On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Munir Nassar wrote: > Ok, i banished Mandrake from my server forever and > replaced it with Slackware, worked like a charm... > > samba is up and running no problems whatsoever... i > was able to recompile the kernel and some other stuff > (links, lftp, vim, openssl+openssh) overall i would > say a very good experience.... > > i am having some problems with LILO and OpenSSH i will > spam you guys more know once i have more info.. As for the OpenSSH thing, I'd suggest adding "--with-md5-passwords" to your variables when running ./configure. That's one annoying detail I've run into installing OpenSSH on Slackware -- OpenSSH assumes that unless the system has PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) support, it doesn't use MD5 passwords. Veeery annoying. And on systems that *do* use PAM (i.e. RedHat), you have to copy the sshd.pam file in the contrib directory to /etc/pam.d/sshd or wherever. Look at it this way: When I discovered this minor fluke, I was installing OpenSSH on a 486/25, I believe. (Not mine.) Boy, did that compile take a long time. (I'd say this is a pretty good guess for having no details aside from the distribution. ;) Hope this helps. Jima