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Re: [Wlug] WPI Exchange Help

by Kurt Snieckus

On the WPI mail system mail first goes to the unix mail servers, and then gets forwarded to exchange. If you want you can keep the mail from being forwarded to exchange by changing the forwarding settings here: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/CCC/Services/mailforward.html I forget exactly what I did, but it didn't work quite right, beacuse mail sent from other user's exchange accounts went to the exchange account instead of staying in the unix account. But if you e-mail the Helpdesk they can fix it for you. This then lets you use imap.wpi.edu, pop.wpi.edu, and webmail.wpi.edu/squirrelmail (And i think you can just login to ccc.wpi.eduand type pine and read your mail as well) If you'd like in-person help the Free Software Association tries to have meetings at 6pm on Tuesdays in the lounge on the 3rd floor of Fuller. E-mail owner-fsa(a)wpi.edu to get meeting announcements. -Kurt On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:39 PM, <tedshipper(a)gmail.com> wrote: > So I'm new to the Linux community and I could use a little help. I'm trying > to setup exchange to work through Evolution Mail on Ubuntu 8.10. I can't > seem to set it up correctly. I feel like i have all the necessary info like > the OWA URL, which I think is https://exchange.wpi.edu/owa/ . Please > advise as to whether I need to specify the DOMAIN\User which doesn't work or > if there is a better client for setting up exchange at WPI. > Thanks, > > Ship > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

April 8, 2009

Re: Hey Everybody! WLUG Meeting this week!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce(a)gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 2:42 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> writes: >> Currently we're having issues getting the Turing Pi 2 to boot, so >> doing a show off of Proxmox I could definitely do as well. > I'ev got proxmox running at owkr with some basic VMs on it for > testing. I might be able to show it off doing some basic stuff like > live migrations. > I recently switched my home server to proxmox, and I've been > spending time using terraform and packer to build and deploy VMs. Are you running a cluster or just one system? I've got a three node cluster at $WORK, but thinking of looking at their SCALE product. But of course while VMware is going to shaft us pricewise, the manglement might not want to leave the devil they know. Another issue is deploying OVA files. I find that ProxMOX is a pain in terms of .iso and .ova files, you need to first add them into it's own repository, then you can deploy from them. VMware just lets you browse for the files and deploy. Though I also admit that .ova deployments can be annoyingly tough, but I'm running VCenter 7.0.x and a mix of ESXi 6.7 and 7.0 on my systems. Legacy hardware which I can't move up. Another reason to hate vendor designed stuff, it locks you in. > I'd be happy to share code if anyone is interested. Please do!

June 10, 2024

Re: [Wlug] Major WPA2 Vulnerability

by Keith Wright

"Sweetser, Frank E" <fs(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > Nothing so simple, unfortunately. This class of vulnerability is > actually a collection of 10 CVEs, which encompass both the AP side and > client side. If you've patched the AP side, for example, the attacker > may still be able to compromise the set of session keys on the client > side, and decrypt all of the client sent traffic. > You've got to patch both sides to be fully secure. You've got to avoid computers to be fully secure. But let's not get that paranoid. I pulled Cat 5 cable through the house years ago and never use wireless, but WPI has its hair on fire, and sent Professor Diane email (through Microsoft cloud service) to install "upgrades" immediately. I told her to at least wait until she has her computer back in the office and plugged into WPI cable. I have a friend who has been without a computer for a month or two because he tried to upgrade firmware and could not re-boot. This is very embarrassing for the authors of the standard, but is it really a big problem? Several meetings ago, somebody brought a device to the WLUG meeting that, as I understood it, pretends to be a wireless router and interposes itself into any nearby connection. If things like that exist, why care about encryption vulnerability? If you need to patch both sides to be secure, then you are not secure in the coffee shop no matter what you do. In any case, if you are using the wireless to connect to a web site or "cloud" server, then the wireless connection is the least of your insecurities. -- Keith

Oct. 18, 2017

Re: Reminder: Virtual meeting, October 15th, 2020!

by Chuck Anderson

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 05:59:12PM -0400, Keith Wright via WLUG wrote: > I don't know what the package is for, but somebody on this list > said that it should work just to put the link into a browser, > so I plan to try it tonight. I'll reoort back to this list. > > I have never used the camara or microphone on this laptop, > I don't know if I have used used sound output, it was long > ago and might have been a different machine, > > Is video chat built into the browser now? Yes, video chat is built into all modern browsers. They call it "HTML5" and "WebRTC". > What exactly does Zoom or jit.si do then? It starts up a WebRTC session over HTTPS to the jit.si server using your microphone and camera to send your video/audio, while the web server jit.si sends the video/audio of all the other participants back to your browser. Each participant appears as a small video window in a "grid" on the web page. So the server acts as a "video router". > And what's in that Debian jit.si package? I haven't looked at the Debian package, but since the server side of jitsi is open source (the client side is open source if you use Firefox or Chromium or similar to access the server), I'd imagine that the Debian package contains the server code. jit.si the web site runs the open source code from jitsi.org. Anyone can run their own web server for people to connect to for creating their own video conference: https://jitsi.org/what-is-jitsi/

