Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > As Les said, it depends by what you consider to be 'better.'  I consider them > to be roughly equivalent, with SL having some advantages (mostly of > perception in my dayjob, for instance) and CentOS having some advantages > (long track reco

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > This is on software which ran as POS stuff. Yea but the catch is it is left up to YOU being responsible for what happens on that network. Very candid HIPPA states only `data at rest` does not have to be. In my state I live in I am the

Re: [CentOS] TrueCrypt WD External Drive

>I have a WD Elements 2TB USB hard drive. I would like to >encrypt the whole drive with TrueCrypt on my CentOS box. >Could someone direct me to a tutorial on how to do this? >Ideally, I would also like to access it with my WinXP box, >but this part is optional. Truecrypt is platform agnostic, see

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

I was looking into this, creating my own rpms and using kickstart. Thanks for all the info guys. Paul Spiro Harvey wrote: >> Basically I want to clone this server and make it easy to install on >> another similar hardware server without having to install centos and >> then manually installin

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

>You can have kickststart run a "yum update" so each box will have the >latest updates as at install time. Over and over again I see this reco and it makes no sense? If you have access to updates whether they be yours locally cached or remote, you should add a repo line in your ks and "install" up

[CentOS] TrueCrypt WD External Drive

I have a WD Elements 2TB USB hard drive. I would like to encrypt the whole drive with TrueCrypt on my CentOS box. Could someone direct me to a tutorial on how to do this? Ideally, I would also like to access it with my WinXP box, but this part is optional. Thanks for your help. Mike. _

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

> Basically I want to clone this server and make it easy to install on > another similar hardware server without having to install centos and > then manually installing/configuring dovecot/postfix/mysql etc. Not > sure if I can create a bootable ISO that will install on new servers > or what my opt

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

JohnS wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Giles Coochey wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT >>> best practice. >> I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance >> with some pharm

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On 01/20/2011 02:53 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > Fortunately I don't go sticking my fingers in wet gummy bears, so that > risk is mitigated! > > While finger prints can be faked, it often requires access to the > finger to fake. I haven't heard of someone lifting a latent oil print > and creating a fak

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:00 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > For gnome how about something like: > > gconftool-2 --direct \ > --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type bool \ > --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled false Many thanks. That did the trick. Bob ___

Re: [CentOS] /etc/rc.conf on CentOS 5.5?

I am investigating an Apache change I was told about that involved adding apache22_http_accept_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, but I don't think this exists on CentOS 5. You'd do that on FreeBSD. FreeBSD can collect a complete HTTP request in the kernel and only wake up Apache when the data i

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

Hi Paul, On 20 January 2011 20:47, PA wrote: > Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled > dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages > have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this > and install it on another serv

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Giles Coochey wrote: > > [...] > > > I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT > > best practice. > > I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance > with some pharmacy software. I

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Thursday, January 20, 2011 09:36:09 am Ross Walker wrote: >>> With Amazon's cloud services now I guess they'll have to cut it down to >>> 7 days, or require finger print or retinal eye scans... >> >> Fingerprints are too easily fa

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, wrote: > But the locked screensaver wants the *same* password that you log in with. > I'm having trouble understanding the problem... or is it that many of the > users *never* log out? Yes, users will sign onto a workstation, and then disappear somewhere in th

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lamar Owen > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:12 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is it okay? > > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:53:52 am Parshwa Murdia wrot

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> >> >> chcon -t bin_t -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa >> >> Will prpbably fix. >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > Just tried that, thanks. > > Unfortunately, it did not. > > Boris. > OK, I deactivated SELinux and for now looks lik

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

On 1/20/2011 2:57 PM, PA wrote: > > I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put > it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Clonezilla has an option to save an image, then turn it into a bootable iso that will come up and install it

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

>I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put >it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Given that that will take some leg work, I accomplish the same thing by making a long %post section in a kickstart that runs various sed commands

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

PA wrote: > I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put > it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Reading between the lines, ISTM that you don't have a verified means to do backups. If you can't do what you want, then you don't ha

[CentOS] xfs_quota - space differs between du -h vs report -h

Hi all, I'm having fun getting to know xfs_quotas. I do notice some irregularities. When running xfs_quota -s -c /dev/sdc1 And then running report -h, for user barney, his used space is 4.9G while his soft/hard limit is 5G. Since I set 5, all is well, but when I run du -hs on barnies dir, it

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

On 1/20/2011 2:47 PM, PA wrote: > Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled > dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These > packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now > save all this and install it on another server without hav

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Corey A Johnson Sent: Thursday, January

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 03:11:00 pm Mike McCarty wrote: > That does not preclude access to the machine's content. Anyone > with root access should be able to do that. You shouldn't > have to log in AS THAT USER in order to access the computer's > content. Although I have seen in the case of

