[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo for ..... GRANDMA????

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo for ..... GRANDMA????

[Matthew Jimenez]

>>hmm
>>but GRANDMA is being set in front of a complete ready-to-use-system, and
>>doesnt have to install new ebuilds. i dont even think that they want to 
>>give
>>GRANDMA the root password <g>

Hell, why bother even allowing it to login. Kill the getty's and dump strait 
to a root bash :) This can be easily (fairly) done by changing inittab. Just 
delete the last 5 line that spawn agetty's (Mine only uses 3 getty's... I 
really don't see why you need six to begin with) and replace the first with 
/bin/bash. Also, change one of the scripts to startx... hell, I'm not sure, 
but I think you could even have inittab respawn startx!

>>PS: a grandma with root access will have to learn bash, so she can learn 
>>howto >>update scripts in /etc/init.d too or not? linux always was a 
>>continual
>>learning process, as well as M$ was a continual reboo.... know what i mean
>>don't ya? <g>

Does grandma have high speed internet? I doubt it. If so, dhcp. Otherwise 
I'm sure a dial-up script for a modem will work. just make it linked to a 
button on the desktop.. really, it shouldn't be to hard (tedious, but not 
hard) to make a gentoo box easy enough for anyone. If not.. buy a mac. LOL. 
Thanks for the laughs though. Peace.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo for ..... GRANDMA????

[George Shapovalov]

Letting her go as a root is a bad idea IMNSHO.
Better use in inittab something like: 
su -c "/bin/bash -i" grandma :-). 
(and of course ~/.bashrc should call startx with .xinitrc setup properly.)
Well, anyway, please disregard, we had way too much talk on this already :-).

George

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