Re: floppy disk

2005-07-10 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello fomin! Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:10:51 +0400, you wrote: > I have just installed debian GNU HURD on my computer by means of > mini-iso image. Then I have added several devices cdrom, floppy and > other partition of my hard disk with MAKEDEV. I vave written cdrom > into file fstab but other cr

Re: SSH server nоt work

2005-01-28 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Renat! Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:00:35 +0300, you wrote: > If I connect with "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]", then in /var/log/auth.log: There is a bug with PrivilegeSeparation on GNU/Hurd, until you (or someone else) debugs it, you've to disable PrivilegeSeparation to be able to log in as non-r

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello rafael! Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:30:47 -0600, you wrote: > I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read that > hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 Gb, is this true? The default ext2fs translator of the GNU Hurd is limited to a bit less than 2Gb (I use 1.9G

Re: Device Drivers

2004-05-14 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Isaac! Fri, 14 May 2004 10:41:36 +0200, you wrote: > Hello All, > I am trying to develop a driver for my SiS 900 network card. I have > read the source code of other drivers and now I have some questions. Manuel and I ported the driver from Linux 2.4 to GNU Mach 1.3. It's far from

Re: can't install emacs21 and german keymap?

2003-07-15 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Bjoern! Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:04:15 +0200, you wrote: > Hello, hello > i have two problems with GNU/Hurd. > 1. I have tried to install emacs21 with apt-get, but i get always this > error message: > emacs21: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open > shared

Re: How to debug translators?

2003-05-05 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Alfred! Mon, 05 May 2003 16:31:15 +0200, you wrote: >> Maybe you should read it? =) >Stop your stupid behavior. He asked for help on the list because >what he did doesn't work, I say to him how I do since it works for >me. > You might stop _your_ stupid behaviour and sayi

Re: How to debug translators?

2003-05-05 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Alfred! > Maybe you should read it? =) Stop your stupid behavior. He asked for help on the list because what he did doesn't work, I say to him how I do since it works for me. -- Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug" - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://kilobug.free.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France

Re: How to debug translators?

2003-05-05 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Johannes! 05 May 2003 12:09:10 +0200, you wrote: > settrans /some/place /hurd/nfs host:/someexport ? > I've tried this a number of times with a nfs-exported directory that I > had mounted before without any problem while running GNU/Linux. But > all I get is '/some/place: translator d

Re: newbie

2003-01-12 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Ben! Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:57:19 -0500, you wrote: > Hello. > I'm new to the hurd. I'm impressed with how much I can do with it. > Here are a few things off the top of my head. I'm sure most of > them can probably be answered with an "RTFM!" and a URL. welcome :) > I'm confused abo

Re: emacs/filesystems/smp

2003-01-02 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Hello Georg! 02 Jan 2003 16:51:50 -0600, you wrote: > Hello! > I just installed the Hurd, with XFree86. Congratulations to your Great > Work. > - Emacs21 (Debian packages) segfaults in X with a message "(11)". Is > this a know problem and if yes is there a workaround other then > "em

Re: Emacs21 in X

2002-12-23 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Johannes a écrit : > Hello, > has anyone of you managed to launch the One True Editor under X in > current GNU/Hurd, i.e. without "-nw"? No, there is a bug in our port of libX11 that makes Emacs crash. Since X will be reported for GNU Mach 2.0, I hope this will be fixed at the same time. I'm

Re: [Newbie] Hurd and Laptop

2002-12-19 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
guilhem a écrit : > Hi, hi > I'm new to Hurd and I'm looking to install it on a laptop. My > main problem is that my CD-Rom and ethernet card are on PCMCIA > ports. To use PCMCIA, you have to use GNU Mach 2.0 (aka OSKit Mach), there is no PCMCIA support in GNU Mach 1.x. The actual way to

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-19 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Niels a écrit : > The argument is really simple. Programs that use /dev/urandom > generally expect to get numbers that are not only uniform, but numbers > which are actually *useful* for *cryptographic* purposes. Creating a > /dev/urandom that does something different is breaking that inform

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-18 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Werner a écrit : > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:36:21 +0100, Gaël Le Mignot said: >> And /dev/urandom is not really done for "cryptographic secure" randomness, >> it's the goal of /dev/random, not /dev/urandom (and AFAIK ssh only uses > That is not really tru

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-18 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Philip a écrit : > 2. Does ssh only use urandom once, that is to generate keys while it is > configuring? Again I have assumed yes. ssh-keygen uses /dev/random to generate keys. ssh and sshd uses /dev/urandom when they need weak random bits, like for creating the temporary symetric key. At

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-17 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Neal a écrit : >> > Your argument is absurd. Network security considerations are different >> > than local system security considerations. We have control over who can >> > have an account on our systems. We don't necessarily have control over >> > who has access to our IP ports. >> >>

