Re: Needed: suid library calls (was Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd_config)

2000-05-24 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :"Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote: > : > :> [...] > :> > :> Since user authentication is needed by more than one program it > :> should live in it's own process. Right now there is code > :> duplication and it is impossible to change the authentication > :> policy without

NFS, permissions and 4.0-RELEASE

2000-05-24 Thread Scott Drassinower
I have several partitions from a 3.2-RELEASE machine mounted via NFS on a 4.0-RELEASE machine. On the 4.0 machine, I am unable to append to a world writable file (622, for example) that resides on the 3.2 machine. This did not happen with 3.3. Using cat >>/nfspath/file results in "cat: stdout:

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-May-25 11:59:41 +1000, Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:03:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> To put it another way, why _should_ FreeBSD store a file creation time? > >0. I'm tired of seeing people putting "Created: mm/dd/yy" in their documents. - UFS st

Re: Needed: suid library calls (was Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd_config)

2000-05-24 Thread Nick Sayer
Matthew Dillon wrote: [lost attribution. Nick wrote this] > : > :What we _really_ need is some mechanism to recognize the difference > :between a user program and a system library, with an eye towards > :granting privileges to trusted libraries without letting those privileges > :leak past the l

Re: hack.c in kernel

2000-05-24 Thread Manny Obrey
tks for the clarifcation! >From: Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Manny Obrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: hack.c in kernel >Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:03:37 +1000 > >On Fri, 19 May 2000 17:35:34 PDT, "Manny Obrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >I saw the following n

Re: Needed: suid library calls (was Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd_config)

2000-05-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:"Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote: : :> [...] :> :> Since user authentication is needed by more than one program it :> should live in it's own process. Right now there is code :> duplication and it is impossible to change the authentication :> policy without messing with sshd. :> : :What we _really_

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-24 Thread Arun Sharma
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:03:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:35:11 -0700, Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:04:52PM +0400, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: > >> Arun Sharma writes: > >> > Is there any reason why FreeBSD doesn't store file

Driver for Aureal Vortex* based soundcards is available

2000-05-24 Thread Alexander Matey
[Please, remove hackers from Cc: list when replying] Finally took the time to put this stuff together. I am releasing the newpcm driver for Aureal Vortex1, Vortex2, Vortex Advantage based soundcards (au8830, au8820, au8810 chipsets). This is not a "true" driver, it needs to be linked with Aure

Re: Need help debugging a crash (PR kern/18685)

2000-05-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Thomas Faehnle writes: > I'm trying to assist in debugging the crash reported as kern/18685-- > apparently Greg is unable to reproduce the problem on his machine. Have you tried hooking up another machine via serial console and using gdb? -Archie

Re: boot/kernel debugging

2000-05-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Nick Hibma writes: > In general it is well possible to single step anything in the > kernel. You might find occasions where things stop working, and odd > cases were things all of a sudden start working, but normally, apart > from hardware things, most things are not time critical, or create > pro

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:35:11 -0700, Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:04:52PM +0400, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: >> Arun Sharma writes: >> > Is there any reason why FreeBSD doesn't store file creation times on >> > the disk (apart from historical reasons) ? To pu

hack.c in kernel

2000-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 19 May 2000 17:35:34 PDT, "Manny Obrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I saw the following near the end of running "make depend;make" during a >kernel re-config ... seriously, is this something to be concerned about? ... >cc -elf -shared -nostdlib hack.c -o hack.So To expand somewhat on Kr

Needed: suid library calls (was Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd_config)

2000-05-24 Thread Nick Sayer
"Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote: > [...] > > Since user authentication is needed by more than one program it > should live in it's own process. Right now there is code > duplication and it is impossible to change the authentication > policy without messing with sshd. > What we _really_ need is so

Re: shutdownhook_establish()

2000-05-24 Thread Mike Smith
> > I see references to this routing (apparently replacing at_shutdown() in > v4.0) but compiling it into a driver results in an unresolved reference. I > also dont see it in any of the include files. > > How can this be used, and where does it live? Use EVENTHANDLER_REGISTER; see sys/kern/kern

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Or: : :/compat/linux/bin/bash :rpm : :Running Linux-based installers directly in the FreeBSD environment can :Cause Problems(tm), particularly if they're shells scripts that make :assumptions. : :Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeB

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-24 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 24-May-00 Mohit Aron wrote: > > Yes, that looks promising. That'll possibly enable one to install rpms > > easily on FreeBSD. > > You can try this too.. > > rpm --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbbath /var/lib/rpm --nodeps > --replacepkgs

shutdownhook_establish()

2000-05-24 Thread Dennis
I see references to this routing (apparently replacing at_shutdown() in v4.0) but compiling it into a driver results in an unresolved reference. I also dont see it in any of the include files. How can this be used, and where does it live? Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xxx_stop and ifq->if_snd in NIC drivers

2000-05-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Duncan Barclay writes: : In a wireless NIC driver should one drain the output queue when the interface is : stopped? I've been perusing /sys/dev/awi.c and the output queue is drained in : that driver. It depends on how the interface is stopped. If it is being stopp

Need help debugging a crash (PR kern/18685)

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Faehnle
Hi, I'm trying to assist in debugging the crash reported as kern/18685-- apparently Greg is unable to reproduce the problem on his machine. The error | Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode | fault virtual address = 0x69666f27 | fault code= supervisor read, page not prese

MAD16 in FreeBSD 4.0

2000-05-24 Thread Zeno
Hi! I'm using FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE and I'm not able to get my sound card work. my soundcard is "Monte Carlo 929" by "Turtle Beach". AFAIK there is MAD16 (OPTi 82C929) and is compatible w/ mss, sb (i guess sb pro), midi (YM 3812/OPL3) and have MPU 401 interface. I only need mss to work. Th

error in usr.bin/ftp/main.c ?

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Ludwig
Hi, in usr.bin/ftp/main.c at line 407; instead of if (line[--num] == '\n') { it should probably be if (buf[--num] == '\n') { looks like a copy-paste error to me. greets thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of t

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-24 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:07:06AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > There used to be a linux-devel port which did exactly this. Don't > know what became of it, however.. [hawk-billf] /home/billf > cat /usr/ports/devel/linux_devtools/pkg/COMMENT Packages needed for doing development in Linux mo

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> 1. You can run /compat/linux/bin/bash and then you in a sort of > Linux/FreeBSD directory mix. The root directory looks just like your > FreeBSD root, but changing to a directory that is in /compat/linux, like > /bin, will put in the linux tree of this directory, but changing to a > directory th