[osol-discuss] Stephen Smalley to speak at SVOSUG on Thur. 09/25/08
When: Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Mansion (SCA07 just across the road from the Auditorium) What: Security technologies to confine flawed and malicious software Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm You are invited to hear Stephen Smalley, of the US National Security Agency (NSA), speak on security technologies to confine flawed and malicious software. Stephen was instrumental in bringing the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) and Type Enforcement (TE) technologies to Linux through the SELinux project. Flask is a flexible form of mandatory access control (MAC) that has been gaining popularity since its introduction in SELinux, SEBSD, and SEDarwin. Stephen is now involved as a project lead on the OpenSolaris.org Flexible Mandatory Access Control (FMAC) project that is integrating FLASK and TE into OpenSolaris. Stephen Smalley Bio: Stephen Smalley is a Technical Director in the Defense Computing Research Office of the National Information Assurance Research Laboratory of the NSA. Mr. Smalley received a 2005 Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Fellows award for his technical achievements within the Intelligence Community. Prior to his work on OpenSolaris and SELinux, Mr. Smalley performed research and development in the area of operating system security through the development and analysis on a series of secure research operating systems. Mr. Smalley received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. For additional info please see the following URLs: OpenSolaris.org Flexible Mandatory Access Control Project Page: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fmac/ NSA SELinux Reference: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ Map to the Mansion: http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=mlat=37.393386lon=-121.955218zoom=16q1=4070%20George%20Sellon%20Circle%2095054 We may also have some pizza and sodas. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] firefox problems with snv_98
Bill Shannon wrote: Ginn Chen wrote: It would be nice if there was more information than it's broken. I can't tell if the problems I'm having are the same problems reported above. Firefox 3 in snv_97/snv_98 has several issues. e.g. Bookmarks are missing. Bookmarks could not be saved. Bookmarks could not be renamed. Can't import/export bookmarks. Firefox coredumps at startup. Firefox couldn't work with libumem.so, I'm curious... What kind of testing was done before release that none of these problems were discovered? I would think the first one would've been discovered immediately had anyone actually used it before release. Now you are asking too much. Testing is something that the OpenSolaris team has given up for time-to-market needs it seems. I installed 2008.11 beta 96 and ended up with having to run firefox and thunderbird inside ubuntu as guest in virtualbox 2.0.2 to get a decent speed. How come firefox 3 runs 10 times faster inside vbox/ubuntu than on the bare opensolaris??? And what turned out to be the root cause of these problems? Layoffs??? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Art Exhibit at SVOSUG on Thur. 09/25/08
I unfortunately forgot to mention that Tamarah Rockwood will be showing her artwork which was submitted for the OpenSolaris Community Innovations Awards, at the meeting on Thurs. Many of you know Tamarah's husband Ben who has given a presentation at SVOSUG in the past, and is a great supporter of our community. We will have Tamarah's art exhibit in the Living Room of the Mansion, I can't think of a better place to show it! Please take a look at the work she created this Thurs. Information on the meeting is on my blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/aland/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] How to debug a weird nis+ issue?
