hi--
i have been using an 8100 as a server for a few weeks now, and am interested
in setting up security realms
i have created the necessary 'users' file with a valid user and password, as
well as added the '.htaccess' file to the folders in question.
the problem is that- the '.htaccess' fil
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:02:15PM -0700, Greg Howland wrote:
> Could someone point me to where to find info about
> creating bootable rescue cd's for ppc machines.
Linked from Debian's front page, is www.debian.org/CD/ .
But, Debian does not have bootable CDs for anything other than
'NewWorld' M
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:37:30PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone have any sugegstions on how to 'restore' the bus after
> > > coming out of sleep so the burner is useable again?
> As somebody else mentioned, you have to remove the 1394 drivers before you
> sleep. I mean all of
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:31:43AM +0200, Philipp Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-24 11:39:24 +0100, Joss Winn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > If I put my iMac to sleep, the CD-RW is useless after waking up
> > until I reboot. Scanning the bus with gscanbus or anoth
Thanks. I tried this (and other variations) for hours the other
night but whatever I did to load and unload the drivers, the next
time I went to mount the CD in the CDRW drive, mount would hang and
the drive would be useless.
The situation is like this:
The CDRW drive works well after boot up.
On Sat, 2002-08-24 11:39:24 +0100, Joss Winn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> this would be great if I can find a fix
>
>
> my firewire QPS CD-RW works nicely with the 2.4.18 kernel but for
> one problem.
>
> If I put my iMac to sleep, the CD-RW is useless after wa
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this..
> >
> > I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems.
>
> That's bad, because tha
OK folks, the banter is getting excessive. I'll have to bail if the dialog
can't be kept more point to point instead of broadcast.
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Could someone point me to where to find info about
creating bootable rescue cd's for ppc machines.
Thanks,
-- Greg
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>I'm not sure about 2 speeds, but 2.4.19-ben0 lists mine as a 750FX
>(and it is a new (2-3 month old) iBook).
>
>How might I help?
It's ok, I have what I need, thanks
Ben.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:44:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> > Why does anyone need to read megabytes of urandom?
>
> Nobody does. Or, at least, xdm doesn't. Markus is opining without the
> benefit of having checked the fac
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:43:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> xdm doesn't read the same amount of data when it's reading from a
> (presumably) entropic device node.
I didn't assume that.
> It reads eight size_t's. Surely that is not excessive.
It's eight size_t's good entropy wasted for n
> "benjamin" == Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
benjamin> If one of you has one of those new iBook IIs with a 750FX CPU
benjamin> (it can run at 2 speeds in MacOS), please contact me, I need
benjamin> some infos from this machine.
I'm not sure about 2 speeds, bu
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> Why does anyone need to read megabytes of urandom?
Nobody does. Or, at least, xdm doesn't. Markus is opining without the
benefit of having checked the facts.
--
G. Branden Robinson| What influenced me to athe
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this..
> >
> > I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems.
>
> That's bad, because tha
Marcus Brinkmann writes:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this..
> >
> > I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems.
>
> That's bad, because that will drain the entropy a lot, and
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:16:06PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Also, reading /dev/mem doesn't sound very secure at all (even if it works)
> > because the patterns in the memory of a computer are probably predictable
> > and a
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Also, reading /dev/mem doesn't sound very secure at all (even if it works)
> because the patterns in the memory of a computer are probably predictable
> and a lot of information can be observed from the outside (which processes
> a
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this..
>
> I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems.
That's bad, because that will drain the entropy a lot, and it might
block for a long time, and that f
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:23:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> matthew green wrote:
> > bad ideas often hang around for a long time. the only surprising
> > thing to me is how long this one has taken to surface...
>
> Perhaps Branden is gathering information about what a bad idea this
> really is,
If one of you has one of those new iBook IIs with a 750FX CPU
(it can run at 2 speeds in MacOS), please contact me, I need
some infos from this machine.