Oct. 15, 2020

Re: [Wlug] Dec 12: Identity Management: FreeIPA, SSSD, Kerberos, etc.

by Chuck Anderson

Sorry, I keep typing the wrong date. It is Thursday December 10th. I'm finalizing with Dmitri now. On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:50:07PM -0500, James Gray wrote: > This will be on December 10th? I only ask to confirm as the subject line of > the email mentions the 12th. > > Sounds like some great topics! > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Chuck, > > > > Thanks for organizing this with Dmitri! I'll send out the meeting notice > > asap! > > > > Thanks, > > Tim. > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM, thinkbrown(a)gmail.com < > > thinkbrown(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I also think that FreeIPA and Kerberos is the best combo there > >> > >> Logan > >> On Nov 30, 2015 10:59 AM, "Higgins, Benjamin John" <bjhiggins(a)wpi.edu> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Chuck: > >>> Wow - a meeting my wife will let me attend :) I also think " FreeIPA + > >>> Kerberos" is likely the best topic. Thanks! > >>> > >>> --b > >>> -- > >>> Benjamin J. Higgins ('97), JNCIA-Junos | bjhiggins(a)wpi.edu > >>> Network Engineer | Office 508.831.4860 > >>> Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Cell 508.713.1739 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On > >>> Behalf Of Chuck Anderson > >>> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 10:54 AM > >>> To: wlug(a)wlug.org > >>> Subject: [Wlug] Dec 12: Identity Management: FreeIPA, SSSD, Kerberos, > >>> etc. > >>> > >>> I have an offer from Dmitri Pal, Engineering Director at Red Hat, Inc., > >>> to come to WLUG on December 10 and give a talk on Identity Management. > >>> > >>> He asked which of the following topics people would be interested in: > >>> > >>> "FreeIPA - I go over problem space and talk about what IPA does and > >>> how it solves the problems > >>> - about an hour with Q&A. > >>> > >>> AD [Microsoft Active Directory] integration I can give an overview > >>> of the AD integration options and talk about best practices there > >>> - about an hour with Q&A. > >>> > >>> Application integration - is about how to build applications > >>> integrated with different authentication methods out of box > >>> - 40-50 min with Q&A. > >>> > >>> I can combine. > >>> > >>> I also can talk about Kerberos and explain how it works and how it > >>> can be used for SSO [Single Sign-On]." > >>> > >>> I was thinking FreeIPA + Kerberos which would fit nicely into our usual > >>> 2 hour meeting slot and provide a nice introduction to the topic, but let > >>> me know if the other topics are of more interest. Time is running short, > >>> so respond quickly!

Dec. 1, 2015

Re: Reminder!!! *NO* Meeting tomorrow

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: Keith, I hope you're staying cool! > John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: >> What a great meeting last week! A big shout out to Xavier for doing >> his presentation on NixOS! Hopefully Tim will be able to share the >> links to the slides and other info. > Yes, thank you. I would like to review the slides. >> We talked about: >> >> NixOS >> >> - A tool and environment for building systems in a deterministic >> manner. Sorta like Ansible, or Puppet, or Chef, or Salt or >> cfengine (old school!) or Terraform. > I don't know what any of those are. I was comparing it to apt-get, rpm, > yumm and, of course guix. I think I heard Xavier say something about > teamwork between Nix and guix, which would be good because I don't think > we need $2^n$ incompatible package managers. So think of those tools listed above as the next step up in abstraction to managing groups of packages and entire system level configuration. So I use Ansible and I tell it to install a bunch of packages, and then ansible uses apt or dpkg to do the actual install. Ansible (or terraform, salt, chef, puppet, etc) are all tools for bringing systems into alignment with your specifications. They add/remove packages, make updates to configurations, etc. NixOS is more like apt and rpm, with the idea that (as I understand it) you have a much more reproducable set of packages that are cryptographically proveable to be the same. Not so much from a signed with a key, but more in the form of hashes that track state all the way back to the source package. > I looked up NixOS, expecting to see a lot of cartoons. Where did those > cartoons come from and are they "official"? I don't know. Maybe Xavier or somethinh with the slides can chime in here? >> And what are the feelings of those who are remote? > I feel lumpy; like a cucumber. LOL! >> Were you able to follow along and enjoy the talk? > The first half-hour or so was near intolerable, but then the noise > stopped and the camera stopped bouncing and all was good. Yeah, the noise in the usual conference room was crazy. And I just found another tool which I think Xavier was using in his shell. Take a look at 'starship': https://starship.rs/ which I find funky because it requires you to have Nerdfonts (https://www.nerdfonts.com/) installed. Which honestly seems like a step backwards, just like Emojis are a step backward. Yes, it's fun to have and know the meaning (or supposed meaning!) of a special graphical image, but it really feels like we're going back to Egyptian Heiroglyphics. Which means you have to memorize hundreds or thousands of individual characters to make words. And then you still have to join them together into bigger chunks. The power of the Roman (or other smaller alphabets) to me is that you have a smaller number of pictographs or letters to know, which you can string together into larger concepts more easily. This is ignoring language and pronounciation issues of course. Ah well, enough ranting, it's gonna be another scorcher today, so stay cool everybody! John

