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From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: gentoo-gwn@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 22
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 23:12:06
Message-Id: 20030601230649.GY2775@mail.lieber.org
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2 Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
3 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
4 This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of June 2nd, 2003.
5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6
7 ==============
8 1. Gentoo News
9 ==============
10
11 Summary
12 -------
13
14 * North America gets two new source mirrors
15 * CFLAGS/cpuinfo collection project
16 * Upcoming infrastructure changes
17
18 North America gets two new source mirrors
19 -----------------------------------------
20
21 As most Gentoo users in North America know, source mirrors for Gentoo
22 Linux have often been overloaded as the distribution continues to gain in
23 popularity. Fortunately, the load will be eased somewhat with the addition
24 of two new source mirrors, provided by the University of California, Santa
25 Barbara[1] and pair Networks[2].
26
27 1. http://www.ucsb.edu/
28 2. http://promote.pair.com/click.pl
29
30 UCSB, located in sunny Santa Barbara, California, was recently ranked the
31 14th best public university in the United States. Renown for its
32 scientific research, UCSB professors recently won three Nobel Prizes in
33 chemistry and physics for their landmark research.
34
35 pair Networks provides world-class web hosting services to customers
36 around the globe. With over 140,000 unique web sites and customers from
37 150 different countries, pair Networks has established a reputation in the
38 industry for outstanding service at reasonable prices.
39
40 Gentoo Linux wishes to thank both pair Networks and the University of
41 California, Santa Barbara, for their generous support of the project.
42 Without their support, along with the support of our other sponsors,
43 Gentoo Linux would not be the successful distribution that it is today.
44 Users interested in taking advantage of these new mirrors can find more
45 information on our mirrors[3] page.
46
47 3. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
48
49 CFLAGS/cpuinfo collection project
50 ---------------------------------
51
52 One of the projects being worked on within the Gentoo Linux project is an
53 application that will generate a recommended set of CHOST/CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS
54 for a given system. In order to make this application as useful and
55 accurate as possible, we are in need of much sample /proc/cpuinfo data. To
56 facilitate this, a web page[4] has been created with both submission forms
57 and a quick submission tool. Users are encouraged to submit their
58 information. The web page contains additional information about specific
59 systems for which we particularly need more data.
60
61 4. http://gentoo.slinky.surrey.sfu.ca/cflagcollect/
62
63 Upcoming infrastructure changes
64 -------------------------------
65
66 The infrastructure that supports Gentoo Linux will be undergoing a number
67 of changes over the coming weeks. These include:
68
69 * Migrating our DNS to an outsourced provider.
70 * Load balancing and failover services for the multiple servers that run
71 www.gentoo.org[5].
72 * Moving bugs.gentoo.org[6] to a new, dedicated server.
73 * Moving cvs.gentoo.org[7] to a new, dedicated server.
74 * Distributing and de-centralizing our mail infrastructure, placing list
75 mail on one server and other mail on another server.
76 * Significant changes to the security infrastructure, including kernel
77 patches, chrooted environments for many of our public services,
78 iptables scripts and other areas.
79 * Many other smaller changes.
80
81 5. http://www.gentoo.org
82 6. http://bugs.gentoo.org/
83 7. http://cvs.gentoo.org/
84
85 Considerable effort will be put into ensuring these changes are as smooth
86 as possible, with little or no direct impact to the user community.
87 However, as with all things technology-related, unforseen circumstances
88 and Murphy's Law generally crop up at the most inopportune times. Your
89 patience as we work through these changes will be greatly appreciated.
90
91 ==================
92 2. Gentoo Security
93 ==================
94
95 Summary
96 -------
97
98 * GLSA: heimdal
99 * GLSA: nessus
100 * New Security Bug Reports
101
102 GLSA: heimdal
103 -------------
104
105 A crytographic weakness in Kerberos 4 allows an attacker to impersonate
106 any principal in a realm through using a chosen-plaintext attack. This
107 vulnerability extends to the implementation of mit-krb5 (see the the GLSA
108 in the April 7th GWN[8]) and the Heimdal implementation.
