Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Password Expiration
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 2:19 pm, Matt Winer wrote:
I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in
level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how
Is there anyway to do this from the CLI. I do not have Xwindows
or anything installed nor do I plan on installing it.
Thanks!
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derek
I am
On Oct 29, 2003, at 22:35, Matt Winer wrote:
Is there anyway to do this from the CLI. I do not haveXwindowsor
anything installed nor do I plan on installing it.
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Matt Winer mused:
I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it
in
level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But
how do I
prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec
levels?
Thanks!
man chage
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Michael Holt wrote:
Matt Winer mused:
I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it
in
level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But
how do I
prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec
levels?
Thanks!
man chage
If you're ever
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 2:19 pm, Matt Winer wrote:
I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in
level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how do I
prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec levels?
Thanks!
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Password Expiration
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 2:19 pm, Matt Winer wrote:
I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in
level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how do
I
prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:47, Cody Harris wrote:
At 12:54 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:57, Cody Harris wrote:
Is there a way to impose a type of password protection onto folders?
-Cody Harris
Yes.
How?
One way is by creating specific GROUPS with specific
At 11:14 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:47, Cody Harris wrote:
At 12:54 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:57, Cody Harris wrote:
Is there a way to impose a type of password protection onto folders?
-Cody Harris
Yes.
How?
One way is by
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:16:02AM -0300, Cody Harris wrote:
At 11:14 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:47, Cody Harris wrote:
At 12:54 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:57, Cody Harris wrote:
Is there a way to impose a type of password
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 23:16, Cody Harris wrote:
At 11:14 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:47, Cody Harris wrote:
At 12:54 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:57, Cody Harris wrote:
Is there a way to impose a type of password protection onto
At 09:19 AM 7/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:16:02AM -0300, Cody Harris wrote:
At 11:14 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:47, Cody Harris wrote:
At 12:54 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:57, Cody Harris wrote:
Is there a way
On Friday 04 Jul 2003 2:36 pm, Cody Harris wrote:
But can a user belong to more then one group?
Yes.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ groups
richard pppusers cdwriter cvs lan
Either edit /etc/group
% man 5 group
or use webmin or userdrake.
% mcc
System-UserDrake
select user
Actions-Edit
But can a user belong to more then one group?
Yeah. At cli, userdrake, then
edit -- groups
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:36:17AM -0300, Cody Harris wrote:
At 09:19 AM 7/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:16:02AM -0300, Cody Harris wrote:
At 11:14 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 22:47, Cody Harris wrote:
At 12:54 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 23:36, Cody Harris wrote:
Why in the world would you want that? If a user is logged in, he or she
has authenticated. Add the user to a group and be done with it!
But can a user belong to more then one group?
Yes.
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At 10:52 AM 7/5/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 23:36, Cody Harris wrote:
Why in the world would you want that? If a user is logged in, he or she
has authenticated. Add the user to a group and be done with it!
But can a user belong to more then one group?
Yes.
Yay for one word
Is there a way to impose a type of password protection onto folders?
-Cody Harris
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On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:57, Cody Harris wrote:
Is there a way to impose a type of password protection onto folders?
-Cody Harris
Yes.
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Fri Jul 4 12:50:00 EST 2003
12:50:00 up 2 days, 2:10, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.28, 0.27
Hi,
I am trying to reset expired passwords, so I boot up with a floppy and
enter,
linux init=/bin/sh -rw
and I get init-2.05#
I tried passwd username and entered new password. But I get the following
error message, PAM_pwdb[22]: user (username/id) update failed; pwdb: another
process has
hi,
Has anyone of you experienced bypassing a har disk password prompt? im
having problems with my Epson Endeavor laptop, how can I bypass the hard
disk lock Password?
thanks!
g2
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I want to set up my computer to accept passwords in a
certain format. I know I need to use regular
expressions and this is not a problem, but my question
is, where do I configure this globally?
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I know in Bastille there's an option for that. :-)
Lee
On Monday 19 November 2001 16:44, you wrote:
Hey group,
Does anyone know how to password lilo/grub on boot to where you have to
have a passwd to boot whichever partition you want or to make any
changes like as to boot into single
Hey group,
Does anyone know how to password lilo/grub on boot to where you have to
have a passwd to boot whichever partition you want or to make any
changes like as to boot into single user mode?
Thank you,
Xsturm
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When accessing the linuxcomputer from the windows computer, he says you must
supply a password to make this connection
Whatever password I try, he refuses. Is there somewhere a password I don
know?
I created the shares with swat, localizing them where the user I created is
(/home/user). I
At 11:35 AM 11/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Hello:
Not sure I understand completely, but let me give it a shot. As I
understand it, you created an account in your linbox named user and you
want the two pc's networked for printer and file sharing. If so, you have
two alternatives. One, is to name
14, 2001 1:00 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: [newbie] password samba
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|When accessing the linuxcomputer from the windows computer, he
|says you must
|supply a password to make this connection
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|Whatever password I try, he refuses. Is there somewhere a
|password I don
|know?
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|I
After reconfiguring many times the network, suddenly the computer appears on
the screen oof the windows network.
To access however, he asks for passwords. Where do I find/install them?
Thanks,
Geert
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Are you trying to connect from a windows PC to a linux samba server?
