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* [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo for ..... GRANDMA????
@ 2002-03-14  2:04 Matthew Jimenez
  2002-03-14  9:24 ` George Shapovalov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Jimenez @ 2002-03-14  2:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

>>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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