Re: getpwnam with md5 encrypted passwds

2003-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Clifton Royston wrote: If you will need to do authentication after your program drops privileges, your best course is probably to go through PAM, to install a separate daemon which implements a PAM-supported protocol and which runs with privileges, and then to enable that protocol as a PAM

Re: getpwnam with md5 encrypted passwds

2003-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Pentchev wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:21:04PM +0100, Kai Mosebach wrote: Looks interesting ... is this method also usable, when i dropped my privs ? I think Terry meant pam_authenticate() (not pan), but to answer your question: no, when you drop your privileges, you do not have

Re: NFS Flags Oddity

2003-11-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Kris Kirby wrote: FreeBSD (4.9-RC) doesn't appear to export schg flags over NFS. You've got to shell in locally to the machine to move the schg flags; ls -lao doesn't report them over NFS, but does list them locally. Non-local flags are not defined, so they are not permitted to be exported

Re: [Fwd: TWE driver IOCTL's]

2003-11-27 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Eduard Martinescu writes: Tried this on current, but no responses...maybe some one here has some ideas? Hello, I looking to extend the smartmontools support (/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools) to include support for drives behind a TWE device. I looked at the source for the TWE

ahd driver Adaptec 39320D Ultra320 SCSI adapter

2003-11-27 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi, I mailed to fbsd-questions about a weird problem i was experiencing with RAID10 on vinum, with 4 SCSI disks connected to an Adaptec 39320D U320 SCSI adapter, and stated that it had boot problems, but they seemed to occur only at boot, not during usage. I was wrong. The card is unstable in

Re: freebsd smp - linux up

2003-11-27 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Anthony Schneider wrote: sadly, all ktrace shows is ktrace launching vmware (from 'ktrace vmware', shows sh reading and executing, and then ends with the vmware fork). is there a special way to ktrace linux binaries that i'm not aware of? ktrace should work fine, but

Re: getpwnam with md5 encrypted passwds

2003-11-27 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:10:01PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Clifton Royston wrote: If you will need to do authentication after your program drops privileges, your best course is probably to go through PAM, to install a separate daemon which implements a PAM-supported protocol and which

question about _exit() function

2003-11-27 Thread rmkml
Hi, is the _exit() function safe for a thread ? my program use vfork() and then execve in a thread context. The documentation mentions that the process has to call _exit() in case of failure. But this _exit() is really safe for the parent thread ? Thanks in advance for the reply.

Re: question about _exit() function

2003-11-27 Thread rmkml
and I use freebsd v4.8. On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, rmkml wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:20:04 +0100 (CET) From: rmkml [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question about _exit() function Hi, is the _exit() function safe for a thread ? my program use vfork() and then execve in a