[SLUG] pam ldap question
Hi Just going through the process of setting up ldap authentication. Things seem to be working fine except when I go to do some fine controll over who can log into each machine my nsswitch looks like this passwd: files ldap group: files ldap shadow: files my common-auth looks like auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so i got this from the readme in the libpam-ldap package. I am using debian AMD64 testing/unstable I have added a variable hosts=* to my test uid entry, I have placed pam_filter in /etc/pam_ldap.conf pam_filter host=this.is.a.test when I test it with the above configuration I see no requests with search variables host= when I modfy my common-auth to look like this #auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so and re run my test (which is to login via ssh), I do see a search with the host in it and looking for this.is.a.test, but I do not get denied. Q1) if pam_ldap.so fails because of the host command why does it still allow me in even though there is a pam_permit afterwards, shouldn't the required part fail the whole lookup Q2) why when I uncomment the first line does it not use the pam_filter defined in pam_ldap.conf, my presumption is that pam_unix uses glibc and thus nsswitch - is this the catch it it access the ldap via glibc because of my nsswith setup above ? Thanks Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Install probs with Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 on FC4 with SMP kernel
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 05:44 +1000, Terry Dawson wrote: elliott-brennan wrote: In the struggle to get the webcam working on my FC4 I'm wondering about what problems may be created if I were to boot using an earlier, non-smp kernel (as it's likely that the driver install may then work)? Are there any issues in doing this? The only problems you might encounter are one of general annoyance on your part after a few goes of rebooting your machine just to use your webcam :) .. and that while you're running with a non-SMP kernel you'll only be using one of your presumed more-than-one CPUs. Which probably won't really be a problem at all. I actually have a QuickCam Pro 4000 too. I haven't tried very hard to get it working yet. Perhaps I should take a look at it. regards Terry I use a Quickcam IM (well try to).. What I needed was easycam2, I am not sure if this is available on yum repositories, I know that its on a french apt repository for us inclined that way ;) Mind you since the last update I have nothing but problems using the camera, it locks up the whole system. So I havent been too motivated in playing with it anymore... ;) Might hunt around for a Linux friendly cam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] timing out a process with timeout
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:48, Jeff Waugh allegedly wrote: Hey, I just asked a question on #slug and found my answer in an apt-cache search mere moments later. Figured it would be handy for others (you lot and anyone who finds this in the archives later)... In zsh, docommand blah blah1 blah2 ;sleep some_num;kill $\! (or something close to that) I'm sure most shells support something like the above. Note, sleep is inaccurate. I'm sure timeout is much nicer then the above, but it did make me wonder about package management and how the various distributions deal with merging small useful utilities into general utility packages rather then bloating their package trees with mountains of tiny packages. (And the problems of grouping unrelated utilities and the confusion the could cause between distros). Not sure why I wrote this now. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- BOFH Excuse #115: your keyboard's space bar is generating spurious keycodes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] timing out a process with timeout
Malcolm, I was thinking along the same lines. The equivalent in bash is something like:- $ timeout=10; docommand blah1 blah2 blah3 sleep $timeout; kill %% But there is a problem in that if docommand finishes before the timeout expires then you still hang around sleeping. So you need to timeout the sleep process - catch 22. (I think your zsh exhibits the same issue). If docommand finishes early you need to figure out a way to kill the sleep proces, Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Malcolm V Sent: Monday, 8 May 2006 5:48 PM To: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] timing out a process with timeout On Monday 08 May 2006 15:48, Jeff Waugh allegedly wrote: Hey, I just asked a question on #slug and found my answer in an apt-cache search mere moments later. Figured it would be handy for others (you lot and anyone who finds this in the archives later)... In zsh, docommand blah blah1 blah2 ;sleep some_num;kill $\! (or something close to that) I'm sure most shells support something like the above. Note, sleep is inaccurate. I'm sure timeout is much nicer then the above, but it did make me wonder about package management and how the various distributions deal with merging small useful utilities into general utility packages rather then bloating their package trees with mountains of tiny packages. (And the problems of grouping unrelated utilities and the confusion the could cause between distros). Not sure why I wrote this now. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- BOFH Excuse #115: your keyboard's space bar is generating spurious keycodes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: the VkALtUM
