Re: useradd with * in passwd field

2009-04-06 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Sudarshan Soma wrote: Thanks Chris. I got the command , usermod -p * user /dev/null Actually i want to make user with no access at any time. Best Regards, pavan You should probably use passwd -l username then. Let the passwd command lock the account properly. -- Stephen Berg Systems

Re: Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

2009-04-01 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Jim wrote: m wrote: Jim wrote: Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:46 -0400, Jim wrote: How would i write down sequence of each USER, so this won't happen next time I upgrade this Box ?? ls -n /home See the user and group numbers instead of names? Use the same numbers when

Re: Gnome terminal

2009-01-16 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new terminal (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the panel), the new terminal starts with a current work dir being ~/Desktop

Re: Access from outside

2009-01-06 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
John Aldrich wrote: Ok. I managed to *briefly* connect with my machine from outside. I still think there's something hinky about my config since I installed F10. It *was* working on FC6, and I wiped and reinstalled F10. Now, I can SSH in from my wife's XP box on the LAN, but I can't SSH in

Re: Volgroup00 not found

2008-12-12 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Braden McDaniel wrote: Quoting Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com: After installing F10 and rebooting, I get Volgroup00 not found. I installed F10 over an existing Fedora installation. (I did not perform an upgrade.) I can boot to rescue mode and things seem to be mounted okay under

Re: Fedora installation USB stick (NOT liveCD)

2008-11-24 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Benny Amorsen wrote: Is there a way to install Fedora from a USB stick without network access? I'm talking about the real Fedora installation, like from the regular Fedora DVD installer, not copying the LiveCD to the hard drive. Ideally the installer would look for ks.cfg on the USB stick and do

Re: Where do you get your servers?

2008-07-31 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Bazooka Joe wrote: Is there a company like VA was that sells servers and promotes open source? www.microway.com sells some good equipment and can pre-load a few different distros. -- Stephen Berg Systems Administrator NRL Code: 7321 Office: 228-688-5738 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list

Re: Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 9

2008-07-29 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, thank you for your great effort. Please correct this entry: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs ntfs is now supported out of the box and automatically mounted in /media. Cheers, Valent. Did you consider letting the author of that FAQ know about that needed change

GLib-GIO-Warning

2008-07-23 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
After installing Fedora 9 on a few systems I'm seeing a boatload of warnings in /var/log/messages similar to: gdm-simple-greeter[9522]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called fullpath = /home/username/.face#012 I've tried creating a .face file both as a zero byte file and as a jpg for a

Re: Acknowledge consent before login

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: g wrote: Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: I'm searching for a method to display a consent to monitoring statement on either GDM or KDM in Fedora 9. I'm not tied into either display an interesting question, which you may not have found and answer. i do not know

Acknowledge consent before login

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
I'm searching for a method to display a consent to monitoring statement on either GDM or KDM in Fedora 9. I'm not tied into either display manager so whichever one is easiest to set up wins. The message displayed is about 25 lines in a standard text file layout, and all users must

Re: What is the matter with fedora 9?

2008-06-26 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Bill Davidsen wrote: fedora wrote: Hi every What is the matter with fedora 9? it introduced a NetworkManager which prohibits networking. NetworkMangler has been around since FC6 (at least), by making it the default it became impossible to ignore. It does the right thing in cases where you

Re: Dual monitors in F9 ?

2008-06-05 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Steve wrote: Well, I tried both Paul Johnson's xorg.conf file and Stephen Berg's but I still cannot get my second monitor working. The main difference between their setups and mine is that they are using the nvidia driver while I am just trying to use the generic nv driver. I wouldn't

Re: Dual monitors in F9 ?

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Steve wrote: Would you mind posting your xorg.conf file? Did you write it yourself or delete it and let X write it or use system-config-display? I am just using the nv driver and the same configuration that worked fine in F7 before I upgraded to F9 but that didn't work at all; X wouldn't

Re: Dual monitors in F9 ?

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
linuxguy wrote: Sorry I missed your post until now. This is the generated file. I also used the hand written file that I made up some time ago. What is AIGLX ? Would it help if I turned it off ? What if I turned off  Option AddARGBGLXVisuals ? Not sure about those two options,

Re: Dual monitors in F9 ?

2008-06-03 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
linuxguy wrote: Has anyone gotten dual monitors to work in F9 with Nvidia ? I've go the latest Livna Nvidia packages installed. Xorg works OK with a single monitor, but it hangs when I start X with 2 connected. Any idea ? Thanks. I used the kmod packages from Livna and have a dual head