Re: [vox-tech] usb woes

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
turns out that USB hard drives are accessed via scsi device files. never knew that. well, supposedly they do. someone had one at the IF today, but we never did get it working... pete begin Erik Mullinix [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im so used to suse. It allows me to check on devices like windows..

Re: [vox-tech] usb woes

2002-02-18 Thread nbs
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:45:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: turns out that USB hard drives are accessed via scsi device files. Yep. My CF card reader (which connects via USB) appears as /dev/sda1 -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [vox-tech] usb woes

2002-02-18 Thread nbs
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:57:12AM -0800, nbs wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:45:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: turns out that USB hard drives are accessed via scsi device files. Yep. My CF card reader (which connects via USB) appears as /dev/sda1 PS - Interestingly, the CF cards

[vox-tech] ssh remote commands

2002-02-18 Thread nbs
I'm trying to set up remote access to the PC on my LAN which has the Rio MP3 player connected to it. Unfortunately, the command which talks to it, rio, requires root access. As an exercise in safety, I'd like to set up password-less access to the '/usr/bin/rio' command on that system via SSH.

Re: [vox-tech] ssh remote commands

2002-02-18 Thread nbs
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:19:43AM -0800, nbs wrote: snip Looking at these issues, and the fact that one will need to be scp'ing files back and forth to the host with the Rio connected to it ANYWAY, I'm thinking ssh or ssh/sudo isn't going to be what I need. I guess I should look into

Re: [vox-tech] ssh remote commands

2002-02-18 Thread Charles Polisher
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:19:43AM -0800, nbs wrote: I'm trying to set up remote access to the PC on my LAN which has the Rio MP3 player connected to it. Unfortunately, the command which talks to it, rio, requires root access. As an exercise in safety, I'd like to set up password-less

[vox-tech] module loading at suse kernel initialization and usb woes

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hey erik, yeah. not crazy. in fact, i learned quite a bit about usb at the installfest. pretty amazing we had this conversation the day before i got to see it in action. :) the deal is that the device itself isn't recognized as scsi. the scsi system doesn't register the device, usb does.

Re: [vox-tech] ssh remote commands

2002-02-18 Thread nbs
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:25:42AM -0800, Charles Polisher wrote: Can you clear the SUID bit and add the device to fstab with user-mountable permissions? Maybe even use a chrooted mount-point? Just thinking out loud... It doesn't access the rio via a /dev/ device. It accesses it