Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-25 Thread Kevin Miller
On 11/25/2012 10:51 AM, James Harrison wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Best approach is not to use passwords - SSH keys are simple to set up > and you can disable password authentication in sshd, which makes your > system practically uncrackable. Took the words right out of my mouth.

Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-25 Thread Robert
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 15:15 -0500, Cowboy wrote: > Have you tried vncpasswd from a command line ? yes and command is not available not in /sbin/ either locate can't find it. ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http

Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-25 Thread Cowboy
On Sunday 25 November 2012 02:45:08 pm Robert Jeffares wrote: > password is rdvnc and I have never managed to figure out how to change it > Have you tried vncpasswd from a command line ? -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com SHIFT TO THE LEFT! SHIFT TO THE RIGHT! POP UP, PUSH DOWN, BYTE, BYTE, B

Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-25 Thread James Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Best approach is not to use passwords - SSH keys are simple to set up and you can disable password authentication in sshd, which makes your system practically uncrackable. Fail2ban is also an excellent program to run - it will automatically block in i

[RDD] security breach

2012-11-25 Thread Robert Jeffares
have had an interesting attack from what my isp says is a 'known' source which was made through the remote desktop to the RD server. password is rdvnc and I have never managed to figure out how to change it anyway this attacker logged in and managed to load some code which has hijacked the root a

Re: [RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-25 Thread Rivendell Steve
On 25 November 2012 14:08, James Harrison wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This sounds fairly sensible - you'll need a switcher to flip between > studios that Rivendell can talk to, of course. > > I'd suggest that you consider strongly your availability requirements. >

Re: [RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-25 Thread James Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds fairly sensible - you'll need a switcher to flip between studios that Rivendell can talk to, of course. I'd suggest that you consider strongly your availability requirements. If your network server dies you lose everything, if I'm reading

Re: [RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-25 Thread Rivendell Steve
On 25 November 2012 13:07, Wayne Merricks wrote: > Assuming you were using a switcher or something to that effect that > Rivendell supports theres nothing stopping you doing what you want to do > (Switching studios etc). > > Sustaining play out I assume you mean silence detection? There is not an

Re: [RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-25 Thread Cowboy
On Sunday 25 November 2012 08:07:08 am Wayne Merricks wrote: >  The radio guys still seem nervous about using PCs for silence detection > though. And always will. By definition, if silence is detected, something has already failed. If it's the machine that supposed to do the detecting, then it

Re: [RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-25 Thread Wayne Merricks
Assuming you were using a switcher or something to that effect that Rivendell supports theres nothing stopping you doing what you want to do (Switching studios etc). Sustaining play out I assume you mean silence detection? There is not any silence detection built into Riv but you could use Sil

[RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-25 Thread Rivendell Steve
Hello, We've been using Rivendell as a sustaining playout system in the past and it's proved to be very reliable and flexible. Currently we have one studio, with its own playout system (currently not Rivendell) simply used for live programmes. We have a second playout system (again not Rivendell