Linux-Misc Digest #489, Volume #24 Tue, 16 May 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
DMCA Hearing in Washingto (Ruben)
Any way to fake/spoof MAC address? (Praedor Tempus)
Re: ScreenSaver for login screen (Sean Patrick McNamee)
Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address? (Praedor Tempus)
Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address? (Florian Prucker)
What is a good Setup Maker for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
dosemu emulator cursor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How can I add more swap? (David Bell)
Webmin (Mongoose)
hosts.allow help (Gerald Pollack)
add a second root-account (Alexander K)
Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Webmin (H.Bruijn)
Re: What is a good Setup Maker for Linux? (Andy Piper)
Re: How can I add more swap? (Bastian)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Alexander Viro)
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From: Ruben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DMCA Hearing in Washingto
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:04:37 -0500
Hello
After spending a good part of 3 days reviewing the Tapes of the east
coast hearings on the DMCA, I think that a number of problems can be
outlined in the trying to hurdle fair use of copyrighted materials
for Open Source development, and in the rest of the world.
First of all, being there and at these sort of hearing is very
important. The Library associations had representation of a dozen
or so testimonies. And the result of this is that through the amount of
testimony that the libraries gave, they shaped the framework and the
context in which much of the ongoing conversation and debate for the
rest of the
testimonies took place.
Fortunately, Open Source and Libraries largely dovetail in their needs
in
terms of copyright. But there exists important differences between the
needs of Libraries and Open Source developers. Concessions that
Libraries obtain, may well not be extended to the public at large. We
need to also bring this same level of lobbying to bare on the
Government is we want our individual rights to survive, let alone
Linux or FreeBSD.
Secondly, the largest problem I see is in the definition of words.
Repeatedly, proponents of access control talked about the rights of
property owners, and describe copyright holders as property right
owners, and such were expecting certain rights. They then went
on to describe "Fair Use", on the other hand, as a doctrine and
privilege.
This axiom was never sufficiently challenge, and is of course,
essentially wrong.
Copyright is indeed the privilege and Congress can remove all copyright
tomorrow if they so desired. Fair Use, on the other hand, is the
constitutional right of individuals, and nothing can be done to remove
"Fair Use".
For example, your rights can not be given away by contract. I can not
sign an agreement preventing my freedom of speech or assigning it to
another. Nor can I give away my right to property, to have due process,
etc. These are guarantees. But a copyright can be sold - straight out.
Clearly, Fair Use doctrine was created by the courts to give meaning to
the property rights of individuals of material which is aquired under
copyright. Therefor, "Fair Use" is not a privilege at all, nor can I
agree to give it away in a click through license.
As such, all comparisons that a person using a legally acquired work and
hacking through access controls to use the material in a way protected
under the Fair Use doctrine, to the same as a person breaking and
entering
into a home or business to make Fair Use of a book in a store, is
invalid at the core premise. In fact, the limitation of Fair Use of a
material legally
purchased by an individual is comparable to Time Warner breaking into my
home and
stealing my VCR because I lent a my copy of the Titanic to my
Grandmother.
Secondly, the panel at the copyright office really doesn't take the Open
Source community seriously. They find us an amusing group of little
consequence.
Thirdly, many people purjured themselves at the hearings, especially
Time Warner who said there is a legal license of Linux to play DVD's
currently, when in fact Creative Labs told me that the Movie Industry
threatened them if they released another open soured driver for their
current DVD player.
Fourth, the DMCA definitely created a dangerous precedent, which
Congress was completely aware of, and said so in the Legislative History
of the DMCA. It is repeated in the text. When Congress couldn't resolve
the
constitutional issue of Fair Use with Access control they passed the
issue to the Copyright Office. In order to get the statute passed, they
left the Fair Use problem to the Copyright Office to solve. And yet,
many people told the Office they had no right to address that issue,
which was clearly intentionally left to them in the first place because
Congress couldn't resolve the problem itself.
So a great Constitutional issue has been passed by Congress to the
Copyright Office. I'm not sure if Congress actually has the power to do
this. But the thrust of the Copyright Office is to not do anything to
destroy the law totally of it's bite. The problem is that Access
Control
in incompatible with the Rights of Property and free Speech granted to
individuals under the Constitution (what is generally being called Fair
Use doctrine) One completely destroys the other as a practicle matter.
