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Re: [CentOS] Re: Fix passwd/shadow/group files?
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> > The machines in question were set up years ago when it wasn't so > easy and are on opposite sides of a firewall Setup an NIS slave local to each LAN (and a VPN to the NIS master, or consider SFS tunneling for portmap), and also run a name services cache daemon (nscd) on each client. > (but sometimes have NFS mounts in common). All the more reason to use NIS, for Automounter maps. ;-> I only recommend NIS because it's cake to setup. If you have ActiveDirectory Services (ADS), then consider Services for UNIX (SFU). You can even use one-way Kerberos trust from ADS to avoid password hashes (as well as clear text passwords using Kerberosized clients). I don't prefer ADS-SFU when you have UNIX platforms though. Especially Red Hat, who made NIS-Kerberos integration so seemless as of Red Hat Linux 7 onward. > One machine has all user accounts and things are managed > normally there. Great! It's so easy to turn that one system into an NIS master then. ;-> > The others only have small subsets of users (on purpose) > and I've pasted in the passwd entries from the machine that > has them all to keep the uids in sync for NFS and rsync'ing > chunks of stuff around. Then setup multiple NIS domains. It's easy to do even on one, physical NIS master for all. It'll easily repay you for the manual operations you do. [ But even then, why aren't you using a script run over ssh to minimize your manual workload? Just curious. ] > I just had some duplicated lines from the last OS version > change where I copied too much from the previous one. > I might re-do it with LDAP someday, but it's probably > more work to control the users that aren't supposed to > log into these machines than to separately add the ones > that are. Netscape Directory Server (NsDS), now Red Hat/Fedora Directory Server, is a great LDAP server. But when I just want something like you need, an NIS domain or a few from one system, with local NIS slaves and nscd running on all the clients does everything I need. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Fix passwd/shadow/group files?
by Les Mikesell 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

I've been copying old passwd/shadow/group files from system to system for ages across different distributions/updates and would like to get them back in sync with each other so the system tools will work. Now they hang like: #userdel irose hangs forever, syslog says: Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete user `irose' Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete `irose' from group `ftp' Jul 12 11:20:02 newftp last message repeated 373404 times Jul 12 11:21:04 newftp last message repeated 646597 times Jul 12 11:21:06 newftp last message repeated 29123 times Is there some kind of test/diagnostic tool I can use to clean up the parts that don't match anymore? Preferably one that doesn't hang forever when something is missing.... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Upgrading from RH AS-3 to ??
by Penelope Fudd 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

I found my problem.. heh. The Centos-3.5 directories aren't set up to use the latest Yum; they don't have repomd.xml files. The secret is to use rpm -Uvh http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-2.0.8-1.noarch.rpm and an /etc/yum.conf like this: ====8<-----cut-here------------ [main] exclude=mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* #add this line for cpanel servers cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 #released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 -- Penelope Fudd <centos(a)ch.pkts.ca>

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Upgrading from RH AS-3 to ??
by Penelope Fudd 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Hi! I'm trying to upgrade my Redhat 3AS server, but I'm encountering problems. The first problem was, I didn't know what repository to use. I settled on http://mirror.centos.org/, but using it is strange, as not all mirror servers have all of the directories, and so sometimes links appear broken, but the problem goes away if I hit reload. A number of them have empty directories, like this one: http://mirrors.versaweb.net/centos/3.5/extras/i386/RPMS/ The second problem was, I didn't know what CentOS version to use. I'm guessing 3.5 is the right one for compatibility with RH 3AS. The third problem is, yum reports: # yum install centos-logos Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras failure: repodata/repomd.xml from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. # Am I using the wrong version of yum? Is there an official yum.conf to use? Thanks! -- Penelope Fudd <centos(a)ch.pkts.ca>

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RE: [CentOS] Problem with mouse and keyboard
by Harper, Patrick 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Looks like it is going to be a hardware problem, I did the unthinkable and put my windows hard drive in and same results. Sorry to take up your time. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Harper, Patrick Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:49 PM To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Problem with mouse and keyboard This just started on my laptop yesterday. My mouse wants to go to the lower left corner of my screen, this seems to be triggered by using the keyboard. Once it is on its way I just have to wait for it to stop so I can move it where I need it or it will just drift back to that corner. I have tried several mice as well as just the onboard touchpad. I am on 4.1 running nightly updates. Thanks for any help you might be able to give. ----------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This electronic message, including any attachments, is confidential and intended solely for use of the intended recipient(s). This message may contain information that is privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure by applicable law. Any unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, use or reproduction is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender immediately. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Problem with mouse and keyboard
by Harper, Patrick 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

This just started on my laptop yesterday. My mouse wants to go to the lower left corner of my screen, this seems to be triggered by using the keyboard. Once it is on its way I just have to wait for it to stop so I can move it where I need it or it will just drift back to that corner. I have tried several mice as well as just the onboard touchpad. I am on 4.1 running nightly updates. Thanks for any help you might be able to give. ----------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This electronic message, including any attachments, is confidential and intended solely for use of the intended recipient(s). This message may contain information that is privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure by applicable law. Any unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, use or reproduction is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender immediately.