Hi, V út, 23. 09. 2008 v 04:26, Yue Chen píše: Hi Peter It is as followings passwd: compat files nis This is wrong config for compat mode shadow: compat files nis shadow isn't using nsswitch, it's in conjunction with passwd backend group: files nis See manpage of nsswitch.conf how compat mode should be configured. Also, it's better to use pam_list for managing access to system. Best regards, Milan On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Yue Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I have a host installed with NIS+ client. There is a user named jsn in NIS server. His login shell is /bin/true. So he can not log on my host by default. Now I wanna grant his access so I added following line into /etc/passwd. +jsn::/bin/tcsh However, sometimes he is still unable to log on my host. To debug, I wrote a test binary using getpwnam to grab the user info and then check pw-pw_shell. To my surprise, the value for pw_shell is rather unstable. Sometimes it is /bin/tcsh (login is ok), sometimes it is /bin/true (login fails). How can I dig deeper on this weird issue? This issue almost drives me crazy. What does the passwd entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like? (Are you using compat?) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] How to debug a weird nis+ issue?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Yue Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter It is as followings passwd: compat files nis shadow: compat files nis group: files nis That doesn't look at all right. You don't need a shadow entry, and the passwd configuration for compat mode should be like: passwd_compat: nis passwd: compat On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Yue Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I have a host installed with NIS+ client. There is a user named jsn in NIS server. His login shell is /bin/true. So he can not log on my host by default. Now I wanna grant his access so I added following line into /etc/passwd. +jsn::/bin/tcsh However, sometimes he is still unable to log on my host. To debug, I wrote a test binary using getpwnam to grab the user info and then check pw-pw_shell. To my surprise, the value for pw_shell is rather unstable. Sometimes it is /bin/tcsh (login is ok), sometimes it is /bin/true (login fails). How can I dig deeper on this weird issue? This issue almost drives me crazy. What does the passwd entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like? (Are you using compat?) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] irefox 3.0.1 contrib. builds for Solaris10 hungs when printing is attempted
I would like to mention one problem though relating to printing: as soon as I use CtrP or use the menus to print a web page, FF3.0.1 FREEZES UP completely. This is the exact same behavior that I see on OpenSolaris 2008.11 b96 Thanks again for the good work. Don't be so polite. This is no good work. It's just plain crap. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] firefox problems with snv_98
su cd /usr/lib mv firefox firefox.sun wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/re leases/3.0.1/contrib/solaris_tarball/ \ firefox-3.0.1.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2 gtar jxf firefox-3.0.1.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2 vi firefox change /usr/local/lib/firefox-3.0.1 to /usr/lib/firefox :x! cd chown -R thommym .mozilla exit Already did that. It helps a little but it's still unusable. Same goes for thunderbird. It's the whole window system that is malfunctioning. Switching between workspaces is a 5 second operation. Machine is Ferrari 4000 with 2GB and fresh install of 2008.11 b86 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] irefox 3.0.1 contrib. builds for Solaris10 hungs when printing is attempted
Thommy M. Malmström wrote: I would like to mention one problem though relating to printing: as soon as I use CtrP or use the menus to print a web page, FF3.0.1 FREEZES UP completely. This is the exact same behavior that I see on OpenSolaris 2008.11 b96 It doesn't hang for me, it sort of dies. All the windows disappear and when I get tired of waiting for it to completely die I kill it so I can restart it. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] firefox problems with snv_98
Already did that. It helps a little but it's still unusable. Same goes for thunderbird. It's the whole window system that is malfunctioning. Switching between workspaces is a 5 second operation. Machine is Ferrari 4000 with 2GB and fresh install of 2008.11 b86 Then upgrade your system to b98 and replace firefox as I previously showed. I have no idea what kind of processor or graphics your Ferrari uses but the nVidia drivers have been updated considerably since b86 was released. This system works almost perfectly: $ head -1 /etc/release OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_98 X86 Download the iso from http://www.genunix.org -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] irefox 3.0.1 contrib. builds for Solaris10 hungs when printing is attempted
Works fine for me when printing. Solaris 10 U5 using blastwave cups to manage print jobs. I don't think the latter really matters though since FF 3.01 just uses lpr to print, though I am using the blastwave version of lpr and lp too. On another off topic note if you want to make your FF3 look more like the Windows or Mac versions the following theme works well on Solaris 10 :-) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8105 Aaron Bill Shannon wrote: Thommy M. Malmstrm wrote: I would like to mention one problem though relating to printing: as soon as I use CtrP or use the menus to print a web page, FF3.0.1 FREEZES UP completely. This is the exact same behavior that I see on OpenSolaris 2008.11 b96 It doesn't hang for me, it sort of dies. All the windows disappear and when I get tired of waiting for it to completely die I kill it so I can restart it. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] irefox 3.0.1 contrib. builds for Solaris10 hungs when printing is attempted
