users July 2003

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by Dax Kelson

An LDAP directory can have numerous advantages over NIS. For example: * Strong mutual authentication of client machines and LDAP servers * All network traffic and be encrypted (by mandate even) via SSL or TLS. * A rouge root on client machines cannot access user data, collect encrypted password strings for user accounts * Shadow password functionality including aging can be used I would like to encourage Linux sysadmins to "properly" and securely setup LDAP directories as opposed to NIS. What can be done to encourage this? For starters, it would be nice to have a good generic LDAP directory browser/editor that was SSL/TLS enabled. RHL7.3 shipped with a decent one, GQ, but it was dropped. The slick looking "directoryadministrator" can be used to administer an directory post-setup. Any have other ideas? I'll have a follow up as well. Dax Kelson Guru Labs

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mailing list for RHEL?

by James Ralston

As long as we're having a general mailing list cleanup, would it make sense to create a mailing list specifically for Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Personally, I'd like to see it... -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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apt and upgrades

by Chris Croome

Hi For the last year or so I have been updating and installing additional software for all my RedHat boxes using Freshrpms [1] and other apt repositories like Fedora [2]. I've also been using apt and yum with YellowDog. One nice thing about this is that it allows mirrors to be used with the updater -- is this something that RedHat might consider? My other question is if there is no longer going to be boxed CDs for sale perhaps it might be possible in the future for upgrading between versions to work in a way that doesn't require CDs? Chris [1] http://freshrpms.net/ [2] http://www.fedora.us/ -- Chris Croome <chris(a)webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/

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removing redundant mailing lists?

by Alex Kanavin

Now that we have four new lists made specifically for those interested in the RHL project, it seems to me that some old lists could be removed/merged to avoid confusion. redhat-devel-list and redhat-list stand out as the obvious candidates for that. What do you think? -- Alexander Homepage: http://www.sensi.org/~ak/

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Red Hat Linux: Security Patches?

by Bruce A. Locke

Hello. Now that Red Hat Linux appears to be a non-retail "product" with a much shorter release cycle I am wondering about the following: Is it Red Hat's plan to continue to produce security patches and other errata for baseline Red Hat Linux releases for at least 12 months? (As outlined for past releases on http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/) Thank You. - Bruce

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test message - please disregard

by Brent Fox

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Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Severn

by Bill Nottingham

Thank you gentlemen. This is rumor control. Here are the facts. As some of you know, new Red Hat Linux Beta bits crash landed here at 1000 on the morning watch. There was one survivor. Two dead processes, and a daemon that was hopelessly smashed beyond repair. The survivor is called SEVERN. It's that time again. (Time to floss?) (Time to make a gooky?) No, it's time for a Red Hat Linux Beta, named SEVERN. "I just want to say that I took a vow of stability. That also includes betas. We all took the vow. Now let me say, that I for one, do not appreciate Company policy allowing beta bits to freely intermingle..." "Cheeky bastard, right sir?" "What brother means to say is ... We view the presence of any outside OS, beta, as a violation of the stability, a potential break in the spiritual unity." We are well aware of your feelings in this matter. You will be pleased to know that I have requested a testing team - Hopefully, they will be here inside of a few hours and evaluate it A.S.A.P. As always, betas such as SEVERN are not intended for use on production environments. Use as such could lead to your machines being slaughtered like pigs by the dragon. Or just public laughter. Problems with SEVERN should be reported via bugzilla, at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ What's its development status? "It doesn't seem too horrendously in flux. Difficult at this moment to make a specific diagnosis." Among other things, SEVERN has: - a new graphical boot - GCC 3.3 - an updated 2.4.21 kernel - updated Evolution and Mozilla - and more! Will it live? "Yes, I should think so." Look, none of us here is naive. It's in everybody's best interests if this beta doesn't come out into production until the testing team is through with it. And certainly not without the proper qualification and bug reports. Right? So we should all stick to our set routines and not get unduly agitated. Correct? All right. Thank you gentlemen. Speaking of unduly agitated... there's lots of rumors going on about Red Hat Linux. We've been doing it for nearly ten years now, and in that time, there's been various changes. From rpp to RPM, from Red Hat Commercial Linux to Official Red Hat Linux, from 'install' to anaconda. And now, we're making another change. We changed the rules. We said our Linux should be your Linux. Just as most of the software in Red Hat Linux is developed in an open fashion, so should Red Hat Linux itself; driven by those who develop, test, document, and translate. To accomplish this, we're opening up our process. Now this is an evolution, not a revolution. The first steps will be moving much of our development discussions and schedules external, via mailing lists and other means, and including external developers in the process of making technical decisions. More will be done from there. Red Hat Linux will remain as it has been; a freely available general purpose operating system, released on the average every six months. For more information, see: http://rhl.redhat.com/ For discussion of SEVERN, send mail to: rhl-beta-list-request(a)redhat.com with subscribe in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhl-beta-list/ As always, you can get SEVERN at redhat.com, specifically: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/severn/ Or the following mirrors: North America: United States: ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/beta/severn/ ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Canada: ftp://less.cogeco.net/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/severn/ South America: Brazil: http://bastion.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn ftp://bastion.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn Chile: ftp://ftp.tecnoera.com/Linux/redhat-beta/severn/ Europe: Austria: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/ Czech Republic: ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ultra.linux.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp6.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Denmark: ftp://klid.dk/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Germany: ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/linux/Mirror/ftp.redhat.com/lin... ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Ireland: ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Netherlands: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/redhat/beta/severn/ Poland: ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/ftp/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Romania: ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta... http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/se... rsync://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Turkey: ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/redhat/beta/severn/ United Kingdom: http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ rsync://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/ftp/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ Asia/Pacific: Australia: http://planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/ ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/ Japan: ftp://ftp.sfc.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/RedHat/linux/beta/severn/ Singapore: ftp://ftp.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://rsync.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ One additional feature provided by the Linux community is the availability of SEVERN via BitTorrent. http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn-binary-iso.torrent http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn-source-iso.torrent RPMS for Red Hat Linux 7.3 through 9 of BitTorrent are available from: http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/ Usage is simple: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://URL.torrent Allow incoming TCP 6881 - 6889 to join the torrent swarm. http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

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