On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:57 +0400, security wrote:
Hello all, I am making my own distribution based on RHEL AS 3U4 (with additional rpms, like urpmi, webmin, nessus, Maildir format by default for Postfix, courier-IMAP etc.) and I would like to have information from the CentOS team. I am generating the isos of this distribution but during the launching of anaconda, the graphic interface failed to work, so the installation in text mode is the only one possible. I think i find the problem: pam. by using pam-0.75-51, all is ok (graphical install of anaconda) but with more recent versions, anaconda refuses to launch the graphical install. Question: had somebody similar problems?? Thank you in advance and good year to all :)
Are you using the latest anaconda from RHEL-3 (anaconda-9.1.4.1-1).
We are using pam-0.77-65 with anaconda-10.1.1.3-1 in CentOS-4beta ... I don't know what all you would have to upgrade to make that work with RHEL-3 stuff. Personally, I would stick with what RHEL-3 uses (currently anaconda-9.1.4.1-1 and pam-0.75-62 in CentOS-3.4), so that you can do updates easily when they have security issues.
See this concerning RedHat's backporting policy. Just because a RHEL package is older, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has security issues:
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html