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htaccess authentication asks for MySQL table test.user_info
by dan1 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Hello. For users interested in the MySQL authentication problem for SSL pages, there is another way to prevent mod_auth_mysql to do this mySQL authentication. This has been reported by Brent: In the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, add the directive: <Directory xxxxxx/ AuthMySQLEnable off AllowOverride All </Directory> You can also add it to your .htaccess file. Thanks Brent ! Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: dan1 To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] htaccess authentication asks for MySQL table test.user_info Hello again. I just found out a work-around to this problem. We have to remove the mod_auth_mysql module with 'rpm -e mod_auth_mysql' and then it works again. However, I think that the choice of going through file or database should not be done by installing or uninstalling an rpm, but merely by choosing that option from a tag in a file, and turning this on or off. Maybe I'm wrong, but that would be much better to my point of view. Also, it's strange to suddenly change the default behaviour of Apache and I'm quite surprised that so few of you seem to have had this problem. Here is another thread about it: http://www.redhatforums.org/ftopic4079.html Maybe should be add this in the bug list, or is it a RedHat issue ? Thanks, Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: dan1 To: centos at centos.org Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: [CentOS] htaccess authentication asks for MySQL table test.user_info Hello. I tried to create an access file with 'htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/conf/myfile.htaccess testuser'. In the SSL directory I have put a .htaccess file containing the followings: AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/myfile.htaccess AuthName "Mydomain" AuthType Basic require valid-user This worked with CentOS 3. Now with CentOS 4, apache version 2.0.52, the access to the page is forbidden. The ssl_error_log indicates this error: [Mon May 16 10:03:21 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] MySQL ERROR: Table 'test .user_info' doesn't exist: /myurl_to_ssl_address [Mon May 16 10:03:21 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] MySQL user testuser not fou nd: /myurl_to_ssl_address It's like if apache would make a MySQL query to find the user I specified, but in fact I expected apache to look into the /etc/httpd/conf/myfile.htaccess for that, and not in MySQL. Another person had the same problem lately. Here is the post: http://groups.google.ch/group/alt.apache.configuration/browse_frm/thread/9e… Does anybody have an idea of what happens there ? Thanks for any help provided. Daniel _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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aacraid monitoring tool?
by alex＠milivojevic.org 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

I've got myself an Adaptec 2200 HW RAID card to play for couple of days. Tha card uses aacraid device driver. Seems to work nicely, however just wandering if there's a tool (prefferably CLI) for CentOS that can read out RAID configuration data, status of individual drives, maybe even manage (create/delete) RAID devices? Thanks for any and all pointers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Re: Open Office 1.9.x -- Firefox i386 on x86-64
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

From: Karanbir Singh <Mail-Lists(a)karan.org> > Donno about FC3. When I installed FC3 x86_64, I got both for Mozilla, but only x86_64 for Firefox. Closer inspection showed that's exactly what the packages were in the repository. > You need to 'steal' from the i386 repo.. > ( apologies... I should have mentioned that before ) Yep. I have tried to "tap" the FC3 i386 repository with both APT and YUM and not always received what I expected. From my 2nd/3rd-hand understanding (i.e., I haven't done it ... yet), SmartPM let's you do all sorts of things to resolve this (like repository priority and other details). If I find a spare 4-6 hours in the next few weeks, I'm going to use SmartPM and document exactly how x86_64 platforms can benefit from its use. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Re: Open Office 1.9.x -- Firefox i386 on x86-64
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

From: Karanbir Singh <Mail-Lists(a)karan.org> > Just use the firefox-...-.i386.rpm and install all your standard > plugins, nothing elaborate about it. > Step.1 : yum install firefox.i386 > Step.2 : install all your plugins > Step.3 : Browse. Unfortunately some "wise" Red Hat people didn't bother to put Firefox i386 in the standard Fedora Core 3 x86-64 repository. They put both i386 and x86_64 packages for Mozilla, but only x86_64 for Firefox. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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