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[SLUG] Firefox, speed and Fedora-Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using various versions of Fedora on my laptop for some time now and recently I upgraded to fc5. I always used to have a firefox installed in /usr/local/firefox and it was the non-RPM package downloaded from the Firefox people (bypassing RedHat). After the upgrade, fc5 put their version of firefox onto my system and I started using it but recently have been noticing high CPU usage. I'm not sure if it just started happening recently or if it was always happening and I just recently noticed. At any rate, I'm sure things moved a lot snappier before the upgrade. Then I tried deleting my local version and the RedHat package version and using yum to fetch the latest firefox RPM which is firefox-1.5.0.2-1.2.fc5 and I believe that I might have a relatively clean start after removing the old packages and reinstalling. Still it uses heaps of CPU, even for simple operations like loading a page or scrolling up and down on the screen, or flipping between menus! It still happens when I turn off both Java and Javascript, even bringing up the edit/preferences pop-up takes a good 6 seconds on a 2.5G Celeron machine (I'm sure it never used to be so bad). Have I visited a nasty web page that hax0red some junkware into my system or is this version of firefox getting bloated like mozilla did ? Has anyone else seen this sort of thing happening ? Also, gedit takes about 5 to 6 seconds of 100% CPU activity, check the results of vmstat 1 : procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 1 0 0 10288 10992 10078800 0 0 32658 1 0 99 0 0 0 0 10288 10992 10078800 0 0 32268 1 0 99 0 1 0 0 10292 10992 10078800 0 0 32660 0 0 100 0 1 0 0 10304 10992 10078800 0 0 31952 1 0 99 0 2 0 0 9824 10992 10078800 0 0 32782 49 7 45 0 == started gedit here 2 0 0 9288 10992 10079200 0 0 319 572 82 18 0 0 1 0 0 8988 10992 10079200 0 0 32773 92 8 0 0 2 0 0 7728 10992 10079200 0 0 32158 88 12 0 0 3 1 0 4916 11040 10079200 0 8 32254 91 9 0 0 1 0 0 4796 11048 10079200 0 596 33671 96 4 0 0 2 0 0 4412 11048 10078400 0 0 32069 92 8 0 0 1 0 0 3836 11048 10078800 0 0 325 247 90 10 0 0 0 0 0 3568 11048 10098000 0 0 342 101 88 7 5 0 0 0 0 3568 11048 10098000 0 0 586 228 12 5 83 0 == gedit finished loading 1 0 0 3504 11108 10098000 0 112 392 128 6 0 94 0 0 0 0 3468 6 10098000 0 200 364 127 4 5 90 1 0 0 0 3468 6 10098000 0 0 332 100 1 1 98 0 1 0 0 3416 6 10098000 0 0 349 152 43 2 55 0 == quit gedit 1 0 0 3400 6 10098000 0 0 440 165 19 3 78 0 1 0 0 3480 6 10098000 0 0 331 130 95 5 0 0 0 0 0 10040 6 10078800 0 0 669 190 7 5 88 0 0 0 0 10040 6 10078800 0 0 52481 1 1 98 0 1 0 0 10068 6 10078800 0 0 42870 0 1 99 0 1 0 0 10072 6 10078800 0 0 38680 1 1 98 0 1 0 0 10084 11188 10078800 0 176 365 220 1 1 54 44 1 0 0 10084 11188 1008040016 0 353 225 2 2 94 2 I'll point out that gedit never has come up all that quickly but it's slower now than it used be (by a noticable amount) and it is a fairly basic text editor so what can it be doing with all that CPU? Just as a comparison, bringing up emacs (the most bloated beast in the world) uses less CPU than gedit... procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 2 0 0 10600 11656 1008600039 9 366 106 16 2 79 3 0 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 33299 0 1 99 0 0 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 325 109 0 2 98 0 1 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 32990 1 0 99 0 1 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 31958 3 1 96 0 1 1 0 10600 11660 10086000 028 32561 0 0 97 3 1 0 0 10600 11664 10086000 0 4 32351 1 0 56 43 2 0 0 8852 11664 10086000 0 0 330 173 42 18 41 0 == started emacs here 4 0 0 7712 11664 10086000 0 0 320 206 66 34 0 0 2 0
[SLUG] Re: Install probs with Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 on FC4 with SMP kernel
Thanks Charles. Let me know how you go. I'm not in a position to buy another and this bugger works with my damn (ham and spam) laptop. I had trouble getting it going (eventually NOT) with FC3 - again I think it's a problem with the SMP bit. I'm curious about the 'hyperthreading'. Does anyone know if this is still common in P4 chips or is it being replaced? Regards, Patrick Charles wrote: I use a Quickcam IM (well try to).. What I needed was easycam2, I am not sure if this is available on yum repositories, I know that its on a french apt repository for us inclined that way ;) Mind you since the last update I have nothing but problems using the camera, it locks up the whole system. So I havent been too motivated in playing with it anymore... ;) Might hunt around for a Linux friendly cam -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Install probs with Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 on FC4 with SMP kernel