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Mike McCarty wrote: [...] > IANAL, but I suggest that anyone who has any intellectual > property (patents, trade secrets, trade marks) get a lawyer Oops! Forgot copyright. Those are the ones in the USA. There may be others in other countries. I don't know. Anyway, trade secrets are very hard to

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

PA wrote: > > Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled > dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These > packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now > save all this and install it on another server without having to do > all

[CentOS] cloning a server

Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this and install it on another server without having to do all the work of compiling inst

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Tom H >> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide? >> >> >> In our envi

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Rudi Ahlers wrote: [...] > User accounts also doesn't mean much to me. I know how it sounds, but > I care more about the data than the user's account. As long as I can > access whatever I want, whenever I want. ISTM that you have "control issues". Access to data is what counts, and you've got th

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Mike McCarty wrote: > Giles Coochey wrote: > > [...] > >> I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT >> best practice. > > I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance > with some pharmacy software. I inserted time limits with logout, screen

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

Keith Keller wrote: > Specifically, man syslog.conf for that file's syntax; man syslogd talks > more about its invocation and signalling. And the difference can be *very* important. For example, last night, one of our servers had a h/d crap out, and dropped to ro. However, all of them copy the lo

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Mike McCarty wrote: > John Hodrien wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > At home, I keep my keyboard locked the instant I leave it because > of potential security breaches, using the little "lock screen (sic)" > button on the pop up menu on the left. Just about the only GUI button >

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Giles Coochey wrote: [...] > I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT > best practice. I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance with some pharmacy software. I inserted time limits with logout, screen information blanking, and RAM da

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 06:28:35PM +, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > > To: CentOS mailing list > > From: Paul Heinlein > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences > > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Cameron Kerr wrote: > > > >> dmesg is everything

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Giles Coochey wrote: [...] > A user account should belong to the person who has been assigned that > account. They are the only person who should be able to use that You are conflating "access" and "ownership". The company should own the machine and the data. Only persons authorized by the com

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, John Hodrien > wrote: > > > >> I think I see things differently. Allowing others to access your account >> *is* >> a security risk. It potentially opens confidential data open to other >> people, >> and leaves that specific user open t

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:51:28AM -0500, Robert Spangler wrote: > On Thursday 20 January 2011 09:14, Ross Walker wrote: > > > > KDE has a multi-user x login feature that allows another user to start a > > new session keeping the existing session active. > > And if that doesn't work you could alw

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> I don't know about you, but a user leaving his desk (for any purpose, >> other than going home) doesn't cause a security risk. I trust all our >> staff, and when Andrew goes on lunch I expect him to leave his PC >> unlocked. > > I

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Peter Blajev wrote: > Boris, > > Are you using bash? > > Try this: > /bin/bash > . ./vars > > -- > Peter > Peter, Yes, I am using bash: [root@gw5fl 2.0]# echo $SHELL /bin/bash [root@gw5fl 2.0]# Boris. ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 1/20/2011 12:58 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >>> mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I did do a >>> preupgrade on my development/testing box, which will likely go to CentOS 6 >>> or SL6 some time RSN. >> >> Could you define "improved"? My wish list would include "I (fedora)

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 01:57:54 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> We (the Feds) are using PIV cards, which have passkeys, and, of course, >> the username. I prefer what I have from my employer: the RSA keyfobs. No >> trouble at all, *and* you need the username, keyfob and a p

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

Boris, Are you using bash? Try this: /bin/bash . ./vars -- Peter On 01/20/2011 08:28 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > I've got this Centos 5.5 box which I am trying to configure as an > OpenVPN server. Now 2.1.4 seems to have added pkcs11 support and that > stops me from creating

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:52:48 am m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Lamar Owen wrote: >> > mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I did do >> a >> > preupgrade on my development/testing box, which will likely go to >> > CentOS 6 or SL6 some time RSN. >> >

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

> > > chcon -t bin_t -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa > > Will prpbably fix. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Just tried that, thanks. Unfortunately, it did not. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 01:57:54 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We (the Feds) are using PIV cards, which have passkeys, and, of course, > the username. I prefer what I have from my employer: the RSA keyfobs. No > trouble at all, *and* you need the username, keyfob and a pin. Our co-lo site is

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:53:52 am Parshwa Murdia wrote: > You say for SL6, would it sometimes prove better than stable CentOS? As Les said, it depends by what you consider to be 'better.' I consider them to be roughly equivalent, with SL having some advantages (mostly of perception in m

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2011 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, wrote: >>> Boris Epstein wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> [root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars >>

