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On Mon, January 8, 2007 03:48, Michael M. Press wrote:
I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it
in, I
get the following:
umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable
Hello
Is there a possibility to use as a standalone software
the adduser feature that generate random passwd.
I want to generate new strong password for existing users.
Thank you
Frank
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Frank Bonnet wrote:
Is there a possibility to use as a standalone software
the adduser feature that generate random passwd.
I want to generate new strong password for existing users.
/usr/sbin/pw usermod username -w random
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Frank Bonnet wrote:
I want to generate new strong password for existing users.
Here's an idea:
$ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10
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Sahil Tandon wrote:
Frank Bonnet wrote:
Is there a possibility to use as a standalone software
the adduser feature that generate random passwd.
I want to generate new strong password for existing users.
/usr/sbin/pw usermod username -w random
thanks a lot :-)
Greetings:
Let me preface this by saying that I am not C programmer.
I am running on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10, and my ports and source trees
are up to date.
While attempting to compile koffice-1.6.1 I ran into this error:
In file included from /usr/local/include/wv2/olestream.h:22,
On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Bob wrote:
In file included from /usr/local/include/wv2/olestream.h:22,
from graphicshandler.cpp:23:
/usr/local/include/wv2/olestorage.h:26:21: gsf/gsf.h: No such file or
directory
Reinstall your devel/libgsf port.
On Monday 08 January 2007 1:51 am, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
Why did you choose PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0.x?
We value our data, ruling out MyISAM. PostgreSQL is much faster than InnoDB
for many concurrent reads and complex queries.
Is the latest PostgreSQL release performance much better
On Monday 08 January 2007 5:26 am, Ivan Voras wrote:
Here's an idea:
$ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10
Hugely bad idea. Since md5 outputs hex, you're only getting 4 bits of
entropy per character. Much better to use something like sysutils/pwgen to
generate good random passwords.
Hi,
I have a problem when I run portupdate for port proftpd. Log will be applied in
the end of this email.
I am running as root.
My uname -a prints
FreeBSD tentor.xxx.local 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Sat Mar 5
21:45:37 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/TENTOR
Hi,
I'm trying to add CURL support to PHP 5.2.0. I installed Apache modules like
always, with the /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions port. But the module does not
show up in phpinfo().
I tried adding the --with-curl flag to the Makefile of the /usr/ports/lang/php5
port, but then compilation
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 02:18 pm, Michael M. Press wrote:
I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I
plug it in, I get the following:
umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable
Hi
1. ls -t
man ls
-t Sort by time modified (most recently modified first) before sort-
ing the operands by lexicographical order.
-u Use time of last access, instead of last modification of the file
for sorting (-t) or printing (-l).
2. cat
Ivan Voras wrote:
I've read up a few things stating that sysinstall is at its
end-of-life and there are plans to replace it. I'm wondering about the
reasons or rationale behind this.
Two reasons AFAIK:
1. it simply doesn't even know how deal with the more modern
features like GEOM
Hello my friends
1. How to get the Files listing of Recently Changed files under a File
System based on date... for example Root /
2. How to see that how many Users are created on a FreeBSD System.. meaning
how to get All Users/Groups list on a FreeBSD Server?
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Thanks!
BR / vj
VeeJay writes:
1. How to get the Files listing of Recently Changed files under
a File System based on date... for example Root /
man find
2. How to see that how many Users are created on a FreeBSD
System.. meaning how to get All Users/Groups list on a FreeBSD
Server?
Why did you choose PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0.x?
We value our data, ruling out MyISAM.
Huh? I thought you said that the SQL database is just a mirror of the
stuff from Foxpro.
R's,
John
k
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This is more of a question geared towards your mail server application than
FreeBSD. You should check your mail logs. If you want better advise, you may
want to provide more information on what mail server are you running, and what
did you do to prevent SMTP relay.
I am using sendmail. It
I have a Keyspan USB serial adapter identified by FreeBSD 6.1 as shown
below. I was wondering if it is possible, and how to, set this device up
to receive COM communications from another Linux box using minicom. Can
someone suggest or point to some helpful docs possibly to setup
in /etc/ttys?
After installing FreeBSD 6.1, I get the error message ‘Unable to load
kernel’ and it goes to an OK prompt. I suspect the problem is in the
geometry, when installing I get the message ’Geometry of 238316/16/63
for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry’. And appears to
use
In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is more of a question geared towards your mail server application than
FreeBSD. You should check your mail logs. If you want better advise, you
may want to provide more information on what mail server are you running,
and what did
On Monday 08 January 2007 9:05 am, John Levine wrote:
Why did you choose PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0.x?
We value our data, ruling out MyISAM.
Huh? I thought you said that the SQL database is just a mirror of the
stuff from Foxpro.
