Re: [CentOS] Configure wireless USB ethernet

2014-01-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
So here's what I did: chkconfig NetworkManager off chkconfig network off chkconfig wpa_supplicant on I checked /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant: INTERFACES="-iwlan0" DRIVERS="-Dwext" OTHER_ARGS="-f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.pid" For that last one, I removed the "-u" op

Re: [CentOS] EL7 mirror: "There is no installed groups file."

2014-01-10 Thread Ted Miller
On 01/08/2014 07:00 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 01/07/2014 08:27 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> I installed the RHEL 7 beta here to test while waiting for CentOS 7 to >> arrive. On noticing that yum didn't work, I decided to set up a local >> mirror. I rsync'd >> >> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/red

Re: [CentOS] Configure wireless USB ethernet

2014-01-10 Thread Barry Brimer
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Ok, got it installed and I can get the interface to scan and I can see all > of the available cells (all of my neighbors), including my own. However > when I do a test connect, this is what I get back: > > Trying to associate with e0:46:9a:35:fb:98

Re: [CentOS] Configure wireless USB ethernet

2014-01-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ok, got it installed and I can get the interface to scan and I can see all of the available cells (all of my neighbors), including my own. However when I do a test connect, this is what I get back: Trying to associate with e0:46:9a:35:fb:98 (SSID='Nymphadora' freq=2412 MHz) ioctl[SIOCSIWFREQ]: De

Re: [CentOS] Configure wireless USB ethernet

2014-01-10 Thread Barry Brimer
> Great ... now how do I configure this sucker? When I turn NM off, that > interface disappears. I'm assuming I can create an 'ifcfg-wlan0' > configuration but what do I need to put in there so it knows to connect to > my home wireless (with password) and all of that fun and exciting stuff, > a

[CentOS] Configure wireless USB ethernet

2014-01-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I have a system that does *not* have a graphical desktop installed, nor do I ever plan to. I have its wired ethernet working just peachy. Now I want to configure a USB wireless ethernet and scratching my head. Particularly since I don't use NetworkManager, everything is manually configured. Tha

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-10 Thread Warren Young
On 1/9/2014 15:52, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> Only algorithm they compromised was an RNG that got pretty strong thumbs >> down from the real cryptographers. They have not compromised any IETF >> standard; > > Not quite - anyone mandated to POSIX standards are effective

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-10 Thread Lists
On 01/09/2014 02:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Not quite - anyone mandated to POSIX standards are effectively mandated to > use the compromised algorithms, as I understand it. That's news to me. Citation? Recently, there was a discussion amongst BSD devs and they concluded that they don't tru

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-10 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, January 9, 2014 17:52, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> On 01/09/2014 05:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 1/9/2014 2:20 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: It might be easier to compromise security of commercial products as source code is not available. they seem t

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-10 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Young said the following on 10/01/2014 21:41: > I have one from March 2013, and it *does* have /bin/bash as user mysql's > shell. The June 2013 installation with /sbin/nologin COULD have been installed with a old DVD (say CentOS 6.2) and upda

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-10 Thread Warren Young
On 1/10/2014 00:40, Luigi Rosa wrote: > > I checked in my CentOS 6 installations. > > Only one (the latest) has this issue, so it could be something added/modified > in the lastest months. I don't see how that can be. I've checked the spec file in the mysql.src.rpm for every 6.x point release fr

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-10 Thread Warren Young
On 1/10/2014 13:09, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > i know that but the question is still WHY I don't think there is a good reason. Someone made a mistake. File a bug report upstream. I've now downloaded and examined the .src.rpm for every 6.x point release plus that for 5.10, and they all do this

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-10 Thread Warren Young
On 1/10/2014 12:14, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 10.01.2014 20:11, schrieb Warren Young: >> >> I just tested here on an EL6 VM that didn't have mysql-server on it before: >> >> # grep mysql /etc/shadow >> mysql:!!:16079:: > > in the config file where the users shell is defined you ma

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-10 Thread Warren Young
On 1/9/2014 03:50, John Doe wrote: > >> Default MySQL installation on CentOS sets /bin/bash as shell. >> I'm on a user cleanup task where I want reduce unneeded privileges to users. > > Its password should be locked. I just tested here on an EL6 VM that didn't have mysql-server on it before:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on HP DL360e with B120i

