similar to: pwconv with partial /etc/passwd

Hi List, We have a CentOS VPS running a web site in a DC far away. The chap that dev's this site told me he couldn't SFTP in yesterday, his password was being rejected (I went to his desk to confirm and saw it was telling him the password was incorrect but neither him nor me had changed it and we are the only two with access to this VPS). So I logged in as root and reset his password, be

prepping to teach a 5-day CompTIA linux+ course next week with CompTIA-supplied courseware and, given that it was my choice, i chose to set up the classroom with centos 7.4 on all the student systems since i assume most students are there to learn sysadmin and that's the most likely platform they'll have when they get back to work. also, most students are taking this course to prep for the

Greetings, What are some registrars that members of this list have had good experience with? I was stepping through the godaddy checkout process, and being opted-in to a dozen different upsell features just left a bad impression. But I have no clue who else to go with. -Eugene -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Author: basabi Repository: /hg/zfs-crypto/gate Revision: a7008170624f2dc6e0cfef8b2e6f356bf5d3b141 Log message: 6253934 passwd and pwconv are crashing with wrong entry in /etc/shadow Files: update: usr/src/lib/libc/port/gen/getspent_r.c

I have noticed on a Centos 4.3 server where I had set some >8 characters passwords for some accounts, that only the first 8 characters are needed (if I forget or mistype the others I login all the same). Can I "move" the live, running system to longer passwords, and how? or is a reinstall necessary? TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server

Greetings, When logging into my VSFTPD server, my clients recieve this: 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5) Name (------): user 331 Please specify the password. Password: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection Login failed. vsftpd logs show that everything went ok: Sat Sep 12 15:52:02 2009 [pid 1131] CONNECT: Client "" Sat Sep 12 15:52:02 2009 [pid 1131] FTP response: Client

Hello, What is the best way to protect multiuser systems from brute force attacks? I am setting up a relatively loose DenyHosts policy, but I like the idea of locking an account for a time if too many attempts are made, but to balance this with keeping the user from making a helpdesk call. What are some policies/techniques that have worked for this list with minimal hassle? Thanks! -Eugene

Hello, ?With SCL and epel repositories enabled, some dependencies for the package name 'nodejs' get satisfied with libs from SCL which are placed in paths that are not part of my user's environment. Is there a method to make sure that nodeJS from epel dependencies are only satisfied from epel? For example, the http parser dependency gets satisfied by

I have a Debian Etch AMD64 server running Samba 3.0.24. It is joined to an active directory domain. Most everything works quite well. I had set up a user for a scanner but forgot to add it to a group so that it could access the target folder, so the scans failed. I then added the account to the group, but for some reason it is still denied access to the directory. I su'ed to the user, and

Greetings, My question is about using Puppet to manage RHEL6 users'' local group memberships when the users are served from AD using Winbind. I have RHEL6 x86_64 machines joined to a Windows 2003-level domain using Winbind with Kerberos for auth. To add a user-type to a local group, it appears that all groups are evaluated and are subsequently "not found" for the

Hello, I think the links should be useful for someone who looking for PHP 5.2 RPM using at CentOS. Have fun! http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/ Overview This project supplies PHP 5.2.9 RPM packages built for Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.7 and 5.3 on x86 and x86_64. They will also install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The PHP command line, CGI interface, and an Apache module are

Hello, I understand the function and reason of limits.conf, and I have some limited experience configuring values for (essentially single-user) Oracle systems. How do I understand correctly what my limits should be for multiuser system system, are there best practice guidance? Are there some typical settings this list has had experience with for multiuser environments? Appreciated, Eugene

For those who have wondered why NFS on EL5 is slower than on EL4 I provide these links for your edification. http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15355 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448130 Problem is kernel threads cannot create or assign an io context as there is no api in the kernel available to do so, so each is given a different context and there is an 8ms latency between

Hi, I haven't been to find this (NetworkManager) change documented. On: CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) $ /bin/nmcli con NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE ens32 7629e52d-bd42-4cd5-a424-8c58e7e0bf37 802-3-ethernet ens32 On: CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) $ /bin/nmcli con NAME UUID TYPE

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Earl A Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see 'System' in any of the CentOS 7.2.1511 boxes or VMs that were > recently upgraded: > ?Hi Earl, Have you tried a new install?? I agree, upgraded installations do not seem to be affected.

Hi folks, I can't seem to log into my system via vsftpd. All other services using PAM are fine...Am I missing something simple? ftp> user (username) user 331 Please specify the password. Password: 530 Login incorrect. # getenforce Permissive here is the event in /var/log/audit/audit.log: type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1247235151.569:9781): user pid=21052 uid=0 auid=0

So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this so I'm wondering, if I had mounted that vdi as a secondary device on another VM, browsed the file system and delete /etc/shadow would this have wiped all users passwords

Hi guys! I need configure one command exec with onlyif parameter. I want test file size exist or no. Ho i do this? Tks in advanced. Douglas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

I''m working on an issue we noticed in openstack where setting the root password on a CentOS 6 image through the XenAPI would corrupt the guest image''s /etc/shadow file. 1. set the root password through XenAPI 2. log in to the account 3. `passwd` -- you should get an error. To fix you can `rm /etc/shadow; pwconv` I''ve tested against an Ubuntu XCP image and everything

Hello All, We have been successfully using PAM_LDAP authentication with OpenSSH-3.6 on our HP-UX 11.11. When OpenSSH-3.7.1p2 is installed [with Darrens' password expiry patch 26], and when Shadow password bundle is installed on the system, our ssh authentication failed. Even, when the source is compiled without Darren's patch, the same bahaviour is seen and there is no success. When