Dan Nicholson wrote on 04-01-07 02:13: > I've never tried using suauth, but I just looked at the source, and it > is only enabled if you're using PAM. BLFS has support for building > shadow against PAM and/or cracklib. Read the warnings, though. You > don't want to get into a situation where you can't log in to your > system.
Indeed. This happened to me more than once recently, what with upgrading to PAM, upgrading udev, revising the boot precedure (/etc/rcd., etc.). Not an LFS system, btw., but that's not the point. The point is, I've never had any problem correcting the 'logged out' situation with the help of a RIP CDROM, of which I always keep a fairly recent copy available. Morale: shouldn't LFS also provide some help/advice to users/ installers in this regard, i.e. in chapter 0.0.0 "first we're gonna burn a RIP CDROM" (RIP, or whatever other rescue CDROM)?? I know -- once a user has to resort to a rescue CDROM, they're on a sidetrack into the dark woods anyway, and it'll be very hard to give them additional support in cries for help that are bound to come up from that sidetrack -- but still. > -- > Dan -- Bauke Jan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