109
110 * Severity: Critical - Authentication compromise.
111 * Packages Affected: app-crypt/heimdal prior to heimdal-0.6
112 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge heimdal, emerge clean.
113 * GLSA Announcement[9]
114 * Advisory[10]
115
116 8. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030407-newsletter.xml
117 9. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56743
118 10.http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/
119 MITKRB5-SA-2003-004-krb4.txt
120
121 GLSA: nessus
122 ------------
123
124 The scripting engine in the Nessus security scanner has several
125 vulnerabilities. Exploiting these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary
126 code would require a malicious user to have a valid account as well as
127 tricking a user into running a script.
128
129 * Severity: Moderate - Arbitrary code execution, mitigated by requirement
130 for privileges by exploiter.
131 * Packages Affected: net-analyzer/nessus prior to nessus-2.0.6a
132 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge nessus, emerge clean.
133 * GLSA Announcement[11]
134 * Advisory[12]
135
136 11. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56744
137 12. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105369506714849&w=2
138
139 New Security Bug Reports
140 ------------------------
141
142 The following new security bugs were posted this week:
143
144 * [13]net-print/cups
145 * [14]sys-devel/gcc
146 * [15]net-www/apache
147
148 13. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21941
149 14. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21943
150 15. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21942
151
152 ===============
153 3. User stories
154 ===============
155
156 A little reminder
157
158 Sadly we received no submissions for a user story during the last week. :(
159 So it seems like a good time to remind you to send your experiences with
160 Gentoo Linux which might be interesting to fellow Gentooers to
161 user-stories@g.o like Kai[16], Kenneth[17] and Mathy[18] did!
162
163 16. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030512-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3
164 17. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030519-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3
165 18. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030526-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3
166
167 Fortunately we already have a candidate (who will be quite interesting,
168 promise!) for the next issue, we just ran out of time for this week...
169
170 =================================
171 4. Featured Developer of the Week
172 =================================
173
174 Jon Portnoy, aka avenj
175
176 This week we feature Jon Portnoy[19], whose duties in the Gentoo
177 development team include recruitment and management of developers (along
178 with Development Manager Seemant Kulleen[20]), coordination of releases,
179 caretaking of the distfiles repository, and maintenance of some thirty or
180 so ebuilds, including ICC[21], Intel's C++ Compiler. As developer
181 recruiter and manager, Jon is the person project managers talk to when
182 they want to get someone on the team, and oversees the training of new
183 recruits (which is conducted by the original sponsor/mentor). He and
184 Seemant also handle much of developer policy creation. As release
185 coordinator, Jon oversees the entire release process, delegating tasks
186 like stage building, QA, GRP building, and works to keep the release
187 process flowing smoothly. All the while he makes sure the distfiles
188 repository is in shape as much as possible, and has been working to
189 integrate ICC into Gentoo Linux's current GCC-focused environment ever
190 since he joined the development team. Jon had stopped in at freenode's
191 #gentoo seeking help with a tricky initrd problem, ended up staying and
192 helping people with their problems, and eventually got noticed by Seemant
193 and joined the team as ICC implementor. He's proud of everything he's done
194 for Gentoo, especially his management of developers and coordination of
195 releases.
196
197 19. avenj@g.o
198 20. seemant@g.o
199 21. http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/clin/
200
201 Jon uses Enlightenment 0.16.5 with the Maw theme, as well as X-Chat 2,
202 Mutt, Mozilla, XMMS, screen, and slrn (he's very active on
203 comp.os.linux.advocacy and alt.os.linux.gentoo) on his workstation -
204 cerberus, a P3 866mhz with 384MB RAM. He also finds the game Icebreaker
205 very addictive. He also uses three other boxen: tempest, a P3
206 development/testing box, eris, a K6-2 nameserver/proxy server, and
207 lucifer, a celeron 1.8ghz dedicated to compilation. A student living out
208 in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire, Jon enjoys spending time
209 outdoors away from his monitors, whether it be walking, biking, or
210 kayaking. He also spends lots of time reading and studying history,
211 especially Russian history. An aficionado of a variety of kinds of music,
212 from Bob Dylan to Lucinda Williams to Juno Reactor to KMFDM, Jon is a
213 particularly big fan of industrial music.
