Linux-Misc Digest #812, Volume #24 Wed, 14 Jun 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Unable to login: initgroups() problem (Syahrul Sazli Shaharir)
NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 14 June 2000 GNU/Linux/Free BSDs and other Free OSes Beginners
Group: David Solomonoff on Securing Your Free OS Box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
test ("D. Stock")
Re: Want consolelogin instead of GUI?! (Eric)
moving the kernel and modules... ("mrauscher")
Re: ipportfw ("mrauscher")
Re: Time sync problem in Cron (Greg McLaughlin)
Re: Xconf and IBM Thinkpad (Keith McGaughran)
moving the kernel and modules... ("mrauscher")
Re: ipportfw ("mrauscher")
Re: semi-loss of root - what's up??
Re: Samba problems ("Paul Wollner")
smb.conf : allowing guest access
RE: Time sync problem in Cron (Jim DeVries)
Re: bootdisk
Why does linuxconf see 5 NICs? (Roger Blake)
Re: Lynx -dump (Thomas Dickey)
X3270 Configuration Question ("Larry")
XSET FP+ (used to add to font path) - How do I make it permanent? ("Larry")
Re: Read Linux partition from Win95 ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Inkjet printer (Stephen Cornell)
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From: Syahrul Sazli Shaharir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to login: initgroups() problem
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:59:58 GMT
Hi,
I have a redhat-6.1 box (with packaged glibc-2.1.2). User and group
accounts are rsync'ed from a Solaris 2.6 box. Some users are unable to
log in to the shell. For example:-
# su - username
su: cannot set groups: Invalid argument
glibc sources tell me initgroups() is the problem. Running initgroups()
on all entries in /etc/passwd yield -1 return value for 266 out of 1045
users, all from the following gids: 70,75,81,82,83,84,85,86 (out of 178
groups). pwck and grpck didn't find anything deadly wrong.
That's as far as I can go for now.. I'm not a regular Linux user, so I
would appreciate any pointers, especially if I miss anything obvious.
Thanks. :)
--sazli
===========================
cd /open/source; make world
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 14 June 2000 GNU/Linux/Free BSDs and other Free OSes
Beginners Group: David Solomonoff on Securing Your Free OS Box
Date: 14 Jun 2000 08:15:11 -0400
By popular demand, Wednesday 14 June 2000 we will have another meeting
dealing with Free OS security and privacy. This will be Part 2 of last
month's talk by David Solomonoff entitled: "Securing Linux or BSD novice
users' home/personal computers against both hackers and intrusive
commercial/marketing entities." As usual, no assumption is made that you
have attended previous sessions-- including last month's Part I. And, as
usual, it is free and open to the public. The meeting starts at 6:30 with
general questions and answers.
In the words of the presenter:
This will be a more technical, "how-to" followup to my first presentation
on this topic.
<sub-topics to be covered>
Configuration to make a GNU/Linux or *BSD computer secure against
intruders and invisible monitoring of "clicktrails" while surfing the Web
will be discussed.
The Internet Junkbuster, a proxy server which can filter banner ads,
cookies and "web bugs" to protect privacy and improve download time when
surfing the Web, will be demonstrated.
Sample configuration files for the Internet Junkbuster will be available
to attendees.
</sub-topics>
The schedule is listed below, but, as usual the most up-to-date
information can be found at our current website at
http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux.
If you are planning to attend it would be helpful if you would follow the
attendance-counting link for this talk either here or from the website
under the announcement of the meeting. This is to help us estimate the
number of attendees to expect, so please only follow the link once for
each person planning to attend.
Day: Wednesday, June 14, 2000
Place: CALC/Canterbury, 780 Third Ave. C-1, New York, NY
Ask at the front desk for the Beginner's Group.
Hours:
6:30 Q&A
7:00 David Solomonoff will present Part II of
Securing Linux or BSD novice users' home/personal computers
against both hackers and intrusive commercial/marketing entities.
-Lyn
-GNU/Linux/FreeOS Beginners Group
Lightly edited and fully distributed poC TINC:
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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From: "D. Stock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:44:29 GMT
test...
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Want consolelogin instead of GUI?!
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:22:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> When I installed RedHat 6.2 I choose Autostart of login window (Gnome).
> Anyone knows how to disable it so when I boot up the computer, I will
> login, in the console-window instead of the GUI-window?!?
>
> I tested to disable perfdm (or what it was called?!?) then it stops in
> the command window when starting up, but got error messages after a
> while.Something about: respawn error... disable for 5min
> Think that xfm trying to restart after disconnection or
> something.....??!?!
>
> Any help would be nice! :)
>
> /H
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
when the lilo prompts appears type
linux 3
This will start linux in runlevel 3, which is a non-graphical login
change the apropriote lines in /etc/inittab to make it the default
(it is now set to 5)
Eric
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From: "mrauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: moving the kernel and modules...
