Kevin Ogden wrote:
> At 03:35 PM 6/17/98 -0000, harry wrote:
> >hello again :)
> >thanks for the help, the packages *do* install in /usr/pkg/, and i was 
> >having problems because i am not used to the default korn shell. 
> >
> >since there is no adduser script, i was trying my luck with the passwd 
> >and group files. i don't really know what i'm doing but i understand you 
> >have to add the user to the wheel group to su to root. is there any way 
> >to allow root telnet logins? 
> 
> The group file is fairly self explanatory :)  To allow you to telnet in as
> root just mark the ttyp* devices in /etc/ttys as secure.  It should work at
> that point.

Keep in mind that the above is a security no-no and more or less
deprecated.  It's almost always better to telnet in as yourself and then
'su' to root.  That way, you have some kind of accountability for who's
becoming root :-)
 
> >now i just have three relatively small problems:
> >
> >sendmail is giving me troubles. it gets this error while booting: 
> >starting network daemons: sendmail...^snip^..... NOQUEUE SYSERR(root): 
> >hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file etc/aliases: No such file or 
> >directory. 
> 
> go into /etc and type: ./newaliases

Actually, that should be just "newaliases", I don't think the binary
itself is in /etc.  If it is, just ignore me ;-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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