Not *all* of it. We're migrating over to it as the native
Hi, Folks
I got this systemic error on a new install of PCBSD 1.3. Below:
Jan 8 09:54:58 Growler kernel: acd0: FAILURE - unknown CMD (0x03)
ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x20 ascq=0x00
Jan 8 09:55:29 Growler last message repeated 15 times
Jan 8 09:57:31 Growler last message repeated 60 times
Jan 8
Hi, Folks
I got this systemic error on a new install of PCBSD 1.3. Below:
Jan 8 09:54:58 Growler kernel: acd0: FAILURE - unknown CMD (0x03)
ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x20 ascq=0x00
Jan 8 09:55:29 Growler last message repeated 15 times
Jan 8 09:57:31 Growler last message repeated 60 times
Jan 8
http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions
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Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause
Jim Pazarena schrieb:
http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions
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Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause
2. How to see that how many Users are created on a FreeBSD
System.. meaning how to get All Users/Groups list on a FreeBSD
Server?
The information is in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. You can
get a count with the wc command.
Such a report will be incomplete if the system in
Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user
passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I don't
like the look of its PRNG initialization:
#ifdef RAND48
srand48((time(0)9) ^ (getpgrp()15) ^ (getpid()) ^ (time(0)11));
#else
srand(time(0) ^ (getpgrp() 8)
Sorry for the dumb question this morning-- caffeine hasn't yet worked
its wondrous magic upon my person.
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go
In the last episode (Jan 08), RW said:
Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user
passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I
don't like the look of its PRNG initialization:
#ifdef RAND48
srand48((time(0)9) ^ (getpgrp()15) ^ (getpid()) ^
Jay Chandler wrote:
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
Cheers,
Matthew
On 1/6/07, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a simple port-forwarding rule that I want to work from my
gateway to a box on my LAN, but it doesn't seem to be working.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo ipnat -l
Password:
List of active MAP/Redirect filters:
rdr tun0 0.0.0.0/32 port 6882
On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:53 AM, RW wrote:
Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user
passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I don't
like the look of its PRNG initialization:
#ifdef RAND48
srand48((time(0)9) ^ (getpgrp()15) ^ (getpid()) ^ (time(0)
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Such a report will be incomplete if the system in question is an
NIS client. For starters, see yp(8).
Would getent passwd and getent group be more definitive?
--
Kirk Strauser
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On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07 pm, Jay Chandler wrote:
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
You could configure sudo to give
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jan 08), RW said:
Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user
passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I
don't like the look of its PRNG initialization:
#ifdef RAND48
I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario?
On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07 pm, Jay Chandler wrote:
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks
Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 5:26 am, Ivan Voras wrote:
Here's an idea:
$ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10
Hugely bad idea. Since md5 outputs hex, you're only getting 4 bits of
entropy per character.
Yes, with 10 characters that's 5 bytes of practically
Ivan Voras wrote:
Frank Bonnet wrote:
I want to generate new strong password for existing users.
Here's an idea:
$ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10
... or, following the upthread discussion, a preferable alternative:
openssl rand -base64 6
This will generate a strong
In the last episode (Jan 08), Garrett Cooper said:
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
Even better: make RANDOM() call random() instead of rand(), and
initialize the rng with srandomdev().
Another random password generator is in security/apg, and that one
already uses
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:57 pm, Andy Greenwood wrote:
I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario?
Perhaps, but that seems like a lot more effort to accomplish a relatively
easy job.
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Run sysinstall as root (sudo sysinstall). Select Configure. Select
Startup. Check the box next to Linux (you will have to scroll
down). Hit OK. If prompted to install Linux compatible binaries,
select the affirmative response (yes or continue). The install
should modify your
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Jay Chandler wrote:
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I
have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI
without much success.
We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the
queue/on order. It is looking like FreeBSD may not provide
I have a curious problem.
I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid so they
can run it.
HOWEVER, I don't want them to be able to modify or delete the file
and/or it's permissions. Another program will do that.
This, under standard Unix permissions, is a tad difficult. :-)
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:42:12 -0800
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:53 AM, RW wrote:
Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user
passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I
don't like the look of its PRNG initialization:
Jay Chandler writes:
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jan 08), Garrett Cooper said:
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
Even better: make RANDOM() call random() instead of rand(), and
initialize the rng with srandomdev().
Another random password generator is in security/apg, and that one
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote:
We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I
have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI
without much success.
We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the
queue/on
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:52:06 -0500 DAve wrote:
We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I
have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and
iSCSI without much success.
We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the
queue/on
John Nielsen wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote:
We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I
have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI
without much success.
We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in
Garrett Cooper wrote:
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jan 08), Garrett Cooper said:
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
Even better: make RANDOM() call random() instead of rand(), and
initialize the rng with srandomdev().
Another random password generator is in
Boris Samorodov wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:52:06 -0500 DAve wrote:
We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I
have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and
iSCSI without much success.
We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several
could You put me to some manual about configuring any king of VPN (with
encryption at least, preferable compression too) with windows machines as
clients and FreeBSD as servers.
i used VPN's many times but always with unix on both sides and used vtun
which works great. unfortunately there is
On Jan 8, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
could You put me to some manual about configuring any king of VPN
(with encryption at least, preferable compression too) with windows
machines as clients and FreeBSD as servers.
i used VPN's many times but always with unix on both sides and
There are various VPN solutions available depending on your needs for
the network so no one answer will cover everything.
