Re: Atheros wifi interface disabled although drivers are loaded

2008-06-10 Thread Craig Hurley
Rehceb Rotkiv wrote: Hi, after reinstalling Debian on the same hardware, my wireless connection no longer works. - lspci shows that the wifi card is recognized (Atheros chipset). - According to lsmod output, the correct driver modules are loaded (ath_pci etc.). - However, lshw still shows the d

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 21:55, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Be specific. Is it an empty file or is it the default Etch file with > everything commented-out? The /etc/scurity/limits.conf file should be > owned root.root with permissions -rw-r--r-- > > Doug. > > ~# ls -lA /etc/security/limits.conf -rw-r-

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 21:54, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > By what user is this script run. The pam documentation for the limits > module says that root is not affected by this limit. > ~# ls -lA /etc/cron.d/script -rw--- 1 root root 190 Jan 2 18:23 /etc/cron.d/script The contents of /etc/cron.d/s

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 20:13, Jeff D wrote: > do you have anything specific listed in: > > /etc/security/limits.conf > > There's nothing in /etc/security/limits.conf. Regards, Craig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 16:10, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Find out what script it is and read it. See what this setrlimit is. Doug. Hi Doug, Here's the script. It's very basic; it recreates a folder if it has been accidentally deleted. #!/bin/bash vpath="/path/to/folder" if [ $# -ne 0 ] ; then

PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to auth.log, recording a the session open and close along with 2 other failures.

Re: denyhosts + tcp wrappers?

2007-07-12 Thread Craig Hurley
On 11/07/2007 04:44, Bob Proulx wrote: If you are finding 'denyhosts' difficult then you may want to install 'fail2ban' as one standalone method to stop this since it is extremely simple. It should work out of the box. Denyhosts did work out of the box. My understanding of how denyhosts work

Re: legal notice before local login?

2007-07-11 Thread Craig Hurley
On 11/07/2007 02:38, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: What about /etc/issue? It will print before the login prompt. The difficulty with putting it between the login prompt and the password prompt is that getty passes the username (from the login prompt) to the login program that then asks for the pa

legal notice before local login?

2007-07-10 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, Can anyone tell me how to add a legal notice before a user enters their password when logging on *locally*. I've already configured a legal notice for users logging in via SSH using "Banner /path/to/legalnotice" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Thank you, Craig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

legal notice before local login?

2007-07-10 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, Can anyone tell me how to add a legal notice before a user enters their password when logging on *locally*. I've already configured a legal notice for users logging in via SSH using "Banner /path/to/legalnotice" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Thank you, Craig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

denyhosts + tcp wrappers?

2007-07-10 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, Has anyone installed and configured DenyHosts (http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net) so that it uses tcp wrappers on debian? I've read this blog: http://tdot.blog-city.com/securing_ssh_with_denyhosts.htm but there are differences in the files/paths used on debian and what the blog-author