Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] perfect chick / egg problem

2022-01-15 Thread Jose Marques
Back in the day, using Xorg. If you login to the console as a user, and then run an X app as root, then root can't talk to the X server because it doesn't have the shared secret in the user's ~/.Xauthority file. For non-NFS user home directories you can get around this by setting the XAUTHORITY

Re: perfect chick / egg problem

2022-01-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:26 AM Larry Linder <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > The solution: > > Make a bootable usb flash on widnows 10 laptop and it works. The > application sees that a couple of files are missing from Alma 8.5 and > adds them. > > If you use "dd"

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] perfect chick / egg problem

2022-01-15 Thread Jose Marques
Did you use the DVD image? If you want a self-contained install, then the DVD ISO is a must. You need an 8GB or larger flash drive. The minimal and boot ISO are for use with things like Packer where you just need to run the installer and get the rest of the install over the network. Having said

cancel "root", Re: perfect chick / egg problem

2022-01-15 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> > The Linux community's decision to cancel "root" is the dumbest Idea I > have ever experienced. If you have another account with root priveladge > - what is the point. If its hacked the same result. > I was just looking at the same thing. As I understand, the fake non-root root user is