Currently I am using OpenVPN with great success and resonable security
as well. Homepage: http://www.openvpn.org
One of the nice things about this solution is you can
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:56:50 -0800
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jan 08), RW said:
Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user
passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I
We have a few older FreeBSD systems running 3.4 and 4.5. Are there
patches for the 2007 daylight savings time US change for these FreeBSD
versions? If so, where can I find them?
Thanks,
Adam Cormany
UNIX Systems Engineer
Scientific Games International
Office 678.297.5465
Cell
Robert Huff wrote:
Jay Chandler writes:
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases
file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual
heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this?
Hand him some sheets of
On Sunday 07 January 2007 16:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using 6_STABLE(FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE). I created another
xorg.conf
adding your suggested option. Below is what I get from /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes
Hi there,
I know there are a lot of various reservation systems out there. I can
google for them. I am looking for recommendations from users that use
res systems.
I am looking for a lab equipment reservation system - something simple,
with a good amount of capabilities, open source, and
--- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should
know
about?
I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server. They have
an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with
thousands of open connections. Have seen
This sounds like a Smart drive - can you confirm?
I plugged it into a Windows system and it also recognized a CD drive.
In addition, it vomited out a few popup windows and started something
in the system tray. This is so ingenious that I think it must be a 'smart'
drive. An article from the
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
could You put me to some manual about configuring any king of VPN (with
encryption at least, preferable compression too) with windows machines as
clients and FreeBSD as servers.
i used VPN's many times but always with unix on both sides and used
Hello.
Can anybody tell me why that may happens?:
acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x02 ascq=0x00 error=0x00
acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x02 ascq=0x00 error=0x00
acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x02 ascq=0x00 error=0x00
acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x02 ascq=0x00 error=0x00
acd0:
I think I located the problem. I discovered through one of the blacklist
hosters when exactly they received the spam and that helped me track
it to a virus infected windows box.
Using nmap / tcpdump / snort to find rogue SMTP hosts is the next step I
would pursue. Remember though, your hosts
Is it possible to get Linux kernel drivers working under FreeBSD? If
so, how? (Specifically Garmin_USB)
I have never heard of anything that would allow a Linux binary driver
to be loaded by FreeBSD, and I doubt it exists. Linux binary applications
certainly can be run on FreeBSD, but not
On 1/8/07, Rob Hurle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
could You put me to some manual about configuring any king of VPN (with
encryption at least, preferable compression too) with windows machines as
clients and FreeBSD as servers.
OpenVPN gets my vote
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:37 am, Jay Chandler wrote:
Sorry for the dumb question this morning-- caffeine hasn't yet
worked its wondrous magic upon my person.
I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the
aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after
the eventual
Hi Freebsd
I have been breaking my head intermittently over this for months, so far I
had no success getting this Sierra Wireless card , to Cingular ISP
This card is 3G card works on my other winXP partition, I have become very
uneasy to continue to use this only in windows
because of
I am using a vpnc which came along with freebsd6.1 which is using IPSEC
and Xauth
I found using the vpnc along with rdesktop to access remote windows servers
is real fast.
vpnc is no frills, straight command line and just a single config file.
On 1/8/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Freebsd
I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell
each and everytime
I do set -o vi
and perform some commands
it simply dumps ksh93.core
file and crashed whole terminal session,
I have been having this problem everrsince I changed my login shell from
/bin/sh to /bin/ksh which is symbolic
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote:
I have a curious problem.
I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid
so they can run it.
A user does not need to own a file to be able to run it. All they
need is execute permission. So what is the real problem?
HOWEVER,
Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote:
I have a curious problem.
I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid
so they can run it.
A user does not need to own a file to be able to run it. All they
need is execute permission. So what is
while searching for 'freebsd process states' on google i came across
this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-December/138024.html
i'm a new subscriber, so i can't reply to the original thread.
i'm guessing [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s original question was something more
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:11:47 +0200 (EET)
dima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
Can anybody tell me why that may happens?:
acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x02 ascq=0x00 error=0x00
acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x02 ascq=0x00 error=0x00
acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x02 ascq=0x00
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:02 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote:
I have a curious problem.
I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and
gid so they can run it.
A user does not need to own a file to be able to run
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:08:44PM +0400, Tofik Suleymanov wrote:
Hello list,
looks like `vmstat -i` acts weird on my machine after being 12-15 hours
uptime.Here is the iutput of `vmstat -i`:
vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0
On 09/01/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Freebsd
I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell
each and everytime
I do set -o vi
and perform some commands
it simply dumps ksh93.core
file and crashed whole terminal session,
I have been having this problem everrsince I changed
- Original Message -
From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:25 AM
Subject: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on
newsystem with good card)
On 2007-01-07 08:54,
- Original Message -
From: Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?
Robert Huff wrote:
(Personally, I think there are also points where the correct user
behavior is not
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