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Letting her go as a root is a bad idea IMNSHO. |
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Better use in inittab something like: |
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su -c "/bin/bash -i" grandma :-). |
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(and of course ~/.bashrc should call startx with .xinitrc setup properly.) |
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Well, anyway, please disregard, we had way too much talk on this already :-). |
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George |
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On Wednesday 13 March 2002 18:04, you wrote: |
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> >>hmm |
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> >>but GRANDMA is being set in front of a complete ready-to-use-system, and |
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> >>doesnt have to install new ebuilds. i dont even think that they want to |
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> >>give |
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> >>GRANDMA the root password <g> |
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> |
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> Hell, why bother even allowing it to login. Kill the getty's and dump |
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> strait to a root bash :) This can be easily (fairly) done by changing |
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> inittab. Just delete the last 5 line that spawn agetty's (Mine only uses 3 |
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> getty's... I really don't see why you need six to begin with) and replace |
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> the first with /bin/bash. Also, change one of the scripts to startx... |
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> hell, I'm not sure, but I think you could even have inittab respawn startx! |
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> |
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> >>PS: a grandma with root access will have to learn bash, so she can learn |
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> >>howto >>update scripts in /etc/init.d too or not? linux always was a |
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> >>continual |
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> >>learning process, as well as M$ was a continual reboo.... know what i |
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> >> mean don't ya? <g> |
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> |
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> Does grandma have high speed internet? I doubt it. If so, dhcp. Otherwise |
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> I'm sure a dial-up script for a modem will work. just make it linked to a |
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> button on the desktop.. really, it shouldn't be to hard (tedious, but not |
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> hard) to make a gentoo box easy enough for anyone. If not.. buy a mac. LOL. |
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> Thanks for the laughs though. Peace. |
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