Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Ronald Klop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/08 10:36 AM >>> > > Well, I admit I still have more things to learn, even though I've been > > the admin of "my" own Linux servers for 3 years and FreeBSD for... can't > > remember, but not quite as long, but I'm not gonna pester my colleagues > >

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Ronald Klop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/08 10:34 AM >>> > >> I'm not quite sure right now why you're using rsa keys. I'm always using > >> dsa keys (ssh-keygen -t dsa). It comes to my mind, that rsa keys are for > >> ssh version 1, while dsa keys are for ssh version 2. > >> But I could be wron

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/08 9:47 AM >>> > DOn't you have a local IT helpdesk? This is pretty basic stuff that they > should have documentation for. Well, I admit I still have more things to learn, even though I've been the admin of "my" own Linux servers for 3 years and

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/08 9:43 AM >>> > Hi Gavin, > From your Suse, try to run the ssh commando with "-v" or even -vv or -vvv > to get debugging output. > If you can't figure out what the debugging output wants to tell you, send > it to the list. > But complete, copy 'n' pa

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Paul Saab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/08 9:41 AM >>> > look at your permissions in ~/.ssh on the freebsd box. Make sure your home > directory does not have insecure permissions and .ssh + all the files in > there are not writable by anyone else. No worries there. Thanks. ___

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/08 9:32 AM >>> > On Thursday 14 August 2008 15:29:27 Gavin Spomer wrote: > > >>> Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/13/08 7:10 PM >>> > > > > > > You need to start an s

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Igor Pokrovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/08 8:22 AM >>> > > ... and I have to enter my password. I've Googled, but can't seem to find > > the answer to my dilemma. Is it generally kind of a pain to do this between > > platforms? I'm finally very comfortable on FreeBSD and am starting to >

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> It's not asking for your password. It's asking for your passphrase to > decrypt your private key. Are you running an ssh-agent on the Suse > system? > -- > R. Kevin Oberman Aha! Thanks, Kevin. Things are clicking in my brain and I grok now. I just remembered that when I did ssh-keygen on my m

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
> >>> Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/13/08 7:18 PM >>> > --On August 13, 2008 5:35:29 PM -0700 Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am able to use ssh-keygen to generate keys so that I can ssh from my > > Mac to any of my SuSE

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/13/08 7:10 PM >>> > You need to start an ssh-agent on the machine you're connecting from and > populate it with your keychain: > > eval `ssh-agent` > ssh-add > > Add the above to your .profile, or check the Linux PAM implementation to > se

ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
I hope this isn't an invalid topic for this list. I'm on so many lists and I hate to join another one just to get help on one thing. Apologies if it's not. I am able to use ssh-keygen to generate keys so that I can ssh from my Mac to any of my SuSE systems or ssh from my Mac to any of my FreeBSD

Re: 6.2-STABLE => 7.0-STABLE Upgrade root partition more full

2008-06-09 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> Skip Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/06/08 1:39 PM >>> Gavin Spomer wrote: > I successfully did my first FreeBSD upgrade yesterday after looking at the > manual, and cross referencing with Googling and getting help from our network > engineer here at CWU. Befo

6.2-STABLE => 7.0-STABLE Upgrade root partition more full

2008-06-06 Thread Gavin Spomer
I successfully did my first FreeBSD upgrade yesterday after looking at the manual, and cross referencing with Googling and getting help from our network engineer here at CWU. Before the upgrade, running df showed: Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a507630

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
Hallelujah! My "world" is rebuilt! Thanks to Chris, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", Kevin and Jim for educating me and pointing me in the right direction. Will definitely research further and continue to have a blast with FreeBSD on my test server. It very well could be that I will be using FreeBSD for my

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/13/08 1:25 PM >>> > > Surprisingly I grokked most of your cheatsheet and looked at a few > > man pages to figure out most of the rest. Haven't tried it all yet. I > > was wondering about the "mount -u /". Is it really necessary to mount > > the root partitio

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 7:01 PM >>> > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > If you put KERNCONF into make.conf, you can simplify it to: > make kernel Just to be clear, if I add the appropriate KERNCONF line in /etc/ma

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 6:13 PM >>> >On 12/02/2008, Chris H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >. . . > > > for some reason. Having said that, I figured I would

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>>> "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 4:34 PM >>> >Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> First, let me note that step one in rebuilding world should be "cd >> /usr/src", not "make buildworld". I guess

Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-12 Thread Gavin Spomer
Please forgive me if this is not the appropriate list to post this on. If this is a topic for another, more appropriate FreeBSD list, then would someone please kindly point this guy in the right direction? :) I'm on the security advisory list too and got 2 emails about patches about a month ago