- Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Patrick O'Callaghan)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:14 -0430 From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" pocallaghan@gmail.com Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: 1225986734.594.35.camel@bree.homelinux.com Content-Type: text/plain
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 05:28 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
I could not connect to the above link a message came on give me 2 choice "get me out of here" and "add exception" adding exception indicate high security risk, I decided not to go forward. any advice? thank you.
It just means Firefox didn't recognize the site certificate. Which is normal for sites that don't want to pay an exorbitant fee to Verisign or whatever. I wouldn't worry about in this case since the RPMs are signed anyway. I would worry if it was your bank.
Thank you, but I bump in some more problems. I followed OK up to step 6 blacklisting, on step 7 "remove the old module and activate the new one", did not work for me. First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help.
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Vincent Onelli wrote:
First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help.
sounds like you do not have '/sbin/' in your environment 'PATH'.
to check, run 'env | grep PATH'. this will show what you have and if you do not see '/sbin/', then you need to add it to your 'PATH=' in your '~/.bashrc' file. - -- peace out.
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On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:06 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
- Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Patrick O'Callaghan)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:14 -0430 From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" pocallaghan@gmail.com Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: 1225986734.594.35.camel@bree.homelinux.com Content-Type: text/plain
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 05:28 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
I could not connect to the above link a message came on give me 2 choice "get me out of here" and "add exception" adding exception indicate high security risk, I decided not to go forward. any advice? thank you.
It just means Firefox didn't recognize the site certificate. Which is normal for sites that don't want to pay an exorbitant fee to Verisign or whatever. I wouldn't worry about in this case since the RPMs are signed anyway. I would worry if it was your bank.
Thank you, but I bump in some more problems. I followed OK up to step 6 blacklisting, on step 7 "remove the old module and activate the new one", did not work for me. First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help.
Use "su -" (instead of just "su") and you'll get root's version of $PATH.
Note that this changes in F10 i.e. /sbin and /usr/sbin will be on everyone's path.
poc
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Note that this changes in F10 i.e. /sbin and /usr/sbin will be on everyone's path.
Hmm, sounds like a new problem in the making. I would hope that ordinary users have those paths *after* /bin and /usr/bin.
Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Note that this changes in F10 i.e. /sbin and /usr/sbin will be on everyone's path.
Hmm, sounds like a new problem in the making. I would hope that ordinary users have those paths *after* /bin and /usr/bin.
What problem do you foresee?
I ask this since for as long as I can remember I've modified my PATH and have /sbin and /usr/sbin right after ~/bin at the very beginning. Since it has been so long that I have had it this way I may not know I have a problem...or maybe I'm ignoring it.
I'm not sure if I'm an ordinary user, a veteran user, or something else. :-)
Ed Greshko kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 7. marraskuuta 2008):
I ask this since for as long as I can remember I've modified my PATH and have /sbin and /usr/sbin right after ~/bin at the very beginning. Since it has been so long that I have had it this way I may not know I have a problem...or maybe I'm ignoring it.
Doing that breaks every program that uses consolehelper to ask the root password when started as ordinary user. What happens when you run e.g. system-config-time from command line as non-root?
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 09:10 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote:
Ed Greshko kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 7. marraskuuta 2008):
I ask this since for as long as I can remember I've modified my PATH and have /sbin and /usr/sbin right after ~/bin at the very beginning. Since it has been so long that I have had it this way I may not know I have a problem...or maybe I'm ignoring it.
Doing that breaks every program that uses consolehelper to ask the root password when started as ordinary user. What happens when you run e.g. system-config-time from command line as non-root?
It executes /usr/bin/system-config-time, a symbolic link to /usr/bin/consolehelper, same as it does without the change to $PATH. What's the problem?
poc
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:06 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
- Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Patrick O'Callaghan)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:14 -0430 From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" pocallaghan@gmail.com Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: 1225986734.594.35.camel@bree.homelinux.com Content-Type: text/plain
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 05:28 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
I could not connect to the above link a message came on give me 2 choice "get me out of here" and "add exception" adding exception indicate high security risk, I decided not to go forward. any advice? thank you.
It just means Firefox didn't recognize the site certificate. Which is normal for sites that don't want to pay an exorbitant fee to Verisign or whatever. I wouldn't worry about in this case since the RPMs are signed anyway. I would worry if it was your bank.
Thank you, but I bump in some more problems. I followed OK up to step 6 blacklisting, on step 7 "remove the old module and activate the new one", did not work for me. First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help.
Use "su -" (instead of just "su") and you'll get root's version of $PATH.
Note that this changes in F10 i.e. /sbin and /usr/sbin will be on everyone's path.
/sbin on a normal user's path? A bit dangerous, no? I thought it was separate from /usr/sbin for that specific reason.
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On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 09:29 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:06 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
- Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Patrick O'Callaghan)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:14 -0430 From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" pocallaghan@gmail.com Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: 1225986734.594.35.camel@bree.homelinux.com Content-Type: text/plain
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 05:28 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
I could not connect to the above link a message came on give me 2 choice "get me out of here" and "add exception" adding exception indicate high security risk, I decided not to go forward. any advice? thank you.
It just means Firefox didn't recognize the site certificate. Which is normal for sites that don't want to pay an exorbitant fee to Verisign or whatever. I wouldn't worry about in this case since the RPMs are signed anyway. I would worry if it was your bank.
Thank you, but I bump in some more problems. I followed OK up to step 6 blacklisting, on step 7 "remove the old module and activate the new one", did not work for me. First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help.
Use "su -" (instead of just "su") and you'll get root's version of $PATH.
Note that this changes in F10 i.e. /sbin and /usr/sbin will be on everyone's path.
/sbin on a normal user's path? A bit dangerous, no? I thought it was separate from /usr/sbin for that specific reason.
Do you think Linux security relies on not knowing where the binaries are? AFAIK the stuff in /sbin is there because it could be needed during the boot process, possibly before /usr/bin is mounted. Presumably it's also to reduce the clutter in /usr/bin.
poc