I've nad the need to look at what is available on the 'net about what to
do when one forgets what the root password is.
Is it really THAT simple on SuSE to alter the password for the root?
Anyone can boot my system and go about altering my root password to be
then able to steal all my secrets?
Cheers.
--
The first myth of management is that it exists.
Kaffeine is not working at all on SuSE 10 beta 2, yes it will start up but
there is no video or sound.
It is a old problem because within 9.3 it was the same, for a while.
Is there allready a solution for SuSE 10?
Or will it come with 10 beta 3.
By the way , is it possible to get Mplayer working with the codecs from 9.3/
Lot of questions this time.
Ben Henderson
Is there a reason that /home is not on its own partition anymore by
default?
The advatage of having it on its own are that when you do a new
instalation, you can easily keep your own data.
houghi
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"Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new
Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..."
Hi!
After update gtk2 to 2.8 version backgrounds in the non KDE (Gnome)
applications menus are black.
What is wrong, please?
Mitja
P.S.
SuSE 9.3, KDE 3.4.2
I attach the script I got from a friend for converting the five
downloadable CD ISO images to a single DVD ISO image. Run it on a
partition with at least 4 GB free space.
For me, the final md5sum was:
622c7592a940dd1faa34843eb81144b5 SuSE_9.3.iso
[No warranty, no responsibility for anything this script does to your
computer! ;)]
--
Shriramana Sharma
http://samvit.org
(o- Penguin #395953
//\ running on ancient Indian wisdom
V_/_ and modern computing efficiency
#!/bin/bash
# Uncomment this section if you have physical cds and want to convert them to
# ISOs first. You need to have the ISOs, named as in this script, for this
# script to work predictably.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#echo Please insert disk 1 of 5 and hit any key to continue.
#read key
#dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso
#echo Please insert disk 2 of 5 and hit any key to continue.
#read key
#dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD2.iso
#echo Please insert disk 3 of 5 and hit any key to continue.
#read key
#dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD3.iso
#echo Please insert disk 4 of 5 and hit any key to continue.
#read key
#dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD4.iso
#echo Please insert disk 5 of 5 and hit any key to continue.
#read key
#dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD5.iso
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#Mount the CDs in loopback mode:
mkdir CD1 CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5
mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso CD1 -o loop
mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD2.iso CD2 -o loop
mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD3.iso CD3 -o loop
mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD4.iso CD4 -o loop
mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD5.iso CD5 -o loop
# Create a basic structure to overwrite files we need to modify for the CD (the checksums and boot files).
cp -a CD1/boot .
mkdir i586 i686 noarch
# Create the NEW MD5SUMS as one file in order to allow SuSE to validate (thus install) all of the files from every CD and not just CD #1
# For the i586 directory:
cat CD1/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD3/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD4/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD5/suse/i586/MD5SUMS > i586/MD5SUMS
# For the i686 directory:
cat CD1/suse/i686/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/i686/MD5SUMS > i686/MD5SUMS
# For the noarch directory:
cat CD1/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD3/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD4/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD5/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS > noarch/MD5SUMS
# Now, create the ISO:
mkisofs -o SuSE_9.3.iso -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot/loader/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -l -P SuSE -r -T -V SuSE_9.3 -x CD1/boot -x CD1/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD1/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD1/suse/i686/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/i686/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD3/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD3/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD4/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD4/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD5/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD5/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -graft-points CD1 boot/=boot suse/i586/MD5SUMS=i586/MD5SUMS suse/noarch/MD5SUMS=noarch/MD5SUMS suse/i686/MD5SUMS=i686/MD5SUMS suse/=CD2/suse suse/=CD3/suse suse/=CD4/suse suse/=CD5/suse media.2/=CD2/media.2 media.3/=CD3/media.3 media.4/=CD4/media.4 media.5/=CD5/media.5
# Now just burn the ISO to a DVD (hint: use 'growisofs' or your favorite GUI-frontend to 'growisofs'). Optionally, you can mount this ISO like you did #above to verify it will work correctly, or if you don't want to actually burn it. Just call:
#mkdir DVD
#mount SuSE_9.3.iso DVD -o loop
# Enjoy!
Rich wrote:
> james.knott(a)rogers.com wrote:
>>Yes. The first line of security, is physical security. Even without
>>changing the password, it's easy to boot a rescue disk and access the
>>files. The same applies to Windows etc. Even a password protected
>>computer won't help, as a hard drive can easily be moved to another
>>computer. The only way around this is to use encryption or prevent
>>physical access to your computer.
>>
> I'm trying to figure out how to use a smart card, along with PAM-USB to
> secure access to my PC.
There were a couple of articles in Linux Journal recently, about using
encrypted file systems. The second article descriped booting from a USB
pen drive and having the entire hard drive encrypted.
Hello fellow openSUSE enthusiasts.
As announced last week I have now finished 2 seperate iso's based on
standard beta3. Both are single CD installation iso's without any
modifications to the actual packages.
I will continue maintaining these and additionally to those create and
maintain a gnome iso.
You can find them at
ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/
super-openSUSE-20052908-standard-kde.iso: kde
base install on 1 CD (570 Mbyte)
super-openSUSE-20052908-standard-minimal.iso: minimal
install on 1 CD (390 Mbyte)
A set of iso's with SUPER modifications already included will also be
available in a few days. These iso's will be called -enhanced-kde.iso
and enhanced-minimal.iso to differentiate them from the ones without any
modifications (just straight openSUSE) called -standard-kde.iso and
-standard-minimal.iso.
This is the first set of iso's and I would please ask you to test them
and add any packages you would like to add to them to the following Wiki
page. Any bugs should also be reported to that site.
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/1_CD_install
The iso's are done using the standard recommended Novell way. I have
modified control.xml to have a more streamlined installation. I have
tried to add /boot and /home (you can see that in the control.xml), but
for some reason it ignores it, maybe a suse.de person can give me a
hint? I followed the NLD documentation from our website. Apart from that
it is a straight install of beta3. I added a new My.sel under
suse/setup/descr, which contains the needed packages. All in all a very
straight forward process and I am thoroughly impressed with the
modularity and simplicity of our installer. Having played with Anaconda
in the past, I find our installer refreshingly simple yet very
powerful.
Have fun!
Regards,
Andreas
openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release
project visit
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER
I saw on some online screenshots that beta 1's default background was a
picture of Prague, while its code name was Prague.
I don't have the bandwidth to download beta 3, but I'm curious as to
whether the default background is a picture of Bangalore, since the code
name is Bangalore. If yes, could someone please send a screenshot to me
at: samjnaa utt gmail daut com? Thanks.
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(o- Penguin #395953 lives at http://samvit.org
//\ subsisting on ancient Indian wisdom ...
V_/_ and modern computing efficiency! :)
I've downloaded and installed RealPlayer10 gold . When I try to play
"realmedia" video streams I only get audio output no video. Has anyone else
tried it and got a similar result or is it just me? (Just checking before I
file a bug report.)
Thanks
Eddie
Ok, done.
Robert said that a client that do this already exists, but my google search
hasn't have any result. If this client exists we would suggest to use this
client to user.
Do you think is possible to ask mirror's administrator do add torrent to
service they provide, this would solve eveyting.
-----Original Message-----
From: jdd [mailto:jdd@dodin.org]
Sent: mercoledì 31 agosto 2005 16.39
To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Ahain a new version of makeSUSEdvd
I think you should have opened an other thread. this one is
hudge enough.
in two words (in fact, a little more :-), bitorrent allows
users to _share_ they own bandwith to the others. any user
is also a server, so as many users as much bandwith.
jdd
