[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread MC
> On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Fingerprint Authentication > > == > > > > > > Project Overview: > > - > > The biometrics technology grows fast. Fingerprint > authentication is > > widely used in many situations. It'

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Gaopeng Chen - Sun China
Now it just focuses on the fingerprint. The design is required to be able to easily extended to other biometrics. If the resources in opensolaris are enough, the bioAPI may be considered to be imported to cover all the biometrics. Thanks. On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 10:48, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > Is

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Is this project limited to just fingerprints? If so, would it make sense to still make the new subsystem easily extensible to future types of biometrics? -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Gaopeng.Chen
Josh Hurst wrote: On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fingerprint Authentication == Project Overview: - The biometrics technology grows fast. Fingerprint authentication is widely used in many situations. It's a valuable featu

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Gary Gendel
+1 Keep in mind that you may want your architecture to support BIOS with fingerprint hardware crypto support. For example the "p" series from Lenovo (T61p, etc.) Gary This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list op

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-06-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > or even better simply to make, tar, format, ... > > Afterall they are only an implementation of these well specified and long > > existing programs. Credits to Jörg that they may be the best implementation > > on earth, but I really see no advantage

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: OpenSolaris Picnic in Sunnyvale Tomorow!

2007-06-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Just a friendly reminder to everyone. We're having the first annual OpenSolaris Community Picnic tomorrow at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale! Get details on the event at http://cuddletech.com/tamr/ in Tamarah's blog. If you want to register for the event (most people aren't) visit http://upcoming

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Ian Collins
Hay, Mausul W wrote: > "Time to educate your leader." > > Ian, > > Please don't get into the arrogant belief that just because it is > Solaris or any other UNIX variant that anti-virus is unnecessary. Virus > writers haven't targeted 'NIX but that doesn't mean 'NIX is > invulnerable. My guess is th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-06-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 15/06/07, Thomas Maier-Komor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > smake, star, sformat, sfind (a bit newer), > > I think it is better to rename such tools to > schillymake, schillytar, > schillyformat or put them into usr/schilly/bin. > or even better simply to

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-06-15 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > smake, star, sformat, sfind (a bit newer), > > I think it is better to rename such tools to > schillymake, schillytar, > schillyformat or put them into usr/schilly/bin. > or even better simply to make, tar, format, ... Afterall they are only an implement

[osol-discuss] Collaboration: The most important thing

2007-06-15 Thread Shawn Walker
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8470376604.html -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Problem with Lan Intel Chipset 945G for the lan

2007-06-15 Thread Alberto
Hi! i have a MB with internal lan Intel Chipset 945G ( i think Realtek RTL8111b 10/100/1000M ) i try to install Solaris 10 and Solaris Express Build 65 but the OS dosn't find me the lan adapter, what i have to do for install this type of lan? is a problem if i use a switch 10/100 ? thanks

Re: [osol-discuss] Unsubscribe

2007-06-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
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2007-06-15 Thread Abhishek Pratap
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Re: [osol-discuss] Decoding Dynamic section in PPC vs MIPS

2007-06-15 Thread Dave Marquardt
"Babu" == Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Babu> Please excuse me if this is not the right forum to ask. I have a Babu> question on decoding dynamic sections on target on PPC. I need Babu> to know how to read or find equivalent of the following MIPS Babu> DT_XX entris in PPC. Might be better to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 06:32 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > 1. SPARC (and nowdays AMD and intel) processors support a so-called "no > execution stack" bit, and this bit is set to 1 by default; > what that means is, you can't execute any malicious code that you put on the > stack, the hardware won't al

Re: [osol-discuss] stack can't be displayed when attaching a process with dbx sometimes

2007-06-15 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, iceberg wrote: Solaris 10, sun studio 11, sometimes I attach my process with dbx and the "where" command can only display a few stack with a notification "can't derive frame point". My program has been compiled and linked with -g option. But optimized at high levels ? Wi

Re: [osol-discuss] b65 Input Not Supported

2007-06-15 Thread Brian Gupta
On 6/12/07, Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I tried updating my system with b65 and got "Input Not Supported" right after the language select option. Anyone else experienced the same issue? Basically any info and testing you can provide narrow down the conditions that trigger this er

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris index database?

2007-06-15 Thread Brian Gupta
One thing I have been wondering is, couldn't this be implemented as a shell builtin? Most, if not all shells keep a hash of all executables, libraries and manpages in memory. Might we be able to leverage this for a lightweight version of of what Anne is looking for? (I am not sure if useful, but i

[osol-discuss] Re: RE: solaris index database?

2007-06-15 Thread UNIX admin
> Interesting! All these years of using them and I > never knew that. Wonder why > SUN hasn't bothered to include it (as Red Hat did) in > their installs? Because if you've done everything "by the book", you'll never need it. `locate` is nothing but a kludge. This message posted from opensola

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: recommend the opensourceanti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Hay, Mausul W
Thanks for the explanation. I am not completely familiar with the background but this sheds some light on the issue that I was unaware of before. Mausul. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of UNIX admin Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:33 AM To: op

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-06-15 Thread Tom Haynes
Holger Berger wrote: Ted, when will this project go public? Holger It just did this week, no? http://opensolaris.org/os/project/samqfs/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris index database?

