Re: Xwindows Security Hole in OpenBSD 3.8

2005-12-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 24 December 2005 14:57, Matthew Closson wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: I hate to send this Christmas present to misc, but there is definitely a security hole in Xwindows which permits exploits to be committed at least with user permissions, if not root

KDE/Xwindows Security Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD 3.8

2005-12-21 Thread Dave Feustel
when they are allocated to users for kde processes. The result is that these devices are also world rw. This condition can be fixed by using chown and chmod commands on those devices. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, lose the weight Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free

RAIDframe issues on 3.8

2005-12-07 Thread Dave Diller
.I've messed it up but good. How do I reinitialize wd1a and/or raid0 and/or start over completely? -Dave Diller

Re: RAIDframe issues on 3.8

2005-12-07 Thread Dave Diller
it, but it would merely say didn't run into the problem, but Greg Oster says its an obvious bug... ;-) Thanks, -Dave

Fwd: Re: KWordd - correction

2005-12-04 Thread Dave Feustel
If I were not running OpenBSD, the comments by Dave Faure below would lead me to believe that my freshly installed (supposedly) single-user OpenBSD 3.8 system has been penetrated and the penetrating perp is rattling my cage. :-) Does anyone else have ideas about what is causing this? (I'm also

Re: Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-30 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 02:17, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:19, Todd C. Miller wrote: Note that you can also set the malloc options from within a program you are developing. I've found this to be quite useful

Interesting ps -ax listing

2005-11-30 Thread Dave Feustel
, Dave Feustel

Re: Interesting ps -ax listing

2005-11-30 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 07:05, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: While running kde 3.4.2 on OpenBSD 3.8, upon logging out from my normal user id and then logging back in with a new user id and executing ps -ax, I found an instance of kde kicker running

Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Feustel
options affect the way the program runs? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: Frequency of 3.8 Malloc Options Check

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:19, Todd C. Miller wrote: Note that you can also set the malloc options from within a program you are developing. I've found this to be quite useful for adding a belt and suspenders mode during developement (the use after free checks in particular). - todd

Re: Is there an Unlink Command?

2005-11-28 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 28 November 2005 05:34, Marc Espie wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:58:08AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: How do I unlink a previously linked directory name? == /usr}sudo ln -f ports #I tried this since I couldn't find an unlink command ln: ports: is a directory

Re: Is there an Unlink Command?

2005-11-28 Thread Dave Feustel
Thanks All! rm did the trick. Dave On Monday 28 November 2005 05:44, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:58:08AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: How do I unlink a previously linked directory name? == /usr}sudo ln -f ports #I tried this since I couldn't find

Internet access from qemu

2005-11-14 Thread Dave Feustel
through my pc? Thanks, Dave Feustel ---my pf ruleset- scrub fragment reassemble scrub reassemble tcp NoRouteIPs = { 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12 } ExtIF = xl0 ext_ad = (xl0) prv_ad = (tun0) nat_proto = {tcp, udp, icmp} nat on $ExtIF inet proto $nat_proto \ from

Re: DISKLESS tutorial that need feedback

2005-10-23 Thread Dave Anderson
_are_ getting feedback on the document: it's harder to read than it could be. Dave -- Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Missing feature in scp/sftp? (Was Re: scponly vs. vsftpd)

2005-10-16 Thread Dave Anderson
feature of FTP that I can't find in SCP or SFTP: any equivalent to 'ascii mode' (I frequently transfer text files between systems with different end-of-line conventions). Am I just being blind, or is there really no way to do this? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing feature in scp/sftp? (Was Re: scponly vs. vsftpd)

2005-10-16 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from Gaby vanhegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:34:54 +0100 On 16 Oct 2005, at 17:13, Dave Anderson wrote: That being said, FTP is well past the time it was designed for. OpenSSH is very stable and featurefull. Just make sure it isn't *too* featureful

two vpn endpoints ... 3 net connections

2005-10-13 Thread Dave Harrison
multiple default routes ? Do I misunderstand my problem ? All help is appreciated as ever, Cheers Dave

Re: two vpn endpoints ... 3 net connections

2005-10-13 Thread Dave Harrison
Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 14 October 2005 08:32 +1000, Dave Harrison wrote: Here's my problem, I have a remote machine that has two links, one is high bandwidth but has bad latency, the other has low bandwidth but good latency. pf.conf(5), look at 'route-to' and 'reply-to'. Use PF

