Re: Building customized kernel without root passwd

2000-03-01 Thread Marty Leisner
Well, I never like to do anything as root which I don't need root permissions to do. If you have a "compiling" engine, and a "test" machine, this may be reasonable. Just let the compilers be able to write to the build directory (I think -- I haven't looked into this in a while (and generally

Re: Building customized kernel without root passwd

2000-02-29 Thread Ryan Thompson
Zhihui Zhang wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My professor plans to use FreeBSD for teaching purpose. We will allow students to build their kernel but do not want to give them root password. So it's better to find a way to let students build kernel under their own account, save the kernel on a

Building customized kernel without root passwd

2000-02-28 Thread Zhihui Zhang
My professor plans to use FreeBSD for teaching purpose. We will allow students to build their kernel but do not want to give them root password. So it's better to find a way to let students build kernel under their own account, save the kernel on a floppy and then boot from the floppy. I am

Re: Building customized kernel without root passwd

2000-02-28 Thread Mark Newton
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 03:58:00PM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: My professor plans to use FreeBSD for teaching purpose. We will allow students to build their kernel but do not want to give them root password. So it's better to find a way to let students build kernel under their own

Re: Building customized kernel without root passwd

2000-02-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
My professor plans to use FreeBSD for teaching purpose. We will allow students to build their kernel but do not want to give them root password. So it's better to find a way to let students build kernel under their own account, save the kernel on a floppy and then boot from the floppy. I