June 25, 2025

Re: [Wlug] Topic for the next meeting: ownCloud

by thinkbrown＠gmail.com

A way to kick this whole "sleeping" habit would be nice :P Logan On Oct 27, 2015 10:42 AM, "Tim Keller" <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Logan! > > Let me know if you need anything. > > Thanks, > Tim. > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:38 PM, thinkbrown(a)gmail.com < > thinkbrown(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'd be happy to present. >> >> Logan >> On Oct 26, 2015 16:35, "Tim Keller" <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey Gang, >>> >>> So thinking it over, with the holidays coming up, I know I'm going to be >>> taking an outrageous number of pictures. In lieu of spending money so I >>> have expanded storage on Google, the next logical step is to set up my >>> ownCloud. >>> >>> Logan, do you want to do this presentation / demo? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Tim. >>> >>> -- >>> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >>> constituents as "consumers". >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Oct. 27, 2015

Re: [Wlug] the website is in need of some love

by Tim Keller

Yeah, I agree the site needs an overhaul. However, what does the website need to minimally do? * - Meeting Information * - Mailing List sign up * - Past Meeting info * - IRC channel info We've kicked around the idea of a wiki, which I'd be totally cool with and I'd help maintain. My personal opinion is that between the IRC channel, Dr. Google and the mailing list, a forum is overkill. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > I'm not sure who maintains it, but it's in a very sad state at the > > moment. > > Congratulations! You've just been volunteered to enhance it! :-) > > But hey, at least it validates now. > > Seriously though, if anyone would like to help, feel free to email me. > There was a time when I was playing with Moin for a wiki site but that > fell by the wayside. I really need to rebuild the system that the web > server is running on, so I could deploy something new/better if there > was someone who would commit to helping maintain it. I just don't > have the time to do anything fancy, learn new web frameworks, etc. > > Alternatively, people could submit some designs, code, and content > that uses plain HTML/CSS and I could maintain that manually. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

April 2, 2010

Re: [Wlug] Topic for next Meeting?

by Tim Keller

Chuck, The main problem with tomorrow was that we didn't have a room reserved and I dropped the ball sending out the reminder email. Beyond that on a selfish side note I can't make tomorrow but I can make next Thursday. Thanks, Tim. On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > Tomorrow is the 2nd Thursday of the month. > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:41:34AM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: > > We actually haven't done a round table in a while. David, I like your > idea > > for the home automation / vision processing as well. I just went looking > > and there are 10+ companies that make linux based home automation > > products. I've messed with the the opencv stuff and my co worker is > using > > it read his water meter and do OCR. > > > > Keith, it would be cool to have someone (other than me) talk about > managing > > large amounts of data. Drop a line to your friend and see if they'd be > > willing to do a talk. > > > > I talked a bit about hadoop as well since I've been working with that. I > > could with some prep give a talk about hadoop if people were interested. > > I've also been playing with the parallel python stuff as well. > > > > My plan is to send out a reminder that the meeting is going to be next > > Thursday. It's a bit too soon to get anything put together on either of > > these topics, but we should talk them through next Thursday and see if > > anybody has more ideas as well. > > > > Thanks, > > Tim. > > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:13 AM, David Glaser < > dglaser(a)glaserresearch.net> > > wrote: > > > > > I would like to see a presentation on using linux for home automation > or a > > > presentation on using linux for vision processing. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/07/2015 10:42 AM, Keith Wright wrote: > > > > > > Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> <turbofx(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > Hey Gang, > > > > > > What would people like to do for WLUG this month? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tim. > > > > > > Oh, oh, nobody answers. > > > > > > I don't want WLUG to die for lack of interest. > > > > > > If we can't get a speaker and a topic, let's > > > do a discussion circle---everyone takes a turn > > > to answer the question "For what do you use Linux?" > > > > > > I know some people use it at work to manage > > > multi-terabyte databases, and some build little > > > microprocessor gadgets, but I would be interested > > > to know the full range, and maybe learn about > > > some new applications. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Oct. 7, 2015

