How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since I don't need remote XDM/GDM logins). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

[OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-17 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'd rather it ran from inetd. These are single user systems, intended to be fed via pop3/fetchmail/procmail/mutt, flowing back via my ISP's smarthost. I've fought with Sendmail successfully in the past, limped along with exim* for years, and now Postfix. What're my most obvious blunders?

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU. This is what I

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I don't know if I'm up to it, but I'd love to give it a go. Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-( If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since I don't need remote XDM/GDM logins). Stefan

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd like to mount whichever one is attached at the same

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. Weak is not easy ... there is minimum number of character for password. But no

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. Weak is not easy ... there is minimum number of character

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
JoeHill wrote: Could you not just give your versions of the apps you want to run different names? Would that not be safer? What I've done in the past is to add _mine to end of the names, ie. 'todisc_mine'. This approach will be a PITA if you use tab completion. Inputting _ is more painful

Re: having DHCP use name server from PPP connection?

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel B. wrote: Can dhcpd be configured to pass on (to DHCP clients on a local, private (NATted) network) the DHCP server machine's current domain name server addresses (given to the machine by PPP (etc.))? What happens when your server's current name server changes before the DHCP lease

Loopmount install other OS in Debian Lenny

2009-01-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Last time I tried using Lubi inside Debian Lenny amd64 with Ubuntu 8.10 iso, it won't work. I got a few errors and it won't find the boot partition. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Homemade FTP server

2009-01-17 Thread talikarng.use...@gmail.com
Does anyone have any experience building their own ftp server for use on a hoem network? I would like to build a small headless server (remote login) for file storage (low traffic, preferably low power, perhaps even have a torrent client on it) I would like the project to be small (2x shoebox

Re: Homemade FTP server

2009-01-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:05:16PM -0800, talikarng.use...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any experience building their own ftp server for use on a hoem network? I would like to build a small headless server (remote login) for file storage (low traffic, preferably low power, perhaps even

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:21:23AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the

gtkam not recognizing camera any more

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
I'm having more problems since my upgrade to Lenny. My digital camera, a Kodak Easyshare C813, is no longer recognized by gtkam. It worked before, on Etch. I had to add the VendorID and ProductNumber to (I believe) /etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules to get it to work. I don't remember if I had to

Re: Exim4 -- Postfix. /etc/exim4/passwd.client -- ?

2009-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/17/2009 08:36 PM, s. keeling wrote: My ISP insists I use my login passwd to talk to its smtp server. Where do I do that in Postfix? http://www.google.com/search?q=postfix+relayhost+password http://freelock.com/kb/Postfix_relayhost

Re: Homemade FTP server

2009-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/17/2009 10:05 PM, talikarng.use...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any experience building their own ftp server for use on a hoem network? I would like to build a small headless server (remote login) for file storage (low traffic, preferably low power, perhaps even have a torrent client

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd like

Re: k3b brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote about 'Re: k3b brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X': Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz wrote: http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ Everything starting with the word Unfortunately in this

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the above aptitudes (in reverse

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