Re: [Sheflug] Re: is SuSE Yast violating the GPL

[Mike Hemstock <hemstock [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 27 October 2003 23:43, lesley wrote:
> have followed this thread ...
>
> the only vaguely interesting comments i can respond with are these
>
> 1.  wvdial on Suse 7.3 - found it 'phones home' to Suse when i was
> playing with iptables.
> I have not identified the request yet but there is definite attempt to
> access to www.suse.de.

I believe that wvdial attempts to contact www.suse.de to test DNS.  If it 
can't contact the DNS servers it was given by your ISP you get an error along 
the lines of "cannot contact www.suse.de, address lookup failed.  The 
connection may not work."  If you block the DNS servers with iptables you 
will see this message.

> 2. It's terrifying when you lose (or thought you have lost) your root
> passwd.
> (Stoically sticking to dual machine with bootdisk)

If you boot off the SuSE CD into rescuse mode, mount the partition with /etc 
on and then remove the root password hash from /etc/shadow you will blank the 
root password and you can then log in with no password and change it.

> Lesley

Mike.

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