Re: Recommendations for 0.5 familiar?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:39:47PM +0800, Wong Yee Peng wrote:
> Here are some of my suggestions for the coming 0.5.
> 1) The dist should use shadow password scheme by default. Right now it

What's your reasoning?

> isn't. Should also include the tools to manage it. An alternative is to use
> tinylogin (http://tinylogin.lineo.com). I tried it and seems fine.

Looks cool.

> 2) Since multi-user capability has been built-in (or not taken out) in all
> dist, shouldn't the XDM package be included as well so that users can login
> to diff user profiles through a graphical login dialog box instead of going

That's the ultimate goal.

> through the serial console which is unconventional. If the projected usage
> for the familiar on ipaq is only for single-user env, then isn't better to
> boot the linux only to single-user mode (runlevel 1) instead?

Familiar is going to be multi-user (probably support a scheme similar to
Mac OS X as far as auth), but it isn't going to be full developed in this
release.

Why would we use single-user mode?

Alexander
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 10:37:05 EDT