Hi Andrew,

Andrew Leary wrote to Michiel Broek:
AL> -=> Michiel Broek wrote to Andrew Leary <=-
AL> 
AL>  AL> When I try running su to do the make install, it doesn't recognize 
AL> the
AL> 
AL>  MB> That must be the root password here.
AL> 
AL>  That's what I thought.
AL> 
AL>  AL> password.  Also, if I try running the passwd command to change the
AL>  AL> password while logged in as mbse, it doesn't work.  I literally can 
AL> log in
AL> 
AL> 
AL>  AL> as mbse, type passwd at the prompt, type in the same password I just 
AL> used
AL>  AL> to log in, and it will fail, saying the password is incorrect.
AL>  AL>
AL>  AL> Anyone have any suggestions?
AL> 
AL>  MB> Use the root password after su.
AL> 
AL> I solved that problem; apparently I had some hosed file ownerships in my
AL> Slackware tree.  After reinstalling Slackware, the instructions worked
AL> fine to get MBSE installed.

Good, glad it works now.

AL> 
AL> I did have to add the vc/1 device under tty devices in mbsetup to allow
AL> logging in from the console.

These things are allways possible and different on different systems. Just
add all these console ports so you don't have to worry about using console 1
only.

 


    Greetings, Michiel Broek

Email:   mbse at fido dot mbse dot eu
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... I'm flexible, just don't change anything!!

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