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:06:43 -0700
I'm wanting to compile a fresh kernel and modules on one machine, then move
them to another. I've been unable to find documentation on how to do this,
nor can I untangle the makefiles. Can someone give me some tips on how to do
this, or point me to someplace where it's documented?
I guess what I'm looking for is an explanation of what #make modules_install
and #make install do.
Thanx for any help...
Michael Rauscher
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From: "mrauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipportfw
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:20:42 -0700
Depending on what distro you're running, you may already have it. Here's a
link to get more info and whatever else you might need:
http://www.ox.compsoc.org.uk/~steve/portfw-2.2.html
Iris Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8i6aij$k0r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone refer me to a site where I can find ipportfw or if you have
> the rpm file email it to me.
>
> I need it ASAP.
>
> Iris
>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:45:02 -0400
From: Greg McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time sync problem in Cron
Use xntpd instead of cron and netdate. It'll only update the clock when
it needs to be sync'd up, rather than trying to force it every minute.
Greg
--
Garnet Health Systems Corp.
http://www.garnethealth.com
Toni wrote:
>
> I am trying to run the netdate command each minute on my system
> no matter what user has logged in, to keep my system in sync with my
> windows box that runs a time-server.
>
> When I go to /etc/crontab and enter the following line
> 1 * * * * root netdate 192.168.0.1
> it does nothing, why is this.
> Is there a better approach to this ?
>
> Thanks in advance
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:48:27 +1000
From: Keith McGaughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Xconf and IBM Thinkpad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Re: Thinkpad 770z, RH 6.0. After going thru the xconf program many
> times, the following error occurs:
> "Config error: /root/XF86Config: 208
> Protocol "null"
> Mouse type not supported by this OS
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> shutdown).
> The mouse is a PS/2, but this IS a laptop...
> All the video settings are fine, the video card is on the HCL for RH6.
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> dave
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
have a look at this http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp770x.html it has
xconfig files and modified servers
link found at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
great for all laptops
--
Keith McGaughran
Sydney Australia
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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From: "mrauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: moving the kernel and modules...
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:06:43 -0700
I'm wanting to compile a fresh kernel and modules on one machine, then move
them to another. I've been unable to find documentation on how to do this,
nor can I untangle the makefiles. Can someone give me some tips on how to do
this, or point me to someplace where it's documented?
I guess what I'm looking for is an explanation of what #make modules_install
and #make install do.
Thanx for any help...
Michael Rauscher
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From: "mrauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipportfw
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:20:42 -0700
Depending on what distro you're running, you may already have it. Here's a
link to get more info and whatever else you might need:
http://www.ox.compsoc.org.uk/~steve/portfw-2.2.html
Iris Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8i6aij$k0r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone refer me to a site where I can find ipportfw or if you have
> the rpm file email it to me.
>
> I need it ASAP.
>
> Iris
>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: semi-loss of root - what's up??
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:16:50 -0400
Are you trying to log into the machine locally, or are you telnetting in
from another computer.
by default , remote login to root is disabled. This is by design. Somewher
in your configuration, it says that root can log in only on the tty's
But you can telnet in and su .
Things to check :
1) Was the system powered down without a proper shut down?
2) are all the binaries OK ? ( you may have to do an rpm check )
3) Did someone mess with the system other than yourself ?
hope this helps.
joseph
.
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Spike wrote:
> >
> > For some unknown reason, root began to refuse to be logged on to my RH
> > 5.2 system. I had two connection as root to each of two consoles.
> > When I attempted to log on to a third console as root, I was told
> > (after being certain that there were no typo's) that the password was
> > incorrect. It simply WAS NOT incorrect. After some jacking around, I
> > found that I am able to log in as myself and su to root, using the
> > correct password, and gain root priv's. However, I am still unable to
> > ACTUALLY log on AS root. What the Dickin's is going on? While su'd to
> > root, I was able to change the root password (ie: "passwd root , etc.
> > etc. - all tokens successfully updated") but that didn't help.
> > Whatever new password I assign can be used to su to root, but will not
> > allow root, proper, to log on. I could sure use some help.
> > TIA
> > --
> > Spike Parker
> > Eastex Crude Company
> > Newsome, Texas, USA
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> how did you su to root ?
> did you try 'su' or 'su -' ?
> The latter should not be possible either, I suppose.
> If that's true, check what shell root wants to use as login shell
> That might be the problem (see /etc/passwd)
>
> Eric
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From: "Paul Wollner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Samba problems
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:25:54 +0200
"Thomas Winberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:vMH15.13283$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello!
>
> I tried to get my Samba to change the UNIX password together with the
> smbpassword but no luck. I use RH6.0.
> Anybody has a tip?
>
> Thomas
>
>
Give this a try in the smb.conf
unix password sync = Yes
passwd progrram = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *successfully*
It works for me.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smb.conf : allowing guest access
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:25:15 -0400
Hello,
Here's the prolem: I want everyone on a lan to be able to read from the
cdrom on a linux computer ( redhat 6.0), no updates whatsoever.