Thanks Terry. As with my message to Charles, let me know how you go. I got it going on my laptop (no hyperthreaded CPU) quite easily with the destructions at the Saillard site. FYI. I use Marratech to connect with the rels in Hong Kong and Sydney (Mac users). Works well. Regards, Patrick Terry wrote. elliott-brennan wrote: In the struggle to get the webcam working on my FC4 I'm wondering about what problems may be created if I were to boot using an earlier, non-smp kernel (as it's likely that the driver install may then work)? Are there any issues in doing this? The only problems you might encounter are one of general annoyance on your part after a few goes of rebooting your machine just to use your webcam :) .. and that while you're running with a non-SMP kernel you'll only be using one of your presumed more-than-one CPUs. Which probably won't really be a problem at all. I actually have a QuickCam Pro 4000 too. I haven't tried very hard to get it working yet. Perhaps I should take a look at it. regards Terry -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Install probs with Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 on FC4 with SMP kernel
Hi Terry, Well, bugger! The *other* problem was that Vmware workstation needed to be reconfigured after I'd booted to another kernel and then back to my original! :) Glad that it doesn't take much. Realised I didn't have the headers etc to 'make' the the driver and they're not listed in YUM :( Oh well, will keep trying with hacking away at the make file to see if I can make it make something... Regards, Patrick Terry wrote. elliott-brennan wrote: In the struggle to get the webcam working on my FC4 I'm wondering about what problems may be created if I were to boot using an earlier, non-smp kernel (as it's likely that the driver install may then work)? Are there any issues in doing this? The only problems you might encounter are one of general annoyance on your part after a few goes of rebooting your machine just to use your webcam :) -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [MailServer Notification]To Sender virus found and action taken.
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Re: [SLUG] Firefox, speed and Fedora-Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using various versions of Fedora on my laptop for some time now and recently I upgraded to fc5. I always used to have a firefox installed in /usr/local/firefox and it was the non-RPM package downloaded from the Firefox people (bypassing RedHat). After the upgrade, fc5 put their version of firefox onto my system and I started using it but recently have been noticing high CPU usage. I'm not sure if it just started happening recently or if it was always happening and I just recently noticed. At any rate, I'm sure things moved a lot snappier before the upgrade. Then I tried deleting my local version and the RedHat package version and using yum to fetch the latest firefox RPM which is firefox-1.5.0.2-1.2.fc5 and I believe that I might have a relatively clean start after removing the old packages and reinstalling. Still it uses heaps of CPU, even for simple operations like loading a page or scrolling up and down on the screen, or flipping between menus! It still happens when I turn off both Java and Javascript, even bringing up the edit/preferences pop-up takes a good 6 seconds on a 2.5G Celeron machine (I'm sure it never used to be so bad). Have I visited a nasty web page that hax0red some junkware into my system or is this version of firefox getting bloated like mozilla did ? Has anyone else seen this sort of thing happening ? Also, gedit takes about 5 to 6 seconds of 100% CPU activity, check the results of vmstat 1 : procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 1 0 0 10288 10992 10078800 0 0 32658 1 0 99 0 0 0 0 10288 10992 10078800 0 0 32268 1 0 99 0 1 0 0 10292 10992 10078800 0 0 32660 0 0 100 0 1 0 0 10304 10992 10078800 0 0 31952 1 0 99 0 2 0 0 9824 10992 10078800 0 0 32782 49 7 45 0 == started gedit here 2 0 0 9288 10992 10079200 0 0 319 572 82 18 0 0 1 0 0 8988 10992 10079200 0 0 32773 92 8 0 0 2 0 0 7728 10992 10079200 0 0 32158 88 12 0 0 3 1 0 4916 11040 10079200 0 8 32254 91 9 0 0 1 0 0 4796 11048 10079200 0 596 33671 96 4 0 0 2 0 0 4412 11048 10078400 0 0 32069 92 8 0 0 1 0 0 3836 11048 10078800 0 0 325 247 90 10 0 0 0 0 0 3568 11048 10098000 0 0 342 101 88 7 5 0 0 0 0 3568 11048 10098000 0 0 586 228 12 5 83 0 == gedit finished loading 1 0 0 3504 11108 10098000 0 112 392 128 6 0 94 0 0 0 0 3468 6 10098000 0 200 364 127 4 5 90 1 0 0 0 3468 6 10098000 0 0 332 100 1 1 98 0 1 0 0 3416 6 10098000 0 0 349 152 43 2 55 0 == quit gedit 1 0 0 3400 6 10098000 0 0 440 165 19 3 78 0 1 0 0 3480 6 10098000 0 0 331 130 95 5 0 0 0 0 0 10040 6 10078800 0 0 669 190 7 5 88 0 0 0 0 10040 6 10078800 0 0 52481 1 1 98 0 1 0 0 10068 6 10078800 0 0 42870 0 1 99 0 1 0 0 10072 6 10078800 0 0 38680 1 1 98 0 1 0 0 10084 11188 10078800 0 176 365 220 1 1 54 44 1 0 0 10084 11188 1008040016 0 353 225 2 2 94 2 I'll point out that gedit never has come up all that quickly but it's slower now than it used be (by a noticable amount) and it is a fairly basic text editor so what can it be doing with all that CPU? Just as a comparison, bringing up emacs (the most bloated beast in the world) uses less CPU than gedit... procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 2 0 0 10600 11656 1008600039 9 366 106 16 2 79 3 0 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 33299 0 1 99 0 0 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 325 109 0 2 98 0 1 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 32990 1 0 99 0 1 0 0 10600 11656 10086000 0 0 31958 3 1 96 0 1 1 0 10600 11660 10086000 028 32561 0 0 97 3 1 0 0 10600 11664 10086000 0 4 32351 1 0 56 43 2 0 0 8852 11664 10086000 0 0 330 173 42 18 41 0 == started emacs here 4 0 0 7712 11664 10086000 0 0
