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

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 19:06:21 -0700 (MST)
"Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jbrockmeier at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.

Config files are one thing. With RH, or other RPM-based distros, there's
usually an .rpmsave of your old configuration files. But I don't consider
passwd and group to be "changable by the installer", at least as far as
whacking users I've created for daemons to run under.

Also, now I can't mount /dev/cdrom. Thanks RH. Looks like I'll be building
a new kernel sooner than I'd planned on. No, it wouldn't mount under one
of the generic SCSI devices either. LSF is starting to look attractive.

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