This puts the Copyright office in a position of making rules to prevent
access control from destroying the Bill of Rights and clauses within the
Constitution which protect
individuals from Government or private interests. I don't think the
copyright office can do this even if it wanted to. And therefor the
entire law might be unconstitutional. Either way, the Office needs to
be urged to make sweeping classes of material exempt from the DMCA
because to do so otherwise
would be unconstitutional.
Fifth - a major weak point in many of the arguments was a lack of
examples where of harm by the DMCA. Well, the DVD control is one, the
destruction of Audio Digital Tape another (prior to the DMCA)is another,
the Steven King e-book is a third, being unable to scan past
advertisments is a fourth etc, etc ,etc
We need the people in California to be prepared with cases of this, and
the Comments to Testimony coming up after the hearing should detail
these abuses. Bring a DVD if you need to!
The argument was repeatedly made by media industry that they will
guarantee us
certain rights because it's in their interest to do so and can therefor
be trusted to protect Americans rights to property and speech. This
argument must be attracted vigorously.
First, Industry does not give us "Fair Use" rights - the Constitution
guarantees it to the public. Secondly, the concessions they are making,
they have no real control of. For example, they claimed to allow people
to RIP CD's for personal use. This is something they clearly have no
control over and had tried to stop when they killed the Digital Audio
Tape format. Also, as made clear by the WABC cable spat, they have
proven that they can not be trusted to protect the interests of the
public. In fact, if they did so, they would be in conflict with their
responsibility to stock holders. By definition, businesses serve their
own purposes. In addition, Congress has granted the responsibilty of
protecting
of our rights to a private enterprise, which if not unconstitutional, is
still morally corrupt.
Secondly, Industry has a track record of impeding the rights of the
Public in matters of Fair Use. Valentiani, who represented the Movie
industry flat out compared access of a video media to buying a ticket at
a
movie theater. He directly linked access of a legal acquired copy of
material to the fee for view model of seeing a performance at a
theater. Congress went to great pains to prevent this in the DMCA, but
without Fair Use protections, industry has said on record that it wants
a pay per view license and the end of Fair Use.
http://www.brooklynonline.com
Manager of Intranet Development NYU College of Dentistry
Resume: http://www.wynn.com/jewish/resume.html
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:23:48 -0600
Is there any way to fake/spoof MAC addresses? Is there any
way to hide MAC addresses?
praedor
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From: Sean Patrick McNamee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ScreenSaver for login screen
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:24:47 -0700
Would you mind e-mailing me when you do figure it out?
I use RH6.0, and I'd like to have a login-screen saver!
TIA, Sean ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Steve wrote:
> On Wed, 03 May 2000 08:19:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >My home computer which originaly had RedHat 6.1 on it. This seems to
> >provide a screensaver for the login screen. And when I upgraded to RH6.2
> >the screensaver was still there.
> >
> >My work computer originaly had RH6.0 on it which didn't have a
> >screensaver for the login screen. When I upgraded to RH6.2 it still
> >doesn't have a screensaver.
> >
> >So how do I turn on the screensaver for the login screen?
> >
>
> Soundl like it's something in one of your config files you
> could do a grep screensaver * or */* or */*/* in /etc and
> you might see where it is (on the machine on which the screensaver
> is active). Then make the relevant changes to the other machine.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> %HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
>
> web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
>
> or http://start.at/zero-pps
>
> 11:47pm up 7 days, 1:48, 3 users, load average: 1.01, 1.02, 1.00
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:43:00 -0600
Praedor Tempus wrote:
>
> Is there any way to fake/spoof MAC addresses? Is there any
> way to hide MAC addresses?
Err...I KNOW MAC address can be spoofed or changed, so I guess
the question is how? What app would one use to alter one's
MAC address?
praedor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Prucker)
Subject: Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:43:23 GMT
Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Praedor Tempus wrote:
>>
>> Is there any way to fake/spoof MAC addresses? Is there any
>> way to hide MAC addresses?
>
>Err...I KNOW MAC address can be spoofed or changed, so I guess
>the question is how? What app would one use to alter one's
>MAC address?
man ifconfig
greets,
flo
--
"Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?"