[SLUG] SmallCap Review
Members, Resort C|ubs |nternational_Inc. (R|T(C|I) is now listed and trading on the Frankfurt Exchange! Act fast on this one! A massive pr campaign is underway for Monday and the rest of the weeks trading, get in early the price is going to make a big jump!. Currently Trading at only forty five cents we expect to see some nice gains! Res0rt C|ubs |ntl has an explosive business model focused on the golfing industry (an industry showing substantial growth). Through its various private labeled membership programs, Res0rt C|ubs |ntl creates a multi-club membership program for its members and provides access to several courses for one low membership fee. Good Luck to all this upcoming week! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Paying Money for Quality (and software testing)
Jacinta Richardson wrote: Benno wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make it RUN; Make it RIGHT; Make it FAST; and Make it NICE. I think the idea that the TDD guys are putting forward is that Make it NICE (e.g: automated test suite), means that you can make it RIGHT and FAST with less effort than if you didn't have an automated test suite. I think it may actually be a slightly different mind-set than just making code nice. I think the TDD people have the argument that tests help so much in ensuring it runs that they're an essential part of that step. We all do testing on the code we develop, it's just that *most* of us are testing for the common case (it works) and some obvious broken cases (it fails) with throw-away tests. TDD formalises those tests, then because we don't have to spend so much time regenerating the same informal tests, we can spend a little extra time putting in test cases for wierd edge cases, thus helping the code we're writing to run better. Making it RIGHT (comparing it to the spec -- black box testing), FAST (performance testing) and NICE (documentation/interface testing) may or may not be easier following TDD, but it shouldn't be any harder. A little more detail if it helps. 1. Start of Development \/ 2. Make/Modify Specs/Tests \/ ^ 3. Code and Run Test ^If test fails. (Make it RUN) \/ If pass test^ 4. Code and Right Test ^If test fails.(Make it RIGHT) \/If pass test. ^ 5. Code and Fast Test ^If test fails.(Make it FAST) \/If pass test. ^ 6. Code and Nice Test ^If test fails.(Make it NICE) \/If pass test. 7. End of Development. Cheerio, O Plameras -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] pam ldap question
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:02 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: my common-auth looks like auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so I doubt you want to use the permit module as it always succeeds. when I modfy my common-auth to look like this #auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so This link describes the various modules (I know, when you're having trouble it barely seems to cover much at all!): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-6.html I don't know whether the parameters [success=1 default=ignore] are valid. Look at /var/log/auth.log for pam logging. Q1) if pam_ldap.so fails because of the host command why does it still allow me in even though there is a pam_permit afterwards, shouldn't the required part fail the whole lookup Check out the documentation at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-4.html#ss4.1 What you are thinking of is requisite so that a failure returns to the app immediately. Required is used where you require multiple modules to be successful to allow the authentication to succeed. Q2) why when I uncomment the first line does it not use the pam_filter defined in pam_ldap.conf, my presumption is that pam_unix uses glibc and thus nsswitch - is this the catch it it access the ldap via glibc because of my nsswith setup above ? No idea! -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [Osia-discuss] Panel session at CeBIT - Open Source underpins Aussie innovation
