debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2047

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2047

Today's Topics:

  Re: Sarge: Lost # of failed logins    [ Florian Kulzer 

Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:56:47 +0200


From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Sarge: Lost # of failed logins
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 20:14:02 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:

> On 07/27/2007 05:55 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:53:54PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> The "faillog" command doesn't give any output to me, and /var/log/faillog 
>>> is still zero bytes.
>> so, what mechanism writes the faillog. Maybe it panics on bad perms?
>> mine are 0644 root:root
>> A
>
> Same here.

I can remove /var/log/faillog on my system (Sid-amd64) and create a new
one with "touch" (empty file, permissions like yours). After the first
failed login the file is 32KB long (the same length as it had before)
and both the login failure messages and the faillog command work
normally again.


I would of course be very worried if the faillog file disappeared on its
own all of a sudden. (Now that I have become aware of its existence in
the course of this thread.) Likewise, it would be suspicious if the
empty "seed" file remained unchanged after subsequent login failures.

-- 
Regards,            | 
http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |

Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:34:24 +0100
From: michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM
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Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying
to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially
recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen
where the CD drive is to be recognised (for continuing the
installation). I've tried various module/device combos but all to no
avail. I've looked about on Google but not come up with a working
solution.

Has anybody else successfully uses this CDROM drive to install Debian,
or have suggestions on how I can determine a working module/device
combo. Please let me know if you need any further information.

Thanks, Michael


Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:47:39 +0100
From: Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM
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michael wrote:

> Folks, I've a new machine 


Its likely that the machine has more bearing on this problem than the 
CDROM itself.  We need more information regarding the Motherboard and in 
particular the IDE or SATA chip the drive is connected to.


> with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying
> to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially
> recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen
> where the CD drive is to be recognised (for continuing the
> installation). I've tried various module/device combos but all to no
> avail. I've looked about on Google but not come up with a working
> solution.
> 
> Has anybody else successfully uses this CDROM drive to install Debian,
> or have suggestions on how I can determine a working module/device
> combo. Please let me know if you need any further information.


Have you tried to boot a live CD like Knoppix or Ubuntu?  If this boots 
OK the output of

lspci -vv
lsmod

would help identify the correct modules to load.

> 
> Thanks, Michael
> 


HTH

Wackojacko


Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:16:29 -0300
From: "Thomas Beresford" <tom.beresford@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer
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On 7/28/07, Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:16:28PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:18:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > * Thomas Beresford <tom.beresford@gmail.com> [070727 22:49]:
> > > >    Hello,
> > > >
> > > >    I tried to setup my HP PSC 1315 printer today on my Debian Etch
> running
> > > >    CUPS 1.2.12. So I used hp-setup to configure my printer and it
> was all
> > > >    right, but when I tried to configure its parameters at the CUPS
> admin
> > > >    page, it asked for a user/password, and I used my root
> username/password
> > > >    but it didn't work for my surprise.
> > >
> > > "...my my root username/password..." ???  The username of root is
> "root".
> > >
> > > On my system, this works:
> > >
> > >     username:  root
> > >     password:  the_password_of_root
> >
> > I'm unable to find where this is documented, but add your user to the
> > 'lpadmin' group, and you can use your regular user password for the cups
> > admin web pages.
>
> Still looking...
>
>   $ zless cupsys-common/changelog.Debian.gz
>     ...
>     CUPS SystemGroup is 'lpadmin'. You need to add users who are allowed
>     to add/modify/remove printers/jobs/classes.
>
>
> --
> Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu



I can't believe this but I finally found what was the problem. The problem
was the root password (and my regular user password too), because they had
special characters that for some reason didn't work inside firefox, although
these characters can be typed correctly (probably it's a encoding problem).
I changed the root password for another one that doesn't use special
characters and bingo, it worked.

Anyway, I wish I could add a different user and password since I don't want
to change my current passwords, but lppasswd still doesn't work because of
the "permission denied" problem that I mentioned before. Do I really have to
use the same user/password of my linux system into CUPS?

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On 7/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Irving</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:fnkci@uaf.edu">fnkci@uaf.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:16:28PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:<br>&gt; On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:18:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:<br>&gt; &gt; * Thomas Beresford &lt;<a href="mailto:tom.beresford@gmail.com">tom.beresford@gmail.com
</a>&gt; [070727 22:49]:<br>&gt; &gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hello,<br>&gt; &gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I tried to setup my HP PSC 1315 printer today on my Debian Etch running<br>&gt; &gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CUPS 1.2.12. So I used hp-setup to configure my printer and it was all
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;right, but when I tried to configure its parameters at the CUPS admin<br>&gt; &gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;page, it asked for a user/password, and I used my root username/password<br>&gt; &gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;but it didn&#39;t work for my surprise.
<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &quot;...my my root username/password...&quot; ???&nbsp;&nbsp;The username of root is &quot;root&quot;.<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; On my system, this works:<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; username:&nbsp;&nbsp;root<br>
&gt; &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; password:&nbsp;&nbsp;the_password_of_root<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I&#39;m unable to find where this is documented, but add your user to the<br>&gt; &#39;lpadmin&#39; group, and you can use your regular user password for the cups
<br>&gt; admin web pages.<br><br>Still looking...<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;$ zless cupsys-common/changelog.Debian.gz<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;...<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CUPS SystemGroup is &#39;lpadmin&#39;. You need to add users who are allowed<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;to add/modify/remove printers/jobs/classes.
<br><br><br>--<br>Ken Irving, <a href="mailto:fnkci@uaf.edu">fnkci@uaf.edu</a></blockquote><div><br>I can&#39;t believe this but I finally found what was the problem. The problem was the root password (and my regular user password too), because they had special characters that for some reason didn&#39;t work inside firefox, although these characters can be typed correctly (probably it&#39;s a encoding problem). I changed the root password for another one that doesn&#39;t use special characters and bingo, it worked. 
<br><br>Anyway, I wish I could add a different user and password since I don&#39;t want to change my current passwords, but lppasswd still doesn&#39;t work because of the &quot;permission denied&quot; problem that I mentioned before. Do I really have to use the same user/password of my linux system into CUPS? 
<br></div><br></div><br>

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