Re: [techtalk] password policy?

2001-06-20 Thread Eric Lammerts
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > chage -M 90 -W 10 > > > > will set the account of username to expire every 90 days and issue a > > warning that the password is going to expire 10 days in advance. This > > command actually edits the /etc/shadow file to produce the desired resul

Re: [techtalk] Mail accounts

2001-06-20 Thread James
I toyed with it for a bit and now its working.  I hate computers!   - kath - Original Message - From: kath To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:28 AM Subject: [techtalk] Mail accounts Been having some trouble setting up mail accounts on Deb

[techtalk] Mail accounts

2001-06-20 Thread kath
Been having some trouble setting up mail accounts on Debian (Being checked through IMAP w/ Outlook Express.  uw imap is the imap daemon, exim is the smtp).   We create a full blown account called "Rich.G" on mail.ourdomain.org using linuxconf, but when we try to send an email to it, we get t

[techtalk] Kickstart woes

2001-06-20 Thread s h
Hi all, I've currently been playing with Kickstart. When I tried it out, it booted the kernel on the disk, insmod'd the network card driver, successfully got a dhcp address, and then insmod'd nfs.o. It gives no error messages at all; the last message is the nfs module line. However, the instal

Re: [techtalk] Gnomish weirdness (Gnome 1.4, Mandrake 8.0)

2001-06-20 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Hi, Telsa, and everyone else, To answer some of your questions: My system boots to kdm, which is the default for Mandrake. The problem is the same no matter which window manager I use for Gnome. I've tried sawfish, icewm, and enlightenment, and the results were the same, so it is Gnome-specif

Re: [techtalk] Gnomish weirdness (Gnome 1.4, Mandrake 8.0)

2001-06-20 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:25:00PM -0400 or thereabouts, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I decided to play around with the latest version of Gnome kindly provided > my Mandrake, and something really weird is happening. Somehow, my letter > "r" key has been remapped. Do you know h