Re: [osol-discuss] Crontab -- is cron.d not really a .d directory?

2007-12-25 Thread Mark Drummond
On 25/12/2007, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens to me every time I turn around on Solaris these days is that tools I'm used to using are missing key features that I use every day. Tar is missing the 'z' option, date is missing all sorts of options (can't do conversions

[osol-discuss] SXDE based on b77?

2007-12-12 Thread Mark Drummond
I just downloaded the DVD for SXCR build 77. It appears to include SXDE as well. Is this SXDE 9/07? It's a bit confusing because, from the SXDE web pages, I can download an SXDE 9/07 DVD, OR I can download an SXCR build 70b DVD. Only, they are the same DVD. Different download web pages in SDLC,

[osol-discuss] SXDE 9/07 install fails immediately

2007-12-12 Thread Mark Drummond
I am trying to install SXDE 9/07 in a vmware 6.x vm. After stepping through the installation GUI, when I click the last button to begin the install, the GUI comes back immediately with an installation failed error message, *but* the installer is actually still running in teh background. My disk

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana review

2007-12-03 Thread Mark Drummond
On 03/12/2007, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one problem I have with either /root or root as a role is what there is in the way of recovery options (on SPARC too eventually!) under very degraded conditions in the absence of being able to log in to the console directly as

[osol-discuss] New passwd switch?

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Drummond
How difficult would it be to add a switch to passwd which allows a privileged user to select the password hashing scheme? Users who need to access DB2 (at least, DB2 V8) must have their passwords stored with CRYPT. Or at least, whatever DB2 we are running here where I work gets tripped up by

Re: [osol-discuss] New passwd switch?

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Drummond
On 26/11/2007, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Reply-To set to security-discuss, please respect and do NOT cross post] Mark Drummond wrote: How difficult would it be to add a switch to passwd which allows a privileged user to select the password hashing scheme? Pretty easy