I know I'm asking for trouble, but here goes.
I just got mandrake 9 installed on my new harddrive (gonna put the old slack in "my" machine later) and there are several interesting glitches. For starters, i could not do a complete install - the cd is a little damaged, so i might be missing some important packages.... but to the point....
I cannot set the root password. it is left wide open. "passwd" results in "User not known to the underlying authentication module". WTF??
How do I tell mandrake to use shadow passwords? right now everything is in the world-readable "/etc/passwd" file, including a big gaping hole where the crypted root password should be....
I just copyed and pasted my account's password there...
How do I tell mandrake to use MD5 encryption on the passwords?
I'm sure there is more, but that's it for now...
-t.
ps - if at all possible, tell me how to GUI it; I need the experience so I can show my non-computer literate friends the light without scaring them with a console.... the only reason mandrake is still on my hardrive......
encl(1) - missing modules:
the following failed to install because of cd scratches; i don't think they have anything to do with the above tho:
- losetup-2.11u-1mdk.i586
- openssh-3.4p1-4mdk.i586 <- might it be this one?
- xine-plugins-0.9.13-3mdk.i586
- postgresql-server-7.2.2-1mdk.i586 <- got it via web update duting install
- xine-ui-0.9.13-2mdk.i586
- xlockmore-5.04-4mdk.i586