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:52:48 am m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I did do a > > preupgrade on my development/testing box, which will likely go to CentOS 6 > > or SL6 some time RSN. > > Could you define "improved"

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:03:27 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Lamar Owen wrote: >> > Fingerprints are too easily faked. Mythbusters did it in a 'Crime and >> > Mythdemeanors' episode a few years ago. > >> I can beat that: I read, a month or so ago, how a bunch of element

Re: [CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:46:49PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running Centos 5.5 with Xen 4.0.1 >> >> Would like to use a USB key (not a block device) in my domU. >> >> Dom0 lsusb yields; >> >> Bus 002 Device 004: ID

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:03:27 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > Fingerprints are too easily faked. Mythbusters did it in a 'Crime and > > Mythdemeanors' episode a few years ago. > I can beat that: I read, a month or so ago, how a bunch of elementary > school kids discov

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

On 01/20/11 10:02 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I just wondered what's the difference between > /var/log/dmesg, and /var/log/messages? /var/log/dmesg is a dump of the output of the dmesg command shortly after boot by rc.sysinit. this is done because the kernel message buffer that

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

Boris Epstein wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, wrote: >> Boris Epstein wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale >>> wrote: >[root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars >bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopensslcnf: >Permission denied See tha

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Giles Coochey wrote: > And in those nine years you claim to have had at least one major security > incident. > It beggars my belief > From: "Rudi Ahlers" > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: >> On 20/01/2011 17:11, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I'm personally involved in the accoun

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Paul Heinlein > Subject: Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Cameron Kerr wrote: > >> dmesg is everything sent from the kernel for logging (ie. the >> historical content of the dmesg(8)

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Cameron Kerr wrote: > dmesg is everything sent from the kernel for logging (ie. the > historical content of the dmesg(8) command). > > messages is basically a syslog fall-through (a bit like /var/log/syslog) See /etc/rc.sysinit for dmesg invocation that writes to /var/log/d

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

dmesg is everything sent from the kernel for logging (ie. the historical content of the dmesg(8) command). messages is basically a syslog fall-through (a bit like /var/log/syslog) On 21/01/2011, at 7:02 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I just wondered what's the difference between

[CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

Hi everyone. I just wondered what's the difference between /var/log/dmesg, and /var/log/messages? Why do we have 2 log files that are similar? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts - Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debugge

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale >> wrote: [root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopensslcnf: Permission denied >>> >>> See that error above? Make that script

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

And in those nine years you claim to have had at least one major security incident. It beggars my belief You now publicly declare that your company not just advocates the sharing of passwords, but certainly encourages it, if not make it compulsory. If you were to have another security inciden

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

Boris Epstein wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: >>>[root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars >>>bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopensslcnf: >>>Permission denied >> >> See that error above? Make that script executable... It's a bash script >> `vars` is calli

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>Thanks, did that though this did not fix my problem - I still get the >>same error message. > > The only error I saw was a lack of ability to run whichopensslcnf. > pkitool is a shell script which should be executable and in that folder a

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

>Thanks, did that though this did not fix my problem - I still get the >same error message. The only error I saw was a lack of ability to run whichopensslcnf. pkitool is a shell script which should be executable and in that folder as well. Is it executable?

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>[root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars >>bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopensslcnf: >>Permission denied > > See that error above? Make that script executable... It's a bash script > `vars` is calling and not able to execute. > _

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 1/20/2011 10:53 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> This is obviously straying from the topicality of this list, but yes the >> mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I did do a >> preupgrade on my development/testing box,

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

>[root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars >bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopensslcnf: >Permission denied See that error above? Make that script executable... It's a bash script `vars` is calling and not able to execute. ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 09:36:09 am Ross Walker wrote: >> With Amazon's cloud services now I guess they'll have to cut it down to >> 7 days, or require finger print or retinal eye scans... > > Fingerprints are too easily faked. Mythbusters did it in a 'Crime and > Mythdem

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of >> working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if >> it's been improved or not. >

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 09:36:09 am Ross Walker wrote: > With Amazon's cloud services now I guess they'll have to cut it down to 7 > days, or require finger print or retinal eye scans... Fingerprints are too easily faked. Mythbusters did it in a 'Crime and Mythdemeanors' episode a few yea

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > This is obviously straying from the topicality of this list, but yes the > mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I did do a > preupgrade on my development/testing box, which will likely go to CentOS 6 or > SL6 some tim

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: >> Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of >> working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if >> it's been improved or not. > > This is obviously straying from the

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Tom H wrote: > > You clearly work in an insecure environment. By who's definition? The fact that you're PC is connected to the internet place you in the same environment :) > No one should have access to anyone else's login. I have no admin > privileges over