214
215 =========================
216 5. Heard In The Community
217 =========================
218
219 Web Forums
220 ----------
221
222 Spam, Spam, Spam, Baked Beans and Spam
223
224 Did you know that Episode 25 of Monty Python's Flying Circus is the reason
225 we call it that? SPiced hAM has become a synonym for unsolicited,
226 obnoxious commercial email clutter that enrages the Internet community.
227 Gentoo users are no different, albeit a little more versatile in anti-spam
228 combat, and the forums are witness to some of the more inventive ideas how
229 to deal with the no. 1 nuisance on the Internet these days:
230
231 * How about: The Gentoo antispam initiative?[22]
232 * Causing spammers serious pain[23]
233
234 22. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57073
235 23. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56944
236
237 Break My Gentoo
238
239 Promoted as "a haven for all those cvs ebuilds left homeless by the Great
240 Portage CVS Purge of '03", links to a website maintained by Forums gurus
241 karl11[24] and Lin_Matt[25] are occasionally rippling the waves whenever
242 something new is not immediately reflected by the official Gentoo
243 development activities. Breakmygentoo.net does have a bugzilla of their
244 own, but everybody seems to prefer swapping experiences at the Gentoo
245 forums...
246
247 * Breakmygentoo.net[26]
248 * Breakmygentoo.net - Quick howto[27]
249 * CVS HEAD rhythmbox ebuild[28]
250
251 24. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2881
252 25. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2799
253 26. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56667
254 27. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57248
255 28. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56093
256
257 OSnews Poll: And the Winner Is...
258
259 Whatever the significance of this may be: Gentoo beat all the other major
260 distributions in this year's Linux popularity poll at OSnews.com, up from
261 11 percent last year to exactly twice that share of the cake this time
262 around. Interestingly enough, the thread that solicited Gentooists to go
263 and vote (which at the current traffic experienced inside the Gentoo
264 forums may well have contributed to the clear lead in the poll) even
265 triggered one of the rare but welcome visits of Eugenia Loli-Queru[29],
266 head mistress of everybody's favourite website, and Gentoo forum user with
267 one of the earliest membership numbers around...
268
269 * Poll: Vote for your Favorite Linux Distribution[30]
270 * Please vote for Gentoo on OSNews poll[31]
271
272 29. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=548
273 30. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3640
274 31. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56188
275
276 gentoo-user
277 -----------
278
279 Performance of nVidia cards
280
281 In an uncommonly active thread, Spider called for the -user community to
282 submit glxgear benchmark results of their Nvidia graphics cards. The
283 submissions provide a good way to compare your hardware to others,
284 allowing you to gauge any configuration errors that may be sucking
285 precious FPS(frames per second). I'm sure we all appreciate Ernie Schroder
286 whoopin' it up[32] in the 3D world.
287
288 * Perfromance of nVidia cards[33]
289
290 32. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/33872
291 33. http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user
292 &root=%3C20030522013416.7051e917.spider%40gentoo.org%3E
293
294 ** fixpackages **
295
296 As portage travels down the road of becoming the best package manager for
297 Linux -- ever --, new features are thrown into the mix. After Tom
298 Veldhouse updated portage, he was soon confronted with an unfamilar prompt
299 to 'fixpackages'. Other community members may have experienced similar
300 confusion. Brett Holcomb notes[34] that, "It's a new feature that fixes
301 things when packages move from one category to another" and is located in
302 /usr/lib/portage/bin/fixpackages. The gentoo-forums also developed a
303 thread[35] discussing the new feature.
