Hi David,
	The password for testuser isn't blank. testuser's password is
"testuser" for simplicity's sake.
	When I get the Dreamcast and NetBSD server moved out of my bedroom
(older IBM SCSI drives are *loud*) I'm going to see if the Dreamcast can
compile a complete distribution. If and when it does, I'll make the
"clean" distribution available, hopefully with better permissions when I
tar it up. I hadn't considered permissions being a problem, mainly cause I
worked through the directions as I wrote them and never encountered any
permission issues. :(

Thanks,
Josh

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Josh Tolbert
hemi@scoundrelz.net

Every time the power flickers, a squirrel gets his wings.

On 3 Sep 2002, David W. Robinson wrote:

> Thanks for that suggestion. I deleted the old "world" and re-untarred it
> with the -p flag. No difference, however. But the boot messages did
> confirm that there was a problem with permissions (apparently in /etc
> and /var) so I experimentally set /etc to -R 777, and then I was able to
> log in as root for the first time, with no password. I'll go back now
> and fine tune. Unfortunately, dmesg isn't catching all of the
> interesting error messages, or I would show them here.
>
> -- David Robinson
>
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 08:48, Andy R wrote:
> > --- "David W. Robinson" <dwrob@gasou.edu> wrote:
> > > I have installed Josh Tolbert's configuration of
> > > NetBSD for the
> > > Dreamcast, and it boots just fine. (The NFS server
> > > is a Linux machine.)
> > > For some reason, however, it won't let me login as
> > > any of the default
> > > users (root, toor, testuser). All of these are set
> > > to allow login
> > > without passwords, but something seems to be amiss.
> > >
> > > I'm not familiar with NetBSD. Am I overlooking
> > > something obvious?
> >
> > I had a similar problem in the beginning. Some
> > permissions in the "world" tarball got screwed up upon
> > untarring (that's the best guess I have for now).
> > After I untarred again as root, it worked. I used the
> > "p" option as well but I didn't check to see that it
> > made any difference.
> >
> > Are you having this problem on the console or from ssh
> > or both?
> >
> > Andy
> >
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