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LUKS encypted partition using --key-file can only be decrypted with --key-file
by Digimer 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I created a LUKS encrypted partition via a udev-triggered script on 6.6 using --key-file /tmp/foo. This worked fine, and I can decrypt the LUKS partition via script and manually using --key-file with luksOpen. The odd problem is that I can't decrypt the partition using the prompt. If I manually create a file with the passphrase in it and then point to it with --key-file, it decrypts fine. I used 'cat -A /tmp/foo' to verify that there was no '\n' at the end of the phrase. Is this expected behaviour? That is; If you create an encrypted partition using --key-file, you always decrypt with the same? If so, I can't understand the logic... If not, then I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks for any insight! digimer - -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU93ZLAAoJECChztQA3mh0swwP/2PX3Y3TmEEIeN7WxWQjnbX0 B+hdp3Yk1PBqaQ/FsOzGsnKnxOUu73fB25gDksEWnNedBru4ayJuYPW644rH8Ivr fS8Pz3y6buGqUaggzsGNaGfDOKtiLOp722OeuPUmaNHnGCE3qJbhE3RKBRrMl4SP Yi/otL8+85cp4isMESOYs3F5qw/osDmmKxktPbULbTrne94EWHHl+9RoSFDZFNCj JBsNE122WUtn+2JPV8it8nlIS/Kzqzv3qGR88lYiBj3y3F+zIbpix/8wyCgRVSw6 /LQwLSTmGKYdvLw2Td7oIqMrW69ZsgujAonnbyx2nl9WN3KSqr799SxL4n2M7ZOj a1MjcLdLr0kM28eu+/A3LyHQRkBVsz7f27e7M+drEVa4OHFS3KuL4EM47xkTGyps veljkNmZ8elL7PX+dmWsVGYyo4XH/bTFDcW8ZLhr+bc55xLplMRrhPNNFGQ+5k3R ev7HRhSqHD9Ub39KTea4WCJOsm0hJJgKYneWYmQJ1aVYmrFMHLJaJBzCqU+W751O GkXvU24eoajNKnIAcY9wrC/WzVru8dM2JwBefcatxCsWFhpcpSyrh0zhCAiZKOga hjskIq/54Il8YyzSVy5Xvwv8WACBUwoiPv6ZqVm3oKRkoZI3E14vVYTcG+b0cPqn S30qAHntsjFA70Hpedt5 =YYFB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SAMBA as AD DC
by Sergio Belkin 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Hi folks, Is able SAMBA on CentOS 7 to work as Active Directory Domain Controller? If it's not, what is the recommended way of doing? Compiling from sources? Install packages from SerNet? Thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com LPIC-2 Certified - http://www.lpi.org

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How to setup own i686 buildenv for CentOS7
by Robin Lee 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

Hi, all! How to setup own i686 mock for CentOS7? Or, is there any public i686 repo for CentOS7? I found i686 repo available in internal CentOS building environment, from a root.log from a mock build result[1]. [1] http://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-updates/glibc/20141218212615/2.17-55.el7_0.3… Cheers, -robin

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whois command in c6
by John R Pierce 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

the whois command in c6 references whois.v6nic.net for ip addresses in the 43.0.0.0/8 range (and maybe others). v6nic is no longer a valid whois server, any nets delegated to it should instead be delegated to apnic. i have no upstream connections... this change was made in the generic sources for jwhois some time ago I see this fix was introduced in F20 here, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121512 -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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Mail Merge data to a pdf file by overlaying the data on the image
by Gregory P. Ennis 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

Everyone, I am looking for a utility that I can use to do a mail merge of data to a pdf image file. The image file does not have any active fields, but will be just an image file. I would like to overlay names addresses etc. We currently do this with a pcl file by just overlaying the data with pcl print positions. However, in order to get the pcl file from an original pdf file we have to use gimp to convert the pdf to pcl file, and we always lose a little resolution. I was wondering if anyone knows of a utility to perform this function without first converting the image to a pcl file. Thanks, -- Greg Ennis

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CentOS 5.11 / Firefox 38 -- totally borked...
by Lars Hecking 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

The subject line is deliberate. It looks like firefox 38 is infliting a rerun of http://marc.info/?l=centos&m=141288474630498&w=2 upon us. Addons are downloaded into /tmp, but never installed. Not even Install addon from file works. Going back to ff31. Grumbling ...

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Native ZFS on Linux
by Chuck Munro 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what is the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with the ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, political, etc? Although btrfs is making progress, ZFS is far more mature, has a few more stable features (especially Raid-z3) and has worked flawlessly for me on CentOS-6 and Scientific Linux-6. I used ZFS for a couple of large file servers with no problems. The only annoying part was having to manually install the kernel module each time a kernel update was issued. Because FreeBSD has built-in drivers for LSI cards (I use JBOD mode) and strong ZFS support, I've switched to FreeNAS with it's default native ZFS and driver support for LSI. I would have preferred to stick with CentOS, but FreeNAS just made things easier to manage. It also seems about twice as fast as ZFS on Linux (same hardware), but that may simply be a tuning issue. Is there any chance that a native ZFS (rather than btrfs) will ever emerge in RHEL/CentOS? Just curious, because I'd love to return to CentOS/SL next time I build large file servers. As an aside, I have used only WD Black and WD RedPro drives for RAID, and not had any issues. Green drives are scary :-) Chuck

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Project Management Software
by H 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

I have a need to use a project management software package under Centos 6.6 and have started looking at ProjectLibre which is a Java package. Unfortunately it seems to have shortcomings when it comes to following up projects and my current understanding is that it falls short of Microsoft Project 2010, i.e., a previous version. Does anyone have experience with this type of software and what would you recommend? Thank you in advance.

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Using Mariadb databases from old server
by Timothy Murphy 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

I'm running CentOS-7, but I left some MySQL databases on my old CentOS-6.5 partition which I'd like to retrieve. I assume they are contained in the file /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 ? Could I just copy this file to /var/lib/mysql in CentOS-7? Or is there some way Mariadb or phpMyAdmin can import mysql databases from a server that is no longer running? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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gcc34 from centos 6 install on CentOS 7
by Jerry Geis 30 May '15

30 May '15

is there any issue with installing the compat-gcc34 package from centos 6 on centos 7 ? Thanks, jerry

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