Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

2017-11-28 Thread Nux!
Sorin, Indeed, CentOS 6 is not longer officially supported by Chrome. It hasn't been for a few years, though there are workarounds[1]. It's high time people migrated to EL7. [1] - http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/chrome-deps-stable-3.11-1.x86_64.rpm -- Sent from the Delta quadr

Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

2017-11-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nux! > Sent: den 28 november 2017 09:17 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6 > > Sorin, > > Indeed, CentOS 6 is not longer officially supported by Chrome. It hasn't been

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > - don't run ssh on 22, use a different port. (Things get a lot > > quieter when you do that, but it comes with it's own problems and don't > > get complacent because someone will find the port eventually.) > > I consider that pointless security-through-obscurity. That wasn't meant as

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Valeri, > Good luck! Use strong passwords (passphrase I call it when I talk to my > users), especially for root account. if possible: Do not use passwords at all. Disable password login, and replace by SSH private/public key authentication, and, again if possible, with OTP (two factor authe

Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

2017-11-28 Thread Tru Huynh
Hi, On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:07:36PM +0100, H wrote: > > OK, I have no interest in Flash, however. If you don't mind installing singularity (https://github.com/singularityware/singularity), you can run a CentOS-7 docker based container with google-chrome at the expense of disk space. If you

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[CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a single rolling release and rely on the ABI commitment assuming things just work between point releases. On the other hand I see the opposite with RHEL where admins constrain installations to the point release. What is the case with users o

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Mark Haney
On 11/28/2017 08:06 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a single rolling release and rely on the ABI commitment assuming things just work between point releases. On the other hand I see the opposite with RHEL where admins constrain installations to

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread James Hogarth
On 28 November 2017 at 13:48, Mark Haney wrote: > On 11/28/2017 08:06 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> >> With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a single >> rolling release and rely on the ABI commitment assuming things >> just work between point releases. On the other hand I see t

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/27/2017 02:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Pete Biggs wrote: - don't run ssh on 22, use a different port. I consider that pointless security-through-obscurity. Security through obscurity it may be, but it isn't pointless. Tarpits are in a similar class; they don't help with security in

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/28/2017 08:06 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is the case with users on this list who support both [rolling releases like the normal CentOS model and 'constrain to the point releases' as is possible with RHEL]? I personally run RHEL just like my CentOS installs, as a rolling release. I

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/28/2017 08:20 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 28 November 2017 at 13:48, Mark Haney wrote: >> On 11/28/2017 08:06 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> >>> With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a single >>> rolling release and rely on the ABI commitment assuming things >>> just wo

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Mark Haney
On 11/28/2017 04:09 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: - don't run ssh on 22, use a different port. (Things get a lot quieter when you do that, but it comes with it's own problems and don't get complacent because someone will find the port eventually.) I consider that pointless security-through-obscu

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread m . roth
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a single > rolling release and rely on the ABI commitment assuming things > just work between point releases. On the other hand I see the > opposite with RHEL where admins constrain installations to the > point relea

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/28/2017 10:20 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a single >> rolling release and rely on the ABI commitment assuming things >> just work between point releases. On the other hand I see the >> opposite with RHEL whe

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Tue, November 28, 2017 9:21 am, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 11/27/2017 02:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Pete Biggs wrote: >>>- don't run ssh on 22, use a different port. >> I consider that pointless security-through-obscurity. > Security through obscurity it may be, but it isn't pointless. Ta

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:04:14AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Tue, November 28, 2017 9:21 am, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 11/27/2017 02:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Pete Biggs wrote: > >>>- don't run ssh on 22, use a different port. > >> I consider that pointless security-through-o

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/28/2017 12:04 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Thanks, Lamar! that is very instructive. You're welcome. I was always unimpressed with persistence of attempts to make more secure (less pickable) cylinder cased locks (precision, multi-level, pins at a weird locations/angles). The best way to

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On 11/28/2017 12:04 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Thanks, Lamar! that is very instructive. > You're welcome. > >> I was always unimpressed with >> persistence of attempts to make more secure (less pickable) cylinder >> cased >> locks (precision, multi-level, pins at a weird loc

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Steven Tardy
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 8:06 AM Joseph L. Casale wrote: > On the other hand I see the > opposite with RHEL where admins constrain installations to the > point release. This is most commonly due to 3rd party support stipulations (I’m looking at you Oracle/SAP) who haven’t/won’t/lag test a fully

Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

2017-11-28 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 28.11.2017 um 12:29 schrieb Tru Huynh : > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:07:36PM +0100, H wrote: >> >> OK, I have no interest in Flash, however. > > If you don't mind installing singularity > (https://github.com/singularityware/singularity), you can > run a CentOS-7 docker based container with

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:52:36PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 11/28/2017 12:04 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> Thanks, Lamar! that is very instructive. > > You're welcome. > > > >> I was always unimpressed with > >> persistence of attempts to make more secure (less p

[CentOS] Migrating From CentOS-6 To CentOS-7

2017-11-28 Thread Eugene Poole
I've a system that has been running CentOS 6 64-bit for almost 4-years and I want to start the move to CentOS 7 64-bit. I run software RAID-1 with LVM everywhere except /boot which is a standard partition RAID-1.  There are 2 areas that concern me greatly about this migration: 1.  How do I d

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joseph L. > Casale > Sent: den 28 november 2017 14:06 > To: 'centos@centos.org' > Subject: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS > > With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a sin

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 29/11/2017 à 08:26, Sorin Srbu a écrit : > If updated, the instrument software will break, like in an atomic mushroom > cloud, rendering critical hardware non-working and lab people standing > outside my office with torches, pitch-forks and all the shebang. > Yupp, unfortunately that's the curre

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas > Kovacs > Sent: den 29 november 2017 08:31 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS > > Le 29/11/2017 à 08:26, Sorin Srbu a écrit : > > If updated, the