Re: SLES8 Install Problems
Sergey Korzhevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: zvmlinx4:/mnt # mount -t smbfs -o username=rnoll //10.201.18.9/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 3481: session request to 10.201.18.9 failed (Called name not present) 3481: session request to 10 failed (Called name not present) Password: zvmlinx4:/mnt # IIRC setting LOGNAME or USER (or both, I don't remember) might help. export LOGNAME=rnoll export USER=rnoll mount -t smbfs -o username=rnoll,... //10.201.18.9/cdrom that's a feature^wbug of smbmount. Choosing smb as installation source in the installation dialogs should work however. -- Susanne Oberhauser penguins SuSE Linux AG +49-911-74053-574enjoy Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dinosaurs90429 Nürnberg
Re: LINUX Security
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:08:54PM +0100, Susanne Oberhauser wrote: Sergey Korzhevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you explain me, please, what is the reason to remove 'root' name from a system? there is none --- to the contrary doing so is Evil (tm) for LSB compliant distributions. However, to rely on LSB compliance in portable programs is just as Evil. 10 Thou shalt foreswear, renounce, and abjure the vile heresy which claimeth that ``All the world's [an LSB-compliant Linux system]'', and have no commerce with the benighted heathens who cling to this barbarous belief, that the days of thy program may be long even though the days of thy current machine be short. :))) ok, ok, I do --- being no native speaker, I can't abjure that poetically, but yes, of course there are other operating systems out there ;), I've even heard of some with very strange names for root, Stratminidator or the like... Nevertheless would you agree with me that for systmes claiming to run on *Linux*, relying on the existence of a user 'root' should be ok? This would allow portable software to have just *one* platform specific backend for *all* flavors of Linux, and would ease porting of such software to Linux. Susanne
Re: LINUX Security
Sergey Korzhevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Could you explain me, please, what is the reason to remove 'root' name from a system? there is none --- to the contrary doing so is Evil (tm) for LSB compliant distributions. From http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/usernames.html: Linux Standard Base Specification 1.3.pr8 Prev Chapter 19. Users Groups Next --- User Group Names Below is a table of required mnemonic user and group names. This specification makes no attempt to numerically assign uid or gid numbers. The exception is the uid and gid for root which are equal to 0. Table 19-1. Required User Group Names +-+ |User |Group |Comments | |--+--+---| |root |root |Administrative user with no restrictions | ... Table 19-2. Optional User Group Names +---+ |User|Group |Comments | |++-| |adm |adm |Administrative special privileges| |lp |lp |Printer special privileges | |sync|sync|Login to sync the system | |shutdown|shutdown|Login to shutdown the system | |halt|halt|Login to halt the system | |mail|mail|Mail special privileges | |news|news|News special privileges | |uucp|uucp|UUCP special privileges | |operator|root|Operator special privileges | |man |man |Man special privileges | |nobody |nobody |Used by NFS | +---+ -- Susanne Oberhauser penguins SuSE Linux AG +49-911-74053-574enjoy Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dinosaurs90429 Nürnberg
