Re: [opensuse] Apache Require Group and Lotus Domino LDAP

2007-08-27 Thread Gaël Lams
On 8/23/07, Dale Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using mod_auth_ldap on Apache 2.0.54 and SuSE 10.1. I have things > configured to authenticate to an LDAP source running on IBM Lotus Domino > directory. Authentication works fine. If I configure the to > require a valid-user things wo

Re: [opensuse] Re: htdig and other search engines

2007-08-27 Thread Gaël Lams
On 8/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Hans > > Am Mo, 27. August 2007 16:46:09 schrieb Hans van der Merwe: > > Hi, > > can anyone recommend an web-based search tool that I can use to index > > and search our document server. At the moment Im using htdig, but the > > fact th

Re: [opensuse] Troubleshooting Apache mod_auth_ldap

2007-08-30 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, > > I just don't know where to go next. Did you read my previous email? If you want some help you need to give more information, especially the relevant part of your apache's configuration. Regards, Gael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EM

Re: [opensuse] Apache Require Group and Lotus Domino LDAP

2007-08-31 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, > > AuthLDAPEnabled on > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Test Directory" > AuthLDAPURL ldap://192.168.12.29/?cn > AuthLDAPCompareDNOnServer off > AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN on > AuthLDAPRemoteUserIsDN on > Auth

Re: [opensuse] XEN Help Please

2007-09-03 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, > I am in desperate need of Asterisk 1.4 and freePBX 2.3. Unfortunately, freePBX > requires Apache to be run as user/group asterisk, what makes current server > incompatible with any other web applications. I'm wondering: where is the problem in running as user/group asterik? After all it's o

Re: [opensuse] PAM mk_homedir when coming through SSH

2007-09-03 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, > - What if the user comes in (for the first time) though SSH, authenticates > against the AD, and then wants a home-dir to be created. Which PAM file > (in /etc/pam.d) should I modify? And what should I write in it? Here is what I use on my linux boxes with ssh configured to authenticate thr

Re: [opensuse] How to manage 100+ linux boxes?

2007-09-07 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, > > Is there a standard way to remotely manage 100+ SUSE boxes? The > > machines are NLPOS9, which is based on SLES9, which is in turn based > > on SUSE 9.1. I need a way to remotely administer them, with cheaper > > solutions being ideal. I'm not sure that there is a "standard" way. There

Re: [opensuse] SLED10_SP1 vs 10.3

2007-09-17 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, > Are there any xtra repos (for YAST) for > SLED10 SP1. There are a few programs that > I miss? Did you check the SDK stuff? > Is there a SP2 in the pipeline and if > so will it include KDE4? I don't think so: SP1 has "just" been released > Does the boxed version of SLED10 SP1 > include mo

Re: [opensuse] ncpfs and PAM configuration

2007-09-17 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, > There is a comment in common-auth that says that you > shouldn't edit it. It says it will get overwritten. Really? In the past (and still today on SLES10) I've happily modified the pam's configuration files by hand. I think you can safely modify them. > common-auth looked like the logical

Re: [opensuse] A very interesting Virtualization Theory article

2007-05-14 Thread Gaël Lams
This sounds fine, as far as it goes, but sometime you're going to have to upgrade the host on which vm1 and vm2 run. I don't know for Xen but VMware allow live migration of virtual machine to new esx server hardware. They are also working on seemless migration between esx versions -- To unsu

[opensuse] How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

2007-05-30 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, I install SLED 10 on an HP workstation xw4400. Everything is working perfectly except for the noise: compared to the same workstation with Windows XP installed, which is pretty silent, the linux box makes quite a lot of noise. I've googled a little bit but did not find any extensive response

Re: [opensuse] RKHunter reports possible infection

2007-05-30 Thread Gaël Lams
With a properly configured firewall, dictionary attacks are pretty much a non-issue. My firewalls rate limit ssh connection attempts which pretty much stops dictionary attacks in their tracks. I still think no convincing case for limiting root ssh logins has come foreward. I agree with wha

Re: [opensuse] Re: How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise?

