Re: [UUG/MLUG] Re: Red Hat and Mirror site

[Bryan Venable <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

As far as FTP access for non-root accounts, make sure each account's shell
is listed in /etc/shells and that its home directory exists and is owned by
it.

To create /etc/shadow type

pwconv

as root.  Note that you should *not* do this unless you are certain your
important system binaries (like /bin/login, /bin/su, /usr/bin/passwd, etc.)
are compiled with shadow password support; if you're using Red Hat, they are
(or at least they are on the Intel architecture).

As far as becoming root remotely, you don't necessarily *have* to use ssh to
login as a regular user before becoming root using the su command - you can
use telnet.  SSH is quite a bit more secure, though, of course, and thus
comes highly recommended.

If you're using Red Hat, you can get ssh binary RPMs for the PPC
architecture at:

ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/linux/redhat/ppc/

once you download the .rpm files, type (as root):

rpm -ivh ssh-whatever.ppc.rpm

for each of them.  Then type (again, as root):

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start

that'll get you started on the server side.  Read the man pages ('man sshd',
'man ssh') to get at least a vague idea of what's going on.  Since you have
a static IP, maybe we can sit down and have a look at it before or after the
next meeting.

      Bryan Venable | Technical Coordinator | Virtual Online University
                http://www.spif.com/ | http://www.vousi.com/

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> This is a bit of a side note, but does anyone out there have any
> experience with Linux for PPC's?  I got it installed on an 8500/120 I have
> at work, with a static IP and stuff, but I am having a few problems with
> it.  One, shadow passwording seems to not be working.  When I log on, it
> says unable to find /etc/shadow
> Another note:  How does one set up the system to allow ftp's from users
> into the system.  I ftp'd to my local account and was able to log on
> anonymously, yet was unable to log on with a couple of the accounts I had
> created, including the root account.  Also noted that I can't telnet to
> the site from anywhere and log in as root...Anything that can be done to
> fix that?  
> 	Just a note here: I'm a fairly new user of linux, and so don't
> have a lot of experience with it, or networking in high detail (at least,
> on linux).  So, details would be a big help....
> Thanks!!
> Jason
> 
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