Re: beaglebone rj45 cape
On 25/06/15 00:18 +0200, Martijn van Duren wrote: Hello misc@, I'm currently looking into a managed switch for my home and I would like to achieve this with OpenBSD's bridge(4) option and pf. The throughput shouldn't be too high (at most some video streaming to my tv and generic websurfing) and preferably with low power usage. I found the following board which at first glance seems to do exactly what I need [1]. What I would like to know if there's a good chance (or even a guarantee) that it would work with OpenBSD, before I spend my hard earned money on it. If it is expected not to work, would there be an alternative (12 ports plus would be preferred) that would work? Sincerely, Martijn van Duren [1] http://rgb-123.com/product/beaglebone-black-rj45-cape/ It appears that this device is for controlling LEDs, and speaks RS-485. From my quick read it doesn't appear to know anything about ethernet. richo
Re: What bad things could happen if we don't use sudoedit?
On 28/04/15 05:28 +1200, Carlin Bingham wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, at 04:46 AM, whynot sudo wrote: Hello list, We know it's safer* to use sudoedit, but what bad things can happen if we have the following in sudoers? Cmnd_Alias FOO = /bin/ed, /usr/bin/ed, /usr/bin/vi foouser LOCALHOST = NOPASSWD: NOEXEC: FOO Can the foouser escape to root prompt? - of course besides that he could now edit the /etc/shadow file to put a custom pwd hash to the root user to become root in about 3 seconds.. Maybe some magic in .vimrc? *=sudo vi would run as root. but sudoedit would run as the given user, the edited file will be copied before/after editing it. Thanks. $ sudo vi /bin/ksh :w! /bin/ed :q $ sudo ed # You can skip some mangling: $ sudo vi :!/bin/sh #