304
305 * emerge and 'fixpackages'?[36]
306
307 34. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/34727
308 35. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55863
309 36. http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user
310 &root=%3C013a01c32606%24a5771550%24d037630a%40dh.com%3E
311
312 gentoo-dev
313 ----------
314
315 XFree
316
317 Seemant Kulleen posted[37] a message announcing the r3 (masked) release of
318 v4.3.0.
319
320 37. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8905
321
322 The plan for this 3rd release of xfree is to move all font building into
323 seperate packages. However, though it has been released it still needs
324 some work.
325
326 Menu system for all gentoo wm's
327
328 Also an exciting idea[38] was brought up to implement a
329 windowmanager-independent menu layout system. A system which maintains
330 entries for installated / removed programs in a non wm specific way. Much
331 like the .desktop system from freedesktop.org.
332
333 38. http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.devel&
334 first=1&last=50
335
336 Assigning unique system uid/gid for new ebuild
337
338 Considerable discussion took place regarding how to decide what
339 uid/gid[39] the new package should run as. The plan apparantly is to make
340 the installation process more flexible to include dynamically modifying a
341 list of uids/gids. However for now everything is fixed around /etc/passwd,
342 which is part of baselayout.
343
344 39. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8965
345
346 =======================
347 6. Gentoo International
348 =======================
349
350 Documentation Translations
351
352 Fresh off the presses: Makoto Yamakura has announced an up-to-date
353 Japanese version of the Gentoo Installation Guide (x86), available via the
354 main Gentoo website. While the Japanese, Dutch, French and German
355 translators have thus pretty much synchronized their documents with the
356 current state of things, documentation in Spanish, Italian and Swedish is
357 lagging behind by a few steps. If you want to contribute to the
358 translation efforts for the Gentoo documentation, either by brushing up
359 existing language versions or adding new ones, please contact John P.
360 Davis[40].
361
362 40. zhen@g.o
363
364 ================
365 7. Portage Watch
366 ================
367
368 The following notable packages were updated or added to portage this week
369 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
370
371 * sys-kernel/aa-sources: Full sources for Andrea Arcangeli's Linux
372 kernel[41]
373 * sys-kernel/ac-sources: Full sources for Alan Cox's Linux kernel[42]
374 * sys-kernel/development-sources: Full sources for the Development Branch
375 of the Linux kernel[43]
376
377 41. http://www.kernel.org/
378 42. http://www.kernel.org/
379 43. http://www.kernel.org/
380
381 The following stable packages were updated or added to portage this week
382 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
383
384 * app-crypt/heimdal: Kerberos 5 implementation from KTH[44]
385 * app-editors/gvim: Graphical Vim[45]
386 * app-office/gnucash: A personal finance manager[46]
387 * app-office/openoffice: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity
388 suite.[47]
389 * app-sci/qcad: A 2D CAD package based upon Qt.[48]
390 * app-shells/pdksh: The Public Domain Korn Shell[49]
391 * dev-db/hk_classes: GUI-independent C++ libraries for database
392 applications[50]
393 * dev-db/knoda: KDE database frontend based on the hk_classes library[51]
394 * dev-java/ant: Java-based build tool similar to 'make' that uses XML
395 configuration files.[52]
396 * dev-java/blackdown-jre: Blackdown Java Runtime Environment 1.4.1[53]
397 * dev-lang/R: R is GNU S - A language and environment for statistical
398 computing and graphics.[54]
399 * dev-python/PyOpenGL: Python OpenGL bindings[55]
400 * dev-python/docutils: Set of python tools for processing plaintext docs
401 into HTML, XML, etc.[56]
402 * gnome-base/ORBit2: ORBit2 is a high-performance CORBA ORB[57]
403 * gnome-base/bonobo-activation: Gnome2 replacement for OAF[58]
404 * gnome-base/gnome-applets: Applets for the Gnome2 Desktop and Panel[59]
405 * gnome-base/libbonoboui: User Interface part of Lib bonobo[60]
406 * gnome-base/libgnome: Essential Gnome Libraries[61]
407 * gnome-base/libgnomeprint: Printer handling for Gnome[62]
408 * gnome-extra/gnome-media: Multimedia related programs for the Gnome2
409 desktop[63]
410 * gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor: Procman - The Gnome System
411 Monitor[64]
412 * gnome-extra/gnome-utils: Utilities for the Gnome2 desktop[65]
413 * media-gfx/blender: 3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System[66]
