Re: SendMail GUI...why not exim as alternative?

2003-10-16 Thread Mike Klein
It seems only qmail has been mentioned as an alternative to sendmail...why not exim? Although (ahem) I have no personal experience with Exim, several engineer-friends who worked at extremely large installations (hundreds of dns servers, internal routers, etc.) all mentioned Exim as what I

Some embarassing, minor? security holes I found in my rh installation...you should check for same

2003-10-16 Thread Mike Klein
Using kfind (file and content searching util in kde) I decided to check/scan some key directories for my root password and the password of my primary user account (what I use when I'm not root). I was embarassed by what I found. I found my root password in cleartext in the following files:

Re: How to Setup Mailserver??

2003-10-16 Thread Mike Klein
Dali Islam wrote: My domain name is bangali.info. I am hosting that site on somebodies server. I want to have a mail server running on my linux box(red hat 9.0) at home and send/receive my mail from my own server. I am behind a router and I have cable modem for my internet connection which runs

Need help with rpm package install hanging

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Klein
There's a first time for everything... I was doing a remote rpm install of libfwbuilder using VNC, which normally works fine, and this time my login session hung after displaying 100% in rpm install process. I could not ctrl-c out of it (it hung for over 5 minutes). From another window I

Questions about system vs. user accounts...

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Klein
I've been locking down different parts of my server, specifically w/respect to certain services and the user they run under. I realize that it's best to run as a special user (i.e. nobody or account based on service name). I've noticed that system accounts (based upon login.defs) are generally

Re: Using RJ45 crimp tool

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Klein
Zyski, John wrote: Use of the tool.. When you put the wires into the RJ-45 cap, you then insert the cable with cap on it into the squisher part of the crimper. It should only fit one way. Crossover, is where the cable goes out on friday with a big wig. Or when you need to

Is this email getting on list?

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Klein
Can one person respond (on list?) as to whether others are getting this email (is it really on list?). I have only had one question answered and it was a loong time ago. Sometimes my emails appear to be on list (at least on my end) and other times I get nothing back... Just wanted to make

Re: Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Klein
Bret Hughes wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:47, Sean Estabrooks wrote: On 02 Oct 2003 10:43:27 -0500 Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:17, Sean Estabrooks wrote: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:20:48 -0700 Mike Klein [EMAIL

How to create desktop icon/link to executable w/o showing run/edit dialog

2003-10-01 Thread Mike Klein
simple, I must be missing something basic. thanks in advance... mike klein -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-01 Thread Mike Klein
certainly don't want to be backporting cf changes into an mc file. My sendmail book is like 3' thick...and I'm not worthy. thanks in advance mike klein -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Question about sendmail.cf.rpmnew when updating redhat via up2date...s/not sendmail.mc be updated instead?

2003-09-21 Thread Mike Klein
things correctly, it means certain sendmail updates are getting 'lost' by me as they aren't in my pre-processed mail config file but rather in the generated one. thanks in advance...mike klein -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

RE: Is there a way for Samba to authenticate via PAM?

2003-09-20 Thread Mike Klein
Short of invoking the ldap beast...can just unix pwd/account info be used? When my unix login creds are the same as my samba acct (and they are)...it would be nice to not have to maintain separate-but-equal pwd files (smbpasswd and /etc/password). You're kind of implying two separate/different

Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Klein
and France...hmmm. thanks again for all the hard work. mike klein -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list