If you are, you must make sure that either your windows username is mapped
to your unix username in /etc/smbusers (or possibly /etc/samba/smbusers,
depending on which version of samba / Mandrake you are using on the server)
or
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a little bug in lillo and grub you have to add the line in lillo mem: 128mb
i think thats how it goes im sure someone will correct me, for some reason
lillo and grub will not detect over 64mb so this line was added to help
correct the reporting
In a message dated 10/29/2000 6:10:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 16:44:16 Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Uhm...there's a failsafe (simple) mode set up with LILO as well. I guess
I'm confused as you guys talk as
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and the install went just fine but I seem
to have messed up on the password part. I tried not using a password
but
it wouldn't let me get around it during installation and I typed part
of
a password and I can't remember exactly what I typed. So X starts up
just
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 09:41:21 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and the install went just fine but I seem
to have messed up on the password part. I tried not using a password
but
it wouldn't let me get around it during installation and I
h, yer root password woz it?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of LMB
Sent: 29 October 2000 15:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Password
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and the install went just fine but I seem
to have messed
start linux in single user mode, i think failsafe may do it, if not edit
your
grub or lilo comands so it says linux -s
when it loads you should still be on the command prompt, type linuxconf,
whaen this program loads you will be able to change root password, should
be
one of the first
I would do a reboot, then when lilo comes up
type linux 1 and then find the file /etc/passwd and
delete that, then when you come back log in
as root and it should let you in without a password,
then you can re-enter a password
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, LMB wrote:
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and
]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 8:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Password
start linux in single user mode, i think failsafe may do it, if not edit
your
grub or lilo comands so it says linux -s
when it loads you should still be on the command prompt, type
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 10:43:12 Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Um... if he/she can't log in, I'm not sure this will fly... :-)
hello i have had to do this!!! and it does work if she is in single
user mode to change the password!
might be possible to use another copy of linux such as floppy base to replace
the password file, i think this is a high probable yes, however i can not be
certain the folder the password file is in could be encrypted , there are
many possibilitys but considering not much has been done to the
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 10:43:12 Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
inux single prompt.
You may also type:linux 1
If this logs you into a command line prompt, try typing:passwd root
if it asks you for the old password, you will need to re-install linux, and
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 11:37:38 Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would do a reboot, then when lilo comes up
type linux 1 and then find the file /etc/passwd and
delete that, then when you come back log in
as root and it should let you in without a password,
then you
Um... if he/she can't log in, I'm not sure this will fly... :-)
hello i have had to do this!!! and it does work if she is in single
user mode to change the password!
The thing is, to get logged into single user mode you have to provide the
root password. So you're right, if
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 13:15:15 Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The thing is, to get logged into single user mode you have to provide the
root password. So you're right, if you're there, you can change
passwords. But Greg's also correct that you still need to know
That's probably because Larry and some others are using LILO
to login into linux. In Grub you have that failsafe option.
I hope this make sense.
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In a message dated 29-Oct-00 13:15:15
makes sense to me however they get anoying!
then explain to me why when i lost my password and couldnt get in i
managed
to log in under failsafe and used linuxconf to change my password!
if i never knew it and still got into single user obviously someone has to
be
mistaken or there are a crap load of bugs in mandrake7.1!
I wasn't
That's probably because Larry and some others are using LILO
to login into linux. In Grub you have that failsafe option.
I hope this make sense.
Uhm...there's a failsafe (simple) mode set up with LILO as well. I guess
I'm confused as you guys talk as though you don't understand the idea
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 17:15:58 Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So Joe HaX0r can't crack your system. I guess Mandrake figures that the
odds
that some hax0r will break into your house to boot up the computer isn't
that
great, so it provides the failsafe as a
Can't he boot from something like Tom's root boot, and delete the file
containing the encrypted passwords, and then log into Mandrake as "Linux 1"
Can't say with Linux. Didn't see what Tom suggested but anything I've
seen him suggest has worked for me so his record is a lot better
So Joe HaX0r can't crack your system. I guess Mandrake figures that the odds
that some hax0r will break into your house to boot up the computer isn't that
great, so it provides the failsafe as a convinence.
You may be right.
Thanks for all the help! I tried the different things that was suggested
in the failsafe but never could get it fixed. as for trying to type
"linux single" at the LILO, it never gave me a chance. LILO was there
and gone in about 1/10 of a mill-a-sec. I just reinstalled and got it up
and running,
In a message dated 29-Oct-00 21:26:02 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
But why do all the programs load and run like I have 16 megs of ram on a
486 computer? I'm running an Athlon 750 with 128 megs of ram. I
partitioned my Linux drive for 3.5 gigs. I also tried my internet
Before changing lilo to reflect any memory config, in a terminal window,
type: cat /proc/meminfo
If the mem total indicates less RAM than you have installed, than you need
to edit lilo. If the mem total reflects the correct amount of memory, don't
touch anything.
If you do need to edit lilo,
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privately to get this going and I certainly appreciate it. I am in a
hurry right now, but I will send info about the steps I had to take to
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:43:04 ZZ wrote:
Marcia L Waller wrote:
Dear Anyone, It has been a long haul and I am finally on cable internet
with linux mandrake!
Great!! I am still on a dilaup 28.8:P
the net using Nestscape I have one
Hello All,
Got another question:
I use my linuxbox at the office for monitoring and
accounting of the bandwith/uptime of our servers, with automatic generation of
HTML pages (mrtg and netsaint are 2 of the apps I use). Of course, this info is
kind of confidential and therefor I would like
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