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vpn behind firewall

by Michael Long

Happy Holidays to all, I have a 2 part question concerning my particular use of vpns. I have a home network behind a Linksys firewall/router and am technically incompetent when it comes to vpn's. Part 1: The company my wife works for has upgraded her vpn software and it no longer plays well with firewalls at the client end. I have an appointment with her tech support Thursday morning but would appreciate it if anyone could give me some clues or at least some intelligent questions to ask so that I might make this thing work. It is sometimes necessary to "help" the help desk in order that they can help you. :) Part 2: I am planning to fire up a vpn connection to my employer on Thursday for the first time. Are there any issues running 2 vpn connections behind a firewall. Thanks, Mike

Dec. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] trusted user?

by Charles R. Anderson

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:33:44PM -0500, Frank Sweetser wrote: fs> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: fs> > How do I control "trusted user" to allow regular user accounts access fs> > to things like the mailq command or reviewing system logs? fs> fs> sudo. It can specify which commands which users are allowed to run with fs> elevated privs. For more complex options, such as reading certain logs, fs> you'll probably want to write scripts/programs that do exactly what you want fs> to allow and allow sudo access to them. For log reading, why not just put the logs in a group? -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Dec. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] X-server minutiae - Doh!

by Gregory Avedissian

If you run sax with the --auto option (I did), it wants a value for screen resolution, and it sets the color to 8-bit without asking. I ran it again, manually. 32-bit color looks much better. G. Gregory Avedissian wrote: > Now that I have X working again, some colors are different. The outline > box that appears when opening a window in fvwm2 has changed from yellow > to purple, which is nice because it's easier to see, but my cursor is > very pale gray. Anyone know how to change a cursor color? Am I nuts to > even think about messing with it? > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Dec. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] trusted user?

by Frank Sweetser

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > How do I control "trusted user" to allow regular user accounts access > to things like the mailq command or reviewing system logs? sudo. It can specify which commands which users are allowed to run with elevated privs. For more complex options, such as reading certain logs, you'll probably want to write scripts/programs that do exactly what you want to allow and allow sudo access to them. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer

Dec. 24, 2002

trusted user?

by Bill Mills-Curran

How do I control "trusted user" to allow regular user accounts access to things like the mailq command or reviewing system logs? TIA, Bill

Dec. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] [redhat-announce-list-admin@redhat.com: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Phoebe]

by Charles R. Anderson

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:29:19PM -0500, Brian J. Conway wrote: bconway> No WindowMaker. =( NPTL and HTree-enabled ext3 look like they could be bconway> interesting, though. rpmbuild --rebuild WindowMaker*.src.rpm is your friend :) -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Dec. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] [redhat-announce-list-admin@redhat.com: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Phoebe]

by Brian J. Conway

> If anyone wants this and the mirrors are overloaded, you can get it > here: > > ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/en No WindowMaker. =( NPTL and HTree-enabled ext3 look like they could be interesting, though. -b

Dec. 23, 2002

[redhat-announce-list-admin@redhat.com: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Phoebe]

by Charles R. Anderson

If anyone wants this and the mirrors are overloaded, you can get it here: ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/en ----- Forwarded message from redhat-announce-list-admin(a)redhat.com ----- From: redhat-announce-list-admin(a)redhat.com To: redhat-watch-list(a)redhat.com Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:07:33 -0500 Subject: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Phoebe Reply-To: redhat-announce-list(a)redhat.com Precedence: bulk X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=10.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: "You know, Chandler, you being here is the best gift I could ask for Christmas." "Aww. Thanks Pheebs." "Ok, now where's my real present?" Red Hat, Inc. has a holiday gift for you - PHOEBE, a new beta release of Red Hat Linux. PHOEBE is 6 CDs of software (3 binary, 3 source), including, among other things: - the latest in bleeding-edge desktop and XFree86 technology - Mozilla 1.2.1, with Xft antialiased fonts - glibc-2.3.1, with the new Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL), for performant and scalable threading PHOEBE is, of course, not intended for use on mission critical or other production systems. As always, we do not recommend the use of beta software on mission critical or production systems. In fact, we may laugh at those who try. Problems with PHOEBE should be reported via bugzilla, at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla PHOEBE can be found at redhat.com. 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Dec. 23, 2002

X-server minutiae

by Gregory Avedissian

Now that I have X working again, some colors are different. The outline box that appears when opening a window in fvwm2 has changed from yellow to purple, which is nice because it's easier to see, but my cursor is very pale gray. Anyone know how to change a cursor color? Am I nuts to even think about messing with it? Greg

Dec. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] kernel saga continues

by Gregory Avedissian

Someone must have been sending me telepathic messages. I finally thought to check sax --help, and I was able to get it to run using switches for hsync, vsync, and X-server, and it worked. In fact, I think the screen looks better than it did before. Xfree 4.0 doesn't appear to be on the 7.2 disks. There's a 4.0 glx driver, and there's glx-devel package, but no basic package. Anyway, it's working. Thanks. Greg avedis(a)rcn.com wrote: > Hi Andy, > > Here's my hardware: > 1.2GHz Athlon on a Spacewalker AK12A motherboard > ELSA GLoria-L vid card (16MB), which has S3virge chip with Glint > 500TX, and uses the 3DLabs driver. > > At some point last year, I thought I installed XFree 4.1 and got the > 3DLabs driver. That's what my notes say. But 3.3.6 was running. If > I can install 4.0 from the disks, I'll try it. Every time I've run sax, > most of it runs off-screen, and I can't use it. That might be where I > screwed up yesterday, by hitting Enter when I shouldn't have. > > Thanks, > Greg > > > > On 22 Dec 2002, at 22:34, Andy Stewart wrote: > > >>HI Greg, >> >>On SuSE, they supply version 3.3.6 and 4.0.x of XFree86. Most of the time, >>you want to run version 4.0, but if you have "vintage" video hardware, you're >>better off with version 3.3.6 in my opinion. >> >>To configure XFree86 on SuSE, you should be running sax (for XFree86 version >>3.3.6) or sax2 (for XFree86 version 4.0). >> >>If you look at your log (below), you'll note that for some reason, you're >>running XFreee86 version 3.3.6. Just what do you have for video hardware? >> >>I've found on SuSE that you're generally better off if you let YaST do the >>"dirty work" for you. >> >>Later, >> >>Andy >> >> >> >> >>On Sunday 22 December 2002 6:36 pm, avedis(a)rcn.com wrote: >> >>>Here's the error message I get when I try to run startx: >>> >>>XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System >>>(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) >>>Release Date: January 8 2000 >>> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer >>> than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting >>> problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) >>>Operating System: Linux 2.4.4-64GB-SMP i686 [ELF] SuSE >>>Configured drivers: >>> GLINT: accelerated server for 3DLabs GLINT graphics adapters >>>(Patchlevel 0) >>>(using VT number 7) >>> >>>XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config >>>(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values >>>(--) no ModulePath specified using default: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules >>>dbe: Unknown error loading module >>> >>>Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:48 >> >>-- >>Andy Stewart, Founder >>Worcester Linux Users' Group >>Worcester, MA USA >>http://www.wlug.org >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wlug mailing list >>Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Dec. 23, 2002