Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I'm building a new network for my company. Right on! I need centralized authentication and looked after LDAP to achieve this. It's a good thing you're designing this /now/ rather than trying to graft it on later. It's not as

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:02:06PM -0500, Bruce Pea wrote: Does anyone know a solution for securing NIS, using ssh or encrypted tunnels or anything... I am open to any new idea :) IPsec can fix the network sniffing problem, though Kerberos can do that as well and comes with many other

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:28:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 08), Tillman Hodgson said: I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the cats pajamas :-) This sounds exactly like what we are looking for. Can you point us to any docs

How to confirm the options for an NFS mount?

2003-09-02 Thread Tillman Hodgson
Howdy, How does one confirm that the options listed in /etc/fstab for an NFS mount are actually in place? For example, here's the abbreviated outpout of `mount`: athena:/usr/obj on /usr/obj (nfs, read-only) athena:/usr/src on /usr/src (nfs, read-only) athena:/usr/ports on /usr/ports (nfs) That

Re: hard disk performance issue

2003-08-25 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:18:05PM -0500, Chris Newman wrote: Hmm... when I do what you suggest, here's what I get... tigger# dd if=/dev/ad8s1d of=/dev/null bs=64k count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 6553600 bytes transferred in 0.147501 secs (44430888 bytes/sec) tigger# dd

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote: On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of

38400 serial boot console through all stages of boot? (repostingfrom sparc64 list)

2003-08-20 Thread Tillman Hodgson
Howdy, I originally posted this to the sparc64 mailing list and haven't received a response. It occurs to me that this might not be sparc specific and so I'm reposting it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a -CURRENT sparc64 system, so I'm not sure that -questions@ covers all the territory either :-) I

Re: Make buildworld failure

2003-08-19 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:03:11PM -0400, Jud wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:49:38 -0500, Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very interesting. On page 490 of FreeBSD Unleashed it references the -j4 parameter as a way to speed up the make buildworld process by spawning multiple

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