[CentOS] free space created during partitioning while installing CentOS5.5

2010-10-24 Thread Ritika Garg
I installed CentOS5.5 on Dell Inspiron N5010. During partitioning, when I created swap = 6GB then additional 4MB free space was created and when I created ext3 for linux=217GB, then additional 7MB free space was created. Didn't understand why these 2 extra free spaces were created.

[CentOS] install older version of glibc package

2010-10-24 Thread Sherin George
Hello Guys, Recently, I have installed some custom packaged of glibc in servers I manage due to vulnerabilities. At that time, official centos packages were not available. Now, I want to roll back to centos versions. = -bash-3.2# yum info glibc Loaded plugins:

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-24 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 13:12 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/22/2010 08:17 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > PermitEmptyPasswords no In sshd_config on the server ??? That > > would work for keys that do not have a password. You created the key > > without a password right? > > The server doe

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/22/2010 01:08 PM, Todd Denniston wrote: ... > 5) root_squash is in play ... > 2) Open up the _read_ perms on authorized_keys > 3a) IIRC you _may_ also have to open up the _read_ perms on ~/.ssh > 3b) IIRC you _may_ also have to open up the exec perms on ~/.ssh root_squash doesn't affect ssh

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/22/2010 07:29 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > the only thing left I can think of is that bluethundr is an LDAP user. > can THAT prevent the user from logging in with keys? No. LDAP users work fine. Have you tried looking at /var/log/secure? Typically the cause for failed authentication is logged

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/22/2010 08:17 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > PermitEmptyPasswords no In sshd_config on the server ??? That > would work for keys that do not have a password. You created the key > without a password right? The server does not know whether the client's key has a passphrase. PermitEmptyPass

Re: [CentOS] Maybe OT : strange wildcard behaviour

2010-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/24/2010 04:53 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > probably "expected" behavior, depending on your locale. > google for LC_COLLATE. And you can read more in 'man 7 locale'. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 69, Issue 24

2010-10-24 Thread portablemanagement
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Re: [CentOS] Maybe OT : strange wildcard behaviour

2010-10-24 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working through some basic HOWTOS (Linux Fundamentals 1-4 > by Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins) on a CentOS 5.5 server, just to keep > in shape. > > I've just noticed a curious wildcard behaviour, which I can't really > explain. Let's say I wanted to list al

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] more software raid questions

2010-10-24 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:05:30PM -0700, Nataraj wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:03:27AM -0700, Nataraj wrote: > > > >> fred smith wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks for the additional information. > >>> > >>> I'll try backing up everything this weekend then will take a sta

[CentOS] Maybe OT : strange wildcard behaviour

2010-10-24 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently working through some basic HOWTOS (Linux Fundamentals 1-4 by Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins) on a CentOS 5.5 server, just to keep in shape. I've just noticed a curious wildcard behaviour, which I can't really explain. Let's say I wanted to list all the files or directories in /tm