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

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain >Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:47 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide? > >> By default, CentOS v5 requires

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

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >>Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain >>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:47 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable scre

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

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > > For the OP: what's the goal behind preventing an X session from locking? > Perhaps there is a more elegant solution than simply disabling it. > > --keith > > -- > kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > It probably depends on his environmen

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

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers >Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:55 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide? > By default, CentOS v5 requires a user

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

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 think I see things differently.

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

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 to abuse through people using their > ma

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

On 20/01/2011 11:55, 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 to ab

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

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers 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 to abuse through people using their machine.  You might as well

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

On 19/01/2011 21:35, Keith Keller wrote: Are the screensavers not smart enough to intercept ctrl-alt-bksp? For the OP: what's the goal behind preventing an X session from locking? Perhaps there is a more elegant solution than simply disabling it. Screensavers can't intercept... X gets the mess

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011/1/18 Drew Weaver : > Because the installer doesn't have drivers for the onboard and all of our > installs are PXE and in general it removes a lot of confusion by just > disabling the onboard NIC and having one single NIC for everything. Drew, out of curiosity (I have a similar motherboard in

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

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:00 AM, 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

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

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 / workstation after 15 minutes of idle is a requirement of PCI/DSS - which your company almost certainly agreed to if you pr

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

>-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 environment, leaving your desk without

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

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, 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

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

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:55 AM, 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 syste

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

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 / workstation after 15 minutes of idle is a requirement of PCI/DSS - which you

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

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >Behalf Of John Hodrien >Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:02 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide? > >>> I don't know the exact path but you c

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 LTTng patch

Hi all, Has anyone successfully applied the LTTng patch to CentOS 5.4 kernel? According to the LTTng compatibility table patch28-2.6.18-lttng-0.6.41 is the one that should be used but a number of the patch files did not apply cleanly. It generated a number of rejects. If anyone has done

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

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 our client's data (contact details, emails, and even > contr

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

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. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

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

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, 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?

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 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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

> 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?

>-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?

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?

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?

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 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?

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, 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

[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 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

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 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 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?

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 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?

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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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?

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] 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] 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

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] 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 12:25 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

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] 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

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

[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] 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

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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?

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] 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] 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 11:53:52 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] 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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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?

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?

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] 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: [...] > 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] 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] 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: > 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] 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?

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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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

[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

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