Recent content by Vroomfondel

> Any idea if mount sends the passwords securely? Or is it cleartext (ugh!)? That should depend on the authentication methods made available by the server; mount doesn't send the URL to the server, it parses it to extract the info it needs to log into the server. If the server only supports...

I've had success using this syntax: # mount -t afp afp://username:password@server/share /mnt

> I've always wanted to write a Terminal which sports skins and selective > transparency... Just don't forget audio hooks so I can have authentic key clicks and fleeps with a VT52 skin.

The root account is disabled in 4F8. Go into NetInfo Manager to /users/root and clear the password (it's set to a *, which effectively disables the account because it's not a valid encrypted password). Reboot. Root will now have no password, so you'll want to set one quickly.

Sure, you get cryptic messages, but the share _is_ mounted. At least it was in my case (I have guest access for the share I tried to mount; I\'m not sure of the syntax for an afp url which includes a username and password). After you do the mount, it should show up in df. This is gonna look...

Try something like: # mount -t afp afp://server/share /mnt Of course, you\'ll have to mkdir /mnt first...

It\'s interesting that scruffy would mention GnuPG, as that\'s the first piece of software I\'ve been having trouble with. I\'ve built lots of things which either worked or failed spectacularly. GnuPG is the only thing I\'ve tried where configure worked but make didn\'t do anything. There...

try 'tar zcf scooby.tar.gz scooby'. You might think about tossing a v in just for yucks.

> While I am here, does any one know how to make a link from the > ftp users home to a folder that is not in the users home, and still > get it to follow when logged in through ftp? Sorry; you can't do that. That's the whole point of chroot(2), which is executed for the anonymous user.

Just tried it on my machine; it didn't work. I'm not seeing any code to handle this case in the Darwin sources either. Guess the man page lied...

Your comp won't have the file unless you create it. You'll need to su to root then create the file with vi.

Quoting from the man page for ftpd: > If the user name appears in the file /etc/ftpchroot the > session's root will be changed to the user's login directory > by chroot(2) as for an ``anonymous'' or ``ftp'' account. > However, the user must still supply a password. This > feature is...

4) WeirdX. See http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/

So I decide to install OS X on the box I'm normall using to run OS 9 on. I copy all the files off of a partition to another partition which has enough space, install OS X onto the partition I've just cleaned off, and am now trying to copy my old stuff back on. I have 2.3GB of stuff I've...

FWIW on my Beige G3 when I installed OS X and told it I didn't have a network, it hung like this at Initializing Network. I let it sit all day and it didn't move. I had to re-install, telling it to go ahead and use the Ethernet (which isn't plugged into anything) and it went fine. I would...