password expire

2005-07-21 Thread Joe Stuart
I have a whole group of users with weak passwords. Is there a way that I can force a password change at next login? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

remote login problem

2004-10-25 Thread Joe Stuart
I just did a fresh install of freebsd 4.10. Now there is a remote login limit that is set to 32. I have changed these two options in the kernel conf and still it does not seem to change. maxusers 96 pseudo-device pty 64 When I try to login using ssh I get this error message. Server

mount problem

2004-10-21 Thread Joe Stuart
I'm having a problem mounting a harddrive. Whenever I try to mount the drive I get bad superblock. I have even cheated and booted the machine using knoppix and from there the drive mounts and reports the correct space being used, but when I run ls it lists absolutely no files. If any one has any

resource problems

2004-09-15 Thread Joe Stuart
I'm having strange problems with my freebsd server. One of them is whenver I try to run a backup with tar and/or gzip it runs really slow . Running tar and gzip together only compressess about 200K a minute. I also get the same problems running scp. While copying files between servers I get maybe

Tape drive

2004-09-03 Thread Joe Stuart
I'm trying to backup to tape, but everything I try I get device not configured. tar -c /home/joe tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Device not configured mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind mt: /dev/sa0: Device not configured The device is on and loaded with tapes. Below is the output that is in the messages log

Cvsup

2004-02-12 Thread Joe Stuart
I'm running freebsd 4.8 and trying to use cvsup to update my ports tree. My supfile contains. *default tag=RELENG_4_8 *default host=cvsup9.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all But when I run it it deleted about %90 of my ports. Any

Re: Cvsup

2004-02-12 Thread Joe Stuart
Thanks, was reading the handbook and got it confused with updating src. Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/12/04 11:21AM On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:08:30AM -0600, Joe Stuart wrote: I'm running freebsd 4.8 and trying to use cvsup to update my ports tree. My supfile contains. *default tag

Nis

2004-01-22 Thread Joe Stuart
Hi, I'm running NIS with freebsd as the server and using redhat clients. I have authentication working fine but I cant seem to get changing the passwords to work. If you change the password from a redhat box it just changes the NIS password not the system password and changing the password while