December 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] widepasswords
by matt.wong＠intelligroup.co.nz 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Koos Pol wrote: > > > "Stathy G. Touloumis" wrote: > > > > >So passwords are at least 56 char's siginifant. > > > > Significant but not relevant to logging in. If you type in 'aabbccdd' > for > > your password you should be able to login. > > Sorry guys. Not on my RedHat 6.0 machine (at work) I just checked the > password > of my test user and I can't login if I change/add after 56 char's. So > again, > at least under RedHat 6.0 passwords are more than 56 char's significant. > Someone care to check if there are passwd rpm's under SuSE which should be > installed to get the same behaviour? Just created a new user and changed the password to 10 characters. Logged on using only the first 8. Cheers Matt -- Matt Wong matt.wong(a)intelligroup.co.nz Senior Basis Consultant Intelligroup New Zealand Mobile: +64 25 710 233 http://www.intelligroup.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] IP Masq module for Net Meeting 3
by weberdr＠bellsouth.net 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

An IP Masq module for Net Meeting 3 is now available!!! http://members.home.net/ipmasq/ I downloaded it but I'm missing some includes to compile it. If anyone gets this to compile. Please let me know I need this desparately! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw(a)linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] mount : RPC: Program not registered error after install of 6.3 with stock standard/Pentuim optmized kernal
by samelash＠ix.netcom.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

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[SLE] More KErnal Woes
by samelash＠ix.netcom.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

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RE: [SLE] help on building a new system...
by patrick.s.mochel＠intel.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

I had this debate about a month ago for the sake of a personal machine and what to populate a development lab for my school with. In both cases, this was the result: Athlon 500 128 MB RAM Voodoo 3 3000 SB Live Value Sound card For personal use, I wanted a powerful machine all around. The Athlon provides that. The dual Celerons are cheap, but you lose on the bus speed and the cache (128kb/processor vs. 512kb on the Athlon). There's a huge bottleneck in accessing the system buses, including memory, and the Athlon is your best choice these days to _try_ to alleviate that. It's run without a glitch for about 40 days straight - it's a workhorse and has not disappointed me. Besides, Win98 can't do SMP, so one processor would be wasted whenever you're using that OS. For the lab at my school, we got an Athlon 500 and a PIII 500 and did some rudimentary benchmarks - compiling the kernel, xfree86, and glibc; running a 21,000 vertex shortest path C program; and some other more qualitative comparisons. In each case, the Athlon outperformed the PIII from between 5 and 20%. Granted, those are not representative of how the system handles under several users and/or system-intensive processes, but they have my vote. Do get a good motherboard. First decide what you want for a processor - that will narrow your choices down. Don't buy an ATI video card - get something that has an active Linux development team and something that you can play q3 arena with. Voodoo 3 has both of those. Other than that, think Riva TNT. Diamond has a problem with supporting their older cards that has turned me off from them. They won't update their drivers past a certain point (for Windows), and I think that really sucks, IMO. More RAM is always better, esp. under NT and 98. X and netscape will benefit from it, too. On the topics of NICs - I've used both Intel and 3com cards a _lot_, and they both perform very well. From personal experience, I recommend the latter. From my professional position, I would say the former. :) Oh, and get a clicky keyboard. and a logitech 3 button mouse. -pat mochel -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] LDAP and PAM
by patrick.s.mochel＠intel.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hello. I am trying to get PAM and LDAP to work together to authenticate users on a Suse 6.0 system. I want to use one system to store all account information and authenticate users for a network of systems using LDAP. But, I am having some trouble getting to authenticate users correctly. This is the scenario: I have all of the required software (at least I think I do): PAM 0.68 Simple PAM apps (login, passwd, su, etc.) OpenLDAP pam_ldap module nss_ldap module All are up and running fine - it's my assumption that PAM will run if you: 1) install the config files 2) install the PAM-aware apps I don't think that you have to do anything else. I can query the LDAP database and get user information from the command line. And, it is queried whenever someone logs in. I have three users: user1 - info in /etc/ flat files user2 - info in flat files and ldap db (but different passwords in each) user3 - info only in ldap When I try to log in, this is what I get from the system logs: user1 - ldap db queried, nentires=0 (user not there) Is authenticated and let in to system user2 - db queried, neentries=1 (user there) Not authenticated using passowrd from ldap db Authenticated using password from /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow - whichever one has the first entry) Log file says "Invalid login from 'user2'" when it fails (when I use the password from the LDAP database) user3 - db queried, nentries=1 (user there) Not authenticated at all Log files say "Invalid login from UNKNOWN" This is what the /etc/pam.d/login file looks like: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth required /lib/security/pam_ldap.so auth required /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_ldap.so password required /lib/security/pam_ldap.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so debug session required /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so This is /etc/nsswitch.conf: passwd: ldap files groups: ldap files shadow: ldap files Somethings that I have played with, that may help or not: Adding objectclass posixAccount, posixGroup, and shadowAccount to the ldap entries. Currently, user2 and user3 have the objectclass posixAccount associated with them. Is adding these objectclasses necessary? The system does use shadow, though it seems with the login file above, it shouldn't query it (but it must to get user1's password, since they are getting let in). Also, is it necessary to have user information in the /etc/ flat files? My whole point is to get away from that, but it seems that I might not be able to yet. I've heard accounts of several people getting this to work on RedHack 6.x. I think that you can install a lot of this stuff during the install, but other than that, I don't understand why it won't work here. My guess that I am overlooking some very minor detail. Can anyone offer any kind of insight to this? thanks, -pat mochel -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] SuSE LVM
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hi Jack, IIRC the main advantage of lvm is its expandability. Say you have a 2GB partition mounted as /home somewhere down the road this becomes too small and you really need 4GB. Without lvm you need to do the partition shuffle (yes it's like the masochism tango), with lvm the mount point can span multiple partitions/disks. It is one of the main reasons I'm looking forward to 6.3. Now if the local stores would realize what a great seasonal gift it would make and get it in stock. Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Barnett [SMTP:jbarnett@axil.netmate.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:26 AM > > I never understood the purpose of lwm? Is it just supose to use all > the > disks in your server as ONE big disk and don't have to worry about > anything, > or is it for performance reasons? Sorry kinda new to anything other > than > standard 2.1 IDE hard drives in PC :) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Cancel an NT print job?
by avi＠CFFtechnologies.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hi, I set up my SuSE machine to print on the company's NT server printer but I was wondering if there is a way to cancel a job once it is no longer on the Linux box and it is waiting in the NT queue? Thanks, Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Can't even get my Network card installed :`(
by fountai＠hursley.ibm.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

