Re: [lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

2018-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tim Tassonis wrote: I have found a workaround for my problem: If I replace mount -vt devpts devpts $LFS/dev/pts -o gid=5,mode=620 with mount -v --bind /dev/pts $LFS/dev/pts I get the needed /dev/pts/0 and sudo and su with password asking now works. As it seems that this is really only a

Re: [lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

2018-02-11 Thread Tim Tassonis
On 02/11/2018 10:07 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 02/11/2018 09:17 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I currently building LFS (svn) and seem to get a problem doing su in the chroot environment. I am past shadow now and have set-up a user to work with. The user however

Re: [lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

2018-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tim Tassonis wrote: On 02/11/2018 09:17 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I currently building LFS (svn) and seem to get a problem doing su in the chroot environment. I am past shadow now and have set-up a user to work with. The user however should be able to su to root. I

Re: [lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

2018-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I currently building LFS (svn) and seem to get a problem doing su in the chroot environment. I am past shadow now and have set-up a user to work with. The user however should be able to su to root. I have done the same on lfs 7.9 and lfs 8.0 without problems. I

[lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

2018-02-11 Thread Tim Tassonis
Hi all I currently building LFS (svn) and seem to get a problem doing su in the chroot environment. I am past shadow now and have set-up a user to work with. The user however should be able to su to root. I have done the same on lfs 7.9 and lfs 8.0 without problems. I think, I follow the

Re: [lfs-support] Page Table Isolation on AMD Processors

2018-02-11 Thread Mark Pokorny
On 11 February 2018 at 19:30, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 07:10:41PM +, Mark Pokorny wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I’ve been away for a while, but am back now starting a new SVN build >> of LFS. Since I’ve been away, however, the Spectre/Meltdown issue has

[lfs-support] Page Table Isolation on AMD Processors

2018-02-11 Thread Mark Pokorny
Hi all, I’ve been away for a while, but am back now starting a new SVN build of LFS. Since I’ve been away, however, the Spectre/Meltdown issue has been discussed at length. I’ve been reading through the archives with interest, but unfortunately little understanding. I am currently going through