"Because we use vim, son. They use emacs."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What is a good Setup Maker for Linux?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:41:21 GMT
I can't find any good one so far. Can anyone recommend a good one. It
doesn't have to be fancy like InstallShield, as long as it can ask the
user for options and copy the files to their appropriate locations.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dosemu emulator cursor
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 May 2000 20:54:32 GMT
I have dosemu running fine, but when I load a DOS program like WordStar 7.0,
I have no cursor in the program. There is a flashing underline off to the side.
The same is true for another DOS wordprocessor, VDE.
How do I get proper cursor action in DOS programs running under dosemu.
Both these programs work fine with regular DOS.
And - I am also a linux newbie - keep it simple, please!
Paul
For direct Email remover the "Z" from "Zattglobal.net"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell)
Subject: How can I add more swap?
Date: 16 May 2000 20:58:08 GMT
[posted to comp.os.linux.misc and comp.os.linux.setup]
Hello! I just installed Mandrake 7.0 last night without any trouble
whatsoever. :) I did the workstation install, and the installer partitioned
everything for me. After playing with KDE for awhile, I opened a few Netscape
browser windows and watched top, to find I only had 5megs of swap left... I've
only got 32megs of RAM and 64megs of swap. I took a look at the partitions to
see that the main Linux partition took up the entire drive, but is actually
only 23% full. Here's my question: How can I create another swap partition
without losing any data? TIA
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David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my email
address. :)
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From: Mongoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Webmin
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:08:54 GMT
Has anyone used the system administration program Webmin?
http://www.webmin.com/webmin/
I got this and thought it was a pretty good project. This was along
the lines of the same project I was going to start, but decided not to
since this was pretty much the same program I was going to do. But the
thing is, I havn't seen many people use this. I've asked around about
these types of programs but no one has ever mentioned it. Does anyone
have any opinions on it?
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From: Gerald Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hosts.allow help
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:09:01 GMT
I'm trying to establish a serial-port ppp link between my WindowsCE=20
handheld and my linux desktop. I can log onto the desktop from the=20
WinCE with no problem. When I start up pppd on the desktop I see the=20
expected "hash" characters appear on the CE's screen. But when I put=20
the CE's communication program into the background, I'm disconnected=20
from the host. I've turned on debugging in pppd, and this is what I=20
see:
May 16 16:51:53 localhost pppd[1055]: Using interface ppp0
May 16 16:51:53 localhost pppd[1055]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
May 16 16:52:02 localhost pppd[1055]: Received bad configure-nak/rej: =20
1a 04 78 00 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 15 03 2f 15 03 2f
May 16 16:52:02 localhost pppd[1055]: Peer is not authorized to use=20
remote address 192.168.215.3
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ see below
May 16 16:52:02 localhost pppd[1055]: Connection terminated.
May 16 16:52:02 localhost pppd[1055]: Connect time 0.2 minutes.
May 16 16:52:02 localhost pppd[1055]: Sent 360 bytes, received 235=20
bytes.
May 16 16:52:02 localhost pppd[1055]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
May 16 16:52:02 localhost pppd[1055]: Exit.
May 16 16:52:02 localhost getty[1057]: exiting on HANGUP signal
The address indicated above is the one I specify in the pppd command,=20
which is:
/usr/sbin/pppd -detach debug crtscts lock 192.168.215.1:192.168.215.3=20
/dev/ttyS0 19200 &
192.168.215.1 is the linux host. =20
The problem described occurs even though /etc/hosts.allow includes the=20
following line:
ALL: 192.168.215.
and even though I have removed (temporarily, for testing purposes=20
only) /etc/hosts.deny.
But, if I also remove hosts.allow, then the ppp link is okay.
Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
(Mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.2.14)
Thanks,
--=20
Gerald Pollack, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. Biology, McGill University
Tel:(514) 398-6418, Fax:(514) 398-5069=20
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From: Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: add a second root-account
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:56:17 GMT
hello!
(please comment, i want to know if this is a reasonable way to conduct
this)
i need another root account. not a sudo-thing, but an account that has
100% root privileges.
so i figure the way to go about is to have another account with UID set
to 0, correct?
so i type: useradd root2
then: passwd root2
then i edit the /etc/passwd file and set root2's UID to 0.
plus i set the homedir to /home/root2 and the shell to /bin/bash.
i set /home/root2 to mode 700.
