similar to: Another Fedora decision

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 03:39:47PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:13:17 -0500 > Scott Robbins wrote: > > > You may have noticed how if Fedora, by some odd scheme, deems your password > > unworthy, you have to click Done two times. > > Centos 7 does that as well. Heh, I guess I've used good passwords in my installs then. -- Scott Robbins PGP

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:15:05 -0800 Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 03:39:47PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:13:17 -0500 > >> Scott Robbins wrote: > >> > You may have noticed how if Fedora, by some odd

I've recently documented simple use of a VServer with CentOS host and guest. toracat@ said that it might be worthwhile putting on the wiki. The present article is located at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vserver.html If it does get to the wiki, I would remove the fedora section and also add a notice at the beginning of the article with dire warnings about using a non-stock kernel.

This might show up twice, I think I sent it from a bad address previously. If so, please accept my apologies. In Fedora 22, one developer (and only one) decided that if the password chosen during installation wasn't of sufficient strength, the install wouldn't continue. A bug was filed, and there was also a great deal of aggravation about it on the Fedora testing list. So, it was

On 2015-02-03, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 01:53:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> The first is "Don't use a palindrome" >> which makes me wonder if the author knows the meaning of this word. >> I suspect he/she thinks it means "a known word backwards". > > That's what I would call

Warren Young wrote: > The new rules are: > > 1. At least 8 characters. > > 2. Nothing that violates the pwquality rules: > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/pam_pwquality The 7 rules listed in this URL seem utterly bizarre to me. The first is "Don't use a palindrome" which makes me wonder if the author knows the meaning of this word. I suspect he/she thinks

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:27:55PM +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:15:05 -0800 > Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Centos 7 does that as well. > > > Heh, I guess I've used good passwords in my installs

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 10:39:03AM +0200, johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be wrote: > > > Am 02.09.2015 um 21:10 schrieb Johan Vermeulen: > > > > Op 2-sep.-2015 20:59 schreef Wes James <comptekki at me.com>: > >> > >> I yum updated yesterday and it updated chrome from 44.x to 45.x. > >> > >> It runs but it has errors going to web pages

Greetings everyone. I have some CentOS 7 VMs running on the system for which I just made the inquiry about the kworker problem, and I was able to institute immediate change of hostname by updating the /etc/hostname file. I have network manager running on the host, as well, and it also has the name populated in this file. When I make the change in /etc/hostname, it takes immediate effect, and

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:23:19AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> > 3. Disable the user list: > Pretty sure that Alan filed a bug against RH with this, but, as RH seems to > do these days when sysadmins complain about Fedora-isms, it was probably > ignored. > > Merrily

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:56:30AM +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > I just had a peek at the anaconda source for Fedora 21. Apparently > you can waive the password strength tests (and the non-ASCII tests) by > simply clicking "Done" twice. That's correct for Fedora 21. The inability to waive the requirement will show up in the new Anaconda. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID

I have a page where I document getting the increasingly popular AR5007EG Atheros wireless card working. (This is the card used in the Asus EEE PC). The current article covers several distributions, but would be modified to just cover CentOS. It does, however, involve getting third party software, as the rpmforge repos don't have the necessary drivers. (Apparently, it's a bit of a

I have a page I've done on the 4720z. It involves using 3rd party packages. The original page, which covers several distributions, is at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/acer4720z.html I would just use the laptop template, with a link to my page on it for the webcam, as in works with 3rd party software, see <link to my page> and wireless, works with 3rd party software, see

I have a file /etc/sysconfig/network and in the file is cat /etc/sysconfig/network # Created by anaconda HOSTNAME=zotac_c7.msgnet.com [root at localhost ~]# I rebooted and the prompt is still localhost ? What is the new thing in CentOS 7 to set the host name such that then the prompt is correct also? Thanks Jerry

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:16:18AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > This might show up twice, I think I sent it from a bad address previously. > > If so, please accept my apologies. > > > > > > In Fedora 22, one developer (and only one) decided that if the password > >

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > There is some complaining going on on the Fedora testing list, > not sure where else one can protest. > The thread starts here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2015-January/124827.html

On 04/24/15 06:57, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > > On 04/24/15 06:07, E.B. wrote: >> I'm sure most people here know about Dash in Debian. Have there >> been discussions about providing a more efficient shell in Centos >> for use with heavily invoked non-interactive scripts? >> >> With sh being a link to bash in Centos I don't know if it would >> explode

It was the mid/late-90s, but I seem to recall Bourne being the default shell, although sh/ksh/csh were all available with a typical install. On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:02:56AM -0400, mark wrote: > > On 04/24/15 06:57, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > > > > > >On 04/24/15 06:07, E.B. wrote:

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 03:39:47PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:13:17 -0500 >> Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> > You may have noticed how if Fedora, by some odd scheme, deems your password >> > unworthy, you have to click Done two times. >> >>

Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-04-09, Ole Holm Nielsen > <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk> wrote: >> After we upgraded our CentOS 7.0 desktops to CentOS 7.1, a critical >> error in the graphical login screen has appeared on all 7.1 machines: >> >> We have 100+ users defined in /etc/passwd, and a list of names is >> presented on the initial login screen.