Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

[Art Edwards]

Loïc Minier wrote:
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Sep 24, 2004:
 

My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER
installation?
   

bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum
Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum
Name: passwd/md5
Template: passwd/md5
But "dpkg-reconfigure passwd" only prompts for shadow passwords, not
for MD5 versus Crypt.  It seems MD5 is the default now, and the
changelog confirms this:
shadow (1:4.0.3-19) unstable; urgency=low
  * "No really, assume md5 passwords". Closes: #223664
(Have a look at #223664 if you want more details.)
  Regards,
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Thanks very much for the response. You are right. md5 (and shadow) are 
defaults. My problem had been that I could not get autofs to work 
properly. With a barebones install, things like portmap, nfs-common and 
some other crucial item(s) are not installed. This was important because 
I was building beowulf nodes and they needed the rsa-keys in .ssh so 
that ssh could be automatic for mpich. I don't know exactly what I did, 
but after a couple of base-config's the system suddenly downloaded about 
30-50 packages and autofs simply started to work properly.

Another suggestion that I might be willing to work on with some help 
would be to develop a task beowulf-node, that would download some 
agreed-upon set of packages (ssh, all of the things that make autofs 
work transparently, mpich, the important compilers blas-dev and 
lapack-dev, etc.)

I was really surprised to find that mpich depends on things like 
xfree86-common, defoma, a bunch of font packages, etc. Can anyone 
demystify me about this?

Art Edwards
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