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Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Söderlund
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:49:00 -0700 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:56:44PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > > bug-hurd list instead, but I don't even know if this is a bug. > > > > Sure it's a bug! :) Next time on bug-hurd@gnu.org, as a Debian bug report

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Ignore this, Roland did it before me and he did it a bit nicer. Sighs... 2002-05-05 Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile (login-.bash_login): New target. * login-.bash_login.in: New file. * login-.bash_login: Removed. -- Alfred M. Szmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Here is a patch that fixes the problem. Niklas, could you try it and see that it works correctly? 2002-05-05 Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile (login-.bash_login): New target. * login-.bash_login.in: New file. * login-.bash_login: Removed. Index: config/

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Söderlund
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:49:00 -0700 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:56:44PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > > bug-hurd list instead, but I don't even know if this is a bug. > > > > Sure it's a bug! :) Next time on bug-hurd@gnu.org, as a Debian bug report

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Söderlund
On 05 Jun 2002 22:37:38 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred M. Szmidt) wrote: > * Niklas Söderlund writes: > > All I did was to change directory to /, issue "login root" and type > > in the wrong password. usually, if i am standing in /etc/login/ it > > only says "login: Invalid password", but in a

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Söderlund
On 05 Jun 2002 22:42:16 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) wrote: > Niklas Söderlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yup, but since /bin/login is suid:ed as root, > > There's no reason /bin/login need to be setuid root on the Hurd. > > Why not? You tell login your name and passwd. login s

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:42:16PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: > PPS. On the only Hurd system I have access to, /usr/bin/login is > actually setuid root. I hope that's a bug. Yeah, it seems the Hurd packaging is not sober. Too many programs in the Hurd package end up being suid root for no reason

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:26:37PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > Yup, but since /bin/login is suid:ed as root, it should be harmless > to do chmod 640 /etc/passwd? login isn't (or shouldn't be) suid root. The password server runs as root, though. Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:56:44PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > bug-hurd list instead, but I don't even know if this is a bug. > Sure it's a bug! :) Next time on bug-hurd@gnu.org, as a Debian bug report or as a bug report in the Savannah Hurd project, please (whatever is most convenient for

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Niels Möller
Niklas Söderlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yup, but since /bin/login is suid:ed as root, There's no reason /bin/login need to be setuid root on the Hurd. Why not? You tell login your name and passwd. login sends them to the passwd server. If they are correct, the passwd server replies with a

H4 disks, ext2fs_check_if_mount: Unknown code P2 ....

2002-06-05 Thread John Smith
Hello, I venture into Hurd country with the H4 CD disks. Briefly, I have -- created an empty file system with mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hda2 -- cross installed a hurd using a baseHurd.tgz -- set up Grub, and rebooted into the Hurd -- run initial-install, rebooted, and run initial-i

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
* Niklas SÂÃderlund writes: > All I did was to change directory to /, issue "login root" and type in the > wrong password. > usually, if i am standing in /etc/login/ it only says "login: Invalid > password", but in > another working directory it tries to login. This is because of a bug in the .b

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Söderlund
On 05 Jun 2002 22:18:12 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) wrote: > Niklas Söderlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Use `login USER' to login, or `help' for more information. > > login> grep root /etc/passwd > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > > > Anyone know why it is like this? Is it

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Söderlund
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:12:04 -0700 (PDT) James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems like you press enter a couple of extra times. I don't actually know > what happened, but you logged in as nouser, thus why .bashrc and .procfile > couldn't be found. hm, nope.. All I did was to change di

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Niels Möller
Niklas Söderlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Use `login USER' to login, or `help' for more information. > login> grep root /etc/passwd > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > Anyone know why it is like this? Is it possible to use shadow-file? Even if not using shadow passwords, it would make sens

Re: strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread James Morrison
--- Niklas Söderlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know, but it seems like the login-program tries > to login even if the entered password was incorrect, if I > enter a directory outside /etc/login. > > > Use `login USER' to login, or `help' for more information. > login> cd / >

strange result when typing wrong password

2002-06-05 Thread Söderlund
Hi, I don't know, but it seems like the login-program tries to login even if the entered password was incorrect, if I enter a directory outside /etc/login. Use `login USER' to login, or `help' for more information. login> cd / login> login root Password: login: Invalid password login prompt (ba

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__GLIBC__ is not defined.

2002-06-05 Thread James Morrison
Hi, I just tried to compile the sysutils debian package. One of these programs, tofrodos, is manually configured for each platform in config.h. Anyway, the point is __GLIBC__ is not longer defined on my system. Was this expected, should it still be defined, and whose bug is this? It seems

Re: Booting the Hurd ?

2002-06-05 Thread James Morrison
--- Yann Forget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Following the flame war on debian-devel about the Hurd, > I installed it to get an opinion by myself, as I don't have prior > experience about micro-kernels. > > So, I managed to insta

Re: Booting the Hurd ?

2002-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:16:22PM +0200, Yann Forget wrote: > The statement by Linus 10 years back is still valid. What > the purpose to have a new design, a micro-kernel and > whatever if it is not even remotely useable ? Developpers > have managed to compile half of Debian packages, but > t

Re: Booting the Hurd ?

2002-06-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Yann Forget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I managed to install it alright, ... but I can't boot it !!! Do you have a bug report to give? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting the Hurd ?

2002-06-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
* Yann Forget writes: > So, I managed to install it alright, ... but I can't boot it !!! And could you describe the nature of your problems instead of giving an elaborate troll? That way a fix can be provided. -- Alfred M. Szmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Booting the Hurd ?

2002-06-05 Thread Yann Forget
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Following the flame war on debian-devel about the Hurd, I installed it to get an opinion by myself, as I don't have prior experience about micro-kernels. So, I managed to install it alright, ... but I can't boot it !!! The statement by L

Re: Newbie feedback

2002-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:40:55AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I found that the problem disappeared after I remade the partition with > mke2fs -o hurd -b 4096 > This sets the block size to 4096 while the default is 1024. Is that > the correct diagnosis? Ayup, support for block size

Re: Newbie feedback

2002-06-05 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le 2002.06.05 06:10, Kapil Hari Paranjape a écrit : I found that the problem disappeared after I remade the partition with mke2fs -o hurd -b 4096 This sets the block size to 4096 while the default is 1024. Is that the correct diagnosis? Tried 3 times with the -b 4096, succeeded 3 times (had

Re: Newbie feedback

2002-06-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, My own recent experiences to add! On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:36:35PM +0200, PUYDT Julien wrote: > I made the great jump today, and installed hurd on a spare partition. > That box already used grub, so it was easy to add an entry in the > menu.lst for grub beforehand on my debian/linux ins