[2703] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: new xlogin problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Mar 8 12:51:06 1999
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 08 Mar 1999 12:50:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: amu@MIT.EDU's message of 08 Mar 1999 12:36:23 -0500
That doesn't help with the root password -- great, I can see it now..
After the first reboot the root password no longer works! Whee!
-derek
amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > The reason it doesn't create the files is because the original
> > /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are created AFTER the packages
> > are installed. The best we could do is create the files at the
> > first reboot.
>
> Uh, we can declare a triggerin for the setup package, which installs
> them.
>
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
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