2007-05-30 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, Thanks to all for you answer. Here is was I tried for the time being: - I ran sensors-detect but nothing was detected :-( - I modify the power management profile and change the scheme to "Acoustic", i.e "scheme optimized to let machine run as quietly as possible", with no success (i.e same n

[opensuse] Re: How to limit/eliminate CPU/FAN Noise? (SOLVED)

2007-06-01 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, I finally go an activation code for SLED 10. After downloading and installing the nvidia-driver the noise disappear: it was due the nVidia's fan Regards, Gael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] keyboard configuration question.

2007-06-21 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi all, I'm using the SLED 10, which uses Gnome. As I regularly wrote documents/emails in italian, french, english and spanish, on WinXP I use combinations of Alt-0123 to produce the variours characters or accents I need. I would like to configure a similar behaviour on my SLED but, having a lo

Re: [opensuse] Life after SP1

2007-07-19 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, The entire Zenworks system is broken for SP1. My Zenworks 7.2 patch server still hasn't downloaded a single patch for SP1 even though several are present on Novell's web site. The Zenworks people have been very quite about this issue - ... So, in essence if you have a running/dependi

Re: [opensuse] Life after SP1

2007-07-20 Thread Gaël Lams
Personally I think it **could** be a really, really great product if the Zenworks folks could ever get it to deal with with SLES10 correctly. I love being able to use rug to update stuff from the command line - Thanks for the answer. Are you using only the patch management or the entire Linux

[opensuse] print from command line through ipp using a printer defined in eDirectory

2006-11-30 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi all, We have our printers defined in eDirectory and accessibles through ipp. I'm trying to understand whether it's possible to have a script printing directly to one of these printers from one of my linux machiness. The idea would be the following: a file would be created with the name of the

[opensuse] Possibility of having various parameters like grace period, minimum length password, ... in ldap?

2006-12-06 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi all, I've my servers configured to use an ldap backend for the authentication (pam-ldap) and to retrieve various information like home directory, uid, gid, and shell. Actually I defined on all the servers a common set of parameter regarding the accounts which, grace period, minimum length, PA

Re: [opensuse] Mailman on 10.2

2007-03-01 Thread Gaël Lams
On 2/23/07, Teemu Nikkilä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Hi, has anyone set up Mailman on OpenSuSE? I'd need a very simple configuration for one or two mailing lists on my mail and web server. I installed Mailman from official RPM and followed the README.SuSE but can't figure out how to set u

Re: [opensuse] LDAP served network

2007-03-01 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, I am trying to get my network up on LDAP user authentication. I have several machines (Three servers and 10 workstations), and a handful of roaming users that uses several boxes at different times. I wanted a central user administration instead of having to walk around and locally add all th

Re: [opensuse] mod_auth_ldap

2007-03-05 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi Is it just me or the auht_ldap module for apache doesn't exists in openSUSE 10.2? I just cant' find it and I really need it... openSUSE uses apache 2.2, which uses a new authentication and authorization framework, as you can see at: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html In

[opensuse] list version of OpenSUSE using php 4.x

2007-03-09 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi all, I was wondering what was the last version of OpenSUSE using php4.x? Regards, Gaël

Re: [opensuse] list version of OpenSUSE using php 4.x

2007-03-09 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, Why do you want to know? I will have to keep for at least a few months (but probably more) some php4 web sites and I'm not interesting in compiling php4 from source or building an rpm. I would prefer, if possible, to use suse's rpm and its security updates. From jdd's answer, by using Ope

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations

2007-03-12 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, I will have to rebuild kernel to be used in VMWare guests for various servers (and rebuild them after each kernel security updates), I'm interesting in understanding and testing the whole procedure. I wrote a kernel howto (actually this project started in 2002) which I think is well known a

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, - when I create a new user, the home-dir for that user is created with a umask of 022. I wish to use, say, 077. Where do I set that, so when creating yet another new user, his home-dir will have rwx --- --- (0700)?? in /etc/profile.local: umask 077 Gaël

Re: [opensuse] Default umask for new users, where?

2007-03-13 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, Yes, your answers concur with what I thought. Only, it only works for users local to the machine, i.e. they exist in /etc/passwd and so forth. For users being authenticated - and hence auto created - by means of winbind and AD, it doesn't work. It's got to be somewhere else, perhaps on the A

Re: [opensuse] help me understand directory rights, please...

