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From: "Matthew Jimenez" <jimmermouse@hotmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo for ..... GRANDMA????
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 02:04:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F189E6l4mgdZmcaIdsH00019c1f@hotmail.com> (raw)

>>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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             reply	other threads:[~2002-03-14  2:07 UTC|newest]

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2002-03-14  2:04 Matthew Jimenez [this message]
2002-03-14  9:24 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo for ..... GRANDMA???? George Shapovalov

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