FreeBSD NFS got a lot better since the beginning of this year. The newly released 3.3 is a hell of a lot more usable than previous versions. There has been quite a lot of activity on making NFS better in -current. If you'd really checked the lists, you'd know this!
The password information is stored in/etc/master.passwd. It is then compiled into a db database/etc/spwd.db, for reasons of speed. This is the "shadow" file that you are used to seeing. It also has more records than you are used to seeing, including password expiry and so on. When you use vipw(8) to change the password file, it then translates this into the standard passwd file that programs are used to seeing and plonks it in/etc/passwd. This file is then also put into a database for quicker access.
Note that the db database is pretty similiar to the way that sendmail handles it's maps.
For the full lowdown, do "man 5 passwd".
I'm not sure whether or not the authentication technique would be used in single user mode.
I think you can make the system ask for a password in single user mode by labelling the console "insecure" in/etc/ttys.
I loved your motif book. However, I still find Motif in general to be too much hassle... The other problem is that once I'd started looking into it, I found I needed a custom widget for my app. So I bought vol 3. Then, I found I needed to know more about Xlib than I thought to do that. So now I have to go and buy vol 1. I just hope I don't have to buy vol 0 at the end!!!
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Come on, there's nothing wrong with another Linux distro. BSD certainly won't leave it behind. They will remain (hopefully) keen competitors for many years to come.
(heck, I love my FreeBSD, but I certainly don't want Linux to disappear!)
Given that most Unix boxes will likely be left on, whereas most Windows boxes will be switched off by their owners when they are not in use. What proportion of the subnet did not respond to your scans?
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Sorry, but anybody developing cgi's in ksh needs their head examining. I love ksh/bash/zsh, but they are totally inappropriate for cgi use because it's so bloody hard to make them secure. There are so many different levels of expansion you cannot protect against them all properly. And doing quoting correctly is a nightmare.
Also, because there are so few features builtin to those languages (compared to say perl), you will probably find that the script is significantly slower in it's runtime.
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A transparent firewall should work fine, as should a transparent http proxy. Unfortunately, for a network like mine, a http proxy has to specifically specified - and there's no way to do this with the current software.
Any chance of proxy support? I've got about 15 UltraSPARC's that I'd love to put to some good use!
Oh Dear. Not SLS. Installing on 5.25inch floppies. God that takes me back. Slackware was soooooo much better, I switched straight away. And then, RedHat was soooo much better than Slackware when it came out in '94. I don't care how manly people say it is to run slackware, I think they're deluding themselves. Especially since I've recently had the chance to install Slackware 3.0 on an old laptop...
You're misssing the point. Of course there are TCP/IP printing protocols, lpd being the main one. But it's a seriously crap protocol and not at all extensive. With IPP, you get something that's been designed, not something that was hacked up for what worked as well as needed at UCB 15 years ago.
This is the entire reason why the *BSD distributions are entirely upgradeable from src using "make world". 1 command, several hours later, you get a completely recompiled OS. The ports (add on packages) don't get done automatically, but it's fairly trivial to add them in if needed (usually not the case).
9 times out of 10 when I need a quick solution to a small problem, gawk comes to hand. It's one of the best pieces of the Unix toolkit. Do you know the difference between "$1" and "$0 ~/^/"?
Although it's important to realise where you should stop using gawk and switch to perl. But this is far later than most people think.
I despair of the number of new people I see who write everything in Perl, when most of the time they could use a shell script just as effectively (I do like Perl, just in it's place).
Demon probably aren't the biggest (about 250,000 users as I recall), but they do have the lowest churn rate. Most Demon users stay Demon users, whereas most AOL users only use it as a springboard whilst they learn about the Internet.
And Demon are still using MMDF to do customer mail. Sob.
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FreeBSD NFS got a lot better since the beginning of this year. The newly released 3.3 is a hell of a lot more usable than previous versions. There has been quite a lot of activity on making NFS better in -current. If you'd really checked the lists, you'd know this!
The password information is stored in /etc/master.passwd. It is then compiled into a db database /etc/spwd.db, for reasons of speed. This is the "shadow" file that you are used to seeing. It also has more records than you are used to seeing, including password expiry and so on. When you use vipw(8) to change the password file, it then translates this into the standard passwd file that programs are used to seeing and plonks it in /etc/passwd. This file is then also put into a database for quicker access.
