ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 120

Tue Jun 10 01:06:14 UTC 2008

>> How to Install and active the Compizconfig ...can any one tell me

arun singh
student

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>   1. Which Totem? (Rick)
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>   3. Re: Question about ssh_host_dsa_key (Smoot Carl-Mitchell)
>   4. Re: Which Totem? (Mario Vukelic)
>   5. Re: Re: (Mario Vukelic)
>   6. Re: (Nils Kassube)
>   7. Re: Question about ssh_host_dsa_key (Robert Dailey)
>   8. (no subject) (Jerrod G)
>   9. make-ssl-cert (Jose Arce)
>  10. Re: Which Totem? (Phil Sexton)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:13:54 -0400
> From: Rick <rick0009 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Which Totem?
> To: ubuntu <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> I been hearing about problems with Totem using gstreamer as a engine,
> compare to using Totem with xine engine... I Notice that Totem with
> gstreamer is installed... what the final word on this,
>
> would the Totem with xine engine be better in playing more types of
> video with few problems
>
>
> Regards-
> Richard
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:23:29 -0600
> From: Leif Gregory <ldgregory69 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re:
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
> andrea phillips <homgirl177 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > could you send me the web page for wine thanks
>
> http://winehq.org
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:30:41 -0700
> From: Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>
> Subject: Re: Question about ssh_host_dsa_key
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
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> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 14:10 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm very new to Ubuntu Server and I'm just wondering what the key
> > named "ssh_host_dsa_key" is for? This is located in /etc/ssh. Also
> > another confusing concept is ssh-keygen. What's the point of creating
> > public/private keys? Is this so I never need to specify an explicit
> > password when logging into my ubuntu server via PuTTY on windows? I'm
> > trying to understand how SSH works in Ubuntu so I can debug an issue
> > I'm having with svn over ssh.
>
> The host keys are the unique per host key.  When you connect to a host
> for the first time, SSH will ask you if you want to store the host's
> public key in your known_hosts file in the .ssh directory.  This is a
> way to warn you if the connection is being spoofed by someone
> intercepting packets or redirecting your connection to a different
> server.  Paranoid sysadmins can require the public host key be passed
> "out of band" e.g. manually installed on each client and set SSH to
> disallow a connection unless the host is known.
>
> The ssh-keygen program is used to generate public/private keypairs which
> can then be used for passwordless authentication. If you generate a
> keypair like this:
>
> ssh-keygen
>
> The private key will be put in .ssh/id_rsa and the public key
> in .ssj/id_rsa.pub.  You can generate a dsa key by running:
>
> ssh-keygen -d
>
> If you then put the public key on one of your servers in the
> file .ssh/authorized_keys, you can then login without using a password.
>
> Here is an Ubuntu HOWTO:
>
> http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHHowto
>
> --
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:30:56 +0200
> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> Subject: Re: Which Totem?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>,        Rick0009 at gmail.com
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> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:13 -0400, Rick wrote:
> > I been hearing about problems with Totem using gstreamer as a engine,
> > compare to using Totem with xine engine... I Notice that Totem with
> > gstreamer is installed... what the final word on this,
>
> I can't speak a final word, but I'd say that gstreamer is the better
> choice by now. Codecs are automatically installed as needed, and their
> implementations are legal as far as possible.
>
> The xine backend needs the w32codecs package to play all the restricted
> formats, whose legality, to my knowledge, is more complicated. They
> often are, but it depends on your specific situation.
> For w32codecs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
>
> > would the Totem with xine engine be better in playing more types of
> > video with few problems
>
> Personally, I install vlc and gxine/xine for the event that
> totem-gstreamer has problems but I can't even remember when I really
> needed it (though the players themselves have neat features that are
> sometimes helpful).
>
> Oh, and totem-gstreamer can't show DVD menus, so you'll likely want use
> something else for those.
>
> As final as it gets is probably here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:31:50 +0200
> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> Subject: Re: Re:
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1213043510.17431.54.camel at chronic.localdomain>
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> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 14:23 -0600, Leif Gregory wrote:
> >
> > http://winehq.org
>
> While true, this might be more useful in this case:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:30:52 +0200
> From: Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re:
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> andrea phillips wrote:
> > could you send me the web page for wine thanks
>
> You can install wine from the Ubuntu repositories using your favourite
> package manager.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:46:17 -0500
> From: "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Question about ssh_host_dsa_key
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > Robert Dailey wrote:
> >
> > > I'm very new to Ubuntu Server and I'm just wondering what the key named
> > > "ssh_host_dsa_key" is for?
> >
> > You have host key pairs for your users and for your hosts.  This is the
> > _private_ dsa key for your machine.  ssh_host_dsa_key.pub is the one that
> > other machines use to verify that they're still connecting to the same
> > machine with repeated uses.
> >
> > > This is located in /etc/ssh. Also another
> > > confusing concept is ssh-keygen. What's the point of creating
> > > public/private keys?
> >
> > You have host key pairs for your users and for your hosts... :-)
> >
> > > Is this so I never need to specify an explicit
> > > password when logging into my ubuntu server via PuTTY on windows?
> >
> > When you're logging into _any_ ssh server with any ssh client, not just
> > PuTTY.  And this is not just a convenience for you - it's actually more
> > secure to not send passwords over the network.  I run ssh_keygen once,
> then
> > login (with a password) to a server and append the public key to
> > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, and I never have to use a password again (this,
> > though, causes havoc with the machine I only occasionally administer, as
> I
> > then need to remember the "login password", that I never use to login,
> for
> > sudo).
> >
> > > I'm
> > > trying to understand how SSH works in Ubuntu so I can debug an issue
> I'm
> > > having with svn over ssh.
> >
> > Try telling us what the issue is...
>
>
> I didn't mention it before because it seemed OT, but since you ask, I'll
> let
> you know. I brought up the issue on the Subversion Users mailing list here:
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-06/0214.shtml
>
> A summary of the issue is below:
>
> I downloaded a tarball for SVN 1.5RC9 and built it. The binaries are
> located
> in /usr/local/bin.
>
> I can connect to my repository via a linux machine, but using Subversion
> command line or TortoiseSVN on windows results in a hang after trying to do
> a checkout (co) or list (ls). It doesn't even prompt me for my password.
> I've not been able to figure out why this is happening.
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jerrod G <jgspacekid at yahoo.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> thanks
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> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:06:49 -0600
> From: "Jose Arce" <joseantonioarce at gmail.com>
> Subject: make-ssl-cert
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I want to know how to create a certificate for my client Thunderbird.  The
> everytime I use to start it, it asks for a certificate.
> Thank you,
>
> Jose
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> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:04:28 -0400
> From: Phil Sexton <philsexton at skybest.com>
> Subject: Re: Which Totem?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
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> Rick wrote:
> > I been hearing about problems with Totem using gstreamer as a engine,
> > compare to using Totem with xine engine... I Notice that Totem with
> > gstreamer is installed... what the final word on this,
> >
> > would the Totem with xine engine be better in playing more types of
> > video with few problems
>
> I haven't found totem to be able to do anything much.
>
> For multimedia streaming and playing, try following this guide:
>
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683>
>
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:05:48 +0100
> From: Craig Hurley <lists at thehurley.com>
> Subject: set digest plain
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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