On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:10:49AM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > In David's defense I can understand his point too. If all the book says > is "to remove the I have no name! prompt" then I can see where that > sounds like it's not all that significant. In our defense, passwd and > group files are core/essential Linux files that no *NIX system lives > without so we also make our assumptions that certain things are just > understood by Linux users. > > It's definitely a bit of a grey area. Cleaning up the text a bit would > not necessarily be a bad thing either (not to be confused with excessive > hand-holding but have it be more correct as there are additional reasons > beyond that I have no name prompt although that's probably the most > visible of reasons). > > Gerard
To clarify my response just now - starting a new shell is optional, clearly the passwd and group files are required. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
