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11 Nov '14

I have a fesh install of CentOS release 6.6 on my laptop. I want to use a more secure config with /home crypted. But when this partition is mounted I cannot login anymore on my laptop. Only root can login. This occur at level 5 (graphic login) or 3 (text login). The message is "Cannot enter home directory. Using /." Logged as root I can create a new user (with useradd) and his home is created on this crypted partition. Logged as root I can issue a "su - anotheruser" in a terminal and access the home of this user on the crypted partition. The problem looks strange for me and google has not helped.... This how I build the crypted partition (following a tutorial, just changing ext4 with xfs): lvcreate -L 30G -n lv_home vg_portable badblocks -s -w -t random -v /dev/vg_portable/lv_home cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/vg_portable/lv_home cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/vg_portable/lv_home c_home mkfs -t xfs -L /home /dev/mapper/c_home The blkid command shows: /dev/mapper/c_home: LABEL="/home" UUID="1118317e-cc5a-4183-a498-21418f82e982" TYPE="xfs" In /etc/fstab I add: UUID=1118317e-cc5a-4183-a498-21418f82e982 /home xfs defaults 1 2 In /etc/crypttab I add: c_home /dev/vg_portable/lv_home none luks Thanks for your advices. Patrick

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Re: [CentOS] To James B. Byrne
by Alexander Farber 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Of couse I could "explain my Gmail mailbox not move messages" by James - but I assumed the person sending 3-4 messages daily to this mailing list might be asked to consider to fix his own settings (MX and http certificate). The Chrome warning for harte-lyne.ca looks dreadful by the way. Regards Alex

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Re: [CentOS] To James B. Byrne
by Alexander Farber 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Reindl, you should relax a bit. I didn't mean exactly "MX", just meant a "heads up" to take a look at own configs. I like how you defend using a broken http cert. Regards Alex On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote: > > Am 11.11.2014 um 19:34 schrieb Alexander Farber: >> >> Of couse I could "explain my Gmail mailbox not move messages" by James - >> but I assumed the person sending 3-4 messages daily to this mailing list >> might be asked to consider to fix his own settings (MX and http >> certificate) > > > you could also stop talking about things you don't have any clue - the MX > has nothing to do with outgoing mail and SPF is as explained also not the > reason > > it's the *list software* mangle DKIM signed messages > >> The Chrome warning for harte-lyne.ca looks dreadful by the way > > > WTF - whatever certificate is used on a website has no business in context > of mail and any software crying in context of mail because a self signed > website certificate is broken > > complain at Chrome! >

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[offtopic] Groupon to use the Gnome name for proprietary software
by Nux! 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

It's just out of this world http://www.gnome.org/groupon/ I'm making efforts to maintain civility for the list's sake. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

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Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop
by James B. Byrne 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

On Mon, November 10, 2014 15:00, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne <byrnejb(a)harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > > > Try including the session manager in the startx invocation, e.g., > > startx /usr/bin/mate-session > > (Or whaterever the MATE session manager is called. I'm guessing the > above by analogy with gnome-session.) > Yes! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now, to test this I removed Gnome3 rather than start over with a fresh install. So it is possible that installing Gnome Desktop makes some configuration change of which I am unaware that permits Mate to work thereafter. However, using startx /usr/bin/mate-session does indeed bring up the Mate desktop without Gnome3 installed. This whole exercise in frustration was due to the fact that I am singularly unimpressed with the Gnome3 experience. Others have made all the arguments and comments respecting its opaqueness and inflexibility that I can think of; and quite a few more besides. So, suffice to say, it will not be installed here. What I cannot understand is why an Enterprise Distro is packaging an evidently tablet based GUI to begin with. Where do they think RHEL gets installed; cell phones? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Kickstart IPv6 Gateway
by John Tall 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi. I'm installing CentOS 7 with Kickstart on a machine that has IPv6. The problem is that while it has an IPv6 address after installation it does not have the IPv6 gateway. I'm using NetworkManager and my network configuration is completely static, no autoconf or dhcpv6. My Kickstart configuration uses the following network configuration (actual values replaced but with the same format): network --device enp1s0 --bootproto=static --gateway=123.123.123.1 --ip=123.123.123.123 --nameserver=123.123.123.1 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --ipv6=2001:123:abc::123 --ipv6gateway=2001:123:abc::1 --activate network --hostname=test.example.org The Red Hat installation guide suggests that --ipv6gateway should be used but it looks like it's not picked up. Does anyone know why this doesn't work? John

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Re: [CentOS] open-vm-tools on CentOS 6
by Rainer Traut 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

I know that open-vm-tools is maintained by vmware. I meant the Vmware repo is alway matching latest vSphere release. But: - doesn't contain newer pv drivers - isn't on par with vSphere releases For example: 9.4.6 Dyno Hongjun Fu <hfu(a)vmware.com> Release matching the vSphere 5.5p02 release. 9.4.0 Dmitry Torokhov <dtor(a)vmware.com> Release matching the vSphere 5.5 release. There is no 9.4.6 rpm for C7 but we are running vSphere 5.5p02 VG Rainer Am 11.11.2014 um 16:17 schrieb Reindl Harald: > the ones from EPEL too > guess who maintains the packages.... > > Wed Jul 16 2014 Ravindra Kumar <ravindrakumar(a)vmware.com> - 9.4.6-1 > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=15954 > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=545136 > > Am 11.11.2014 um 15:22 schrieb Rainer Traut: >> Why? >> VMWare's rpm repo is well maintained until EL6. >> >> Am 11.11.2014 um 14:22 schrieb Nux!: >>> I would use the open-vm-tools from EPEL in EL6 as well >

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open-vm-tools on CentOS 6
by Boris Epstein 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello all, As far as which VMWare tools to use - the ones from VM Ware or the open-vm-tools available through the EPEL - is there any consensus on what is better? I know that for CentOS 7 you are told to use open-vm-tools but what is the situation with CentOS 6? Thanks. Boris.

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Re: [CentOS] Network menu doesn't appear on system menu on CentOS 6.6
by James B. Byrne 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

On Mon, November 10, 2014 16:44, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:08:53 -0600 (CST) >> Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >> >>> I am not seeing the "Network Connections" menu option (to configure the >>> network) on one of my CentOS 6.6 machines, even on user root, in Gnome >>> under System -> Administration. It's not anywhere else, either. Can anyone >>> point me in the direction of having that added? >> >> yum install nm-connection-editor >> >> On Mate it shows up under System-Preferences-System-Network Connections > > Yeah, I'm having a tough day, THAT is where it should be found, > but isn't, under Gnome, on this one machine. Typing what you did above > gave me an error of "no such package". I then tried yum install > *connection* and yum install *editor* and nothing came up that matches > what I need. > > Gilbert The Gnome developers probably decided that users did not need to see that. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop
by James B. Byrne 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

On Mon, November 10, 2014 15:00, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne <byrnejb(a)harte-lyne.ca> wrote: >> So, >> >> 1. I installed a minimal CentOS-7. >> 2. I then installed epel-release. >> 3. I then installed etckeeper from epel. >> 4. I then ran yum update -y. >> 5. I then rebooted (kernel update). >> 6. I then ran "yum groups install "X Window System" >> 7. I then ran "yum groups "MATE Desktop" >> 8. I then ran startx. > > Can you confirm line 7 above? It might be a typo. Typos on lines 6 and 7. Mate was installed successfully along with the X Windo System. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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