414 * media-sound/alsa-driver: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture kernel
415 modules[67]
416 * net-firewall/fwbuilder: A firewall GUI[68]
417 * net-firewall/kmyfirewall: Graphical KDE iptables configuration tool[69]
418 * net-firewall/shorewall: Full state iptables firewall[70]
419 * net-fs/autofs: Kernel based automounter[71]
420 * net-fs/samba: SAMBA is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs
421 for UNIX[72]
422 * net-irc/xchat: X-Chat is a graphical IRC client for UNIX operating
423 systems.[73]
424 * net-libs/libesmtp: libESMTP is a library that implements the client
425 side of the SMTP protocol[74]
426 * net-libs/libfwbuilder: A firewall GUI (library functions)[75]
427 * net-libs/nss_ldap: NSS LDAP Module[76]
428 * net-libs/pam_ldap: PAM LDAP Module[77]
429 * net-mail/bogofilter: Bayesian spam filter designed with fast
430 algorithms, and tuned for speed.[78]
431 * net-mail/courier-imap: An IMAP daemon designed specifically for
432 maildirs[79]
433 * net-mail/disspam: A Perl script that removes spam from POP3 mailboxes
434 based on RBLs.[80]
435 * net-nds/openldap: LDAP suite of application and development tools[81]
436 * net-nds/yp-tools: NIS Tools[82]
437 * net-nds/ypbind: Multithreaded NIS bind service[83]
438 * net-nds/ypserv: NIS SERVER[84]
439 * net-print/cups: The Common Unix Printing System[85]
440 * net-wireless/wireless-tools: A collection of tools to configure
441 wireless lan cards.[86]
442 * net-www/apache: Apache Web Server, Version 2.0.x[87]
443 * sys-apps/di: Disk Information Utility[88]
444 * sys-cluster/ipvsadm: ipvsadm is a utility to administer the IP virtual
445 server services offered by the Linux kernel with IP virtual server
446 support.[89]
447 * sys-devel/binutils: Tools necessary to build programs[90]
448 * sys-devel/distcc: a program to distribute compilation of C code across
449 several machines on a network[91]
450 * sys-devel/gcc: The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes C/C++ and java
451 compilers[92]
452 * sys-libs/db: Berkeley DB[93]
453 * x11-base/xfree: Xfree86: famous and free X server[94]
454 * x11-libs/gtk+: Gimp ToolKit + [95]
455 * x11-libs/gtkglarea: GL extensions for gtk+[96]
456
457 44. http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/
458 45. http://www.vim.org/
459 46. http://www.gnucash.org/
460 47. http://www.openoffice.org/
461 48. http://www.qcad.org
462 49. http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
463 50. http://hk-classes.sourceforge.net/
464 51. http://hk-classes.sourceforge.net/
465 52. http://ant.apache.org
466 53. http://www.blackdown.org
467 54. http://www.r-project.org/
468 55. http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/
469 56. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
470 57. http://www.gnome.org/
471 58. http://www.gnome.org/
472 59. http://www.gnome.org/
473 60. http://www.gnome.org/
474 61. http://www.gnome.org/
475 62. http://www.gnome.org/
476 63. http://www.prettypeople.org/~iain/gnome-media/
477 64. http://www.gnome.org/
478 65. http://www.gnome.org/
479 66. http://www.blender.org/
480 67. http://www.alsa-project.org/
481 68. http://www.fwbuilder.org/
482 69. http://kmyfirewall.sourceforge.net/
483 70. http://www.shorewall.net
484 71. http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html
485 72. http://www.samba.org
486 73. http://www.xchat.org/
487 74. http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/
488 75. http://www.fwbuilder.org/
489 76. http://www.padl.com/OSS/nss_ldap.html
490 77. http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html
491 78. http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
492 79. http://www.courier-mta.org/
493 80. http://www.topfx.com/
494 81. http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
495 82. http://www.linux-nis.org/nis
496 83. http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypbind-mt/index.html
497 84. http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/
498 85. http://www.cups.org
499 86. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
500 87. http://www.apache.org/
501 88. http://www.gentoo.com/di/
502 89. http://linuxvirtualserver.org
503 90. http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/
504 91. http://distcc.samba.org/
505 92. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
506 93. http://www.sleepycat.com
507 94. http://www.xfree.org
508 95. http://www.gtk.org/
509 96. http://www.gnome.org/
510
511 Total categories: 82
512
513 Total packages: 4478 (82 packages added since last week)
514
515 ===========
516 8. Bugzilla
517 ===========
518
519 Summary
520 -------
521
522 Due to technical difficulties with the bugs.gentoo.org server on Friday,
523 bug statistics will be unavailable this week. Next week's GWN will include
524 a two-week summary.
