PAM with Credit Cards
by Brian Fahrlander
I'm looking into something...maybe some long-term plans. Let's say I
handed out a bunch of magnetic cards for students to use, each with a
name on it an/or PIN, and wanted them to walk up to a PC with a reader
and use that card (probably authorized by LDAP somehow) to 'be' their
login/password.
How tough would it be to write that kinda PAM module? Has anyone
here done it?
Thanks
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Evansville, IN http://www.fahrlander.net
ICQ: 5119262 AIM: WheelDweller
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19 years, 3 months
FC 3 -- Ready for Production Deploymnet??
by Timothy A. Holmes
Good Morning Folks:
I have just finished loading my first FC3 box, and the updates are
running right now. I will be testing this box for a period of time, but
what I am wondering is if FC3 is ready for production deployment at this
point, or if I should wait for a further period of development. We are
mostly a windows shop, and my normal time table is to not deploy an
operating system until it has gone through the first service pack
update, but there are exceptions to this rule. I am newer to using
Fedora and I don't have a good time table established for deployment. I
have 2 webservers (apache) a database server (MySQL) and a file server
(samba) currently deployed, as well as a Nagios box, one running cacti
and one that will be shortly getting mailman
Your insights and thoughts would be appreciated
TIM
Tim Holmes
IT Manager / Webmaster
Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard...
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
Esther 4:14
19 years, 3 months
Firefox/Thunderbird: opening links in running browser new tab
by Mark Weaver
Hi all,
I know this has been discussed here previously, in fact I read the
thread in which it was discussed, however its been a while and since
reading this thread i've had to reload my system. ( new box ) Now, i'd
like to be able to make thunderbird load links into the running browser
on a new tab, but I can't remember how it is done. At the moment links
are opened in a brand new browser window. This is a pain and I'd like to
change this behavior.
been googling for hours, and have checked the archives, but I can't find
it anywhere. Could some kind soul refresh my memory?
thanks,
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Mark
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Linux User Since 1996
Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & RH Fedora Core 3
ICQ# 27816299
19 years, 3 months
RE: Is mixing yum repos ok?
by Henry Hartley
On Mon, 28 Feb, 2005 at 4:49 PM Craig said:
>>
>> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:18 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
>>
>> speaking for the typical American that speaks only 1 language,
>> and knowing that neither babelfish.altavista.com nor google
>> translate tool offer Latin -> English...
>>
>> care to translate ?
"I declare that Carthage must be destroyed." Cato the Censor
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Henry
19 years, 3 months
FC3 Sound stops working after Kernel upgrade
by jery_wang
I have just updated my Kernel to 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 and I have a silicon integrated systems [SiS] sound controller.
lsmod shows:
snd_intel8x0 33249 2
snd_ac97_codec 67489 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47989 0
snd_mixer_oss 17089 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 93001 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29125 1 snd_pcm
snd 52645 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10017 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 9541 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
Sound was working file with the 2.6.9-1.681 old kernel. Now when I use system settings soundcard detection it shows the correct hardware but I do not hear the test sound. Do I need to load the modules by hand?
Can anyone help :-?
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19 years, 3 months
Problems burning DVD
by Gérard Milmeister
Hi,
I just burned a couple of AVI-files to a DVD. This seemed to work fine.
I mounted the DVD afterwards, and played an AVI-file with mplayer. While
the video was ok, the sounds was completely noise. MPlayer produced
errors like:
big_values too large!
Blocktype == 0 and window-switching == 1 not allowed.
big_values too large!
big_values too large!
big_values too large!
big_values too large!
Badly interleaved AVI file detected - switching to -ni mode...
How can this happen?
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Gérard Milmeister
Langackerstrasse 49
CH-8057 Zürich
19 years, 3 months
permissions and Apache problem
by Ahmed Abdel-Aliem
Hi
i am making a virtual server to test my files localy
i got apache and php and mysql working fine
but i have a strange problem.
if i create new files or copy files from my mounted ntfs drive to the
folder /var/www/html/
they don't execute at all and all i get in the browser is blank pages.
but when i upload the same files to my webserver they work with no problems.
i though it is a matter if permissions
i changed the permissions to 755 and 777 and it didn't work too
can anyone guide me through this plz ?
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Ahmed Abdel-Aliem
Web Developer
www.ApexScript.com
0101108551
registered Linux user number 382789
19 years, 3 months
Firefox Extensions Update Button
by Sandeep Shekhar_Prasad
Dear friends,
I have installed some extensions in my firefox browser provided with
the FC3 system. The extensions source was the mozilla update site. But, I
don't seem to find any button or link to update these installed
extensions, like the one provided in the version of firefox available from
mozilla website. Like, i need to update flashgot0.5.7.5 to version
0.5.7.6. Does any one know how to update these extensions automatically or
do I need to manually update them?
Thanks in advance ...
Sandeep Shekhar Prasad
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19 years, 3 months
gaussian
by Nelson Brito
Hi there,
This is my first message to the list, so don't be too rough on me :-)
I am trying to copile gaussian 03 (a software for quantum mechanics on
chemistry) on fedora 3 but i am having problems with the library crtbeginS.o
ld never finds the file and i get the message
/usr/bin/ld: /crtbeginS.o: No such file: No such file or directory
I installed the libs that provide this file and the file is in
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.2/crtbeginS.o, apart from that i
installed compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118 to have the older version of the lib
but ld still can't use it.
Needed to say that the "older" crtbeginS.o is under
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/ and i added the path to ld.so.conf
can anyone help with this please?
Thank you so much,
nb
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Nelson Brito
http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/ntbrito
19 years, 3 months
Linksys WPC-11 wireless card
by Vincent Cocco
I have an older Linksys WPC-11 wireless card plugged into a Linksys
wireless PCI adapter on my Fedora box. I also have an ethernet adapter
plugged into a PCI slot.
Linux sees eth0 as the wireless device and eth1 as the 'wired' device.
In the network configuration utility I have the eth1 profile disabled
and also have eth0 to be disabled at startup; have it enabled at system
boot seemed to hang the system for a little bit before the device
failing then successfully booting the system.
The network configuration utility sees the card as something other than
a Linksys card; I believe it's attempting to read the chipset and
coming up with the closet driver available.
When I go to save my configuration info in the network utility and
attempt to start up the card I get:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; Device or resource busy.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; Device or resource busy.
Determining IP information for eth0... failed.
This particular card worked pretty well on my older RH 8 system running
on a laptop.
Has anyone gotten the Linksys PCI adapter/wireless card combo to work
on Fedora?
Thanks,
V
19 years, 3 months
