Re: [techtalk] LDAP question

2000-07-08 Thread Anmol Khirbat
On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey All, > I'm hoping someone a little more experienced w/LDAP can help me out. A > couple of basic questions: > 1) when the openldap faq say to put root crypto password in the conf file > do they mean just copying it from /etc/shadow? Or is there

Re: [techtalk] Debian woes

2000-07-08 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I'm not sure about telnet taking so long (it's usually faster for me to telnet using a unix box than it is a windows box in general) but for ftp you might check your /etc/wu-ftpd/ directory and all it's files. Probably the big one in there is ftpaccess, it has configuration information for the w

[techtalk] LDAP question

2000-07-08 Thread moebius
Hey All, I'm hoping someone a little more experienced w/LDAP can help me out. A couple of basic questions: 1) when the openldap faq say to put root crypto password in the conf file do they mean just copying it from /etc/shadow? Or is there some method of encryption in ldap that I'm missing? 2) H

Re: [techtalk] yet another solaris question ...

2000-07-08 Thread Chris J/#6
Magni wrote: > An alternative to start another shell when logging in, is to make an > alternative root-user, feks. roottsch with tcsh as shell. This means you > have to keep an eye on logins from two users (I presume you keep an eye > on when and from where root is logging in..), but the advantag

Re: [techtalk] login restriction

2000-07-08 Thread Magni Onsoien
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Summary: > > /bin/false or /bin/true as a login shell prevents an individual from > logging in via telnet, ssh or rlogin. > > Closing off rlogind and telnetd prevents ANYONE from logging in via > rlogin or telnet. (But not ssh. Which is usually deliberately permitted) sshd

Re: [techtalk] Debian woes

2000-07-08 Thread Kath
I should have mentioned the Apache works fine. It is odd, telnet works now, but it takes forever to get a connection through. - Kathy - Original Message - From: "Nicole Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] D

Re: [techtalk] Debian woes

2000-07-08 Thread Kath
Using CuteFTP this is the log of what happens: STATUS:> Connect: Saturday 08:53:07 07-08-2000 STATUS:> Connecting to 192.168.0.3 STATUS:> Connecting to 192.168.0.3 (ip = 192.168.0.3) STATUS:> Socket connected. Waiting for welcome message... ERROR:> Timeout ERROR:> Can't login. Still trying... STA

Re: [techtalk] yet another solaris question ...

2000-07-08 Thread Magni Onsoien
Chris J/#6: > One hint -- in general, changing the shell for root is a bad thing...some > Unixes don't like it, as some tools assume the root shell will be /bin/sh > (cron is one example). Now, you didn't say which shell you were changing, but > it sounds like the root shell. An alternative t

Re: [techtalk] pppd question...

2000-07-08 Thread Anne Forker
Hi Megan, (reply to the list because it's of general interest ;-)) On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Megan McGuire wrote: > Ok, im not really good with knowing files and stuff on linux yet, so which > file would I have to edit to del the # and which line can you give me a > lil more help please. ok, no