(any point in setting the group to 0 also? i user slack7 so root2 is now
in group 'users')
i try to login as root2 at the txt-console, works fine.
except the prompt shows [root /path]#
the global ps1 is: PS1='\n[\u \w]\$ '
i guess the \u matches roots entry first since it's on the first line in
/etc/passwd. correct?
so i tried: PS1='\n[$USER \w]\$ ' in the /home/root2/.profile
which worked fine. now the prompt is [root2 /path]#
was this the way to do it? or is there another 'special' way to add
another root-account?
or did i miss anything here? anything i should add/alter or think about?
talk to me:)
peace / alex
ps. any point in not always using $USER instead of \u in PS1? it seems
more reliable...
--
.
.
... ak42 at kurir dot net ...
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:09:48 GMT
On Tue, 16 May 2000 14:23:48 -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> Is there any way to fake/spoof MAC addresses?
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
ifconfig eth0 up
> Is there any way to hide MAC addresses?
No, AFAIK.
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Webmin
Date: 16 May 2000 21:15:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 16 May 2000 21:08:54 GMT, Mongoose allegedly wrote:
> Has anyone used the system administration program Webmin?
>http://www.webmin.com/webmin/
>I got this and thought it was a pretty good project. This was along
>the lines of the same project I was going to start, but decided not to
>since this was pretty much the same program I was going to do. But the
>thing is, I havn't seen many people use this. I've asked around about
>these types of programs but no one has ever mentioned it. Does anyone
>have any opinions on it?
It's pretty good for the newbie, buty to be honoust I only used it to
configure samba when I was experimenting with that. I prefer to edit the
config files myself in most cases, since that 's quicker and allows for
more fine grained control.
Let me rephrase that, it's pretty good, period. The thing is most people
are already sitting either behind the the console, or have root acces
anyway and can then use the native sysadmin tools for their favourite
distribution.
--
Herman
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If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands GnuPG key: http://www.bruyn.org/gpgkey
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From: Andy Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is a good Setup Maker for Linux?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:14:29 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I can't find any good one so far. Can anyone recommend a good one. It
> doesn't have to be fancy like InstallShield, as long as it can ask the
> user for options and copy the files to their appropriate locations.
Loki's setup is possibly one of the better bets.
--
Andy Piper - Fareham, Hampshire (UK)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenUT for Linux http://openut.sourceforge.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: How can I add more swap?
Date: 16 May 2000 21:15:19 GMT
On 16 May 2000 20:58:08 GMT, David Bell wrote:
>[posted to comp.os.linux.misc and comp.os.linux.setup]
>
>Hello! I just installed Mandrake 7.0 last night without any trouble
>whatsoever. :) I did the workstation install, and the installer partitioned
>everything for me. After playing with KDE for awhile, I opened a few Netscape
>browser windows and watched top, to find I only had 5megs of swap left... I've
>only got 32megs of RAM and 64megs of swap. I took a look at the partitions to
>see that the main Linux partition took up the entire drive, but is actually
>only 23% full. Here's my question: How can I create another swap partition
>without losing any data? TIA
Use dd to create a file of the size you like (look at the manpage), I
assume you call it /usr/swap.0
Then just do
mkswap /usr/swap.0; swapon /usr/swap.0
You can create several files. To enable the swapspace at boot time,
add the following line to your /etc/fstab
/usr/swap.0 swap swap defaults 0 0
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: 16 May 2000 17:06:33 -0400
In article <8fi3qs$efa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>: Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: [snip]
>:>--
>:>((LAMBDA (X) (X X)) (LAMBDA (X) (X X)))
>
>: If you didn't do it by hands I'm very impressed - sigmonster picking
>: the perfect Subject: for this thread...
>
>Eh? A self-applying function applied to itself? This wouldn't be the
>fixpoint operator ...
It's not Y, it's $\Omega$...
Y ::= (l f. (l x. f (x x)) (l x. f (x x))), so Y f == f (Y f).
Now, $\Omega$ == Y Id and good luck evaluating it - try to do it and you'll
see why it's _the_ subject for such threads.
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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