/etc/ttys.
Note that the db database is pretty similiar to the way that sendmail handles it's maps.
For the full lowdown, do "man 5 passwd".
I'm not sure whether or not the authentication technique would be used in single user mode.
I think you can make the system ask for a password in single user mode by labelling the console "insecure" in
I loved your motif book. However, I still find Motif in general to be too much hassle... The other problem is that once I'd started looking into it, I found I needed a custom widget for my app. So I bought vol 3. Then, I found I needed to know more about Xlib than I thought to do that. So now I have to go and buy vol 1. I just hope I don't have to buy vol 0 at the end!!!
Come on, there's nothing wrong with another Linux distro. BSD certainly won't leave it behind. They will remain (hopefully) keen competitors for many years to come.
(heck, I love my FreeBSD, but I certainly don't want Linux to disappear!)
Oh, grow up.
BSD's are doing well. Just not as well as Linux. There's certainly plenty of room for both in the "marketplace".
Well, Microsoft bought their networking code from BSDi, instead of taking it directly from FreeBSD/NetBSD (was OpenBSD around then?). Lord knows why.
Given that most Unix boxes will likely be left on, whereas most Windows boxes will be switched off by their owners when they are not in use. What proportion of the subnet did not respond to your scans?
Sorry, but anybody developing cgi's in ksh needs their head examining. I love ksh/bash/zsh, but they are totally inappropriate for cgi use because it's so bloody hard to make them secure. There are so many different levels of expansion you cannot protect against them all properly. And doing quoting correctly is a nightmare.
Also, because there are so few features builtin to those languages (compared to say perl), you will probably find that the script is significantly slower in it's runtime.
A transparent firewall should work fine, as should a transparent http proxy. Unfortunately, for a network like mine, a http proxy has to specifically specified - and there's no way to do this with the current software.
Any chance of proxy support? I've got about 15 UltraSPARC's that I'd love to put to some good use!
Ah April Fools day. The only true Internet holiday, no matter what race, creed, colour or cpu. Bring 'em on Rob, I'm still laughing!
Oh Dear. Not SLS. Installing on 5.25inch floppies. God that takes me back. Slackware was soooooo much better, I switched straight away. And then, RedHat was soooo much better than Slackware when it came out in '94. I don't care how manly people say it is to run slackware, I think they're deluding themselves. Especially since I've recently had the chance to install Slackware 3.0 on an old laptop...
You're misssing the point. Of course there are TCP/IP printing protocols, lpd being the main one. But it's a seriously crap protocol and not at all extensive. With IPP, you get something that's been designed, not something that was hacked up for what worked as well as needed at UCB 15 years ago.
There speaks somebody who's never had to deal with Solaris 2.4...
However, good luck getting it working under FreeBSD.
Mirc is most definitely not a Good Thing.
This is the entire reason why the *BSD distributions are entirely upgradeable from src using "make world". 1 command, several hours later, you get a completely recompiled OS. The ports (add on packages) don't get done automatically, but it's fairly trivial to add them in if needed (usually not the case).
This is the reason I switched from using Linux.
9 times out of 10 when I need a quick solution to a small problem, gawk comes to hand. It's one of the best pieces of the Unix toolkit. Do you know the difference between "$1" and "$0 ~ /^/"?
Although it's important to realise where you should stop using gawk and switch to perl. But this is far later than most people think.
I despair of the number of new people I see who write everything in Perl, when most of the time they could use a shell script just as effectively (I do like Perl, just in it's place).
Time to get compiling and see who'se got the quickest build times again... Anybody got a quad Xeon with a few Gb of memory that I can borrow?
The BSD utilities are in the BSD distributions. More to say, there source code is under ftp.freebsd.org, ftp.openbsd.org and ftp.netbsd.org.
They are usually a lot simpler than their GNU counterparts.
Demon probably aren't the biggest (about 250,000 users as I recall), but they do have the lowest churn rate. Most Demon users stay Demon users, whereas most AOL users only use it as a springboard whilst they learn about the Internet.
And Demon are still using MMDF to do customer mail. Sob.
Dom, ex-postmaster@demon.net
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