Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/14/2013 04:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Keep in mind the actual original purpose of a salted hash. If two users happen to use the same password[1], the hashes are the same and this is revealed to anyone who can read /etc/passwd[2] i.e everyone. Ah, the single-entry rainbow table =)

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
haven't had a problem yet so I can't say anything. I'm going out for a couple of hours later so I'll run a memtest while I'm gone. Rosie -- CURRENTLY READING: The Rainbow, by DH Lawrence Pie'n'Mushies: Barrow Day-by-Day http://pieandmushies.wordpress.com I am not young enough to know everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: For those who complain

2012-01-20 Thread Érico Porto
Gentoo is a rainbow with no end and no pot of gold. I will write that one down.. In the mean while, if you just want something that you install quickly on a small system it is really good - assuming you will update your system only 6 to 6 months ... Érico V. Porto On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:31

[gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I woke up this morning to see the dreaded email from mdadm telling me one of my drives failed overnight, while I was happily dreaming about cute puppies and kittens installing a rainbow-colored roof on my house. The array is a RAID6 (two parity drives) and this is the current state: md0

Re: [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:17:13 +, Mick wrote: > > https://xkcd.com/936/ > > Not strictly true ... the crackers would probably use rainbow tables > attacks first. Also, it isn't fair to compare an 11 character passwd > against a 25 character passwd. For the *same* nu

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
interwebz! So it seems - look at all those pizza boxes and old beer cans all over the floor. Rosie -- CURRENTLY READING: The Rainbow, by DH Lawrence Pie'n'Mushies: Barrow Day-by-Day http://pieandmushies.wordpress.com I am not young enough to know everything signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] About runlevel's

2005-05-07 Thread A. Khattri
-- ) If you have xdm in your default runlevel and you don't want your system to default to X, just issue rc-update del xdm default. Doing this will cause Gentoo to default to console mode... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- crayola books n. The rainbow series of National

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Dale
, a stable and up-to-date system, and clever planning. I don't mind if you're doing it by biting each other to death in a thunderdome or if you are all holding your hands beneath a rainbow. Not because I'm cynic. Because I can do *plain nothing* to avoid this -I'm not a dev, nor I can

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/05/2013 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, I woke up this morning to see the dreaded email from mdadm telling me one of my drives failed overnight, while I was happily dreaming about cute puppies and kittens installing a rainbow-colored roof on my house. The array is a RAID6 (two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
reens. Just tested it. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Gentoo Linux is a rainbow with no end and no pot of gold. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
there doing what it always did - making ebuilds. The Linux landscape consists of about 50% of fickle idiots who chase after the latest greatest rainbow. We have these because there is so much choice out there. As a contrast, Windows doesn't have this because there's nothing to choose from apart from

[gentoo-user] For those who complain

2012-01-20 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
, patches, ideas, praise: Thank you. Gentoo is a rainbow with no end and no pot of gold. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
a more complex hashing algorithm with larger salt. It's a race between white and black hats - they build bigger and better rainbow tables, we implement bigger and better hashes. The constraint is how much cpu grunt is available for purchase at a realistic cost. [1] This is not uncommon. The domain

Re: [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:21 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:17:13 +, Mick wrote: > > > > https://xkcd.com/936/ > > > > Not strictly true ... the crackers would probably use rainbow tables > > attacks first. Also, it isn't fair to compar

Re: [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:17:13 +, Mick wrote: > >>> https://xkcd.com/936/ >> Not strictly true ... the crackers would probably use rainbow tables >> attacks first. Also, it isn't fair to compare an 11 character passwd >> against a 25

Re: [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Mick
until it comes up with something you like the look of, then learn it by > > rote. I did that some time ago - it must be about time I did it again > > to make another one. > > https://xkcd.com/936/ Not strictly true ... the crackers would probably use rainbow tables attacks f

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
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Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about hacked sites and passwords

2012-01-16 Thread Florian Philipp
as plaintext, though. 2. Relatively weak password hashes were stolen, for example MD5 or sha1 with no salt. With modern PCs, it isn't too hard to brute-force against such, even without rainbow-tables. Then you should change your password but you might get lucky and don't need to. 3. Strong password

Re: [gentoo-user] For those who complain

2012-01-20 Thread Dale
overly critical; for those who give back by submitting bug reports, patches, ideas, praise: Thank you. Gentoo is a rainbow with no end and no pot of gold. -a And sometimes those people are finding problems. This is from -dev: On 01/20/2012 10:28 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I'd like to chime

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Authenticating in a wireless home network

2013-02-24 Thread Mick
eth XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX The WPA2 keys can be (air)cracked with dictionary files and the like, but if you have some ridiculously long key, and a changed SSID from the router's default (it is used as salt in calculating the key and many a rainbow table are built with default SSIDs) it can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
, and this tends to freak people out. Doesn't that make it easier for an attacker to brute force your passwords? Well, yes, but the salt isn't meant to stop a brute force attack. It's meant to stop rainbow table attacks. The way you stop brute force attacks is to use an algorithm with a variable number

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about hacked sites and passwords

2012-01-16 Thread Dale
as plaintext, though. 2. Relatively weak password hashes were stolen, for example MD5 or sha1 with no salt. With modern PCs, it isn't too hard to brute-force against such, even without rainbow-tables. Then you should change your password but you might get lucky and don't need to. 3. Strong password hashes

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread b.n.
or if you are all holding your hands beneath a rainbow. Not because I'm cynic. Because I can do *plain nothing* to avoid this -I'm not a dev, nor I can be in the near future. So what? Post this to the devel mailing list. While the politics around these cases make rational discussion quite

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

2006-08-09 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
) independant of the distro. -Thufir It's just a matter of commenting out things which cause problems? I'm assuming there's a rainbow at the end :) Script started on Wed Aug 9 20:16:38 2006 localhost ~ # X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.knoppix _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable