[CentOS] why does "rescue" mode bring me to runlevel 5 (multi-user target)?

2018-03-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
finishing a week of teaching a comptia linux+ class off of centos 7.4 and wanted to demo how to boot to "rescue" mode, so i rebooted, selected "rescue" mode at grub menu, which still booted to full multiuser, graphical mode. what am i doing wrong? or is this a dumb question? rday --

Re: [CentOS] Going back to a minimal system : strange problem

2018-03-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/26/2018 09:25 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: I wonder if it might work to use a yum transaction, in which you first remove everything (which avoids the need for the list entirely), then adds the minimal package set, and then commits the transaction... I only have a very vague notion of yum tran

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/01/2018 09:26 AM, hw wrote: I was asking for documentation telling me how RADIUS can be used, not only that it can be used. RADIUS is a backend component of 802.1x and WPA2 Enterprise.  You appear to be looking for information on how to use those two.  If you look for documentation on

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/01/2018 03:06 AM, hw wrote: It is illogical to lump all network access together into a single category. ... If your device can communicate with a switch, even for the purpose of authenticating, then it has network access. The device has access to the switch which, depending on what an

Re: [CentOS] Mirror Problem

2018-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 16 February 2018 at 14:20, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 16 February 2018 at 08:36, Günther J. Niederwimmer > wrote: >> Hello, >> I have thousands of this messages on my servers ?? >> >> Is this a Problem on my site or is the infrastructure broken?? >> /etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron: >>

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, hw said: > The task is to provide wireless coverage for employees and customers on > company premises. It is desirable to be able to keep track of customers, > as in knowing where exactly on the premises they currently are (within > like 3--5 feet, which is apparently tough), an

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 3/1/18 10:02 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: What are your constraints? [AKA what have you been told to do.] The task is to provide wireless coverage for employees and customers on company premises. It is desirable to be able to keep track of customers, as in knowing where exactly on the premises th

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What do you want? > > I was asking for documentation telling me how RADIUS can be used, not only > that it can be used. RADIUS is just an authentication (plus a bit more) protocol - what you are asking is like asking how LDAP can be used. Usually it's treated like a magic black box by applic

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 March 2018 at 12:26, hw wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> On 1 March 2018 at 08:42, hw wrote: >> >>> >>> I didn´t say I want that, and I don´t know yet what I want. A captive >>> portal may >>> be nice, but I haven´t found a way to set one up yet, and I don´t have an >>> access >>>

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread hw
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 1 March 2018 at 08:42, hw wrote: I didn´t say I want that, and I don´t know yet what I want. A captive portal may be nice, but I haven´t found a way to set one up yet, and I don´t have an access point controller which would provide one, so I can´t tell if that´

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 March 2018 at 08:42, hw wrote: > > I didn´t say I want that, and I don´t know yet what I want. A captive > portal may > be nice, but I haven´t found a way to set one up yet, and I don´t have an > access > point controller which would provide one, so I can´t tell if that´s the > right > solu

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread hw
John Hodrien wrote: This is really nothing to do with CentOS anymore, if it ever was. right On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, hw wrote: If PXE boot is not possible because it would require to allow network access to unauthorized devices, or if it is not reasonably feasible because switching the device to

Re: [CentOS] pid_max

2018-03-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Peter, Thanks... The machine with the higher PID number is a Xeon while the other one is a i7. So that could be why its different. Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread John Hodrien
This is really nothing to do with CentOS anymore, if it ever was. On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, hw wrote: If PXE boot is not possible because it would require to allow network access to unauthorized devices, or if it is not reasonably feasible because switching the device to a different VLAN after allowi

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread hw
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 02/27/2018 08:21 AM, hw wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: I've never seen anyone actually do this, but there's an article discussing it.  It is noteworthy that this requires enforcement in the client OS, as well as the switch. The article itself says that what it is desc

Re: [CentOS] pid_max

2018-03-01 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:15:59 -0500 Jerry Geis wrote: > I have two systems both running CentOS 7.4 > > one shows pid_max as 32768 > the other shows pid_max as 49152 > > Why might that be ? I would have thought they would be the same. I > have not changed them. I think that max is calculated as

Re: [CentOS] pid_max

2018-03-01 Thread hw
Jerry Geis wrote: I have two systems both running CentOS 7.4 one shows pid_max as 32768 the other shows pid_max as 49152 Why might that be ? I would have thought they would be the same. I have not changed them. Where does it come from, tuned profiles? _