Re: creating debian packages

2002-12-17 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Wolfgang a écrit : >> Now, could somebody point a quick tutorial (for impatient people) >> on creating debian packages? Maybe we (or maybe kilobug?) could >> create an ssh debian package and put it somewhere (I would love >> to mirror it). > `ssh package'? You are confused. I think you ac

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-17 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >With allowing GNU/Hurd _users_ to _use_ an ssh client. > What exactly prevents them from not using it? They can download the > random translator and use it, If they know where to find it. And it's a waste of time. And it makes things more complex and tricky than they

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-17 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >Why there are problems to enhace GNU/Hurd? > Enhance the Hurd how exactly? With flawed security? With allowing GNU/Hurd _users_ to _use_ an ssh client. >Sooner or later hurd/random(?) server will be added to the base >system...why not now? > Because it is br

Re: K1 images - final report?

2002-12-17 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >I find it a little odd that you need to have /dev/urandom for >openssh to work, I thought openssh was ported to plenty of systems >that don't have and never had any /dev/u?random. > Open SSH does collect its own random data (from ps, and whatever else) > + fro

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-17 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >I support the addition of ssh, *even* with a weak random. > There was never any talk about removing ssh. >Now, what's current best practice? We use this: > http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/random-64.tar.gz >Is there a better alternative(s)? > Or you can cop

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-17 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Philip a écrit : > The warning displayed at the end of total.sh > echo "A file needs to be copied to /dev/urandom before ssh will configure" > echo "then run . Security will be poor unless the file" > echo "consists of random material." Copying a file is even worse random data than using t

Re: K1 images - final report?

2002-12-16 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >And ? It's a temporary solution that allow user to use an ssh client >and/or server, which is very usefull. You just have to add a debconf >warning saying that the entropy source is unsafe, and asking the user >to pay attention. We don't need more for n

Re: K1 images - final report?

2002-12-16 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Simon a écrit : >> And ? It's a temporary solution that allow user to use an ssh client >> and/or server, which is very usefull. You just have to add a debconf >> warning saying that the entropy source is unsafe, and asking the user >> to pay attention. We don't need more for now, since

Re: K1 images - final report?

2002-12-16 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >Why don't just add urandom server to the official base system? > Because there is no good entropy source. And ? It's a temporary solution that allow user to use an ssh client and/or server, which is very usefull. You just have to add a debconf warning saying that the

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-12 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >I will to reinstall. I haven't tried this yet. I've seen some variations >of the 'mke2fs -o hurd" command. One with sparse_super and another with >some other parameters. >What's the best one to use? > Use the one that is in Neal guide. Well, pay attentio

Re: ipv6 on hurd

2002-10-24 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Niels a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gaël Le Mignot) writes: >> The current tcp/ip stack (the pfinet server) is IPv4 only, but a >> redesign and reimplementation of this stack is in progress. > What are you referring to here? I think most agree that the current > pfin

Re: ipv6 on hurd

2002-10-23 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Fabio a écrit : > Hi all, Hi > does anyone know how the hurd kernel The Hurd is not a kernel, it's a collection of servers running in user-space as normal processes in top of a micro-kernel. > handles ipv4/ipv6 socket?? > Does it work similar to the linux kernel (ipv6 bind listen

Re: New location of keymap.tar.gz?

2002-10-22 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Stefan a écrit : > Hi hurd fans! > I need loadkeys.pl from the keymap.tar.gz tarball [1] to change my > keymap. From where can I get it now? Or do I need another package? > The keymaps itself were installed by one of the console- debs. A new version, with french, german and spanish k

Re: New location of keymap.tar.gz?

2002-10-21 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Guillem a écrit : > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:07:57PM +0200, Gaël Le Mignot wrote: >> Sorry, I forgot to explain that it installs the french (azerty) keyboard >> layout, if you want another one you have to find a keymap (there is a german >> one in the tarball, and

Re: New location of keymap.tar.gz?

2002-10-20 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:04:10 +0200, tu as dit : > Stefan a écrit : >> Hello again, I've a new problem... >> The set_key binary wants libc0.2 - I've libc0.3. >> I cant build a new one with the uptodate libc0.3 and gcc-3.2 - I >> got a lot of parse errors. >> Is there a static linked version

Re: New location of keymap.tar.gz?

2002-10-20 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Stefan a écrit : > Hello again, I've a new problem... > The set_key binary wants libc0.2 - I've libc0.3. > I cant build a new one with the uptodate libc0.3 and gcc-3.2 - I > got a lot of parse errors. > Is there a static linked version of set_key? There is a working debian package o

Re: X Server problem!

2002-10-16 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
PrAvEeN a écrit : > Hi all, Hi > I am new to GNU/Hurd and I just started using it yesterday. I installed > XFree86 in my system and configured it properly for my SiS 6326 AGP card. > When I issue 'startx', my X server starts and it is running. But I can't > see the X window system. Instea