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Geoff Beaumont · Xplorer Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 10

How does one get access to Xandros Networks?

I can browse it, but if I try to install anything from it it requests an administrator password (which doesn't appear to be the one for my machine, since it doesn't accept it, and still requests it when I'm logged in as root).

Geoff.

grif · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:27 pm Post subject:

XN requres you to enter the administrator (root) password you set up during installation, not your user password. Linux passwords are case-sensitive so be sure that you have your caps set correctly.

(As an aside, you should never log in as root. Log in as your regular user then enter the administrator password when you try to run administrator utilities etc.).
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Geoff Beaumont · Xplorer Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 10

It turns out to have been related to a (probably obscure) installation bug, the result of which was that the root user couldn't be authenticated while logged in as an ordinary user, which I guess boils down to to su couldn't authenticate the root user.

Changing the root users password, even to the same as it was, fixes the authentication problem and hence lets me use Xandros Networks.

Cheers anyway,
Geoff.

Jan Flodin · Xplorer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 37

(As an aside, you should never log in as root. Log in as your regular user then enter the administrator password when you try to run administrator utilities etc.).[/quote]

So, does this mean that the software will be installed/updated in exactly the same way in my computer, no matter if I have logged in to my machine as root or ordinary user, since I give my root password to XN?
What if I install an ordinary application and not anything that belongs to the system? Is the reason to be an ordinary user that ordinary applications then is set up for that user?

I am new to XN and want to know how this works.

Geoff Beaumont · Xplorer Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 10

Xandros Networks (and Xandros Update) are essentially front ends to the extremely good Debian package management system, which manages software for the whole system.

If you want to install software for a single user, you'll need to do this manually, and won't get the help of the package management system for resolving dependencies, keeping up with security updates, etc.

Unless you've got a good reason to do otherwise, I'd stick to the supplied system wide software (adding the Debian repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list if necessary - lots more software) as the advantages are likely to massively outway any disadvantages.

As an aside - does anyone know whether software that's only available through Xandros Networks and not Xandros Update (eg. Evolution) is updated by Xandros Update/apt-get update? It would be very bad if it isn't.

Geoff.

Davepet · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject:

AFAIK, since they are frontends for apt-get, I believe they all use the same source file.

IE if you change sources in XN, you change them in the others as well.

I could be wrong, if so someone may come along & correct me.

Dave
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