Re: [Discuss] Do you have experience with Drobo Raid boxes?

2014-12-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Horne Drobo uses ZFS. Please tell me more: the Drobo Dashboard software offered the option to format them with HFS+, and since it's attached to Mac Mini, I clicked OK.

Re: [Discuss] Using sftp without a shell account

2014-12-30 Thread Bill Horne
On 12/29/2014 3:16 PM, Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 08:58:13PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: I'm setting up an LDAP-based server, which will be used for file transfers among other things. I'd like to allow LDAP users to access the machine via sftp, but I can't figure out how to do

Re: [Discuss] Using sftp without a shell account

2014-12-30 Thread markw
NSS is a lot of fun, there are a number of projects that allow you to create actual real users on a system that can be authenticated via any system you want. You can use openssh to create valid password hashes. You can use PAM to add authentication if you don't want to mimic /etc/shadow

Re: [Discuss] Using sftp without a shell account

2014-12-30 Thread Daniel Hagerty
First off: check that the sshd on the mac isn't crashing. OS-X will hide this because they (re)start sshd out of launchd. My sftp -vv trace against a mac keeps going after yours stops. More generally, ssh traces are most useful from the server side. See what you get for /usr/sbin/sshd -dd

[Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

2014-12-30 Thread David Kramer
I recently became the proud owner of a Roku 3 box. Very happy with it minus one or two small details. For grins, I brought it with me on vacation, and immediately ran into the problem that the hotel wifi requires an authentication page be filled out, which the Roku can't do since it doesn't have

Re: [Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

2014-12-30 Thread John Abreau
Another option would be to figure out how to fake the browser authentication with curl or wget, so you can script it. I did this a few months ago for a phpbb forum. On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:16 AM, David Kramer da...@thekramers.net wrote: I recently became the proud owner of a Roku 3 box. Very

Re: [Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

2014-12-30 Thread John Abreau
Here's what finally worked for phpbb, if it helps: wget -q -O /dev/null --save-cookies=./session-cookies \ --post-data='username=JohnDoepassword=foobarlogin=Login' \ 'http://www.example.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login' sid=`cat ./session-cookies _ grep _sid | cut -d$'\011' -f7` wget

Re: [Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

2014-12-30 Thread John Abreau
Oops, there's a typo in the second command, the _ should be a |: sid=`cat ./session-cookies | grep _sid | cut -d$'\011' -f7` On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:03 AM, John Abreau abre...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what finally worked for phpbb, if it helps: wget -q -O /dev/null

Re: [Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

2014-12-30 Thread David Kramer
Authenticating from my Linux laptop through my browser works flawlessly; the problem is connecting the Roku device to the wifi, since it doesn't have a web browser, and it certainly doesn't have a command line. On 12/31/2014 01:48 AM, John Abreau wrote: Another option would be to figure out how

Re: [Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

2014-12-30 Thread John Abreau
It has no option to ssh into a command line? That seems odd; pretty much every embedded device I've ever owned was based on Linux and had an option to enable ssh. On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:11 AM, David Kramer da...@thekramers.net wrote: Authenticating from my Linux laptop through my browser

Re: [Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

2014-12-30 Thread Tom Metro
David Kramer wrote: Change my laptop's MAC address temporarily to that of the Roku, authenticate, then try to connect with the Roku. Sounds reasonable, except that it didn't work. This is probably worth revisiting. In theory it should work. Perhaps test it after you have returned home and can