Re: openBSD 4.1 + vsftpd
gentoo1 wrote: david l goodrich-2 wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:18:07 -0700 (PDT), gentoo1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI guys! I'm new in Open BSD world.. I have 5 years experience in Linux and UNIX.. But now i have openbsd instalation since 1 week :) And a problem with vsftpd (anonymous): client says : 500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot locate user specified in 'ftp_username':ftp . . . When i set anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES , Then Everything is okay: Connected to . 220 Welcome to Open BSD FTP server User (...:(none)): Please help me to solve this problem:blush: Do you have a user on your system named ftp? --david -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/openBSD-4.1-%2B-vsftpd-tf4696963.html#a13426108 Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. I have this in /etc/passwd : _ftp:*:84:84:FTP Daemon:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin I have not been appending it as root in system but I think that this user is created by default / by instalation/ or not? Thanks in advance! http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#AnonFTP it's so clear...
Re: openBSD 4.1 + vsftpd
gentoo1 wrote: david l goodrich-2 wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:18:07 -0700 (PDT), gentoo1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI guys! I'm new in Open BSD world.. I have 5 years experience in Linux and UNIX.. But now i have openbsd instalation since 1 week :) And a problem with vsftpd (anonymous): client says : 500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot locate user specified in 'ftp_username':ftp . . . When i set anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES , Then Everything is okay: Connected to . 220 Welcome to Open BSD FTP server User (...:(none)): Please help me to solve this problem:blush: Do you have a user on your system named ftp? --david -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/openBSD-4.1-%2B-vsftpd-tf4696963.html#a13426108 Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. I have this in /etc/passwd : _ftp:*:84:84:FTP Daemon:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin I have not been appending it as root in system but I think that this user is created by default / by instalation/ or not? Thanks in advance! oh, you're doing it with vsftpd, but yes, i think you must create a ftp user
Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
Alexander Hall wrote: Christopher Bianchi skrev: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on it. Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ? If all other booting possibilities were unavailable, I'd try this (though I cannot say for sure it'd work): first: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP (well no, I would probably not, but it's strongly recommended) and then, - make room for bsd partition with e.g. Partition Magic. - create a primary partition (of any type) to use for the OpenBSD install. You'll probably have to change the type to A6 in fdisk during the OpenBSD install. - create a virtual machine in vmware that uses the physical disk and a virtual cdrom (with mounted installXX.iso). Install openbsd carefully TO THE FREE'D PARTITION ONLY - do NOT ``use the entire disk for openbsd''! (Yes, this requires some fiddling with fdisk manually, but having a Windows tool creating the partition with the right offset and size helps a lot - then you only need to change the type). - After the installation is done, copy the mbr (as per the FAQ mentioned earlier in the thread) to the windows machine via network, usb stick, whatever. - Throw the mbr into 'C:\openbsd.mbr' and fix C:\boot.ini (FAQ too). - Boot your favourite os and don't forget: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP cheers /Alexander oh thanks, but i've resolved simply pulling out the hard disk :-) but thanks for the possible solution, when i will have some time,i'll try test it !
Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
nikolai wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on it. Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ? I've tried google, but nothing :-( Thanks for the attention Christopher Bianchi Christopher, Check out http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting, the Windows NT/2000/XP NTLDR section. Worked perfectly for me on W2K. -- Nick thanks to all, i've resolved pulling out the hard disk...simply way ! thanks
Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
Steve Shockley ha scritto: Christopher Bianchi wrote: Thanks for the attention Nick, but 1) i can't boot from pxe ( damn Sharp ) and 2) i wish an elegance solution without pull out the hard disk. Thanks What would you do if you had to reload Windows 2000? I've never seen a PC that could only boot from the hard drive. The situation is this: this notebook can boot from cdrom and floppy, yes..but from docking station ! i haven't docking station ! Desperate :-(
Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
ropers ha scritto: On 10/10/2007, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther ha scritto: On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on it. Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ? I've tried google, but nothing :-( Thanks for the attention Can your BIOS boot from the network (PXE)? If you can set up a PXE server with pxeboot as the boot image then you can boot that way. Alternatively you can pull out the hard drive, plug it into a different computer or a USB-to-IDE converter, install there, and then put it back. -Nick Thanks for the attention Nick, but 1) i can't boot from pxe ( damn Sharp ) and 2) i wish an elegance solution without pull out the hard disk. Thanks DISCLAIMER: I'm talking out my arse here, and I don't know if what you're hoping to do is even possible. That said, here are my thoughts on the matter: (1) The only way to hand off control from one operating system to another operating system is to make a program run exclusively (not preemptively multitasked ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemption_%28computing%29#Pre-emptive_multitasking )) and with full access to the entire computer, including all of the memory (ie. outside of memory protection ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_protection )). (a) To use unix terminology, you would need to start the system in single user mode ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_user_mode ), and then you would need a program that can load the OpenBSD kernel and hand off control to it. In some very rare cases, programs like this do exist. I remember (unsuccessfully) trying to install NetBSD on an old Apple PowerBook 145B many moons ago. Because the firmware (ie. the BIOS) of this Motorola 68K based laptop did not support loading a non-Apple OS, the solution there was to load Mac OS 6 or 7.whatever, and then run a Mac OS program that would seize control of the entire machine and load NetBSD. (This would have worked, except that my machine had too little RAM and HDD space.) The old Mac OS was not a proper preemtive multitasking OS w/ memory-protection; and writing a program to load another OS from it was only possible because of these limitations. Windows 2000 however is built on NT (OS/2) technology and has memory protection and preemtive multitasking. No a program like that old NetBSD boot loader cannot exist for Windows. However, a kind of single user mode does exist for Windows 2000, it's called the recovery console ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229716 ). However, the recovery console is sadly not installed by default; you can either boot it from the Windows 2000 install CDs (which you say you can't boot), or it can be installed by running winnt32.exe /cmdcons. However, if the recovery console isn't already installed, then the Windows 2000 installation files probably aren't on your HDD either, and you'd then need to run winnt32.exe /cmdcons from the Windows 2000 install CD (which, again, you say you can't access). Even if you have the recovery console installed, I have no clue how to get custom programs installed into it. This might be extra hard to do, because, to quote Wikipedia: [The Recovery Console] is independent of the (...) operating system. And, to quote Annoyances.org: The Recovery Console looks like DOS, but it isn't DOS. I don't know if even a single non-MS program for the recovery console exists. That probably means that a BSD loader program that you could run from the recovery console is a (big fat opium-) pipe dream at best. (b) However, Windows OSes have a reputation of being not the most secure of operating systems. Hypothetically speaking, if you knew a kernel exploit and or virus/trojan that would allow you to insert arbitrary code for exclusive execution deep into the windows kernel, then you could theoretically use that type of vulnerability to write a BSD loader. Your best bet there may be to insert your boot loader early in the NT boot process by somehow patching either Ntdetect.com, NTLDR, or ntoskrnl.exe. (Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntoskrnl.exe , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntdetect.com .) This would of course quite possibly also wreck your Windows 2000 installation, except if the inserted code somehow presented the user a boot menu to select whether to load the BSD kernel or continue to load Windows. The way I've followed IT news for a while, I am fairly sure that no such program currently exists. I am unsure how
Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
Craig Skinner ha scritto: Christopher Bianchi wrote: The situation is this: this notebook can boot from cdrom and floppy, yes..but from docking station ! i haven't docking station ! Desperate :-( Can it boot from a USB floppy? in the bios there aren't any voices for boot from usb... so i assume that this notebook can't boot in this way :-(
Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
Peter N. M. Hansteen ha scritto: Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mmm i've tried qemu, but i wish install really OpenBSD on it. I've a pcmcia but this notebook can't boot from it. As Craig pointed out, if the machine has a USB port it's likely it can boot from USB floppy. really ? but in the bios i not see any voices about it...anyway i'll try.
How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on it. Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ? I've tried google, but nothing :-( Thanks for the attention Christopher Bianchi
Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?
Nick Guenther ha scritto: On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on it. Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ? I've tried google, but nothing :-( Thanks for the attention Can your BIOS boot from the network (PXE)? If you can set up a PXE server with pxeboot as the boot image then you can boot that way. Alternatively you can pull out the hard drive, plug it into a different computer or a USB-to-IDE converter, install there, and then put it back. -Nick Thanks for the attention Nick, but 1) i can't boot from pxe ( damn Sharp ) and 2) i wish an elegance solution without pull out the hard disk. Thanks Chris
