Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 21:39:31 Norbert Zeh wrote: On my Core i7 Dell Latitude 6510 laptop using the on-chip graphics chip and the 1920x1080 laptop screen, everything is fine until I suspend the machine to RAM. When resuming, I get a black screen and not even rebooting brings the screen back to

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:50:13 +0100 Tobias Frilling wrote: The CRYPT setting from /etc/default/passwd is only used if pam is not enabled. If it is enabled, the used configs are in /etc/pam.d (e.g. passwd, login etc.) which default nowadays to sha512. Confirmed, /etc/default/passwd does not

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-23 Thread Tobias Frilling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2012 12:59 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: OpenBSDs bcrypt with configurable rounds is awesome by the way and far more secure, yet wouldn't pass PCI compliance, how dumb some of these certifications are. I know next to nothing about bcrypt, but

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:09:33 +0100 Tobias Frilling wrote: I know next to nothing about bcrypt, but you can configure rounds in pam I could say similar about pam. In OpenBSD rounds are in plain sight in /etc/login.conf The PAM documentation I've found seems incomplete and a bit ambiguous

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-23 Thread Tobias Frilling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2012 01:30 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: The PAM documentation I've found seems incomplete and a bit ambiguous especially if you edit /etc/pam.d/other and make it explicit. I've been wondering if that has anything to do with the Support

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
fredbezies [2012.01.23 0736 +0100]: 2012/1/23 Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca Hi folks, just a heads up (and maybe request for feedback whether anybody has seen similar issues with this kernel upgrade). The recent upgrade from kernel 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 produced two graphics-related

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-23 Thread Sorin-Mihai Vârgolici
I believe that if not specified, the default number of rounds is 5000. I edit /etc/default/passwd [0] and /etc/pam.d/password [1], to be sure and hope for the best. I also add these lines [2], taken from the Debian version of the file, to /etc/login.defs. I've been doing this for about a year or

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Holmes
I can't reproduce either bug on 3.2.1, latest NVIDIA drivers, GTX 460 1 GB. Are you sure the binary NVIDIA driver got rebuilt?

[arch-general] Some help with systemd needed

2012-01-23 Thread G. Schlisio
Hello folks, i'm playing around with systemd atm and everything works fine except of the sound output. systemctl shows no alsa or pulseaudio running and in the wiki entry i cant find any hint but 'systemctl enable alsa-*', but both options (by tabbing: alsa-restore, alsa-store) return

Re: [arch-general] Some help with systemd needed

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi Georg, On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:32 PM, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: i'm playing around with systemd atm and everything works fine except of the sound output. You should not need to do anything particular in order to get sound working. Have a look at systemd-loginctl to see if your

Re: [arch-general] Some help with systemd needed

2012-01-23 Thread G. Schlisio
Am 23.01.2012 22:26, schrieb Tom Gundersen: Hi Georg, On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:32 PM, G. Schlisiog.schli...@gmx.de wrote: i'm playing around with systemd atm and everything works fine except of the sound output. You should not need to do anything particular in order to get sound working.

[arch-general] netcfg inconsistency

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I'm using netcfg heavily on my laptop, both for the wireless and wired adapters. Particularly, I use the net-auto-wirelss and net-auto-wired scripts to enable auto-configuration of these adapters. The net-auto-wireless script of the most recent netcfg package sources

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Michael Holmes [2012.01.23 1352 +]: I can't reproduce either bug on 3.2.1, latest NVIDIA drivers, GTX 460 1 GB. Are you sure the binary NVIDIA driver got rebuilt? I'm not sure, and this is something I should certainly try. However, along with the upgrade from 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 came an nvidia

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Don Juan
On 01/23/2012 03:10 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote: Michael Holmes [2012.01.23 1352 +]: I can't reproduce either bug on 3.2.1, latest NVIDIA drivers, GTX 460 1 GB. Are you sure the binary NVIDIA driver got rebuilt? I'm not sure, and this is something I should certainly try. However, along with the

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-23 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:09:33 +0100 Tobias Frilling wrote: I know next to nothing about bcrypt, but you can configure rounds in pam I could say similar about pam. In OpenBSD rounds are in plain sight in

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-23 Thread Sorin-Mihai Vârgolici
În data de Lu, 23-01-2012 la 18:08 -0600, C Anthony Risinger a scris: login.defs is provided by the `shadow` package, not `pam`, and details these options: ENCRYPT_METHOD, SHA_CRYPT_MIN_ROUNDS, SHA_CRYPT_MAX_ROUNDS These options aren't in the Archlinux version of the login.defs file, like I

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Don Juan [2012.01.23 1521 -0800]: @Norbert Do you have any shutdown or reboot issues? I have a similar setup to you only laptop, but if I run the nvidia driver X either gives a red screen when I try and shutdown or reboot, or just hangs with a cursor blinking. Just curious. No, I don't have

Re: [arch-general] Some help with systemd needed

2012-01-23 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:31 PM, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: Am 23.01.2012 22:26, schrieb Tom Gundersen: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:32 PM, G. Schlisiog.schli...@gmx.de  wrote: i'm playing around with systemd atm and everything works fine except of the sound output. You should not

[arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel as of now (according to the blog post), but that update has not yet come into archlinux. And while, the

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-01-24 10:41:10 +0530] Jayesh Badwaik: I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel as of now (according to the blog post), but that update has

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-23 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2012-01-24 10:41:10 +0530] Jayesh Badwaik: I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has been apparently fixed