Re: CARP+Pfsync+Bind

2005-10-06 Thread Dave Anderson
port 53 keep state Dave -- Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CARP+Pfsync+Bind

2005-10-06 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:15:25 +0100 On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:49:02 -0400 Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not quite the whole story: 53/tcp is also used when the response to a query is too big for a single UDP packet (the resolver sends

Using PF, route-to with prejudice ;-)

2005-10-05 Thread Dave Harrison
-to \ { ($ext_if1 $ext_gw1), ($ext_if2 $ext_gw2) } round-robin \ from $lan_net to any keep state But is there a way I can say try this one first, then try this one ? or is that going to require a routing daemon's control (ospf, bgp etc) ? Cheers Dave

Re: Url checker

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Anderson
an appropriate (free) solution. I have been playing with the idea to use snort, but that seems a lot of work to me. Your boss _is_ aware that what he seems to be asking for is fundamentally impossible, due to caching proxies, dynamic IP addresses, multiuser systems, etc? Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-11 Thread Dave Feustel
greatest exports to the US are poverty and disease. Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups. Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Feustel
I have not seen a sitemap for openbsd.org. Is there one? If not, how hard would it be to create one and add a link to the website for it? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:12, Alexander Hall wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/ Hmm. Interesting. I'm not quite sure yet just what this is, but it looks useful and I'm putting the link in my OpenBSD link file and will spend some time examining it. Thanks, Dave Feustel

massive kde error log after upgrade

2005-09-05 Thread Dave Feustel
= Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: X kills console.

2005-09-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 03 September 2005 06:43, Jan Johansson wrote: Hello. Leaving the X virtual console the second time make the console die this happens both if I use Alt-Fn or exit X (both startx and xdm). Example: Log in as root on console. Type startx When X has loaded choose exit in the

Re: complex.h under OpenBSD

2005-09-02 Thread Dave Feustel
On Friday 02 September 2005 13:32, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello dear OpenBSD fans. I am trying to compile a C program (Numerical Electromagnetics Code, NEC, for antenna modelling) that needs complex numbers. I compiled it with gcc on Linux with

Re: OT: phone line 2 ethernet converters

2005-08-31 Thread Dave Feustel
with the requisite gain for the distance to be covered? Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info - Fujitsu-Siemens writeup

2005-08-30 Thread Dave Feustel
Fujitsu-Siemens writeup on disk password handling: http://vilpublic.fujitsu-siemens.com/vil/pc/vil/fast_facts/mainboards/pf_hddpassword_e.pdf

Boot-time Bios Mods - Still Possible?

2005-08-28 Thread Dave Feustel
A long time ago I added a little bios code to my pc by programming and installing an eprom on a post card. The code was executed at boot time before most of the bios code was executed. Is this still possible with current desktops? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against

Re: Boot-time Bios Mods - Still Possible?

2005-08-28 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 28 August 2005 10:53, Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 28 August 2005 10:22 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: A long time ago I added a little bios code to my pc by programming and installing an eprom on a post card. The code was executed at boot time before most of the bios code

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
to disable booting from any device but the hard disk containing the operating system. Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 07:27, Dave Feustel wrote: On Saturday 27 August 2005 06:07, JSD wrote: Hi folks, I have a big root access problem. If someone has physical access to my OpenBSD box, than he/she can swith into single user mode (-s) and can change the password of root

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
as reasonable advice you can get if you can't physically secure your box, and that's why you can't come up with anything better, smart ass. /kami Also, Kami is unfamiliar with the details of the disk password. man atactl /secsetpass Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 11:14, kami petersen wrote: dave, what are you smoking? please carefully note how i edited out _your_ text so as to indicate _who_ i was addressing and whom i additionally consider being a smartass. let me rephrase: dear frank. your response is unneccesary

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:28, Tobias Weingartner wrote: You BIOS password would prevent the machine from booting automatically after power outtage for example... What! You're not running with backup power??? :-) -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses,

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:50, Christian Jones wrote: On 8/27/05, black reaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, a BIOS password can be easily removed if one has physical access to the box. The small CMOS battery can be popped out, and put back in (on the motherboard), erasing your

Is the patch for this exploit in Openbsd 3.7 KDE package?

