Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Hass
Hi friend - what is your end goal with this effort to obtain security with your nodes over the 'wire' - there are some other solutions -- kerberos is now used heavily by microsoft so that's enough to make me run for the hills... just saying.. i've set up other solutions to be sure -- even agai

Re: [CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of James B. Byrne > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 18:13 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6 > > Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 17:09 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > > Hmm, yes. It would seem most everybody recomends Kerberos. Will hav

Re: [CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6

2014-01-28 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win | workstations | and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or smtp | authentication? We are experimenting with replacing our existing | Microsoft | domain controllers with Samba4 base

Re: [CentOS] Reading .xlsx files with python?

2014-01-28 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/28/2014 11:43 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:37 PM, wrote: >> Larry Martell wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM, wrote: Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python in CentOS 6? >>> >>> I believe xlrd does.: >>> >>> https:

Re: [CentOS] 3g usb dongle - Huawei E1552

2014-01-28 Thread Michael Lampe
Christo Larsen wrote: > Running Centos 6.4 6.5 is current, nobody cares for 6.4 anymore. > Any Idea´s? Put it into a Windows machine to switch it once. Then send it something like AT^U2DIAG=0 over the serial line to switch it permanently. -Michael ___

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/28/2014 1:35 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: >>> >As I noted in a previous post, it's got to be GPT, not MBR - the >>> latter >>> >doesn't understand > 2TB, and won't. >> IMHO this applies only to partitions (eg. 3TB HD with MBR 1x1TB, 1x2TB >> Partition). > > it also applies to

Re: [CentOS] Reading .xlsx files with python?

2014-01-28 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:37 PM, wrote: > Larry Martell wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM, wrote: >>> Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python >>> in CentOS 6? >> >> I believe xlrd does.: >> >> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2 > > That's 0.9.2. I j

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/28/2014 1:35 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: >> >As I noted in a previous post, it's got to be GPT, not MBR - the latter >> >doesn't understand > 2TB, and won't. > IMHO this applies only to partitions (eg. 3TB HD with MBR 1x1TB, 1x2TB > Partition). it also applies to 3TB drive with 3TB partition, su

Re: [CentOS] Reading .xlsx files with python?

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM, wrote: >> Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python >> in CentOS 6? > > I believe xlrd does.: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2 That's 0.9.2. I just installed the latest package from the usual repos,

Re: [CentOS] Reading .xlsx files with python?

2014-01-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/28/2014 2:24 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM, wrote: >> >Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python >> >in CentOS 6? > I believe xlrd does.: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2 I suspect any such package will just read data on

Re: [CentOS] Reading .xlsx files with python?

2014-01-28 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM, wrote: > Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python > in CentOS 6? I believe xlrd does.: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 27.01.2014 um 20:50 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >> Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >>> On 01/27/2014 08:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Does that all work the same for drives > 2 TB? >>> i have no idea .. it shou

[CentOS] Reading .xlsx files with python?

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
Anyone know what package my user can use to read .xlsx files with python in CentOS 6? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-28 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 27.01.2014 um 20:50 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >> On 01/27/2014 08:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco >>> wrote: >>> >>> Does that all work the same for drives > 2 TB? >> i have no idea .. it should .. my use cases at work a

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Darr247 wrote: > On 28 January 2014 @16:54 zulu, James B. Byrne wrote: >> RedHat now disables Ethernet by default in RHEL6+. You will need to run ifup >> eth0 to connect after your first install. >> > > Maybe in RHEL, but I did not observe that behavior on the nu

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Matt Garman wrote: > >> Here you may not realize you're distinguishing between authentication and >> authorization. > > Yeah, I forgot to mention that we already have Kerberos in place for > authentication. It's authorization that is currently done by hand and >

Re: [CentOS] Recent version of Latex

2014-01-28 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 01/28/2014 10:11 AM, Patrick Begou wrote: > I've moved most of my user's PCs from OpenSuse (11.x, unmaintainend now) to > CentOS 6.4. On my old OpenSuse latex was "texlive-latex-2010" and current > version on CTAN is texlive-2013. > > But on CentOS 6.4 I've only the old texlive-latex-2007 and

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
Matt Garman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, wrote: >> We have an in-house written set of scripts that administer relevant >> configuration files, including /etc/passwd. It copies the correct >> version of that file (among many others) to each host, and shell of /bin/noLogin >> works ju

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread Darr247
On 28 January 2014 @16:54 zulu, James B. Byrne wrote: > RedHat now disables Ethernet by default in RHEL6+. You will need to run ifup > eth0 to connect after your first install. > Maybe in RHEL, but I did not observe that behavior on the numerous installs I've done of CentOS 6.x desktop.