Folks, I know this has been discussed on the lists, but let me assert that there is nothing wanky about innovation. Innovation is critical to sustaining economic growth in any economy, and particularly ours as we move more and more towards knowledge and service industries to sustain our lifestyle. When the time comes for our economy to contract, as these things are want to do from time to time, innovation will play a fundamental role in underpinning the minimisation and recovery from such. I trust things are going well at CeBIT, and I'm looking forward to meeting a few on you down there on Thursday. Thanks, Brett Pia Waugh wrote: Hi all, There is going to be two panel sessions about Open Source at CeBIT. The first has Jon Oxer, Con Zymaris and David Perdue at 1pm on Wednesday the 10th. The second panel session is being run by Linux Australia about how Open Source underpins Aussie innovation. This is timed to be part of the Innovation Festival (http://www.ausinnovation.org/) and the event is registered as part of that event. We are basically getting some leading researchers, business people and a journalist to comment about why they think Open Source is so important to their work and to Australian organisations focused on innovating. Yes, the word innovation is wanky, but we are working with a theme here people! :) The panelists are: - Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, leading researcher and software developer CSIRO - Bruno Mattarollo, CTO Rising Sun Pictures - Gernot Heiser, leading researcher and software developer NICTA - Brett Hooker, Director Sauce Software - Professor James Dalziel, Chief Investigator Australian Open Source information service - Matt Overington, journo at BuilderAU Each panelist has 10 mins to talk about their thoughts, then we'll have open discussion till 4:30. The innovation OSS panel will be on Thursday the 11th from 3:00pm till 4:30pm at Stand P1 at the front of Hall 4. Feel free to visit us at the Linux Australia stand beforehand to say hi and join in the fun :) Both panel sessions are free and we hope that they help educate people about how important Open Source is in yet another way. By running such a panel at CeBIT we hope to get to a wide audience. If you have a boss, workmate or friend who you are trying to convince about Open Source, bring them along to this panel and they'll hopefully start to see that it isn't just you :) Links: http://www.ausinnovation.org/InnovationFestival/Events/Open+Source+underpins+Australian+innovations.htm http://www.cebit.com.au/main/events/viocorp/ Please pass on the information to any mailing lists or people you think might be interested :) Cheers, Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] pam ldap question
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:16:33AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:02 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: my common-auth looks like auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so I doubt you want to use the permit module as it always succeeds. when I modfy my common-auth to look like this #auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so This link describes the various modules (I know, when you're having trouble it barely seems to cover much at all!): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-6.html I don't know whether the parameters [success=1 default=ignore] are valid. Look at /var/log/auth.log for pam logging. Q1) if pam_ldap.so fails because of the host command why does it still allow me in even though there is a pam_permit afterwards, shouldn't the required part fail the whole lookup Check out the documentation at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-4.html#ss4.1 What you are thinking of is requisite so that a failure returns to the app immediately. Required is used where you require multiple modules to be successful to allow the authentication to succeed. Q2) why when I uncomment the first line does it not use the pam_filter defined in pam_ldap.conf, my presumption is that pam_unix uses glibc and thus nsswitch - is this the catch it it access the ldap via glibc because of my nsswith setup above ? No idea! Well lots of searching around padl mailing lists brought me up with this # From padl.com mailing list auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user use_first_pass which seems to work. the previous worked but with side effects. the [success=1 default=ignore] is the way of routing the results in long hand, were as required and sufficient do it in short hand. all is happy now, and I have my ldap pam nss filtering working as well -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [Osia-discuss] Panel session at CeBIT - Open Source underpins Aussie innovation
Brett Hooker wrote: Folks, I know this has been discussed on the lists, but let me assert that there is nothing wanky about innovation. No, there's nothing wanky about innovation, but there very definitely something very much more than wanky about the way microsoft in particular, but also government bureaucrats misuse the word. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ Everyone seems to assume that the current system in America is capitalism. I beg to differ. True capitalism does not involve false advertising, distribution cartels, or political lobbying for special advantages in the market. How can you call Microsoft or the RIAA capitalist, when their main business is interfering with a free market? Some of us would like to see a *return* to capitalism in this country. - Jim Flynn on Linuxtoday.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] X borked. How do I fix it?
Hi all, For some time I had a working Ubuntu breezy install on a machine with with an ATI Radeon X300 SE, with the Ubuntu fglrx driver. I recently tried to get direct rendering running and when that failed to work with the Ubunutu version of the package I decided to try the ATI binary driver as described at the bottom of this page: https://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI That still didin't get direct rendering going so I decided to revert to the Ubuntu driver. Unfortunately, the ATI deb package (which has the same name as the Ubuntu package g) is borked and won't remove itself: sudo dpkg --purge xorg-driver-fglrx (Reading database ... 122156 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xorg-driver-fglrx ... dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/share/fglrx/diversions/libGL.so.1.2 by xorg-driver-fglrx' found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx' dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: xorg-driver-fglrx Anyone know how I can fix this and get the back to the Ubuntu version? Then, from there, how do I get direct rendering going? TIA, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ I ran it on my DeathStation 9000 and demons flew out of my nose. --Kaz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] X borked. How do I fix it?
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, For some time I had a working Ubuntu breezy install on a machine with with an ATI Radeon X300 SE, with the Ubuntu fglrx driver. snip Unfortunately, the ATI deb package (which has the same name as the Ubuntu package g) is borked and won't remove itself: sudo dpkg --purge xorg-driver-fglrx (Reading database ... 122156 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xorg-driver-fglrx ... dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/share/fglrx/diversions/libGL.so.1.2 by xorg-driver-fglrx' found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx' dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: xorg-driver-fglrx Anyone know how I can fix this and get the back to the Ubuntu version? Hmm, managed to fix this by doing a apt-get remove xserver-xorg taking note of what was removed, apt-get installing it and then doing a: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Now to try and get direct rendering going. G! Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. -- Alexander Viro on linux-kernel mailing list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] X borked. How do I fix it?
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:33 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, For some time I had a working Ubuntu breezy install on a machine with with an ATI Radeon X300 SE, with the Ubuntu fglrx driver. *snip dpkg brokenness* Now to try and get direct rendering going. G! My X300 got up and running fairly easily, although I had issues using the native X.Org driver, and had to switch to fglrx. Do you have the restricted kernel modules package for your kernel? Should be linux-restricted-modules-686 or similar. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] X borked. How do I fix it?
