Problem with kcheckpass and kerberos

2008-10-09 Thread Doug Johnson
Greetings, I am having a problem with kcheckpass and Kerberos. I have Kerberos installed and working on SL3, SL4 and SL5. Everything works, except kcheckpass under a special condition. I only use Kerberos to manage passwords. Using an account with its password in the Kerberos database, I can:

Re: Convert pdf files to doc (word)

2008-10-09 Thread Zeth
2008/10/8 Rachid Ayad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Do you know how to convert pdf files to doc files. I have some vague memory that KOffice's KWord can open PDF's (i.e. extract the information and rerender it as an editable document). But I have no evidence since I am a GNOME user.

Re: Network install question

2008-10-09 Thread Mark Whidby
Dan McDaniel wrote: When doing a network install under 4.x I was able to eject the CD as soon as the install began copying files. With 5.x the drive seems to be locked and I can't eject the CD until the install is nearly complete. This means I can't start multiple installs with the same CD. Has

Re: Problem with kcheckpass and kerberos

2008-10-09 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi, On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Doug Johnson wrote: I am having a problem with kcheckpass and Kerberos. I have no solution for the kcheckpass problem. But... [...] The trouble happens when I use Kerberos to get a ticket for a different realm; needed in order to get an AFS token for a remote site.

nvidia driver installation

2008-10-09 Thread WILLIAM J LUTTER
Several years ago, I've installed nvidia graphics drivers using their download files - which require reboots. I'd prefer to use rpm packages for this and was pleased to find for my system (SL4.1?) and kernel 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL, the legacy driver package (I have a GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X),

Re: NFS woes

2008-10-09 Thread Ken Teh
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Ken Teh wrote: reverted back to NFSv3 and have had no problems with it. Are folks satisfied with NFSv4? Or, am I the stupid one for trusting the default on the distro? I'd appreciate any general remarks you might have on how to move forward.

Re: Convert pdf files to doc (word)

2008-10-09 Thread Billy Crook
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 05:23, Zeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some vague memory that KOffice's KWord can open PDF's (i.e. extract the information and rerender it as an editable document). But I have no evidence since I am a GNOME user. I'm a Gnome user as well. It in no way impacts my

Re: Convert pdf files to doc (word)

2008-10-09 Thread Rachid Ayad
I tried to use OpenOffice-writer (command oowriter) but it does not open pdf file. Also I searched KOffice's KWord in Yumex and it does not exist. Regards, Rachid Ayad. On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Billy Crook wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 05:23, Zeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some vague

Re: Problem with kcheckpass and kerberos

2008-10-09 Thread Jan Iven
On 10/09/2008 08:18 AM, Doug Johnson wrote: [..] I can get around the problem by doing a kdestroy before getting the second Kerberos ticket, but that seems like a kluge that users will not like. you might want to create/provide a small kinit.remote wrapper that sets up a different credential

VPN client?

2008-10-09 Thread John Rowe
Our University operates a PPTP VPN. I have installed pptp but its configuration and startup are opaque to say the least! Does anybody else have experience of connecting an SL client to a PPTP VPN? Thanks John

Weird problem with SL5.0 and 5.1

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, This is a simple but very funny problem I'd just like to report. This has to do with the pcre package. I upgraded an SL 5.0 server to 5.1. I needed to install pcre-devel, so using yum: # yum -y install pcre-devel Loading kernel-module plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up