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?

I work in the Computer Security Lab in DSO National Laboratories in
Singapore.
So, I tend to see security as a priority.

>
> > 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.
>

Yup. But it does not have any tools to convert a non-shadowed password
scheme to
a shadowed one. ie. How do I enable shadow passwords on familiar? Do I
simply
create the corresponding shadow file or do I need to do something else?

> > 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?
>

"If" familiar on ipaq is only to cater for single user env like a normal
organiser,
then there isn't any point of putting so many users in the /etc/passwd.
Just the root will do
and then we can simply boot the familiar to single-user mode.

However, from what u have mentioned, the goal of the project is to user
familiar in a multi-user
environment. So, the single-user mode thing is not relevant now, only for
maintenance as usual.

Regards
Wong Yee Peng
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 18:50:17 EDT