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- Subject: Re: (cooking) - dropbear-pam 0.52, vs dropbear-pam 0.52?
- From: "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:31:33 +0800
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hey guys, I'm just wondering (i'm new to slitaz, btw. Just checking it
> out) what the difference is between the 2 "dropbear-pam"s that I see
> in the package manager when I do a search (for 'dropbear'). Is one for
> stable, and one for cooking? Then what happens if i install the one
> for stable while i'm running cooking? Whatever the case (even if it
> makes no difference for now), it would really be good to be able to
> highlight this difference in "version" by having a separate column in
> the gui to show this?
>
> Another related question - what is the difference between 'dropbear',
> and 'dropbear-pam'? From the names, it seems like 'dropbear' is not
> using the standard username/password database ("pam") to handle login.
> But if that's the case, how do i get to this database, and manage it?
> At the very least (even if i dont know, or have no way of managing
> this database right now), logging in with tux/root should work. But it
> doesnt right now. I've looked at the official dropbear (whatever there
> is inside the tarball) documentation as well - no mention of this
> "no-pam" mode.
>
ok, nvm about this last bit. Turns out tux's password was not
enabled... I can still login with the standard 'dropbear' (instead of
'dropbear-pam'). And of course, root login is not allowed based on how
dropbear is called. The rest of the questions still stand, though.
-jf
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