2007-03-14 Thread Gaël Lams
How can I make a directory to allow write access for me (user) and wwwrun, but not for everybody else? background: I have kind of a self made cms in php that creates my web pages and writes them into directories on my local computer. If these are my own directories their rights are drwxr-xr-x

Re: [opensuse] Running services as non-root user

2007-03-14 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, You should each service running under a different user, each of these "service" users having only access to what it really needs: for instance having Tomcat running as a tomcat user , zope running as a zope user, . The reason for this is improved security, and it's really not overkilled (

Re: [opensuse] stripping down opensuse, when does it break compatibility

2007-03-14 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi I was trying to get openSuse installed on my friends fighteningly old computer. While doing it, I thought it might be good to build him a custom install with autoyast with A LOT of stuff taken out. He will do e-mail, some chat and thats it. Nothing else at all. At what point do you break

Re: [opensuse] Setting up outbound DomainKeys mailing [opensuse 10.2]

2007-03-20 Thread Gaël Lams
On 3/19/07, Marlier, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, all -- Yahoo's got this antispam thing, DomainKeys (http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys), that they're trying to standardize. That's not only yahoo: it seems that Gmail.com is now adding DKIM signatures to their outgoing mail for about

Re: [opensuse] multiple vhosts need ssl

2007-03-20 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, Running apache2 and using vhost-ssl.conf to host ssl sites, however I need three different sites (different domain names) using ssl on port 443 and I only see the ability to host one in the conf file. For example, the below entries in vhosts-ssl.conf show a path to the ssl certificate for, p

Re: [opensuse] What script does user creation in SuSE10.2

2007-03-21 Thread Gaël Lams
On 3/21/07, Verner Kjærsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, - what script (I assume it's a script, not a binary) is run when a new user is created using YaST. I'm looking for the script(s) that creates the homedir, copies /etc/skel and all the other stuff... -- /usr/sbin/useradd is what y

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-28 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi I'm currently thinking about buying a HP, e.g. NC6320 with intel processor, NC6325 with AMD processor. Both are SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 certified, according to HP. Anybody experience with one of those laptops? yes, with "older" models, and well all the stuff I wanted to use were w

Re: [opensuse] setting up a server

2007-04-16 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi There quite e lot of CMSs. Joomla (ex-mambo) should be a pretty easy CMS to configure. Once you have apache, php, and mysql installed, you have to create the mysql database, unpact Joomla in your apache's home directory and configure the CMS (check the Joomla's documentation). Regards, Gaël

Re: [opensuse] Problems setting up Samba-3 as PDC

2007-04-16 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi, Apr 3 15:30:06 v601 nmbd[11664]: Samba server V601 is now a domain master browser for workgroup MYDOMAIN.COM on subnet 192.168.1.11 Workgroup or Domain? Are you adding a samba PDC to an existing active directory domain? Now problems arise when I want the WinXP Professional clients to

Re: [opensuse] rpm help

2007-04-17 Thread Gaël Lams
On 4/16/07, Rob Sell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to extract the ./configure commands from a .rpm file? What about installing the rpm source? Regards, Gaël

Re: [opensuse] Problems setting up Samba-3 as PDC

2007-04-17 Thread Gaël Lams
the Samba server should act as PDC itself, so it's not being added to any domain. I'll take a look at the configuration for bind9 to run it in dynamic mode as suggested to see if this solves the issue... I'm afraid it won't... Probably not Did you: - implement the registry hack - modify

Re: [opensuse] What to use SLED or OSL??

2007-04-23 Thread Gaël Lams
You decide. SLED lacks community support which is a very big factor for me. Plus another factor is how many packages SLED has ? I think it has less than openSUSE. You're right is saying that SLED lacks community support but a lot of questions can be made on the opensuse mailing list. Most of the

Re: [opensuse] What to use SLED or OSL??

2007-04-23 Thread Gaël Lams
> You will just have to take into consideration the upgrade of some software > (Firefox on SLED 10 is version 1.5 for instance) Better not, Service Pack 1 will include Firefox 2.0. Thank you for the information (actually I didn't upgrade it, but installed it as the stand-alone/separated applica