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Stupid test, please excuse
by kwright＠keithdiane.us March 4, 2006

March 4, 2006

I just posted something that got rejected because I am not a member (it says). I recently changed the address of the subscription. This is to test that I can properly impersonate myself. -- Keith

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RE: [Wlug] Reminder: Upcoming WLUG meeting THURSDAY 7:00 PM
by Minkov, Ross March 1, 2006

March 1, 2006

FYI: --------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxWorld Boston - Special offer for Linux Magazine readers REGISTER today with Priority Code H0103 to receive your special 20% discount at http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/register --------------------------------------------------------------- I want to go to LinuxWorld too, but I'm still waiting on my management approval... :( If they don't approve I'm not paying out of my own pocket... -Ross -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Andy Stewart Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:02 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: [Wlug] Reminder: Upcoming WLUG meeting THURSDAY 7:00 PM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, <snip> Oh, BTW, Linux world is coming up in Boston during the first week of April. I've received a couple of emails from the Linux world folks. Does anybody have any interest in representing WLUG at this event? I'd like to go, but it depends on whether or not I can get the time off from work. Are people planning to go, because I think we can get a group discount of some kind. I'll print the emails and bring them to the meeting so we can discuss it. I'll post the info to the list afterwards. See ya later, Andy

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Perl puzzle
by douglas.r.aker＠verizon.com March 1, 2006

March 1, 2006

Hi. I've been spending far too much time trying to accomplish a (seemingly) simple thing: use a Perl substitution operation to replace, a comma followed by a space followed by a single double-quote with a single double-quote. The obvious s/, "/"/g doesn't work, nor does escaping the double-quotes, as in s/, \"/\"/g I must have tried dozens of variations. RE's can be tough at times. Late last night I had to admit defeat. Any ideas? Thanks, Doug

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RE: [Wlug] pubkey authentication in openssh
by Minkov, Ross Feb. 27, 2006

Feb. 27, 2006

You are right... I think it was too late when I wrote that... LOL -Ross -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Theo Van Dinter Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:47 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] pubkey authentication in openssh On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:58:19AM -0500, Minkov, Ross wrote: > > There's no per-user config to specify what authentication methods are > > allowed. It's a global setting. > > You can specify per user ssh config settings in $USER/.ssh/conifg file. > The user's configuration file overwrites the system-wide configuration > file (/etc/ssh/ssh_config) settings for that user. For the client side, yes, you can do that. However, there is nothing like that for the server side which is what has been discussed so far. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "So, the long and short of it--if you have one sysadmin, you have a "system administrator." If you have two sysadmins, you have two "system administrators." If you have two thousand sysadmins, you're at LISA." - Trey Harris <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105091748220.27344-100000(a)shells.valinux.com>

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RE: [Wlug] pubkey authentication in openssh
by Minkov, Ross Feb. 23, 2006

Feb. 23, 2006

> You can put a "*" in the password field of the user and then it's a > locked account, but pubkey will still work. Yes, this works, I use it all the time. Just a note that the "*" needs to go in the /etc/shadow file, not in /etc/passwd. > There's no per-user config to specify what authentication methods are > allowed. It's a global setting. You can specify per user ssh config settings in $USER/.ssh/conifg file. The user's configuration file overwrites the system-wide configuration file (/etc/ssh/ssh_config) settings for that user. Make sure that $USER/.ssh/conifg is owned by $USER and perms are set to 600. For example you can add "PasswordAuthentication no" to $USER/.ssh/conifg and disable password auth for $USER, while leaving "PasswordAuthentication yes" (this is the default) in the system-wide configuration file (/etc/ssh/ssh_config). -Ross -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Theo Van Dinter Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:24 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] pubkey authentication in openssh On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:15:55PM -0500, Eric Stein wrote: > automated account: public key login only (no password authentication > allowed - yeah, I know I can just set the password to something really > big and hope nobody guesses, but the point of pub/priv key auth is > higher security) You can put a "*" in the password field of the user and then it's a locked account, but pubkey will still work. There's no per-user config to specify what authentication methods are allowed. It's a global setting. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Abnegation is un-American. We're going to drive the vehicle we want, wear what we want, consume as much as necessary, worship whomever we choose, and show as much cleavage as possible in beer commercials." - http://www.fool.com/News/Foth/2003/foth030203.htm?source=EDNWFH

