Archive for January, 2009
FreeNX, usermode authentication and Mac OS X
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana January 18th, 2009 in Mac OS X, NXI’ve always been looking for a way in NX/FreeNX to be able to authenticate using mechanisms other than username and password, like SSH private/public keys or Kerberos. Turns out that it is possible
Someone pointed me to the FreeNX 0.7.3 announcement that contains the following excerpt:
Usermode and SUID Wrapper
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We are now very close to [...]
IPv6 stateless address configuration in Windows 7 uses randomization by default
2 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana January 14th, 2009 in WindowsStateless autoconfiguration of IPv6 addresses in Windows 7 (and also Windows Vista) uses, by default, randomization. This is against section 4 of RFC 2464 that mandates that the network identifier part of the IPv6 address is derived from the 48-bit MAC address for Ethernet (and Wireless) interfaces:
4. Stateless Autoconfiguration
The Interface Identifier [AARCH] for [...]
Windows 7 Beta 1 + Apple = no sound
1 Comment Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana January 11th, 2009 in Apple, WindowsWhile testing Windows 7 on an Apple MacBook Pro system, I noticed that sound didn’t work at all. Of course, this was after I installed BootCamp drivers and everything was working (more or less as expected) except the sound.
What’s the solution? I found it here. In essence, the solution consists of running the RealTekSetup.exe binary [...]
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