The magic touch of VLC Player

[rakzhodekams]

Ok, This is one more tutorial howto install backtrack4 pre-final.

First, download bt4-image, md5sum and burn to a cd or make a usb boot.

boot the image and startx

click into install.sh script and go on until reboot.

login as first-user, sudo su, passwd, exit, exit, login-as-root, deluser first-user and rm -rf /home/first-user

fix boot-fatal-error (modprobe)

cd /boot
cp initrd.img-2.6.29.4 initrd-2.6.29.4.old (Just making a backup)
depmod -a
update-initramfs -k 2.6.29.4 -c
cd /tmp
gzip -dc /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29.4| cpio -id
touch lib/modules/2.6.29.4/modules.dep
find ./ | cpio -H newc -o > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29.4.new
gzip /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29.4.new
cd /boot
mv initrd.img-2.6.29.4.new.gz initrd.img-2.6.29.4

source

reboot, login-as-root

cd /etc/ssl/certs
make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil --force-overwrite

dhclient3 eth0,eth1, wlan0

apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.30.9

reboot, boot from new kernel, login-as-root

apt-get dist-upgrade
(we will get some errors, but don't worry) libssh2, medusa, etc...
apt-get install vlc
(we will get vlc player and we will install all packages and set then up without errors)

Done.

Thank you ALL

[Virchanza]

Fair enough if you wanna run Linux as root all the time, but there's really no reason to delete the main user account.

The biggest danger would be to run your web browser as root, but fair enough, I've no interest in trying to convince someone of not being root all the time.

On my own computer I have a separate user account simply called "visitor", and I log into it if someone wants to use my computer to surf the web or whatever, and it hasn't got sudo priviledges. It's also good for keeping my Firefox favourites private and also my Auto-complete phrases (and I've got some pretty nasty auto-complete phrases). Plus they can't access my own data.

[rakzhodekams]

is not big deal it depends of how and from what you use backtrack.

but, of curse, if you use to work as many standart distros, don't remove it.

one more thing: even a sudo user or non-sudo, in this pre-final version, he can ls /root and read what ever he want

and the same for each /home user all users can see everything from other users...

so you shoulD at least chmod 600 /root