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<freem>Hi. I have a question that I could not find the answer of. Does the GNU/Hurd operating system (so, kernel+basic utilities) relies on PAM (pluggable auth modules IIRC?) or something else (i.e. bsdauth from openbsd, or whatever plan9 used)? <kilobug>hi freem in theory you can do it however you want, the Hurd doesn't impose that, but in practice what exists today is Debian GNU/Hurd so basically uses most of Debian, so pam <freem>yes, I know that theory says anything can be used, hurd is just the kernel, and the GNU utilities are used on openbsd with bsdauth. I wanted to know the in-practice situation, which you answered nicely. Thanks. <jab>morning friends! I'm going to update the developers page on the wiki and probably mention that one can flash a hurd vm image to a disk, and then boot that disk. <jab>That was probably the easiest way to install the Hurd. <jab>Also, is anybody using the Hurd on a T420 ? Do you have to use rumpnet for ethernet ? <jab>well gerr, I'm having trouble editing via the wiki webpages. darnasses is a little slow. <rrq>jab: I've also made this (linux) bash script that prepares a hurd-amd64 bootable disk image file (for qemu) using crosshurd taking current sid packages. I'm not sure where would be a sensible place to make that available tot he community. <youpi>the crosshurd debian package, probably? <sneek>Welcome back youpi, you have 3 messages! <sneek>youpi, jab says: hey samuel the amd64 README is slightly in correct in the losetup line. <sneek>youpi, jab says: this is what I used that worked: " sudo losetup -o $((512*1955840)) /dev/loop0 debian-hurd*.img " <rrq>ok. I'll try to follow up on that (I'm not a DD myself) <youpi>but you can make merge requests on salsa <rrq>from a separate git store, or I need an account? <youpi>you can create a guest account there <jab>so git send-email and git format-patch keeps inserting my email address as Ikiwiki <ikiwiki.info> ... <jab>git config user.email returns my email address... <jab>anybody have any idea what i'm doing wrong ? <jab>I've modified $web-src/.git/config so that "user" and "email" are mine and yet the problem persists. <rrq>is there a ~/.gitconfig ?