From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:03:51 -0700 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com ([204.94.214.22]:23302 "EHLO pneumatic-tube.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:03:34 -0700 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id MAA08201; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:07:19 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA38331 for linux-list; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:52:54 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA73707 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:52:49 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (richardh@penguin.nl) Received: from smtpf.casema.net (smtpf.casema.net [195.96.96.173]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id LAA01718 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:52:42 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (richardh@penguin.nl) Received: (qmail 6880 invoked by uid 0); 5 Apr 2000 18:52:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO penguin.nl) (195.96.116.71) by smtpf.casema.net with SMTP; 5 Apr 2000 18:52:37 -0000 Message-ID: <38EB8BD1.8BB0AEB5@penguin.nl> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:54:09 +0200 From: Richard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hill CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: kernel for indigo2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linuxmips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linuxmips-outgoing > Hard Hat Linux Hard Hat release 5.1 (Manhattan) > Kernel 2.3.21 on a mips > > login: > > My attempted root login is then declared invalid. For my next trick I'll > try pre-loading installfs/etc/passwd with a valid account, then re-running > the installer. Is there any reason this shouldn't work? The reason your root login is not validated, is because Redhat doesn't allow root logins over a tellnet session by default, and because of some stupid decission made once, it doesn't allow you to make a user account during installation. That's why you've had to change the setup-noarch.rpm to add a secure tty, to login as root over a telnet session. your /etc/passwd trick would also work Richard