Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-11 Thread Terho Uotila
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:11:01 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Oh, of course, if you speak about giving yourself a label, then, > fine. Take the one you want. But, it does not mean that you can claim > to be a professional, or that you can say someone is a professional. > It seemed to

Re: audit security

2013-05-15 Thread Terho Uotila
On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:22:08 +0200 Pol Hallen wrote: > What should be use to audit security (with email notification) for > debian? > > (with FreeBSD I've portaudit: check from external db security hole > from my packages installed and send an email) > As was already pointed out, apticron may be

Re: welcome mail (after adduser)

2013-05-13 Thread Terho Uotila
On Fri, 10 May 2013 17:17:42 +0200 Pol Hallen wrote: > What is the easy way to send a "welcome mail" after created a new > user? > Maybe mailx? mail -s "welcome message" recipient < welcome.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: download old ISO

2013-05-10 Thread Terho Uotila
On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:47:22 +0200 Thore wrote: > > Am 10.05.2013 23:31, schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > > so i needed the 6.0 ISO files which i was unable to found on > > debian main website due to 7.0 stable release. > > > > according to this http://archive.debian.org/README > > > > i am unabl

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-16 Thread Terho Uotila
Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow passwords. On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:04:21 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > 2. Did not enable shadow passwords > (...) > 3. Attempted "su", neither root nor user password accepted You may have hit a bug. I noticed a problem with disab