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: > >> Yes but someone's posted a global gconftool-2 recipe. > > Run gconf-editor as root and you can edit the global mandatory rules too. Very true, as long as you can run a GUI app as root. __

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: > Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of > working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if > it's been improved or not. This is obviously straying from the topicality of this list,

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 20/01/2011 17:11, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> The message I'm trying to bring across is that users in the company >> shouldn't have passwords which admin doesn't know, or can't access. >> The PC's and data, well at least in our company, is th

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with > something right now. And I'm not talking about administrative access. > Sure, I can access any PC via root login, and frankly for that matter > I can also reset any user'

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: >> On 01/20/2011 02:55 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> > >> If you don't have full administrative access to the machine >> *independent* of people's day-to-day login accounts you are doing it >> wrong and need to hire a competent

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 06:02:38 am Giles Coochey wrote: > Data and Accounts are distinct, and the policies regarding their use > should be distinct too. +1. The third 'A' of triple-A (AAA) is accountability. If you share accounts you defeat accountability. This has nothing to do with

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On 1/20/2011 10:11 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Benjamin, I'm sorry to say this, but you're wrong! > > Now, since we're doing the name-calling thing, let's get that out of the way. > > Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with > something right now. And I'm not talking abou

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On 20/01/2011 17:11, Rudi Ahlers wrote: The message I'm trying to bring across is that users in the company shouldn't have passwords which admin doesn't know, or can't access. The PC's and data, well at least in our company, is the property of the company. Making it more difficult for an enginee

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 03:54:45 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Yup, and it totally defeats the purpose of what the OP actually wanted > todo. Imagine your account being busy with your year-end books, and > has to run to the toilet (she is a bit sick) now you come and press > CTRL+ALT+Bksp and loose

[CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

Hello listmates, I've got this Centos 5.5 box which I am trying to configure as an OpenVPN server. Now 2.1.4 seems to have added pkcs11 support and that stops me from creating the CA and other necessary files: [root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopenss

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Benjamin, I'm sorry to say this, but you're wrong! I'm fairly sure he's not. > Now, since we're doing the name-calling thing, let's get that out of the way. > > Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with > something right now. A

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 01/20/2011 02:55 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> I don't agree with that, sorry. >> >> A few years ago one of our staff members decided his salary isn't good >> enough so he started a side-line business, on our company time. He >> stole some of

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Excuse me, but when I was in college, I heard the spiel about not leaving > workstations unlocked, if only because some idiots would get cute and do > something from your terminal to embarrass you, and/or aggravate someone > else. cat >> .bashrc

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 at 11:00am, Rudi Ahlers wrote > >> It probably depends on his environment. If it's an office where people > situations, and it certainly doesn't make me arrogant or unprofessional. > As others have pointed out, there are industries and workplaces wh

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On 1/20/2011 8:18 AM, John Hodrien wrote: >> KDE has a multi-user x login feature that allows another user to start a new >> session keeping the existing session active. >> >> It might take a little config mod'ing to get it working, but it works. It >> works best if there is lots of RAM. > > So do

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 at 11:00am, Rudi Ahlers wrote > It probably depends on his environment. If it's an office where people > actually work for money and need to address client issues then I'm > sure your colleagues won't be please if you make them loose all their > work just to be an arrogant IT m

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >Behalf Of Ross Walker >Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:27 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Cc: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide? > >I wonder if ther

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

> By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes > up from the screensaver.  This can be disabled by each user, but how > can I disable this system-wide?  Many of my users forget to do this, > which results in workstations being locked up. Instead of removing the lock on yo

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday 20 January 2011 09:14, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook wrote: > > By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes > > up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how > > can I disable this system-wide? Ma

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:23 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:08 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: On 20/01/2011 13:12, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:05 +, John Hodrien wrote: >> An account i

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:18 AM, John Hodrien wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ross Walker wrote: >>> On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook >>> wrote: >>> By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can be dis

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:23 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:08 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: >>> On 20/01/2011 13:12, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:05 +, John Hodrien wrote: > An account is a personal account that s

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:18 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ross Walker wrote: > >> On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook wrote: >> >>> By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes >>> up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but h

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:08 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: >> On 20/01/2011 13:12, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:05 +, John Hodrien wrote: >> >> An account is a personal account that should not be shared. > While such standards are much-mali

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook wrote: > >> By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes >> up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how >> can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forg

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook wrote: > By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes > up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how > can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forget to do this, > which results in workstations

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook wrote: > By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes > up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how > can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forget to do this, > which results in workstations

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:08 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 20/01/2011 13:12, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:05 +, John Hodrien wrote: > >> An account is a personal account that should not be shared. > > +1 > > Also, at least in the United States, locking a PC / works

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