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Feustel
How can I tell in general whether a specific patch for a specific exploit has been incorporated into the relevant openbsd package (kde in this case)? http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050101-1.txt Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: A few things that get bitten are some packages doing their own and very different memory management, but can't avoid malloc altogether. That is ports/lang/clisp, that seems to be also gprolog Can you describe how these programs manage

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 08:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:02:54AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: I *am* a bit sad about the fact that there're no running Lisp implementations for OpenBSD Does (X

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 10:56, Marc Espie wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:09:36AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: A few things that get bitten are some packages doing their own and very different memory management, but can't

Re: 3.8 snapshot laptop sleep issues

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:31, Will H. Backman wrote: Running today's snapshot on an old laptop (Dell Latitude PPL), and I put the cover down to see if it would go to sleep and wake up properly. After it went to sleep, I opened the laptop back up, and it started to come back alive, but the

startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
When I start kde via startkde after login, an instance of xconsole isalso started. This instance doesn't seem to be started in kdeinit. Where is it started from? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:12, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: When I start kde via startkde after login, an instance of xconsole isalso started. This instance doesn't seem to be started in kdeinit. Where is it started from? Well, if you use an graphical login manager, I

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:50, Stephan Tesch wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 15:48 schrieb Dave Feustel: When I start kde via startkde after login, an instance of xconsole isalso started. This instance doesn't seem to be started in kdeinit. Where is it started from? Is is mentioned

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 11:43, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: I don't have an .xinitrc. I run startkde from the command line after login. Then add a .xinitrc in your homedir with the following line : exec startkde ... then launch startx. I forget. What

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 14:58, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Selon Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My problem is that xconsole starts running with kde and I cannot figure out where from it is started. I've tried grepping for xconsole and get no hits in my home directory. Please try to read

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
or relative pathname (see that case statement in startx). So, if startkde is explicitely invoked as /usr/local/bin/startkde (instead of just startkde), it should work. Ciao, Kili This post is a keeper! :-) Thanks! Dave -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans

Re: sh problem or configure script problem?

2005-08-22 Thread Dave Feustel
test, get the source for korn shell from korn.com, build it and then compare its scripted behavior against that of pdksh. Of course, if korn shell's behaviour doesn't conform to Posix, *then* what do you do. (I personally take Korn shell as THE standard regardless of what Posix says.) Dave

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-22 Thread Dave Feustel
is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of OpenBSD security is no virtue! with a nod to the late Senator Barry Goldwater. Do It! Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD

Qt 4.0.1 Runs on 3.7

2005-08-21 Thread Dave Feustel
with QPainter, but otherwise it seems to run ok. Qt 4.0.1 coexists with Qt 3.x except for qmake, which is version-specific. Trolltech - Open Source Downloads http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses

Re: Boot hanging following power out - it's worse

2005-08-20 Thread Dave Feustel
rebooted, /bsd booted normally. I figure that something on the boot disk was left in a bad state by the power failure and running /bsd.mp fixed it. This was the only time in 3 years that /bsd failed to boot for me, all other power failures included. Dave Feustel On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:13

Re: kernel page fault on initial login (OpenBSD 3.7 Release)

2005-08-20 Thread Dave Wickberg
On 8/19/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Wickberg wrote: Hi, I've just recently installed OpenBSD 3.7 (Release) on a Celeron 466 w/ 256MB of RAM. I created a boot floppy and from there the install went flawlessly. However, after booting the systems for first time I am

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:38, Dimitry Andric wrote: See the atactl(8) manpage, in particular the sec* commands. I was looking that that manpage yesterday. It confirms that it is possible to make the disk data inaccessible to anyone without the user password. However, I don't believe these

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:16, Timothy Donahue wrote: The only way to recover information off of a disk that has the ata security password protection implemented correctly is to transplant the platters into another disk (of the same type). The c't article, the link to which I posted to

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:19, Andrew Dalgleish wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: The c't article, the link to which I posted to misc@ yesterday, stated that a data recovery company was able to retrieve the user disk password (set by the authors

kernel page fault on initial login (OpenBSD 3.7 Release)

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Wickberg
left at a debugger prompt that seems functional so I may be able to pull some more info if required. I can log into the machine via ssh normally (as long as I don't touch the local keyboard and trigger the error). Any idea what might be going on? Thanks, Dave P.S. dmesg below: OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:15, Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: Indeed, very secure. If I've physical access to your laptop, all I need is a screwdriver to open it, pull out the disk and connect it to another machine. The disk password is part of the ATA interface spec. I would like you to

Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
c't 8/2005, S. 172: Hard Disk Security At Your Disservice How ATA security functions jeopardize your data With most notebooks it is possible to secure the hard disk against unauthorized access with the aid of a password. Without the latter the disk, even when inserted into another computer,

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:15, Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: Indeed, very secure. If I've physical access to your laptop, all I need is a screwdriver to open it, pull out the disk and connect it to another machine. excerpted from http://www.rockbox.org/lock.html === Still

Re: Ports Question - Update

2005-08-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 03:41, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:22:15 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: So I attempted to pkg_delete unzip and then got the following: === /usr/ports}cd archivers/unzip /usr/ports/archivers/unzip}sudo pkg_delete unzip Password: Can't

Re: kword crashes instantly when print or print preview selected

2005-08-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:08, Daniel Martini wrote: Hi Dave, On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:57:27PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: I'm running 3.7 release with the koffice package installed. This is 100% repeatable. Has anyone else seen this? Yes. It's probably related to cups. Provided you

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 15:48, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:26:38PM +, Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: [...] Clever. A password-protected power switch... Actually, I have configured the bios on my laptop to ask for a password before even loading any kernel or

SSH, SFTP, chroot and no login shells

2005-08-16 Thread Dave Harrison
in over ssh, or if they must, they must be chroot-ed to their home dir). Cheers for any help, Dave

kword crashes instantly when print or print preview selected

2005-08-15 Thread Dave Feustel
I'm running 3.7 release with the koffice package installed. This is 100% repeatable. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Ports Question - Update

2005-08-15 Thread Dave Feustel
I'm running release 3.7 and I've put the release src and ports trees in /usr. I've updated both trees using cvs. I remade unzip as per the instructions in ports.html. When I attempted to make install, I got an error message saying that unzip was already present (which it was). So I attempted to

Ports Question

2005-08-14 Thread Dave Feustel
} I don't understand why I would need to remove xmms, kdeaddons, and kdenetwork in order to remove unzip. Enlightenment will be appreciated. Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: newsticker - console based ?

2005-08-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 14 August 2005 21:47, Uwe Dippel wrote: Tried my best in /usr/ports, but couldn't find any console-based newsticker. Or so. snownews is great, but needs user intervention. This is what I intend to do: I am running a firewall behind closed doors but with a nice big window. Sure I

Re: newsticker - console based ?

2005-08-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 14 August 2005 22:09, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:02:45 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: I discovered that the 3.7 konqueror correctly displays marqee.../marqee as moving text. You can see this work at cloakanddagger.de. Just run Konqueror and periodically update

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-12 Thread Dave Feustel
for the feedback, Dave Feustel

Re: Shell scripting problem -- help, please!

2005-08-12 Thread Dave Anderson
found. Dave -- Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

3.7 problem: replacing xdm with kdm

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
'.) Are there additional changes that I need to make to use kdm instead of xdm? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: 3.7 problem: replacing xdm with kdm

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:42, J. Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:34:54 -0500 Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am now running 3.7. I got graphical logins via xdm working and decided to replace xdm with kdm. I changed the call of xdm in rc to a call to kdm

Little 3.7 Problems

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
possible including 'save as default'. I haven't tried everything, but the upgrade process from 3.6 was not as arduous as I anticipated. Nice Work, Developers! Thanks, Dave

Re: 3.7 problem: replacing xdm with kdm

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:37, Bernd Schoeller wrote: You might want to check out http://www.openbsdsupport.org/KDM.html Thanks for the pointer. I remember reading it a while ago, but I had forgotten about it since then. I found that point 6 in that writeup doesn't work for me, possibly

Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
server is already running. How do I get xdm to handle all console logins? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:59, Henning Brauer wrote: * Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-11 18:57]: I just discovered that even though xdm is running, terminals C[0-3] are running in character mode ie. if, while logged in via xdm, I enter ctl-alt-F[0-3], I get a tty login!!! eh

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:13, Paul de Weerd wrote: xdm is for graphical logins. text-mode console logins are handled by getty(8). You can not make xdm handle text-mode logins, that's not what it's designed to do. I understand that. It is beginning to look like I have had for at least 2

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
OpenBSD, I'll keep working on it. I appreciate your patience. Dave

