July 2004 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Pam_mount on SuSe 9.1
by Rob Keeling 06 May '05

06 May '05

I am trying to install SuSE 9.1 as a workstation in a NT 4 Domain network. The default suse 9.1 install installed winbind etc, and configured them allowing me to log on to ssh with a NT username and password. I now want to configure pam_mount to mount a subdirectory of the unix home directory as the NT home directory. I had configured this on an old SuSE 8.1 box, so I think /etc/pam_mount.conf should be OK. However, having added auth and session lines for pam_mount into /etc/pam.d/sshd I can only get to the stage that in /var/log/messages I see pam_mount: error trying to retrieve authtok from auth code How do I enable pam_mount? My /etc/pam.d/sshd file is as follows #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_unix2.so set_secrpc auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth optional pam_mount.so use_first_pass account required pam_unix2.so account required pam_nologin.so password required pam_pwcheck.so password required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_unix2.so # trace or debug session required pam_limits.so session optional pam_mount.so use_first_pass # Enable the following line to get resmgr support for # ssh sessions (see /usr/share/doc/packages/resmgr/README.SuSE) #session optional pam_resmgr.so fake_ttyname Thanks Rob Keeling -- I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams

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Authentication
by David Williams 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

Hi everyone This is my annual request for help. I'm carrying out our regular server upgrades (Suse 8.2 to 9.1). I've done a fresh install and obviously some aspect of the default install has changed. This happens every year. 1) I can't connect using putty other than be enabling ssh1. ie the default ssh connection does not work on 9.1 when it did on 8.2. Any ideas? 2) Using the same smb.conf file on 9.1 does not work in the same way. We authenticate users on our other servers by setting security = user on our main server and then security = server on the other servers. Samba 3 does not seem to like this. Any ideas? TIA Dave Williams

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icewm
by garry saddington 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Does anyone know where SuSE have put the default preferences for Icewm. No matter where I change the preferences it makes no effect on the desktop - in particular changing the background image? regards garry

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Suse email manual
by M.Blackmore 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Poking about on the suse ftp site I spotted their email server directories and within that was a .pdf manual about running their email server which looked very useful. Is the email server on this product basically cyrus IMAP? If so, how much is the manual a manual for cyrus that could be used as it looked a lot better than the various howtos I've seen about (which basically I can't understand enough to do something useful with. But then perhaps I'm just being thick)? As the needs aren't great, have the put the older versions of their emailserver on the ftp site complete so they can be downloaded? I couldn't make out if the earlier version directories were functional or just a collection of patches.

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] email server
by Chris Puttick 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

For future developments, where you are up against MS Exchange/Outlook, there are two cards to bring into play. It is a fact that the majority of viruses currently in the wild affect MS Outlook, and that this likely to continue to be true. Second, if they want an integrated personal organiser/messaging solution, then the schools version of SLOX is a very high value product that provides that in a shiny and supported package. I know it's not (yet) open source, but it's a step in the right direction, and I don't think there is anything open source that can provide this functionality in a way that education management can be sold it. Cheers Chris -----Original Message----- From: Matt Williams [mailto:lists@yewlands.com] Sent: Thu 7/22/2004 11:14 PM To: SuSE Schools Cc: Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] email server Steve Palmer wrote: > Your best bet would be to try and configure it through > Webmin. We used Squirelmail when we did it the linux > way, but none of the staff liked it and we ended up > with exchange 03 & OWA. > Not had much experience setting this sort of thing up but, from a users point of view I *personally* think Horde is the best web email application I have come across. Exchange has all the calendar integration etc. all in but the security risks alone make it make it a no go for me, and OWA is very poor. Matt > --- garry saddington <garry(a)joydiv.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > >>I am trying to configure an email server in our >>network to handle internal >>mail and i am having trouble finding documentation >>on how to do it. I have >>sendmail installed. Does anyone know where to find >>the docs or has anyone >>experience with this. There is nothing in the Suse >>admin guide - presume they >>want to sell me the software to do it? >>regards >>garry >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >>For additional commands, e-mail: >>suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com >> >> > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com This message may contain information and/or data that is confidential and legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, publication, reproduction or dissemination is strictly prohibited and may violate certain laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by return e-mail and destroy this and all copies of this message and/or data. The content of this message has been scanned by MailPatrol for unacceptable language and inappropriate content. European Electronique limited thanks you in anticipation of your co-operation. MailPatrol is a fully managed service that offers your organisation the ability to monitor and enforce your Acceptable Usage Policy. For further information regarding the MailPatrol services contact the European Electronique Sales Enquiry line on 0845 345 8340 (local rate) or email sales(a)euroele.com

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email server
by garry saddington 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

I am trying to configure an email server in our network to handle internal mail and i am having trouble finding documentation on how to do it. I have sendmail installed. Does anyone know where to find the docs or has anyone experience with this. There is nothing in the Suse admin guide - presume they want to sell me the software to do it? regards garry

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usb
by garry saddington 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

I have just done a fresh install of SuSE 9.1 on a laptop and I can't get any usb devices to work. Has anyone seen this before? regards garry

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One (kick into ) touch external drive
by Paul Taylor 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

HI Chris and Thomas: I had to go out so abandoned the project for a while. According to the suse hardware tool the drive is HPFS/NTFS and mounted as: /dev/sdb1 /media/usb-storage-Y33T7NYE:0:0:0p1 With Knoppix I could write a test.txt file to it and create a directory easily enough, although it wouldn't allow me to copy directories, now back in SuSE I can't write to it or remove the directory. I can see it though. With the mount comand Thomas: krell4:~ # mount -o gid=$GID,uid=$UID,defaults /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, or too many mounted file systems The problem is that there is already some windows rap (with a silent c) on the drive from school that I can't get rid of as they need ti. If I could format it I would be fine. Perhaps I should quite and look for another option for the soon to be lost weekend? -- De Omnibus Dubitandum

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] External hard drives
by Thomas Adam 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

--- Paul Taylor <ptaylor(a)uklinux.net> wrote: > On Friday 16 Jul 2004 23:09, you wrote: > > mount /dev/foo -o defaults /somewhere > I did this and something similar just after I wrote. It now reads the > drive > but will not write to it? What filesystem is it using. What's the output from "ls -l /dev/foo", where "/dev/foo" is the partition you're mounting.... -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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External hard drives
by Paul Taylor 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Has anyone had any success with external hard drives? I have a Maxtor USB drive I borrowed from school so that I can re-arrange my hard drive on my computer. SuSE finds it no problem but as soon as I try to use it I am told that I can enter the folder. I can read it in Knoppix fine but not write to it and of course wit works fine in Doze. Any suggestions as to what I need to do or what I should be looking at? Paul -- De Omnibus Dubitandum

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