

> >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kernel rpm anyway, Chmouel told me is obsolete, needs flex.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, you are right but aicasm isn't the driver itself AFAIK.
  

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