2007-06-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anne wrote: > > Does anyone know if Solaris 10 has the ability to index all of it's > > contents and those contents are available for query? (Akin to Red Hat's > > "locate" and "updatedb" features.) The "find" command is so sllow > > Those aren't

[osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus for opensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread UNIX admin
> not me ,but my leader think so~whatever i like or > not,it's my work must to do that. > today on the meeting ,my leader ask me to create a > new zone ,then install a antivirus on it.i don't know > why,but i should try it next week :( Solaris does not need an antivirus solution. UNIX security mod

[osol-discuss] Re: creating the solaris package

2007-06-15 Thread UNIX admin
> Have you considered using Flash Archives? See > flar(1M). It sounds > like this is similar to what you're trying to do. The really clean thing to do would be to build a package, install it, then make a Flash(TM) archive. And of course keep the pkgprotos under revision control... This mes

Re: [osol-discuss] How can i boot with debug mode ?

2007-06-15 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Paul Durrant wrote: On 15/06/07, Paul Gamper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry i looked over 2 hours and i can't find. The reason you can't find it is because it's not there ;-) There's no such thing as debug 'mode'. If you want a DEBUG kernel then you have to install one

[osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread UNIX admin
> My guess is that as Linux gains more > acceptance in the > wider computing arena, in corporate circles and in > consumer PCs, hackers > will begin to see more opportunities at hacking 'NIX > for profit or > getting at sensitive personal data and the incidents > of viruses aimed at > 'NIX systems

[osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread UNIX admin
> Please don't get into the arrogant belief that just > because it is > Solaris or any other UNIX variant that anti-virus is > unnecessary. Virus > writers haven't targeted 'NIX but that doesn't mean > 'NIX is > invulnerable. It would appear that you're unfamiliar with the technical background of

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-06-15 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/24/07, Ted Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data services ex

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Hay, Mausul W
Frank, We are mostly in violent agreement. It is difficult to write programs to scan for a virus that does not yet exist, but that is why Heuristics are used to detect "virus-like behavior". Someone else responded that there are NO viruses for Solaris and I disagree with that statement. While ther

Re: [osol-discuss] How can i boot with debug mode ?

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Durrant
On 15/06/07, Paul Gamper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry i looked over 2 hours and i can't find. The reason you can't find it is because it's not there ;-) There's no such thing as debug 'mode'. If you want a DEBUG kernel then you have to install one (find out about bfu from the website) or i

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiler mailing list?

2007-06-15 Thread Holger Berger
On 6/11/07, Kuldip Oberoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, the answer, historically, is to point folks to the tools community (5+ forums) on SDN that the Sun Studio product team monitors: http://forum.java.sun.com/category.jspa?categoryID=113 Now, there has been feedback that the SDN forum

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Giles Turner
Why do you want fingerprint authentication? You can fool these sensors easily with a piece of wax or latex. You'd better write the root password on the backside of the keyboard - that's more secure than fingerprint authentication Exactly why I want to see bioapi in instead of some fingerprint pa

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Hay, Mausul W wrote: "Time to educate your leader." Ian, Please don't get into the arrogant belief that just because it is Solaris or any other UNIX variant that anti-virus is unnecessary. Virus writers haven't targeted 'NIX but that doesn't mean 'NIX is invulnerable. My g

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Hay, Mausul W
"Time to educate your leader." Ian, Please don't get into the arrogant belief that just because it is Solaris or any other UNIX variant that anti-virus is unnecessary. Virus writers haven't targeted 'NIX but that doesn't mean 'NIX is invulnerable. My guess is that as Linux gains more acceptance i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus for opensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Ian Collins
yoyo wrote: >>> Except ClamAV,anyone else? >>> >> Wait a minute. Do you need antivirus solution on your >> Solaris system for your *Windows* systems, >> >> or do you actually want an antivirus solution on >> Solaris because you believe that Solaris also needs >> an antivirus program? >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Josh Hurst
On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fingerprint Authentication == Project Overview: - The biometrics technology grows fast. Fingerprint authentication is widely used in many situations. It's a valuable feature to support finge

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Giles Turner
> > > What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is imported? > > > > I have to say "no" before bioapi is imported. But it doesn't matter > > since the security services (such as login, xscreensaver, etc) work upon > > the PAM APIs. pam_fpr or pam_bioapi is just a pluggab

[osol-discuss] Re: [driver-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Colin Zou
+1 Gaopeng Chen - Sun China wrote: > Fingerprint Authentication > == > > > Project Overview: > - > The biometrics technology grows fast. Fingerprint authentication is > widely used in many situations. It's a valuable feature to support > fingerprint in Solar

[osol-discuss] How can i boot with debug mode ?

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Gamper
Sorry i looked over 2 hours and i can't find. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus for opensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread yoyo
> > Except ClamAV,anyone else? > > Wait a minute. Do you need antivirus solution on your > Solaris system for your *Windows* systems, > > or do you actually want an antivirus solution on > Solaris because you believe that Solaris also needs > an antivirus program? not me ,but my leader think so~

[osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus for opensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread UNIX admin
> Except ClamAV,anyone else? Wait a minute. Do you need antivirus solution on your Solaris system for your *Windows* systems, or do you actually want an antivirus solution on Solaris because you believe that Solaris also needs an antivirus program? This message posted from opensolaris.org _