Re: [Wlug] PGP Key Signing Party

by Walt Sawyer

Here is mine. 7232 6FDF 6586 24F5 D2D7 588C B851 D6B0 0003 2D3B Thanks! Walt Sawyer Eric Martin wrote: > This upcoming meeting we are going to have a PGP Key Signing Party. > For those of you who don't know what PGP is, allow me to briefly > explain. This is all base off of the GPG Key Signing HOWTO > (http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/kspa/gpg-party.en.html) which I suggest for > further reading. Those who do know can feel free to skip down to the > next paragraph. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, and is a Public > Key Infrastructure that allows us to communicate securely and deal with > data in a secure fashion. There is a public key that one would > typically upload to a server and a private key that you hold on to. > With the private key you can decrypt / sign, and with the public key you > can encrypt / verify emails and documents. Key signatures come into > play when you validate that a specific key belongs to a specific person > and extend the web of trust. > > Here's what needs to be done BEFORE the meeting on your computer, > or on > a secure terminal (e.g. not in a computer lab on your campus). I'll > post directions both for GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) and Kgpg (the KDE front > -end to gpg for all of those who like GUIs). > > 1. Generate a Key Pair / Verify your key won't expire soon > gpg --gen-key > (Default values of DSA/Elgamal is fine and the default of 2048 is > good.) > I recommend 3 - 5 years for a key lifespan (how long the key will be > good for) > > 1a) for those of you wishing to use Kgpg, goto Keys -> Generate Key > Pair and fill in the dialog box > Once you create the New key pair, check the Save As box under > _Revocation Certificate_ to save a Revocation Certificate (see 2) > > 1c) For those of you who already have a key, make sure yours isn't > about > to expire (like mine did). If it has expired, you can extend the life by > $ gpg --edit-key <key-id> > and typing expire at the command prompt > > next, generate a new key-pair and sign your new key with your old key > so anyone who trusted your old one will trust the new one. > > 2) Generate a revocation certificate > Revocation certificates are for situations where you forget your > passphrase, the key becomes comprised, etc you can revoke your key. > $ gpg --output revoke.asc --gen-revoke <key-id> > Save this in multiple places, print a copy etc in case you need > it. > 2GUI) If you didn't create a revocation cert in Kgpg, just right click > on your new key and select Revoke Key. when the box pops up only check > Save As > > 3) Upload your key to the Designated server for this party (pgp.mit.edu) > > $ gpg --send-key --keyserver=pgp.mit.edu <key-id> > 3GUI) Right Click on the Key, select Export Public Keys, select Default > Key Server (make sure it's pgp.mit.edu under Settings) > > 4) Email me your key's fingerprint so I can add it to the list > > $ gpg --fingerprint <key-id> > Copy and Paste that into an email to the coordinator (me, Eric > Martin). > > 5) print out a copy of that same output and bring it to the meeting. > > I'll make up a check list and bring them to the meeting for everyone > to use. > > Example output from Step 4: > > pub 1024D/A9413B9F 2007-04-09 [expires: 2010-04-08] > Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F > uid Eric J. Martin <eric.joshua.martin(a)gmail.com> > uid Eric J. Martin <freak4uxxx(a)gmail.com> > sub 2048g/01F81B8E 2007-04-09 [expires: 2010-04-08] > > my <key-id> is A9413B9F (which is always the same as my last 8 hex > digits of my fingerprint). If like me you don't always remember your > key-id you can use your email address and it will still work. > > My full key information is: > > Key ID: A9413B9F > Key Type: DSA > Hex Fingerprint: D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F > Key Size: 1024 > > (The DSA key is always 1024 bits. The ElGamal Encryption key is 2048 > bits in my case, but isn't needed for the keysigning party.) > > What you should bring to this party > > 1. Yourself, no exceptions > 2. Two forms of positive photo ID - driver's license and passport are good > 3. Key Id, Key Type, Hex Fingerprint and Key size info > > ***Please print out your own copy of your info to compare against mine > when you arrive *** > > 4. Pen / Pencil > > What you Should Not Bring > > 1. Computer > > I want to thank Chuck Anderson for helping me out. If you have any > questions please let me know. > > Eric _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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