Noisy mouse

2008-11-29 Thread Roey Dror
I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 (i386) with the IceWM window manager. The sound seems to work when playing files with xmms. When my speakers are turned on, I hear noise whenever I move my mouse or make a keystroke. Is this a bug, or a strange feature? How do i turn it off? /dev/sndstat: FreeBSD Audio Driver

Preserving X forwarded applications

2008-11-07 Thread Roey Dror
I'm looking for a solution similar to the screen utility, but for X11. I want, for example, to burn a cd on a remote computer using some GUI application. If, for any reason, the network goes down while burning, I suppose I lose the whole thing. Same thing goes when editing a document. I know that I

Re: Unable to mount / in read - write mode

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know where but I made a mistake and I am always booting on the 6.0 > kernel. Are you using the GENERIC kernel or a custom one? -- Roey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
> > Is there any other pam module which can supply a passwordless login? > maybe pam_guest? > I figured it out. Adding this line: authsufficient pam_guest.soguests=username nopass to /etc/pam.d/gdm did the trick. -- Roey _

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
> > OK the pam stuff that is talked about online is found in /etc/pam.d/gdm. > I have seen a few suggestions to change the auth to optional instead of > required. However there would be nothing to stop some one logging in as > root through gdm. > Is there any other pam module which can supply a p

GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
I've searched around the internet for a way to allow a user to login into GDM without using a password. I know that GDM has an automatic login feature, but that's not what I'm looking. I really do not wish to create a user with an empty password, in order not to compromise the entire system securit

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
> AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to > automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think > one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty). As I said, the automatic login feature is not what I'm looking for. I need to set up more than one user t