[arch-general] The proper "home" directories for 'no-login' users

2012-04-16 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hello, please, consider the following output of part of mine /etc/passwd: $ sudo grep ':/:' /etc/passwd cron:x:22:22::/:/bin/false dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/bin/false hal:x:82:82:HAL daemon:/:/bin/false avahi:x:84:84:Avahi daemon:/:/bin/false nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:/bin/false dnsmasq:x:

Re: [arch-general] Packages getting smaller?

2012-04-16 Thread Damjan
> I've noticed recently that a lot of upgrades have been making the > total installed size go down. Has something changed in the packaging, > like compressed binaries or a new version of GCC or something? I'm > just curious. not any more Targets (33): acpid-2.0.16-1 avr-binutils-2.22-3 avr-gcc-

Re: [arch-general] ASLR and PIE wider adoption.

2012-04-16 Thread Allan McRae
On 17/04/12 00:37, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:58:36 +0200 > Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > >> (especially on 32bit). > > > Slightly on 32bit and almost no difference on 64bit. OpenBSD uses PIEs > everywhere and my x86 users say everythings much quicker than Windows. > Care to def

Re: [arch-general] ASLR and PIE wider adoption.

2012-04-16 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:37:13 +0100 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:58:36 +0200 > Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > > > (especially on 32bit). > > > Slightly on 32bit and almost no difference on 64bit. OpenBSD uses PIEs > everywhere and my x86 users say everythings much quicker than Windo

Re: [arch-general] ASLR and PIE wider adoption.

2012-04-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:58:36 +0200 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > (especially on 32bit). Slightly on 32bit and almost no difference on 64bit. OpenBSD uses PIEs everywhere and my x86 users say everythings much quicker than Windows. Fair enough though as long as you do have a good understanding of the

Re: [arch-general] ASLR and PIE wider adoption.

2012-04-16 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 16 April 2012 11:39, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > With more and more distros and even android employing gccs -fpie for > building packages, should Arch consider enabling it. > > For my users it would mean less programs being killed by the > grsecurity kernel due to text relocation attempts. No com

[arch-general] ASLR and PIE wider adoption.

2012-04-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
With more and more distros and even android employing gccs -fpie for building packages, should Arch consider enabling it. For my users it would mean less programs being killed by the grsecurity kernel due to text relocation attempts. No complaints yet as I have a sandboxed flash browser but event

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-16 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:13:41 +0530 gt wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:22:03AM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root locate 39512 Mar 3 05:53 /usr/bin/locate > > > > it is running with the default as you can see this is getting a bit > > strange to say the least think the next i

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-16 Thread gt
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:22:03AM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root locate 39512 Mar 3 05:53 /usr/bin/locate > > it is running with the default as you can see this is getting a bit > strange to say the least think the next is going to be uninstall and > reinstall it see if that he

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-16 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:53:21 +0100 Mauro Santos wrote: > On 15-04-2012 23:10, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:49:45 +0200 > > Martti Kühne wrote: > > > > something failing on my guess would be a changed permission > > somewhere althou i dont mess around with permissions outside of