glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) (02/07/91)
In article <8006@plains.NoDak.edu> cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes: >I've got a couple of questions about my new NeXTstation... > >1) I went and got some of the fonts from nova.cc.purdue.edu and installed > them in /LocalLibrary/Fonts and when I log onto my account, I can use > the fonts without any trouble but whenever someone else is on, they get > the list of fonts but WriteNow says that they are unuseable...any ideas > why?? The fonts are probably not readable by the other users. Make sure that the directory (like Helvetica.font) is readable and executable, and make sure that the contents (Helvetica.afm, etc) are readable by the other users (either world readable or by a group that they're in). -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785 (fax 851-1470)
IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan) (05/09/91)
1. I just found out to my horror that the password length on my NeXT was limited to just 8 letters. And here I was, having given myself lengthy passwords, thinking no one could break one that long easily, when the machine was having the last laugh seeing only the first eight. So is there any way to set up passwd to see more than eight letters????? 2. Out of curiosity: Suppose I were to become su and delete the home directory of some user without deleting his account, what would happen when that user tries to login?? Would his account be automatically disabled when his home directory is gone or would he get logged on to the root directory?? Please reply by email, as the machine here has its own mind in editing netnews and discards postings from some days arbitrarily. Thanks, Venky. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ************************************** $ T.C.A.VENKATESAN $ *EMAIL : IO92395@MAINE.BITNET * $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ************************************** DEPT. OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY UNIV. OF MAINE ORONO, MAINE 04469.
IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan) (05/09/91)
1. I just found out to my horror that the password length on my NeXT was limited to just 8 letters. And here I was, having given myself lengthy passwords, thinking no one could break one that long easily, when the machine was having the last laugh seeing only the first eight. So is there any way to set up passwd to see more than eight letters????? 2. Out of curiosity: Suppose I were to become su and delete the home directory of some user without deleting his account, what would happen when that user tries to login?? Would his account be automatically disabled when his home directory is gone or would he get logged on to the root directory?? I am using a '030 machine running NS 2.0. Please reply by email, as the machine here has its own mind in editing netnews and discards postings from some days arbitrarily. Thanks, Venky. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ************************************** $ T.C.A.VENKATESAN $ *EMAIL : IO92395@MAINE.BITNET * $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ************************************** DEPT. OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY UNIV. OF MAINE ORONO, MAINE 04469.
mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) (05/13/91)
In article <91128.150648IO92395@MAINE.BITNET>, IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan) writes: > 1. I just found out to my horror that the password length on my NeXT > was limited to just 8 letters. More precisely, everything past that is ignored. At least if they use the same password hashing scheme every other even vaguely UNIXish system does. > So is there any way to set up passwd to see more than eight > letters????? Sure. Hack on crypt(3) to your heart's content, then rebuild passwd and login. What's that, you say? Rebuild how? Oh yes, that's right, NeXT thinks binary distributions are reasonable. Gee, I guess you're stuck. (Unless you want to try making similar changes by disassembling and editing the binaries. And NeXT doesn't even provide adb. Yup, you're *really* stuck.) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) (05/14/91)
>> So is there any way to set up passwd to see more than eight >> letters????? > >Sure. Hack on crypt(3) to your heart's content, then rebuild passwd >and login. > >What's that, you say? Rebuild how? Oh yes, that's right, NeXT thinks >binary distributions are reasonable. Gee, I guess you're stuck. It wouldn't matter anyway. The password stuff on BSD systems is not based on crypt. In general the password source code is not available with the Berkeley distribution. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ORGANIZATION: BLETCH (Bletcherous League of Evil Twisted Computer Hackers) UUCP: kzin!speaker@mimsy.umd.edu INTERNET: jtn@potomac.ads.com SPOKEN: Dark Hacker PHONE: (703) 243-1611 The Mythos of Dark Hacker: "Controlled by the sinister and shadowy "suits" Dark Hacker now employs the tools of computer science to free himself from the suit's will. By day he is a lackey... but at night when the city sleeps he becomes.... DARK HACKER!" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=