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, wrote: > At this late date, I'd be really, *REALLY* leery of using NIS. You say > that *most* of your traffic is local, suggesting that some of it is *not*. > And, for that matter, how good are the firewalls keeping other traffic > out? > > I'd say no to NIS. Yes,

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Mon, January 27, 2014 12:58, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> >> On 27/01/14 12:44, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> You need 3rd party repositories. For these two you need EPEL. >> Yes, I know that from Google but I need to know where and how to get it? >> >>

[CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6

2014-01-28 Thread James B. Byrne
Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win workstations and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or smtp authentication? We are experimenting with replacing our existing Microsoft domain controllers with Samba4 based controllers and are contemplating movin

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 28/01/14 11:54, James B. Byrne wrote: >> > I first downloaded 6.5 minimal but could never get it connected to my >> > Ethernet/LAN! >> > > RedHat now disables Ethernet by default in RHEL6+. You will need to run ifup > eth0 to connect after your first install. > I did not discover that in my go

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, January 27, 2014 12:58, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 27/01/14 12:44, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> You need 3rd party repositories. For these two you need EPEL. > Yes, I know that from Google but I need to know where and how to get it? > > I first downloaded 6.5 minimal

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares >> >> > We do have Active Directory as well, but only for the Windows clients. >> > >> > But I'd rather keep them separated. >> > >> > Kerberos on linux. Is that a pain or a bigger pain? >> > Whenever I've worked with Kerberos on Windows I've come out

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS

2014-01-28 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:31:47 +0100 Andreas Reschke wrote: > My question is, can I switch afterwards the test from Red Hat 7 Beta to > CentOS without reinstall the system? No. While it may (or may not) be technically possible to do that, it not a supported method and is guaranteed to be far mor

Re: [CentOS] Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS

2014-01-28 Thread Darr247
On 28 January 2014 @15:07 zulu, Reindl Harald wrote: > Fedora is a complete different topic because you need > two dist-upgrades each year sometimes with heavy changes > > i am using Fedora in production for many years but i would > never recommend it to somebody where i want not have the > respos

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 15:20 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > > We do have Active Directory as well, but only for the Windows clie

[CentOS] Antwort: Re: Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS

2014-01-28 Thread Andreas Reschke
centos-boun...@centos.org schrieb am 28.01.2014 16:03:18: > Von: Darr247 > An: CentOS mailing list > Datum: 28.01.2014 16:03 > Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS > Gesendet von: centos-boun...@centos.org > > On 28 January 2014 @12:30 zulu, Andreas Reschke wrote: > > Hell

Re: [CentOS] Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS

2014-01-28 Thread Darr247
On 28 January 2014 @15:20 zulu, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > If you enjoy a beta o/s, and fixes pretty much daily, and often > dropping support for older hardware, and Well, there IS that... but you have to admit, without fedora's testing there would be no stable RH/CentOS. __

Re: [CentOS] Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
Darr247 wrote: > On 28 January 2014 @12:30 zulu, Andreas Reschke wrote: >> Hello, >> >> It is possible to switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS 7 (beta or final) >> when it exist? I would like to test newer software than CentOS 6.5 >> > > Have you tried fedora? > CentOS 6.5 is about equivalent to fe

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread m . roth
Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > Matt Garman a écrit : >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu >> wrote: >>> The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me >>> to keep user accounts and passwords in one place, with one place only to >>> administrate. NIS seems to be abl

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Darod Zyree
2014-01-28 Mauricio Tavares > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Darod Zyree wrote: > > 2014-01-28 Laurent Wandrebeck > > > >> > >> Matt Garman a écrit : > >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu > > >> wrote: > >> >> The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will

Re: [CentOS] Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS

2014-01-28 Thread Darr247
On 28 January 2014 @12:30 zulu, Andreas Reschke wrote: > Hello, > > It is possible to switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS 7 (beta or final) > when it exist? I would like to test newer software than CentOS 6.5 > Have you tried fedora? CentOS 6.5 is about equivalent to fedora 14. If I recall correc

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Darod Zyree wrote: > 2014-01-28 Laurent Wandrebeck > >> >> Matt Garman a écrit : >> >> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu >> wrote: >> >> The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me >> to >> >> keep user accounts and passwo

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Darod Zyree
2014-01-28 Laurent Wandrebeck > > Matt Garman a écrit : > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu > wrote: > >> The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me > to > >> keep user accounts and passwords in one place, with one place only to > >> administrate. NIS

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Matt Garman a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me to >> keep user accounts and passwords in one place, with one place only to >> administrate. NIS seems to be able to do that. >> >> Comments and

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me to > keep user accounts and passwords in one place, with one place only to > administrate. NIS seems to be able to do that. > > Comments and insights are much appreciated!