2014-01-10 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <3db8-81b1-42e9-ad03-161f3c68d...@me.com>, Nathan Duehr wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:13 AM, John Doe wrote: > > > From: John R Pierce > > > >> On 1/7/2014 10:39 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > >>> I am trying to install CentOS5 on a new HP DL360e G8 with B120i disk > >>> contr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on HP DL360e with B120i

2014-01-10 Thread Nathan Duehr
On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:13 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: John R Pierce > >> On 1/7/2014 10:39 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: >>> I am trying to install CentOS5 on a new HP DL360e G8 with B120i disk >>> controller. It appears that a proprietary HP driver is needed for it. >> >> fwiw, centos 6.recent s

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/10/2014 09:22 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2014-01-09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > (...) > >> You want to talk about leaky code? Look how corporate mail proxies work >> to enable them to read encrypted emails. Simple lying about certs. > That sounds worrying. Could you elaborate, or provi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Tshirt ideas

2014-01-10 Thread m . roth
Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On 9 January 2014 23:07, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> hi, >> >> We have, like in the years past, a table at Fosdem and I'd like to get >> some tshirts printed to hand out. In the past, the Linux Ninja's and >> Beards ones got quite a bit of attention ( and both were not brand >

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-01-09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: (...) > You want to talk about leaky code? Look how corporate mail proxies work > to enable them to read encrypted emails. Simple lying about certs. That sounds worrying. Could you elaborate, or provide a citation? -- Liam _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Tshirt ideas

2014-01-10 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 9 January 2014 23:07, Karanbir Singh wrote: > hi, > > We have, like in the years past, a table at Fosdem and I'd like to get > some tshirts printed to hand out. In the past, the Linux Ninja's and > Beards ones got quite a bit of attention ( and both were not brand > spammy, which is always nice

[CentOS] Recomended Virtual Host setup

2014-01-10 Thread Veljko
Hello, I want to ditch cPanel I currently have on my server, so I'm thinking of the way to implement virtual hosts with software provided by CentOS/RadHat. I know I can use additional repos to get mod_fastcgi for example, but what is the method recommended by RadHat? I want every virtual host php

[CentOS] FYI: an selinux hack

2014-01-10 Thread m . roth
We've got a website that was written years ago, and maintained by various people since. For some unknown reason, the original person or persons hard-coded, in a number of scripts, for these perl CGI scripts to write to a logfile... in the websites cgi-bin directory. *DUH* And the guy who was more

Re: [CentOS] Who deletes/edits my resolv.com ?

2014-01-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
Benjamin Hackl wrote: > When running shorewall make sure that iptables and ip6tables is set to > off. > > chkconfig iptables off > chkconfig ip6tables off I must admit I didn't realize iptables should be off. Suppose you modify /etc/shorewall/rules and re-start shorewall; is that effective with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Tshirt ideas

2014-01-10 Thread Fabrizio Di Carlo
I will be in too at Fosdem and I want a t-shirt :) see you there On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:36 PM, mark wrote: > On 01/09/14 18:37, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > On 01/10/2014 12:32 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: > >> On 01/10/2014 12:30 PM, Johnny King wrote: > >>> How about the CentOS T-shirt wearing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Tshirt ideas

2014-01-10 Thread mark
On 01/09/14 18:37, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/10/2014 12:32 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> On 01/10/2014 12:30 PM, Johnny King wrote: >>> How about the CentOS T-shirt wearing penguin with a red fedora cocked >>> on this head. >> +1 > > Maybe not the Red fedora but yellow or multi-colour with Cent

Re: [CentOS] Who deletes/edits my resolv.com ?

2014-01-10 Thread Benjamin Hackl
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:46:23 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Incidentally, I am running shorewall on this server with > IP_FORWARDING=On . I'm surprised this does not turn on kernel > forwarding. When running shorewall make sure that iptables and ip6tables is set to off. chkconfig iptables off c

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 107, Issue 6

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Re: [CentOS] Who deletes/edits my resolv.com ?

2014-01-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
John R Pierce wrote: >> IPforwarding was turned off on my server, >>[root@alfred ~]# sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward >>net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 >> Who changes this setting, and why?? >> I sometimes feel there are little men inside my server >> either with evil minds or else very pedantic intent