From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 10:09:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19609106568D for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3298FC1B for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:09:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1Ka6Ll-0008Dc-AL>; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:09:33 +0200 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1Ka6Ll-00035r-9J>; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:09:33 +0200 Message-ID: <48BBBED9.9060901@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:07:21 +0000 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Freie =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Universit=E4t_Berlin?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Heuer References: <48BBB022.4030708@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20080901113702.U877@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20080901113702.U877@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux, LDAP and the impossibility of handling editable PDFs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:09:35 -0000 Konrad Heuer wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Several months ago I tried configuring the Linuxulator on several >> FreeBSD 7.X boxes, most of them pure amd64 and pure 64 bit (as it is >> possible with Intels pseudo 64 bit crap). The reason for that is >> simple. Having FreeBSD (now 7.1-PRE) as my favorite OS on servers AND >> hybrid boxes (acting as workstations AND small servers) makes life >> easy - I thought and was touhgt wrong. >> Our administration sends a lot of PDFs around and as it is very usual, >> our applications, forms and so on for scientific congresses etc. are >> all PDF and subject to be edited. And here it comes that FreeBSD seems >> to be a definite deadend! >> Using pdfedit is wrong, it can't show or edit any PDF we obtained so >> far. Using 'pdftk' fails, it is not made to run in modern 64 bit >> environments only when using FreeBSD (linux seems to have no problem, >> especially Ubuntu does the thing). So, then I remembered myself about >> Linuxulator and tried acrobatviewer - and failed. As in other >> professional environments we were far away from using simple user >> management and therefore there is a LDAP environment. And, funny, >> Linuxulator does not contact LDAP even if I try to configure it to >> use our LDAP environment. Digging around what flavor of Linux FreeBSD >> installs (means: do al ot of work), reading about how to use PAM and >> LDAP on Linux (means: doing again additional work in an environment I >> try to avoid!) and at last no success, because something is missing or >> the Linuxulator should use something for user authentication and >> autorization it does not have and uses therefore the FreeBSD stuff and >> then fails. Especially for the Acrobat weirdness (or call it software) >> something like this occurs whenn attempting starting acrobat reader: >> >> (acroread:18831): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown >> user id (2001) >> >> (acroread:18831): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot >> allocate memory) >> >> >> If there is someone here running a 64 bit environment within a LDAP >> realm and already got successfully running the Linux add ons as >> expected for LDAP users, you are really welcome to give me some hints >> how to turn around my frustration and thoughts about definitely >> leaving the FreeBSD path ... > > I use a simple workaround to make the Adobe reader (and some other Linux > binaries) work - I simply added following entries to the crontab file of > root: > > 00 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent passwd | /usr/bin/sed '1,/nobody/d' > > /usr/compat/linux/etc/passwd 2> /dev/null > 15 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent group > /usr/compat/linux/etc/group 2> > /dev/null > > Hope that helps a little bit ... > > Best regards > > Konrad Heuer > GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de > > Thank you very much, this works. But this seems to be a hack, unclean in my opinion. As I got responses earlier of the year for a similar problem, Linuxulator should utilize lacking facilities from FreeBSD host system - but obviously it doesn't, especially if there are non-existent users. As I realized - and this puzzles me - there was no passwd file in my configuration, so I guess the Linuxulator has to contact the underlying FreeBSD infrastructure to get UIDs like root and others - but this seems not to be the case. Regards, Oliver