[CentOS] Antwort: Re: NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Andreas Reschke
centos-boun...@centos.org schrieb am 28.01.2014 14:56:53: > Von: Sorin Srbu > An: CentOS mailing list > Datum: 28.01.2014 14:57 > Betreff: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > Gesendet von: centos-boun...@centos.org > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun.

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Logan McNaughton >> Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:33 >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? >> >> Where I w

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Logan McNaughton > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:33 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > Where I work we use NIS + Kerberos (Active Directory). We have about

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H. > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:31 > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > We have been using NIS for over a decade on our network, and it ha

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Security is a major consideration, and even though as you say most of the traffic is local, most problems are internal as opposed to external. Pete On 01/28/2014 08:22 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Yeah, that last bit made me squirm over here. I don't feel good about that, > even though the linux mach

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Logan McNaughton
Where I work we use NIS + Kerberos (Active Directory). We have about 150 machines at our site. It works quite well, as someone said, the big draw back to NIS is that it sends passwords insecurely, but if you use Kerberos for authentication it's really quite easy to manage. On Jan 28, 2014 6:23 AM,

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
We have been using NIS for over a decade on our network, and it has been an effective solution. The network spans several subnets, and we have been able to deploy slave NIS servers on the various subnets. The reason for this is several fold: Quicker response for login and other domain requests N

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Pete Geenhuizen > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:12 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > I used NIS for many years while working on Sun Solaris and it worked >

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 01/28/2014 04:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > We're getting to a point in our linux environment where it's starting to be > cumbersome to keep shadow and passwd-files up-to-date for the users to login > on each computer. Scripts can only get us so far. 8-/ > > I've looked a bit into cent

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of anax > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 13:45 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > Hi Sorin > of course: you may omit the mail cocacho and realize only the > authent

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Darod Zyree > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 13:00 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > Use IPA. It combines LDAP with Kerberos, a server-client environment is >

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread anax
Hi Sorin of course: you may omit the mail cocacho and realize only the authentication cocacho in LDAP. For us, however, it has proven to be most advantageous to have both on LDAP. You may also select to do first the authentication in LDAP and later on, if you are familiar with LDAP, realize the

[CentOS] Switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS

2014-01-28 Thread Andreas Reschke
Hello, It is possible to switch from Red Hat 7 Beta to CentOS 7 (beta or final) when it exist? I would like to test newer software than CentOS 6.5 Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Andreas Reschke ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of anax > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 12:24 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > Hi Sorin > we use here LDAP authentication and mail-control since more than 10 yea

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Darod Zyree
2014-01-28 Sorin Srbu > Hi all, > > We're getting to a point in our linux environment where it's starting to be > cumbersome to keep shadow and passwd-files up-to-date for the users to > login > on each computer. Scripts can only get us so far. 8-/ > > I've looked a bit into central login systems

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Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread anax
Hi Sorin we use here LDAP authentication and mail-control since more than 10 years. At that time, we did the conversion from passwd/shadow to LDAP using the tools on http://www.padl.com/download/ which are still available, probably in a newer version... To represent a person or a service in LDAP

Re: [CentOS] Recent version of Latex

2014-01-28 Thread John Doe
From: Patrick Begou > I've moved most of my user's PCs from OpenSuse (11.x, unmaintainend now) > to CentOS 6.4. On my old OpenSuse latex was "texlive-latex-2010" and > current version on CTAN is texlive-2013. > But on CentOS 6.4 I've only the old texlive-latex-2007 and several sty files > avai

[CentOS] Recent version of Latex

2014-01-28 Thread Patrick Begou
I've moved most of my user's PCs from OpenSuse (11.x, unmaintainend now) to CentOS 6.4. On my old OpenSuse latex was "texlive-latex-2010" and current version on CTAN is texlive-2013. But on CentOS 6.4 I've only the old texlive-latex-2007 and several sty files available on my previous config are

[CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
Hi all, We're getting to a point in our linux environment where it's starting to be cumbersome to keep shadow and passwd-files up-to-date for the users to login on each computer. Scripts can only get us so far. 8-/ I've looked a bit into central login systems for linux, and NIS and LDAP seem t

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 28/01/14 03:43, John R Pierce wrote: > i say its only magic if you don't understand it. Yes, very true. -- http://www.qrz.com/db/w2bod Box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/28/2014 12:34 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > When it doesn't work "out of the box" it is broken even though it eventually > underwent a miracle and began to do what I asked. a miracle implies magic. they say any sufficient advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 27/01/14 22:12, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > On 01/27/2014 09:41 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> > And the yumex problems have cleared! I tried again and everything >> > appears to be working, dunno why? > In fact, nothinf was broken. That depends on your definition of broken. When