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Re: firstname.lastname and user.group e-mail

by Bob George

Karl Hiramoto wrote: > I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last(a)domain.com > > Is this easy to do with linux? I'm having no problem, just using aliases as Chris suggested. > Is there any confusion with having user.group ? > > can you login to the box with username= first.last ? Perhaps you can, but I find it valuable to have the actual login names and email addresses de-linked. One aspect (admittedly minor and debatable) is security. Login names can't necessarily be determined by email address. It also makes it easier to set up multiple accounts per-user: i.e. one for an "internal" persona, and another for "external" for mailing lists and such to help with spam control. Should an account name get leaked onto spam lists, changing a mail address shouldn't impact the user's login account. Just some thoughts. - Bob

March 30, 2004

Re: [Wlug] firstname.lastname and user.group e-mail

by Karl Hiramoto

Yes, aliases work fine. however i was looking for examples of problems of creating a login account of first.last as the username. I tried this several years ago and had some problems. I need to convince a electricical engineer CTO type guy that hardly knows anything about unix systems. >> I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last(a)domain.com >> Is this easy to do with linux? > > I think think of a few ways... depending on your MTA... why not just setup > an alias to first.last(a)domain.com to karl(a)hiramoto.org > > Maybe I'm not understanding your question thorougly ;) > > Cheers > > -- > Chris Aniszczyk > Gentoo Developer - http://www.gentoo.org - > http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/zx > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x274A275F > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto

March 30, 2004

Re: [Wlug] RedHat 9 Network Problem

by Charles R. Anderson

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:13:15AM -0500, Dwight A. Ernest wrote: > Include your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and your > /etc/sysconfig/network files in an email so we can see what they look like. Also include /etc/modules.conf and the Ethernet card entry from the "/sbin/lspci -vv" output.

March 30, 2004

Re: [Wlug] RedHat 9 Network Problem

by Dwight A. Ernest

Joel Young wrote: > I just replaced Windows XP with RedHat 9 on one of my machines at home. > My problem is that I can't connect to the network. If I specify DHCP > and then try to connect I don't get any responses from my DHCP server > and 'eth0' won't activate. If I specify a static IP address (i.e. > 192.168.1.2) then 'eth0' will activate but I still can't get out on the > network, event to ping. > > My network configuration consists of a Netgear 10/100 Wireless Router > connected to a Cable Modem, with a Linksys Router/Switch to the Netgear > Router to expand my ports. I've been running fine from all my XP > Desktops through this configuration using DHCP. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. Joel, Include your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and your /etc/sysconfig/network files in an email so we can see what they look like. -- Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com GPG key A6999567 Cell: +1-508-523-1416 FAX: +1-978-405-2504 YIM: dwight_ernest RHCE #803004293310030 http://significant.com/~dwight/ KA2CNN Papa, partner, pilot, net geek, sysadmin, consultant, cohouser.

March 30, 2004

Re: [Wlug] RedHat 9 Network Problem

by Mike Frysinger

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:32 am, Joel Young wrote: > If I specify a static IP address (i.e. > 192.168.1.2) then 'eth0' will activate but I still can't get out on the > network, event to ping. assuming 192.168.1.1 is your router, you could try adding 'nameserver 192.168.1.1' to /etc/resolv.conf, running `route add default gw 192.168.1.1`, and then see if you can get anywhere -mike

March 30, 2004

Re: [Wlug] firstname.lastname and user.group e-mail

by Mike Frysinger

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 09:37 am, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:32:41AM -0500, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > > Is there any confusion with having user.group ? > > In Fedora, a push has been made to move all such user.group usage over > to user:group, specifically so that . can appear in a user/group name. > Eventually, I believe user.group usage will be removed from coreutils. it's already been removed fedora/mandrake/etc... just apply patches to add it back in ... you might also want to review `head -#`, `tail -#`, and your `seq 5 1` usage ... there are other things too, i just cant remember them -mike

March 30, 2004

Re: [Wlug] firstname.lastname and user.group e-mail

by Chris Aniszczyk

> I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last(a)domain.com > Is this easy to do with linux? I think think of a few ways... depending on your MTA... why not just setup an alias to first.last(a)domain.com to karl(a)hiramoto.org Maybe I'm not understanding your question thorougly ;) Cheers -- Chris Aniszczyk Gentoo Developer - http://www.gentoo.org - http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/zx http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x274A275F

March 30, 2004

Re: [Wlug] firstname.lastname and user.group e-mail

by Charles R. Anderson

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:32:41AM -0500, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Is there any confusion with having user.group ? In Fedora, a push has been made to move all such user.group usage over to user:group, specifically so that . can appear in a user/group name. Eventually, I believe user.group usage will be removed from coreutils.

March 30, 2004

firstname.lastname and user.group e-mail

by Karl Hiramoto

I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last(a)domain.com Is this easy to do with linux? Is there any confusion with having user.group ? can you login to the box with username= first.last ? Any suggestions? -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto

March 30, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Good Beginners Book

by Martin, Eric

I def like the HOWTOs, just not sure how much people will like them of if they'll find even a stage3 gentoo box intimidating...Not to be rude, but please no comments for or against gentoo. We all know where everybody stands and don't need another distro argument :) Eric -----Original Message----- From: Gary Hanley [mailto:gary@hanley.net] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:17 AM To: andystewart(a)comcast.net; Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Good Beginners Book On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Andy Stewart wrote: > How about Matt Welsh's book: Running Linux That was my intro to Linux. 2nd edition, I think. But maybe a better idea would be to build a Gentoo system as a class project. The Gentoo on-line documention is fabulous and goes into easy to understand detail for any technical novice. Just a thought. -- Gary _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 26, 2004