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Progress and success
by Marie I MacDonald Feb. 23, 2006

Feb. 23, 2006

Greetings all, I thought I'd write and update you on my newbie experience with Linux et. al. To refresh your memory, my old laptop died just as I had been given a new Linux box and just before the Spring semester had started. I really was feeling stressed. But here are some high points of the past month: * Novell distro installed (and reinstalled (twice!) after a glitch) and updated without a hitch. * Evolution is now my email client of choice for two reasons: I couldn't figure out how to install Thunderbird and I wanted to sync my Palm to something. * I'm successfully popping all my Gmail and myrealbox accounts (13 total). I've never seen my filters run so fast (for junk and legit mail). * Palm Zire 21 now works beautifully with Evolution. I keep it simple and don't need more than the personal calendar. * Open Office installed and updated. I'm using 2.0.1.3 and have begun using Impress to create a presentation for school. * I have taken advantage of the desktop functions, using five work spaces and putting buttons on the tool bars. I love how smoothly my desktop works and allows me new workspaces. * Novell client for Linux working beautifully to connect me to the server upstairs (thanks Bob!) * I've been playing around with the GIMP image editor and in my opinion it is as robust as Photoshop (which I know very well). * I have successfully completed all the Novell Linux Desktop 9 Learning Center modules. The training was good and I would recommend it for new users. * I am successfully running Music Player and copying my CDs to the network. I can now burn a CD/DVD. Here are my observations/complaints: * While I've used both YaST and Red Carpet to install programs, I'd like to see something developed to click and run installation programs, much like the .exe files most are used to. Coming from that environment into a Linux environment, this is critical. If you want to make Linux more attractive for desktop users, software installation has to be easier. The average office user *ME* does not know how to work with code and such to install programs. * I'm still trying to find video capture and editing software. Any recommendations? * Now I also need software to create a business plan. Any recommendations? * I would love to listen to radio station web streams. I live in the boonies and get no radio reception. I do have RealPlayer on this but so far it hasn't worked for grabbing a radio web stream. I miss my Boston radio stations. Well, that's all I can think of for now. Oh, I did meet a wonderful teenager from Worcester who is very knowledgeable about Linux. His name is Stephen and I just wanted to send a shout out to him. I urged him to joint WLUG--he's a gem. Finally, I appreciate everyone here for all the marvelous advice, encouragement and patience. I consider it an honor to be part of your group. Thanks for letting me in! All my best, Marie

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Meeting followup
by Mike Feb. 19, 2006

Feb. 19, 2006

For the curious, here is a not-so-complete list of links that were mentioned this evening: Ubuntu's upcoming Dapper Drake: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperDrake https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+specs OpenWRT: http://openwrt.org/ http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL500G SSH Public Key encryption: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/ssh_8/ Dropbear SSH: http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html Gentoo Linux - Satire poster http://funroll-loops.org/gentoo.jpg I'll let Andy send out the rest :) Cheers, Mike

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Specify which nic gets named eth0
by Mike Leo Feb. 18, 2006

Feb. 18, 2006

I have a RHAS4 2.6 kernel install with 6 NIC's. How do i tell it which nic I want to be labeled eth0? specifically, i have 2 nics built into the mobo, and 2 dual port addon cards. I want eth0 to be nic1 on the mobo, and eth1 to be nic2 on the mobo. By default it is assigning those nics to eth4 and eth5. thanks in advance... mike

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pubkey authentication in openssh
by Eric Stein Feb. 17, 2006

Feb. 17, 2006

Does anyone know a way to force pubkey authentication for only certain users but allow password for others? Eric

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MySQL replication question
by Bill Mills-Curran Feb. 17, 2006

Feb. 17, 2006

Does anyone have experience with MySQL's replication capabilities? I'm running versions 4.1.8 and 4.1.14 servers on linux and windows, and I have a very remote site where I'd like to support replication. The data changes very slowly, but the link has 300 ms (ping) latency and has a small (but noticeable) amount of down time. Does it work well enough to be considered reliable for critical applications? TIA, Bill

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