March 2005 - 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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Modifiying squid acl`s via a teachers web page?
by Rob Keeling 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

I have been asked if I can set up some way of turning internet access on or off in individual computer areas. The idea would be that teacher logs on to a page on our intranet, to enable/disable access for the lession. I have looked at the documentation for squid guard, which looks like I can enable/disable the right bits and bobs, but I don`t know if I can edit the config files with a php script and things change without restarting squid/squidguard. Does anyone run anything simalar? Thanks Rob Keeling

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modifiying squid acl`s via a teachers web page?
by Thomas Adam 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

--- Tony Whitmore <tony(a)tonywhitmore.co.uk> wrote: > There is a £100 pa subscription for the Blacklist of websites, but if > your filtering is already provided elsewhere, you wouldn't need this > functionality. Just Pilfe^H^H^H^H^H borrow the blacklist file distributed with squidguard. -- 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) Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modifiying squid acl`s via a teachers web page?
by Thomas Adam 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

--- Rob Keeling <rob(a)rjkeeling.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > I have installed squid & squidguard which might work, but it looks like > I have to re-start squid to reload the settings. Yes? Not necessarily reload -- sending the squid daemon a HUP signal via the command: /etc/init.d/squid reload should do just as well. But you have to do more than just install squid{,guard} and hope for the best. You have to configure squidguard to filter based on ACLs which you yourself define. I wrote an article or two about this in the Linuxgazette some moons ago -- and I'm sure the extensive documentation on the squidguard site will help you. Failing that, post back here with what you'd like to happen, and we'll see what we can do. > I think our it staff are after something that they can turn access on > and off again every 10 mins during lessons without affecting other > rooms. > > Any suggestions? Again, it's an ACL issue -- assuming each room has an IP subnet range (or a range of IP address unique to it) then you can block/unblock based on this. -- 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) Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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An Invitation for Someone Committed...
by David Martin 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

If there's someone out there who would welcome the opportunity to explain/demonstrate to Microsoft UK's Education Group just what can be done with Open Source software, and why it's a valid alternative (without the tedious and very predictable anti M$ slurs), would they care to contact me? Out of pocket expenses would be met...

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] cygwin x server etc.
by Miles Berry 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Richard Rothwell wrote: > you can download cygwin - have a look at: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00420.html > > An alternative is to make them dual boot - with with > etherboot on a floppy. This is a really simple > solution for changing a lab to and from ltsp boxes in > a hurry. > > rgds, > Richard Rothwell > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish. > > Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries. > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > Thanks Richard, I'm OK with downloading cygwin, my problem really was knowing which of the packages I _need_ to install in order to run it as an x terminal. Miles

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Cache box configuration
by Rob Keeling 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

We currently use a basic squid install as our on site proxy server, our LEA is suggesting that we should move to one of the proprietary cache boxes, though as always funding is a snag. I am happy with the way squid is performing, though it would be nice to add the facility to pre-load web sites into the cache. What I have in mind is a links database on our intranet, which staff can approprate links to. This can then be used to provide a list of sites that can be pre-cached. Has anyone done this, and if so how? Thanks Rob Keeling Network Manager Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Jobs for the boys
by Thomas Adam 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

--- Paul Taylor <ptaylor(a)uklinux.net> wrote: > Hi all: Wotcher, Paul. > Similar in content to David's earlier post, I am also looking for work, > albeit > down the line a bit. My wife has been given a conditional offer to > study at > Plymouth University which means that I will need to move to support her > and Ah, nice one! Plymouth University is one that I had considered and the area as well as the Uni is very nice. > money coming in so I suspect the salary could be negotiated to the high > 20K > range. Not a great deal for guhru's, but a good start for someone and a > good > environment to test and apply open source. > The school is near Bath in a town called Writhlington. Ah, I'll be leaving University (hopefully) with my degree by then. Hehehehe. I like Bath, it's a nice place, and I know Writhlington well. I hope you'll keep in touch, Paul, when you do move... -- Thomas Adam Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Jobs for the boys
by Paul Taylor 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi all: Similar in content to David's earlier post, I am also looking for work, albeit down the line a bit. My wife has been given a conditional offer to study at Plymouth University which means that I will need to move to support her and my 2 year old daughter. She has deferred to September 2006 which gives us time to find a place to live and for me to get a job. In my schools to date I have had quite a fight getting Linux in but have managed with varying levels of success so I would ideally like a school that has a tacit commitment to open source if anyone knows of such a position likely to come up. At my current school I have set-up quite a successful web business in order to deliver AVCE/Applied GCE so would want more 6th form than anything else, but I know beggers can't be choosers. I have used Mambo and eGroupWare on the sites so far for local primary schools so am reasonably okay with this technology. Not quite to TA's level, but I get by. Paul In conjunction with this, my school is looking for a network technician. They run a Novell network and we are making moves to migrate to Linux desktops in a year or so depending on Novell's commitment to this. There is a bit of money coming in so I suspect the salary could be negotiated to the high 20K range. Not a great deal for guhru's, but a good start for someone and a good environment to test and apply open source. The school is near Bath in a town called Writhlington. -- De omnibus dubitandum

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Working in Teacherland - opportunities please? (long)
by Thomas Adam 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

--- Paul Graydon <graydpau(a)hhc.ac.uk> wrote: > Hmm.. I've got a slackware based test box at home, wonder how it'll take > to it :-) Well, I tried to run it on my Debian box, but I had to spend a considerable amount of time hacking it to death -- it's too dependant on one distro to ever be portable. This may not be a bad thing, if it is designed only for one specific distro -- the only problem with that is I personally wouldn't go near Mandrake... > Been there, done that, got the T-shirt? Something like that, yes. > we could lock our system down even further, like specifying the > workstations can only run x, y & z, > program files etc, but that's just too much hassle to implement and > maintain! I wouldn't have said so -- in fact, it would be quite easy to do. -- 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) Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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