Linux-Misc Digest #319, Volume #24 Sun, 30 Apr 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: changing root username (Bill Unruh)
Re: Difference between Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2 (Bill Unruh)
Recover partition after trying to built software raid1 (Henrik Puschmann)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: changing root username
Date: 30 Apr 2000 21:11:03 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Would anyone know if it is safe (in the sense of "will things still work
>ok") to change the username of the root account by editing /etc/passwd?
Probably. The OS refers to user ID not names. names are just used for
interacting with people. But why would you want to change root's name?
Note: If you want to you can insert aliases-- ie other user names with
uid of 0, and they will work just as root does.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Difference between Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2
Date: 30 Apr 2000 21:17:22 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Iwaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I see many auctions for Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2 linux distributions
>on ebay. What's the differences between the two. The Mandrake 7.0
>sellers claim their distribution is the easiest to install and is fully
>compatible with RedHat addons..Can someone give some more objective
>information on this?
???? Why would anyone buy either on ebay? You can get them for $2 +$6
shipping from say cheapbytes. You can download them for free. You can
get them plus an install manual for $10 on cheapbytes. Why would you buy
them on ebay?
Mandrake's chief claim to fame with 7.0 was the Drax system (
installation, repartitioning-- broken in 7.0 but fixed in 7.0-2,
hardware detection). They are now ( in the next couple o weeks coming
out with 7.1) Both use the rpm database system. mandrake is compiled to
586 machines (pentium) but I have seen at least one post which claims
that 586 "optimisation" is the worst of 386 486 586 686-- have not
tested it myself so do not know if this is true. (Note that the
difference is slight).
>thanks
>Michael Iwaki
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From: Henrik Puschmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recover partition after trying to built software raid1
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:30:04 GMT
Hello,
I have tried to built a software raid-1 one on my linux system. After I
could not get it to work I found out, that I'm in need of a folder from
the old partioion /dev/hda4 which I did not backup.
Is there a way to get back to my data?
The answere on a mount try is: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
on /dev/hda4, or too many mounted file systems.
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