Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, 1. Regarding NIS vs. LDAP: The way I see things, NIS is obsolete in 2007 (and much before) for the following reasons: NIS is not secure: everything goes plain text over the network; You can not prohibit "standard" users to see other users password hash (ie. you can't make the shadow map privat

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 09:34 +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > I am considering setting up a heterogenous work environment with about > 100 high-end Linux work stations, 40 MS Windows, and 10 Mac's. The > underlying common authentication system will likely be LDAP. Would NIS or > Active Direc

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:06:55AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > What is the easiest way to install an Asterisk system? Regarding asterisk packages in distributions: Several distributions have decent packages of Asterisk. Debian ones are rather well-maintained, though the Lenny ones are c

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread Eli Marmor
I haven't read the thread so far, so I apologize if it was already mentioned, but there are live-CDs booting with Asterisk, such as Medianix (based on Morphix): http://trac.medianix.org I have no experience with any of of them. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netmask (El-Mar) Internet T

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Noam Meltzer
Speaking of LDAP management: I have had the best experience with this tool: http://muclm.sourceforge.net/ Highly configurable, plug-in system, user-friendly, and installation takes 5 seconds. On Dec 25, 2007 10:35 AM, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 09:34 +0200, J

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > If I use OpenPBX.org, does this change things? > > I suppose you meant CallWeaver. http://callweaver.org/ (note: they don't > use trac). > > OpenPBX is a free PBX program written by Voicetronix in PERL. > Voicetronix is an interesting company (h

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 11:04 +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Speaking of LDAP management: > I have had the best experience with this tool: > http://muclm.sourceforge.net/ > > Highly configurable, plug-in system, user-friendly, and installation > takes 5 seconds. Not as feature complete, but I use a

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 11:07:30AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > 3. What didn't Voicetronix deserve? Someone using "OpenPBX" as the name of > their project? Yes. The project was renamed. But the domain openpbx.org is still in dispute. Anyway, I'm still waiting for CallWeaver to come up with a rel

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 11:02:35AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: > I haven't read the thread so far, so I apologize if it was already > mentioned, but there are live-CDs booting with Asterisk, such as > Medianix (based on Morphix): > > http://trac.medianix.org > > I have no experience with any o

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Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tuesday, 25 בDecember 2007 09:34, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Hi Linux-IL members, > I am considering setting up a heterogenous work environment with about > 100 high-end Linux work stations, 40 MS Windows, and 10 Mac's. The > underlying common authentication system will likely be LDAP. Would

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 04:43:40PM +0200, Ariel Biener wrote: > Well, I wouldn't chose any of the above in the way it is described. I believe > that MS AD is the best tool to use for Windows environment, LDAP is the > best tool for a Linux environment, and NIS is the best tool in that it is alot >

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tuesday, 25 בDecember 2007 17:13, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > However be aware that except for Windows, NFS uses *NIX user numbers > for access control. If your user name to user number mapping is > not consistent across all your systems you can have security > problems. Indeed, consistenc

Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop

2007-12-25 Thread Tom Rosenfeld
Yes I found the same plugin wrapper. It helps but does not seem to work all the time. I was having another problem with several 32 bit programs like ooffice (with the default install) and acroread. When I tried to run as a user authenticated thru LDAP (or NIS) I would get: GLib-WARNING **: g

Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop

2007-12-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 22:07 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi, > > I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 > bit on the desktop. > > We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just > realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. > > For

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday, 25 בDecember 2007, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Regarding asterisk packages in distributions: > > There is still no Fedora package. There is a good package at at-rpms. > And other packages of lesser quality. Well. Things change: # yum list 'asterisk*' Loading "fastestmirror" plugin L

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread ik
It's very important to use the latest version: 1.6.16.2 (some security issues that where fixed). I don't like the fact that they do not write the official version of zaptel and libpri, but refer it according to the Asterisk version itself. My 0.0002 cents :) Ido On Dec 25, 2007 8:16 PM, Oron Pel

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
There is one thing that everyone in this discussion seem to have missed so far, and that is that AD *is* LDAP. Ariel Biener wrote: Well, I wouldn't chose any of the above in the way it is described. I believe that MS AD is the best tool to use for Windows environment, LDAP is the best tool f

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tuesday, 25 בDecember 2007 21:54, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > There is one thing that everyone in this discussion seem to have missed > so far, and that is that AD *is* LDAP. > > Ariel Biener wrote: > > Well, I wouldn't chose any of the above in the way it is described. I > > believe that MS AD is

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 10:22:46PM +0200, ik wrote: > It's very important to use the latest version: 1.6.16.2 (some security > issues that where fixed). 1.*4*.16.2 is indeed important if you had 1.4.16 or 1.4.16.1 as it has fixed the fix. OTOH, there's a later commit to the same spot in the SVN wi

Re: [YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-25 Thread Ohad Levy
Hi, just my couple of cents: AD and Linux authentication works quite well, that means for authentication only, you can use kerborse to authenitcate users that you have on your AD. however, its quite important to know, that user id mapping will be done via winbind (or maybe a mapping file), and

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-25 Thread ik
On Dec 25, 2007 11:13 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 10:22:46PM +0200, ik wrote: > > It's very important to use the latest version: 1.6.16.2 (some security > > issues that where fixed). > > 1.*4*.16.2 is indeed important if you had 1.4.16 or 1.4.16.1 as it ha