[CLUE-Tech] 'Scuse me, but why did the RH7.2 upgrade change my root password.

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Jed S. Baer wrote:

> I'm somewhat more aggravated now, as I'm discovering certain services
> won't start, cuz root isn't the only thing in my passwd/group settings it
> went and munged. Why can't RedHat figure that maybe I made changes to my
> system cuz I wanted it that way? Does SuSe do stupid stuff like this?

I don't know if SuSE does it to that extent, but yes. That's
the trade-off for the Wizard way of doing things -- SuSE's YaST2
will make changes to all the files it deals with unless you
specifically tell it not to. If you open any of the config
files, you should see a comment that says "Do not manually edit
this file" or something like that.

Zonker
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