525
526 ==================
527 9. Tips and Tricks
528 ==================
529
530 Export an X Session
531
532 This week's tip shows you how to run GUI programs remotely by exporting an
533 X session and tunneling it over SSH. Note that this is heavily dependant
534 on the speed of your network connection. If you're trying to run Mozilla
535 off of a box on the other side of the country on a 56K modem it is
536 probably not going to work very well. The best application for this is
537 running programs over the same LAN or possibly a high-speed WAN. An easy
538 example application is running gvim remotely so you can have a GUI editor.
539
540 For this example we assume the local machine has an IP of 192.168.1.2 and
541 the remote machine has an IP of 192.168.1.3. On the local machine you're
542 going to need to give the remote machine access to connect to your X
543 server. Use the command xhost to do this.
544
545 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
546 | Code Listing 9.1: |
547 | Local machine |
548 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
549 | |
550 |This command allows the machine with the IP 192.168.1.3 to connect |
551 |# xhost +192.168.1.3 |
552 | |
553 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
554
555 On the remote machine, you need to export the $DISPLAY variable to your
556 local machine. After that, you should be ready to run GUI programs
557 remotely.
558
559 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
560 | Code Listing 9.2: |
561 | Remote machine |
562 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
563 | |
564 |# export DISPLAY="192.168.1.2:0.0" |
565 |# gvim /etc/passwd |
566 |You should see gvim open on your local machine with the contents |
567 |of the remote machine's /etc/passwd file. |
568 | |
569 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
570
571 This is very unsecure and not recommended since everything you type
572 including passwords will be transmitted over the network unencrypted.
573 To tunnel the connection over SSH and thus encrypt the traffic edit your
574 /etc/sshd2_config file.
575
576 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
577 | Code Listing 9.3: |
578 | /etc/sshd2_config |
579 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
580 | |
581 |Add or edit the following line |
582 |ForwardX11 yes |
583 | |
584 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
585
586 Now connect from the local machine to the remote machine via ssh and start
587 your X application.
