I'd guess that the Linux password routines don't use our shadow format,
and so can never truly check the password. May try installing a dummy
passwd file in /emul/linux/etc/passwd?

On 4 Feb 2001, Laine Stump wrote:

> About a year ago (in 1.4-something, prior to the ELF conversion) I
> installed the FreeBSD version of RealServer, and it worked fine. After
> the conversion to ELF, it stopped working (coredump on startup), but
> since I didn't have a real need for it, I didn't pursue the problem.
> 
> Yesterday I went back to realnetworks and found that they no longer
> support FreeBSD, just Linux. So I downloaded the Linux install and
> tried running it. For some reason, when it's asking for an "admin"
> user and password, it keeps asking the questions again and again, as
> if I was trying to type a blank password. Because of this, I can never
> get on to the rest of the installation.
> 
> Has anyone else been successful at getting RealServer going on their
> system? If so, what did you have to do?
> 
> BTW, although the file downloaded from realnetworks is a
> self-extracting binary, if you ctl-C during the installation, it will
> leave the unpacked contents in a directory called "rnsetup".
> 

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