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gdm login has no keyboard , session , windows manager menu
by Eric Doutreleau 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi i have just installed a fedora 11 laptop. but when i got the login screen i don't get any keybord session or window mamanger menu in the down bar i only have the accessibility menu and the clock. does someone know how to solve that problem? i use gdm-2.26.1-13.fc11.i586

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Re: Is YUM really a secure pacakage manager ?
by Akshay Wattal 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi, Lately i did some research on security issues related to differnt package managers including YUM and found out that there can be some vulnerabilities in YUM. So far YUM checks the signature which is on each individual package,In this model, the package manager has no signatures to check until it gets to the point where it downloads the actual packages it intends to install. Keeping this in mind the vulnerabilities that are possible are as follows: ---->Metadata Manipulation Attack: The attack in this case involves a malicious party responding to a package manager’s request by making their own metadata, There are two main things attackers can do First, they can mix-and-match the versions of packages that are listed. Second, they can trick clients into thinking that packages have different dependencies and provide different functionality than they really do. In mixing-and-matching vulnerable package versions by listing them in the same metadata given to a client, attackers make it more likely that, whatever new package a client installs, it is installing a version with a known vulnerability. ---->Freeze Attack: In this an attacker can keep giving the client a single version of the metadata starting at one point in time (that is, “freezing” the metadata), the attacker can prevent the client from knowing about new metadata and thus new packages that are available that fix known vulnerabilities. ---->Endless data Attack: It involves a malicious party responding to a client request, be it for metadata or for a package, with an endless stream of data. The possible effects include filling up the partition where the package manager saves downloaded files or exhausting memory. These are few "possible" vulnerabilities which can be found in YUM. Thanks Get your new Email address! Grab the Email name you've always wanted before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/

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install mysql client and mysql-server with default charset utf8
by online.service.com＠gmail.com 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi all, I like to install mysql client and mysql-server with default charset as utf8. I tried "yum install mysql mysql-server -with-charset=utf8 ". It was not right. Any suggestion and help are much appreciated!

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F11: Updating: caching problem with sqlite
by lanas 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hello, I've just installed F11 x86_64. First thing I want to do after install is to say 'yes' to apply all the updates I was notified about. 573 updates. I'm looking forward at having an updated system, so I've choosen 'yes' when KPackageKit popped up automatically. Alas, problem. 'There was a (possibly temporary) problem ...' Details 'Caching enabled but no local cache of /var/cache/yum/fedora/(lots of digits)/filelists.sqlite.bz2' If that package is causing trouble, I'd like to remove it from the update process. I don't use sqlite. Things is, KPackageKit does not show the packages in alphabetical order and there's no search method. I will not scroll 573 items to find sqlite. So how can the update be done and, what is this problem anyways ? Thanks for all suggestions and help. F11 looks nice as far as the artwork is concerned. Looks promising. Cheers.

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kde 4.3 pager
by George Avrunin 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

I'm sure this is pilot error of some sort, but I can't figure it out. I'm running F11, x86_64, fully updated. I use 12 desktops. Until I did the update that brought in KDE 4.3, I had a nice pager widget (not on the panel) with 4 rows and 3 columns, the small images of the desktops filled the widget, and I could adjust the size. With 4.3, KDE seems to insist on a particular shape for the pager--the 12 desktops in this 4x3 configuration take up about half of it and it is not in the same aspect ratio as my display. Also, there's a minimum size it won't let me go below. I created a new user and tried to make a pager with 12 desktops this way and got the same thing, so I *think* it's not something else in my configuration. (If I put a pager on the panel, it doesn't seem to use any extra space, but it's too small for me to use.) How do I get rid of the extra space the pager widget is insisting on using? And why can't I make it smaller? George

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