On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:24, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Why is the directory "usually the worst" for storing
> authentication information?
This one's fairly easy to answer: you want to stick authentication data
into a potentially public/exposed directory? Even traditional Unix uses
/etc/shadow (or mo
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:48, Dag-Erling SmÃrgrav wrote:
> > If I understand you correctly, you believe that it would be possible
> > to unite the NSS and PAM switches, so that they used the same
> > configuration file, dynamic loading mechanisms, cascading, and so
> > on. Sure, I think that's poss
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 15:15, walt wrote:
> And speaking of turkeys, does anyone know how Microsoft handles the
> performance issues associated with dynamic linking? Do they do
> anything special, or just ignore the whole thing?
My understanding is that they perform a special linking/postprocessin
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 18:49, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> and you cannot tell dhclient that interfaces have arrived.
dhclient(8) seems to think otherwise, although it doesn't explain quite
how (I assume it wants you to pause and resume via OMAPI/omshell(8)
since it doesn't appear to support "interface"
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:41, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:13, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> > > I have 2 accounts on my freebsd-current machine. I use
> > > startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user
&g
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:13, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> I have 2 accounts on my freebsd-current machine. I use
> startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user
> sgk, I cannot fire up X clients. For example,
Is $XAUTHORITY still set in the subshell?
Can both users read the Xauthority fil
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:03, Bill Moran wrote:
> Just curious if anyone knows the origin of all these auto-responses, etc.
>
> I'm seeing a lot of these on every list I'm subscribed to (not all of them
> FreeBSD related) so I was wondering if some Windows trojan is running rampant
> and using thes
On Saturday 16 August 2003 18:10, Eriq Lamar wrote:
> On i386 hardware and two processors amd mp. should I wait for 5.2.
You should probably wait until a release is tagged RELENG_5, indicating that
it's considered stable.
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On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 06:33, Rus Foster wrote:
> I've beenfinding that when running gaim that its causing X to crash back
> down to the shell prompt. This has happened with both vesa, nv and nvidia
> drivers. Doing a latest buildworld still hasn't helped. Anyone got any
> insite in to this?
This i
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there.
> Can you make a test program which calls mmap2 with its 6th arg as
> something unique like 0xdeadbeef? Then print out (in hex :) the trapframe
> from the linux prepsyscall rout
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 01:48, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> It should be benchmarked more thoroughly before the switch is made;
> there's only one datapoint at the moment, which isn't enough to decide
> whether it's a net win.
Another thing to watch out for: we now force -Uusemymalloc in perl
builds bec
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