Ben.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:06:00AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Done. I've submitted the output for HPPA boxes running 32 and 64-bit
> kernels. Looks like they pass without any problem. I'll pass on the
yes, but it may well crash them. some parts of /dev/mem map random IO
addresses which may
matthew green wrote:
> bad ideas often hang around for a long time. the only surprising
> thing to me is how long this one has taken to surface...
Perhaps Branden is gathering information about what a bad idea this
really is, to show upstream the error of their ways. I can't believe he
actually i
Branden,
> The long story, for those interested:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/debian-x-200208/msg00091.html
> (and read the whole thread)
> The short story:
> I need people with root on machines of your given architecture to
> compile and run the attached C program. It consists of cod
matthew green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> my point is that on modern systems we simply should not read
> from /dev/mem for these purposes _ever_.
It would make some sense to read all the physical memory in the
machine. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any reasonably way to do
that. Reading /dev/
Previously Kimmo K. I. Surakka wrote:
> I think the "safe" way of getting random data without a decent random
> source would be to write one. This, however, would be more that just
> a small patch.
There is existing code to generate randomness from userland, look at
what current OpenSSH does for e
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:32:37 -0500 you wrote:
> I am currently trying to figure out how to make a single CDs that is
> bootable both on PREP and CHRP (IBM) systems. I have some anecdotal
> evidence that there is more to it than just pointing to the boot image
> from Open Firmware and/or setting u
Hi,
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:10:46 -0700, you wrote:
> Is it possible your terminal is set to a different rate than the kernel
> is communicating on? On Macs, the OF rate is 38400, but when I would
> pass 9600 to the kernel in the boot argument without changing the rate
> on the terminal, I would
On 21 Aug 2002, German Poo Caaman~o wrote:
> There are three options:
> 1. The cable is connected to ttyS1, not ttyS0.
> 2. The bootargs has errors
> 3. The cable is not full null modem
The cable is now definitely connected to the right serial port; I am now
getting output but it's too slow. Bo
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:04:26PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > actually, i hadn't, but there wasn't very much there besides the
> > fact that people found it was xdm reading /dev/mem and a small
> > patch for debian to enable /dev/random (i'd suggest /dev/urandom).
>
> If any of these it shou
Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:04:26PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > actually, i hadn't, but there wasn't very much there besides the
> > fact that people found it was xdm reading /dev/mem and a small
> > patch for debian to enable /dev/random (i'd sug
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:04:26 +1000
"matthew green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> actually, i hadn't, but there wasn't very much there besides the
> fact that people found it was xdm reading /dev/mem and a small
> patch for debian to enable /dev/random (i'd suggest /dev/urandom).
>
> my point is th
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:04:26PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> > > why don't you use /dev/urandom if it exists, as it does on pretty
> > > much all modern UNIX platforms?
> >
> > I see you haven't read the thread.
>
>
> actually, i hadn't, but there wasn't very much there besides the
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I'll run it later on different alphas, but I checked it on a
ppc-machine running AIX if this is of any interest to you:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root # ./readmem.aix.x
Reading data from /dev/mem...
read #2 of 8192 bytes
...
read #1024 of 8192 bytes
done with read of /dev/mem (returned 1).
su
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:28:38PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> wow, this is such a bad idea.
It originated upstream.
mmm, xdm.
In fact, judging by CVS logs it has been in xdm's source for many, many
years.
bad ideas often hang around for a long time. the only surpris
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:28:38PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> wow, this is such a bad idea.
It originated upstream.
In fact, judging by CVS logs it has been in xdm's source for many, many
years.
> why don't you use /dev/urandom if it exists, as it does on pretty
> much all modern UNIX platfor
Be warned: on at least some architectures (notably IA-64), this sort of
read has been known to cause untrapped machine checks (a.k.a., lockups
or spontaneous reboots). Arguably the kernel should trap this sort of
nonsense, so you may be in the mood to file a bug against "kernel" af
The long story, for those interested:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/debian-x-200208/msg00091.html
(and read the whole thread)
The short story:
I need people with root on machines of your given architecture to
compile and run the attached C program. It consists of code borrowed
from xdm
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