The most action it sees is when I backup some work onto it once a week or
so.
People are using NT4(sp5) , w2k, w98 and Redhat Linux 6.0
smb.conf set for :
1) explicitely allowed connections from the ip's of those computers
2) using encrypted passwords
3) map to user = Bad User
4) guest acount =pcguest
5) made a "nobody" user account with smbpasswd.
6) security = user
>From a win98 box, which sends "casper" ( computer name Europa), I keep
getting a prompt for the password.
In the log for Eurpoa ( in the /var/log/samba directory) , i see that it
does not find user "casper" , and that's it !
Ok, so what am I missing here ?
I've also tried commenting out the "guest account = pcguest". Same result.
???
TIA
joseph
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From: Jim DeVries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Time sync problem in Cron
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:34:51-0500
Reply-To: Jim DeVries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Toni,
AFAIK, crontab would interpret '1 * * * *' as 0:01 and 1:01 and 2:01, etc
or 'Once per hour, at the first minute'. You'd be looking for '* * * * *'.
DO NOT Forget to Redirect your output or you (root) will be greeted by a
flood of mail. In addition, I doubt crontab will re-read your changes until
the machine is rebooted, unless you use crontab -e.
Jim DeVries
>I am trying to run the netdate command each minute on my system
>no matter what user has logged in, to keep my system in sync with my
>windows box that runs a time-server.
>
>When I go to /etc/crontab and enter the following line
>1 * * * * root netdate 192.168.0.1
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bootdisk
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:36:19 -0400
/dev/tty1
Do you have it?
or does your inittab in /etc contain a line for getty tty1 ?
Shooting blind but...
D. Stock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi,
>
> i'm trying building a bootdisk....
> i 've put lilo and the kernel on it and init in the directory /sbin....
> when i'm booting , the kernel starts but it then stops saying it can't
> find an initial console....
> anybody know why?
>
> bye
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Why does linuxconf see 5 NICs?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:02:19 GMT
I'm running a Mandrake 6.0 system with 2 network cards installed. However,
linuxconf (version 1.18R6) is showing a total of 5 NICs active! Number 1, 2,
3, 5, and 6 to be precise. (The original version of linuxconf that came
with this distribution showed the same thing.) I don't see any matching
files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts or anywhere else.
Everything appears to work OK on this system otherwise. Why is
linuxconf showing these "phantom" network cards? Is there any danger
in disabling/deleting these apparently bogus entries?
I frankly get a little nervous about some of the things linuxconf might do,
especially when I see stuff like this. (When I updated to this version
it even enabled itself in inetd.conf without being asked. Yikes!) However
I can't always remember in what config files to make the appropriate mystical
incantations to effect system changes, so it's handy when it works...
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lynx -dump
Date: 14 Jun 2000 14:00:30 GMT
Daniel Lackey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I run a crontab: lynx -dump http://myserver.cc/file.php3
> If I run this from a command line, it executes fine, but from cron I get:
> "Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the
> cursor."
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
you're using it linked with slang; one of the people who use that configuration
added an unrelated change (for keymaps) which broke the slang-within-cron
behavior (it's fixed in the post-2.8.3 patches).
The current version of lynx is 2.8.3
It's available at
http://lynx.browser.org
http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/release
ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx-2.8.3
2.8.4 Development & patches:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: "Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X3270 Configuration Question
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:39:10 -0500
If you've used X3270 and have modified the colors and keyboard mapping, =
how do you do it? I've tried but can't find the right places obviously =
for it to work.
Thanks,
Larry
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From: "Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: XSET FP+ (used to add to font path) - How do I make it permanent?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:52:33 -0500
I've recently installed X3270 and it likes to use its own fonts which =
are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. Each time I logon I have =
to add this path by issuing the command:
XSET FP+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
Then if I do an XSET -q I can see the path is correct. However, this =
does not 'stick' for the next time I logon. Is there a way to set this =
path each time I logon?
Thanks,
Larry
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:05:51 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Read Linux partition from Win95 ?
Rootman wrote:
>
> On the contrary my friend.
>
> Check out Explore2fs Windows 95 file browser like interface for Linux
> parititions , write enable is "experimental" but seems to work alright
> (cross my fingers).
Also look for:
fsdext2 vxd for Win to access Linux
ext2tool old - I've never used it
lread read linux filesys under DOS
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
>
> "matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Sorry, but I don't think it can be done.
> >
> > You'll have to get by copying files to the win partition from linux,
> > then reading them in win.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Matt.
> > "NDQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Hi,
> > > I use dual boot PC : Linux RH6.1 & Win95.
> > > I would like to read (and write if possible) some files on Linux's
> > > partition from Win95?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for give me some help.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Nguy�n-�ai Qu�
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inkjet printer
Date: 14 Jun 2000 15:09:21 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am about to buy an inkjet printer for my Linux system.
> Can some user please comment on the following printers and
> how well they are supported by current Linux/Ghostscript
> versions?
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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