> All of a sudden, and I'm not sure why, my NIC seems to be there. > I've pinged from the windows box and it's finding it. > I pinged the windows box from the Linux box and it's finding it (though it > doesn't know when to stop pinging) This is good, if mysterious, news. Does it survive a reboot? Ping under UNIX keeps sending the signal until you hit CTRL-C to stop the program. Look at "man ping" for the option that controls the count of pings sent. > When I log on the only thing amiss is a > > Starting NIS+ services: Failed I wouldn't worry about NIS for the time being. You clearly have no need for it. > This does still leave the other card unaccounted for (the EA201c ISA card > for my cable connection). ISA PnP stuff is bad news under Linux. The PnP stuff works, but is horribly messy. It helps to have a Windows machine handy to configure the card on. You have one, so you may be alright. You might also need to recompile the kernel for that card. Start a new thread on this this asking if anyone has one working, or if the SuSE kernel has support for the device by default. > Thanks again for all your help You're welcome. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] IP Masq module for Net Meeting 3 - GCC help needed
by grtoft＠yahoo.com 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Damon Register wrote: > > George Toft wrote: > > Let us assume I don't know diddly about kernal modules (not too far > same here > > > for my kernel. What do I do? (Yeah, I know, go read something, > have you had any luck with this yet? Am I correct in assuming that > you are working with a 2.0.x kernel? In this case, yes. Ultimately, I'm developing this for a Linux Router Project router. I think I'm almost done. I figured out how to compile the module - see previous post. -- George Toft http://www.georgetoft.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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