588
589 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
590 | Code Listing 9.4: |
591 | Remote machine |
592 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
593 | |
594 |# gvim /etc/passwd |
595 |You should see gvim open on your local machine with the contents |
596 |of the remote machine's /etc/passwd file. |
597 | |
598 |Notice that you don't have to set the DISPLAY variable, ssh automagically|
599 |does that for you. You do however have to allow access to your local |
600 |machine's X server (see above). |
601 | |
602 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
603
604 ===========================
605 10. Moves, Adds and Changes
606 ===========================
607
608 Moves
609 -----
610
611 The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
612
613 * none this week
614
615 Adds
616 ----
617
618 The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
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620 * Rob Holland (robh) -- media-sound
621 * Ned Ludd (solar) -- Hardened Gentoo, grsecurity
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623 Changes
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626 The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
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691 AJ Armstrong <aja@×××××××××××××.com> - Contributor
692 Brice Burgess <nesta@×××××××.net> - Contributor
693 Michael Kohl <citizen428@g.o> - Contributor
694 Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Contributor
695 Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Contributor
696 David Narayan <david@×××××××.net> - Contributor
697 Ulrich Plate <plate@g.o> - Contributor
698 Peter Sharp <mail@××××××××××××××.net> - Contributor
699 Kim Tingkaer <kim@×××××××.dk> - Contributor
700 Mathy Vanvoorden <matje@×××××××.be> - Dutch Translation
701 Hendrik Eeckhaut <Hendrik.Eeckhaut@×××××.be> - Dutch Translation
702 Jorn Eilander <sephiroth@××××××××.nl> - Dutch Translation
703 Bernard Kerckenaere <bernieke@××××××××.com> - Dutch Translation
704 Peter ter Borg <peter@××××××.nl> - Dutch Translation
705 Jochen Maes <linux@××××.be> - Dutch Translation
706 Roderick Goessen <rgoessen@××××.nl> - Dutch Translation
707 Gerard van den Berg <gerard@××××××.net> - Dutch Translation
708 Matthieu Montaudouin <mat@××××××××.com> - French Translation
709 Martin Prieto <riverdale@×××××××××.org> - French Translation
710 Antoine Raillon <cabec2@××××××.net> - French Translation
711 Sebastien Cevey <seb@×××××.net> - French Translation
712 Jean-Christophe Choisy <mabouya@××××××××××××.org> - French Translation
713 Steffen Lassahn <madeagle@g.o> - German Translation
714 Matthias F. Brandstetter <haim@g.o> - German Translation
715 Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@g.o> - German Translation
716 Klaus-J. Wolf <yanestra@g.o> - German Translation
717 Marco Mascherpa <mush@××××××.net> - Italian Translation
718 Claudio Merloni <paper@×××××××.it> - Italian Translation
719 Christian Apolloni <bsolar@×××××××.ch> - Italian Translation
720 Daniel Ketel <kage-chan@g.o> - Japanese Translation
721 Yoshiaki Hagihara <hagi@×××.com> - Japanese Translation
722 Andy Hunne <andy@×××××××××.com> - Japanese Translation
723 Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Japanese Translation
724 Yasunori Fukudome <yasunori@××××××××××××××××.uk> - Japanese Translation
725 Takashi Ota <088@××××××××××.jp> - Japanese Translation
726 Jaroslaw Swierad <messer@××××××××.net> - Polish Translation
727 Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@××××××.br> - Portuguese (Brazil)
728 Translation
729 Bruno Ferreira <blueroom@××××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
730 Translation
731 Gustavo Felisberto <gustavo@××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
732 Translation
733 Ricardo Jorge Louro <rjlouro@×××××××.org> - Portuguese (Portugal)
734 Translation
735 Ricardo Nogueira <R.Nogueira@××××××××××××××××.au> - Portuguese (Brazil)
736 Translation
737 Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o> - Russian Translator
738 Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuz@××××.ru> - Russian Translator
739 Anton Vorovatov <mazurous@××××.ru> - Russian Translator
740 Lanark <lanark@××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation
741 Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@××××××.org> - Spanish Translation
742 Lluis Peinado Cifuentes <lpeinado@×××.edu> - Spanish Translation
743 Zephryn Xirdal T <ZEPHRYNXIRDAL@××××××××××.net> - Spanish Translation
744 Guillermo Juarez <katossi@××××××××××××××××.es> - Spanish Translation
745 Jesús García Crespo <correo@××××××.com> - Spanish Translation
746 Carlos Castillo <carlos@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation
747 Julio Castillo <julio@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation
748 Sergio Gómez <s3r@××××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation
749 Aycan Irican <aycan@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
750 Bugra Cakir <bugra@×××××××××.com> - Turkish Translation
751 Cagil Seker <cagils@××××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
752 Emre Kazdagli <emre@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
753 Evrim Ulu <evrim@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
754 Gursel Kaynak <gurcell@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation