From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: poeigl-1.11/login under PL5 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 01:35:50 GMT
In article <9303010114.AA03703@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STMQ%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Michael Quigley) writes:
>Dear Linuxers,
>
> I am currently running 0.99PL5 with the login/init and getty stuff that
>comes with the SLS 1.0 distribution. I am toying with the idea of upgrading
>to the PL6 kernel, but I have a problem. First of all, I like the SLS login
>program better than poeigl's. The SLS login program has many more features,
>and I like shadow passwords. So basically I don't want to get rid of it.
>Secondly, I can't get poeigl's login to work on my system. I don't think
>it is handling the shadow passwords correctly.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on ways I can migrate to the newer kernel?
Your message seems to imply that 99p6 breaks SLS login. It doesn't.
Go ahead and upgrade.
>
>Also, I received many requests for information relating to my experiences
>with making a boot/root disk combination. I have built a kernel with tape
>support and xiafs. I successfully used this setup to switch my system to
>xiafs from extfs. I will be summarizing the proceedure to comp.os.linux in
>the upcoming week.
>
>One other quick question for you all. The init program that comes with SLS
>is the SystemV init package that is available on most of the linux sites,
>isn't? It has different runlevels and all of the features of that package.
Yes