master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Rhys John
Ive been playing with "vipw" trying to change passwords into "*" for a slightly higher level of security but ran into some very big problems. From reading through the FreeBSD handbook it seemed all i had to do was replace the encrypted password with *, which is what i did. I thought it seemed a

Re: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Rhys John
Both accounts are now active but i would like to remove the encrypted password from master.passwd and replace it with a *. Is this possible with "vipw"? Thanks for your reply hugle From: hugle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: hugle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: master.pass

Xine Problems on FreeBSD 4.7

2002-12-08 Thread Rhys John
I have just started using Xine on FreeBSD 4.7, it runs files ok but has a few problems and I was wondering if anyone has experienced any of these and/or knows solutions to them. First off when i minimise Xine the last frame from an mpeg being played stays on the desktop on top of everything, i.