Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Scott Castaline
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >>> That said, pam is pretty complex. >> That is why I don't use it. Don't get me wrong. In a multi-user >> envronment, it >> may be necessary, but in most single user environmen

Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> That said, pam is pretty complex. > > That is why I don't use it. Don't get me wrong. In a multi-user envronment, > it > may be necessary, but in most single user environments it really just gets

Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Scott Castaline
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> The pam system's administrator guide is very helpful. >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_SAG.html >> >> The module pages and some general pam information are available as man >> pages. See pam(8) and pam_unix(8)

Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote: > The pam system's administrator guide is very helpful. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_SAG.html > > The module pages and some general pam information are available as man > pages. See pam(8) and pam_unix(8). The pam_unix page even has a

Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks Dan, I'll give that a try. Any config suggestions or material >> that could be useful in helping me. I'm not a programmer type as per se >> and this is an area (security) that I want to lear

Re: Jasper (jpeg-2000)

2008-10-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:12:32PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I built gtk+-2.14.3 last night, and was more than a little surprised > > to find that it now expects jasper (or, failing that, > > --without-libjasper ) the co

Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Dan, I'll give that a try. Any config suggestions or material > that could be useful in helping me. I'm not a programmer type as per se > and this is an area (security) that I want to learn more about. The pam sys

Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Scott Castaline
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Started installing some security packages onto my LFS-6.3 base system. >> Installed the following in the order listed: >> >> libgpg-error-1.5 >> tetex-3.0 >> libgcrypt-1.2.4 >> gnutls-1.6.3 >> crac

Re: Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Started installing some security packages onto my LFS-6.3 base system. > Installed the following in the order listed: > > libgpg-error-1.5 > tetex-3.0 > libgcrypt-1.2.4 > gnutls-1.6.3 > cracklib-2.8.12 > linux-pam-0.99.10

Re: Jasper (jpeg-2000)

2008-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I built gtk+-2.14.3 last night, and was more than a little surprised > to find that it now expects jasper (or, failing that, > --without-libjasper ) the configure output is very helpful, but I > had assumed jpeg2000 was anothe

I tried...

2008-10-03 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
I confess... I tried. Just 2 weeks ago, one of my hrad drives crashed :-( And of course, it was my working HD : all my work, my mails, my setups... So after recovering from several old saves (I promise I'll do a backup EVERY WEEK now !), I installed A Debian, just because It was quite anoying to

Login Security

2008-10-03 Thread Scott Castaline
Started installing some security packages onto my LFS-6.3 base system. Installed the following in the order listed: libgpg-error-1.5 tetex-3.0 libgcrypt-1.2.4 gnutls-1.6.3 cracklib-2.8.12 linux-pam-0.99.10.0 (created /etc/pam.conf as shown in blfs-6.3 book under config info for this pkge) shadow

Jasper (jpeg-2000)

2008-10-03 Thread Ken Moffat
I built gtk+-2.14.3 last night, and was more than a little surprised to find that it now expects jasper (or, failing that, --without-libjasper ) the configure output is very helpful, but I had assumed jpeg2000 was another thing that hardly anybody used. Usually, passing --without-something is a