On another off topic note if you want to make your FF3 look more like the Windows or Mac versions the following theme works well on Solaris 10 :-) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8105 Aaron It also works well on os0811_98. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] irefox 3.0.1 contrib. builds for Solaris10 hungs when printing is attempted
Aaron Wilson wrote: Works fine for me when printing. Solaris 10 U5 using blastwave cups to manage print jobs. I don't think the latter really matters though since FF 3.01 just uses lpr to print, though I am using the blastwave version of lpr and lp too. Locks up for me with Blastwave Cups on Solaris 10, and a W2100z computer. On my Sparc (Solaris 10), it works. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] firefox problems with snv_98
Then upgrade your system to b98 and replace firefox as I previously showed. I did, no change. I actually don't think it is firefox because thunderbird is also slow as a cow as is the whole window system. Switching window workspace takes 5 seconds. Used to happen immediately when touching the Ctrl-Alt left-arrow... I have no idea what kind of processor or graphics your Ferrari uses but the nVidia drivers have been updated considerably since b86 was released. The Acer Ferrari is (or at least was) some kind of standar within Sun. It's a AMD Turion64 with ATI graphics. Not the best choice for Solaris but I've seen no problems until now. This system works almost perfectly: $ head -1 /etc/release OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_98 X86 Mine is the same, but is the worst version based on nevada that I've seen. And I've been testing _every_ build. Download the iso from http://www.genunix.org I did. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Identification macro for Open Solaris
What if one wants to self-document the OS and compiler versions under which the executable is compiled? I don't know of any other way; I can only think of using the macros defined by the compiler, so that the program would display some message like This executable is compiled using GCC 4.2.0 on Solaris 10, for example. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] firefox problems with snv_98
Luckily my own comment made me realize that I've seen something about DRI and ATI. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6718572 So I created a xorg.conf to put in /etc/X11 svcadm disable graphical-login/gdm Log in and su then run /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure vi /root/xorg.conf.new Comment out Load dri cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf svcadm enable graphical-login/gdm or somethinhg similar. The only caveat now is that typing is slow like a cow instead. About 1 second between key press and seeing it on the screen... Hints??? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso
Dave Uhring wrote: Already did that. It helps a little but it's still unusable. Same goes for thunderbird. It's the whole window system that is malfunctioning. Switching between workspaces is a 5 second operation. Machine is Ferrari 4000 with 2GB and fresh install of 2008.11 b86 Then upgrade your system to b98 and replace firefox as I previously showed. I have no idea what kind of processor or graphics your Ferrari uses but the nVidia drivers have been updated considerably since b86 was released. This system works almost perfectly: $ head -1 /etc/release OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_98 X86 Download the iso from http://www.genunix.org On a different but related topic... I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), but when I try to boot on an old Dell 4550 it fails in a different way each time I try - sometimes disk errors, sometimes some problem with some service, sometimes other things, all really weird failures. An old 2008.05 CD that I burned boots and runs just fine. Did I make a mistake by burning it to DVD? I'm going to try installing 2008.05 and upgrade my way to snv_98. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] firefox problems with snv_98
Back to the slow Xorg. Having almost no response on the keyboard is worse. Any hints on what xorg.conf settings I need on an Acer Ferarri 4000 to get normal type pace? My xorg is attached -- This message posted from opensolaris.org xorg.conf.new Description: Binary data ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso
Bill Shannon wrote: On a different but related topic... I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), but when I try to boot on an old Dell 4550 it fails in a different way each time I try - sometimes disk errors, sometimes some problem with some service, sometimes other things, all really weird failures. An old 2008.05 CD that I burned boots and runs just fine. Did I make a mistake by burning it to DVD? I'm going to try installing 2008.05 and upgrade my way to snv_98. One thing I've noticed on an old laptop I had is that it couldn't read DVD +. I had to reburn it on a DVD -. Again, the very first DVD readers did not read DVD + format, which is almost forgotten today. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso
I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), The osol-0811-98-global.iso is ~661 MB in size. I'm sure than any packages it may be missing can be added after installation. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso
Dave Uhring wrote: I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), The osol-0811-98-global.iso is ~661 MB in size. Not the one I downloaded: $ ls -l osol-0811-98.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 shannon uucp 783020032 2008-09-20 17:13 osol-0811-98.iso I didn't think I need support for all languages. Was that my mistake? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