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
Thanks for the advice, Paul. I'll try to follow it. On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:04, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:49:13PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: | On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:13, Paul de Weerd wrote: | xdm is for graphical logins. text-mode console logins are handled

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:54, Mats O Jansson wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: What I dn't yet quite grasp is why there cannot be multiple independent instances of kde running, each one attached to a different virtual terminal (C0-C3) on the same computer. Then I

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 15:23, Darrin Chandler wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: Keep in mind that xdm does not at all do what I thought it did. If using xdm does not permit simultaeneous multiple instances of KDE on my computer, then I see no advantage to using xdm. From a message

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 15:42, Joseph C. Bender wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: Keep in mind that xdm does not at all do what I thought it did. If using xdm does not permit simultaeneous multiple instances of KDE on my computer, then I see no advantage to using xdm. I

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
logged out). --Bryan Xnest sounds like it does what I want. Now to decipher the man page :-) Thanks, Dave

dmesg/bios question

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Feustel
have any old copies of dmesg to compare. I'm running on a Dell 4100. Does the bios id seem correct? Thanks, Dave Feustel OpenBSD 3.6 (GENERIC) #59: Fri Sep 17 12:32:57 MDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel 686-class) 797 MHz cpu0

Re: dmesg/bios question

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 05:22 am, Martin Reindl wrote: Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer just locked up and I rebooted. When I did so the reboot hung right after the line below starting with bios0. I powered down, then up, then booted again, this time successfully

Re: x86 rings?

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Feustel
it is probably of no interest to Openbsd developers. But it *will* make possible running a gaggle of copies of OpenBSD (eg OpenBSD 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8) simultaneously on a single computer. :-) Look for AMD chips implementing Pacifica sometime in 2006(Q1?). Dave Feustel

Re: x86 rings?

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Feustel
Ed, Ever read anything about MIT's Multics and the GE 645?

Re: x86 rings?

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Feustel
into the dustbin of history. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Feustel Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:05 PM To: Theo de Raadt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: x86 rings? Ed, Ever read anything about MIT's

Re: Ammunition needed to defend OpenBSD/pf

2005-08-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 01:15 pm, Jim O'Donald wrote: Using your example of a power supply lasting 10 years, that would translate to 2 failures in 10 years, not 1 failure in 5 years. And if the box is properly designed, it will continue running unless both power supplies fail simultaneously

3.7 Cdroms Arrived with no Damage

2005-07-31 Thread Dave Feustel
to the cdrom case. That was a very pleasant surprise! Dave Feustel

Re: iwi(4), possible to use 802.1x authentication?

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Feustel
On Friday 29 July 2005 07:40 am, b h wrote: Hi, before I install openbsd on my laptop, I was curious if there is any method of getting wireless working with my companies infrastructure. I have the intel 2915a/b/g card, and only Cisco extensions and LEAP authentication is supported (ughh).

Re: suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 28 July 2005 10:09 am, Moritz Grimm wrote: And there are also still numerous ways of breaking OpenBSD inspite of sane defaults and exploit mitigation techniques in place. Is there any way I can tell whether my system has been broken as you describe?

Re: suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 28 July 2005 11:24 am, Moritz Grimm wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: And there are also still numerous ways of breaking OpenBSD inspite of sane defaults and exploit mitigation techniques in place. Is there any way I can tell whether my system has been broken as you describe

suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Feustel
1) add the line umask 077 to .profile 2)add the file .kshrc containing at least the line set -o vi Also modify adduser so that the home directory permissions of new users are set to drwx-- instead of drwxr-xr-x

Re: suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 04:23 pm, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:13:01PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: | 1) add the line | umask 077 | to .profile This breaks certain ports (as I found out the hard way) I was wondering about that. Which ports broke? Thanks, Dave

Some questions related to shell scripts

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Anderson
of doing this), but I'm not at all sure it makes sense to stop and learn yet another language *right* *now*. If this *is* the way to go, recommendations as to the best language for general sysadmin-type scripting would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any advice, Dave -- Dave

Re: Some questions related to shell scripts

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Anderson
of the current environment environment. It is wrong to assume using (...) will actually create a new process. *That* was not at all obvious (at least to me), and is important to know. Thanks! Dave -- Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multiple SSH daemons

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Harrison
. Are there any other solutions people can think of ? Is there an option I don't know about ? Cheers for your help, Dave

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