Peter Hardy wrote: My X300 got up and running fairly easily, although I had issues using the native X.Org driver, and had to switch to fglrx. Do you have the restricted kernel modules package for your kernel? Should be linux-restricted-modules-686 or similar. Yeah, i have the Ubuntu fglrx driver working, but glxinfo is still reporting: direct rendering: No and I need that to say yes. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ This is like creating laws against blasphemy and then complaining that unbelievers can't come up with any logical argument against the existence of God -- www.infoanarchy.org on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Send your spare Ubuntu CDs to a good home
Ni hao, If anyone from Sydney has a bunch of Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) CDs spare, please consider taking them down to CeBIT at the exhibition centre today or tomorrow - Pia has just called me to say that they need as many as they can get, as soon as possible. If you have plenty of CDs but no means or time to get them down to Darling Harbour, please email me off-list. If you're not in Sydney, and you have a *box or more* spare, we can arrange something with you to ship them over - please email me off-list. Now's the perfect time to get rid of your 5.10 CDs: 6.06 is coming out in a few weeks, and CeBIT is attracting the unwashed masses who need the love of a fat'n'happy penguin. Thanks, - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ So between a jazz musician, a murderer, and a congressperson, all called 'Dave Camp', I have a lot of pressure to be evil. - GNOME's Dave Camp -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] /dev/ttyUSB0 vs USB1
Sluggers, I recently bit the bullet and purchased a USB telephony modem, a Netcom Roadster v.92 USB. I plugged it into my FC4 linux server and volia, lights camera action! I was impressed (and a little surprised). The system creates the device driver /dev/ttyUSB0 and using Minicom and directing it at this serial port I'm able to communicate with the modem. :-) Ok so what you say, I'm just a happy little penguin at the moment because the previous USB modem that I purchased (a D-Link) was an abject failure. Question. When I purchase a second USB modem and plug it in, I assume that the device ttyUSB1 will be created and I will also be able to access this modem. Is there anyway to determine / define which modem gets to be which device? If/when the server is re-booted for example. Each modem will obviously be connected to a particular phone line / number and I wish to be able to know that; USB0 == phone# - USB1 == phone# - TIA's Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] smtp troubles
I have a Domino server which is now running on FC5 having previously been running on RH7.1 I can establish an SMTP connection to it (3 part TCP handshake) but it won't announce itself to the calling host, except I did manage to get it to announce, and receive, an email immediately after I had booted it and started the Domino server, but not since. Any ideas? -- Howard LANNet Computing Associates http://lannet.com.au When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] DIFF utilities that output in HTML?
Sluggers. Anyone know of any DIFF-type utilities that output results in HTML? Basic HTML format pages with, for example, two columns with colour highlights displaying the differences? I need to get some comparison of some text config files for idiots who can;t use a decent text editor. Thanks. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DIFF utilities that output in HTML?
This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: Sluggers. Anyone know of any DIFF-type utilities that output results in HTML? Basic HTML format pages with, for example, two columns with colour highlights displaying the differences? I need to get some comparison of some text config files for idiots who can;t use a decent text editor. I know you can use vim to generate HTML of the syntax-highlighted file; perhaps vimdiff can do what you need? (I've never used vimdiff though.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DIFF utilities that output in HTML?
On 5/9/06, Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: Sluggers. Anyone know of any DIFF-type utilities that output results in HTML? Basic HTML format pages with, for example, two columns with colour highlights displaying the differences? I need to get some comparison of some text config files for idiots who can;t use a decent text editor. I know you can use vim to generate HTML of the syntax-highlighted file; perhaps vimdiff can do what you need? (I've never used vimdiff though.) As far as I can tell, vimdiff doesn't output in HTML - it just displays the differences on screen. I'll be happily proven wrong if some waves a flag and says Lookee here, you git, do , though. :-) Thanks. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DIFF utilities that output in HTML?
DaZZa wrote: Sluggers. Anyone know of any DIFF-type utilities that output results in HTML? Basic HTML format pages with, for example, two columns with colour highlights displaying the differences? I need to get some comparison of some text config files for idiots who can;t use a decent text editor. rfcdiff might do the trick for you. http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/ --Keith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] smtp troubles - more info
Looking at netstat -pant on the Domino server, I am seeing a large number of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state without any associated process number - kinda like zombie connections. I wonder what gives here... On Tue, May 9, 2006 15:03, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a Domino server which is now running on FC5 having previously been running on RH7.1 I can establish an SMTP connection to it (3 part TCP handshake) but it won't announce itself to the calling host, except I did manage to get it to announce, and receive, an email immediately after I had booted it and started the Domino server, but not since. Any ideas? -- Howard LANNet Computing Associates http://lannet.com.au When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] DIFF utilities that output in HTML?
Sluggers. Anyone know of any DIFF-type utilities that output results in HTML? Basic HTML format pages with, for example, two columns with colour highlights displaying the differences? I need to get some comparison of some text config files for idiots who can;t use a decent text editor. We use this one at work as a cgi with some success, sounds like it might do what you want... http://www.dma.org/dmahurin/files/software/webdiff.cgi HTH, - Roger -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
