From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 00:44:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10E416A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:44:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C0A43D2F for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:44:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from metrol.net@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so968319wri for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:44:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=mX9lH99IlyNmF7IcvNjvW0+7971WkT1aA2AVrZwyOkeuB5xIPmcAmXdn7TozevlhMusoN0HQJ36Z4Q+/K98Iulpk7S7Nh/1kepGNXMG7pR2EQV+TjjVS1efgR8BpnOLtH0fFqMVf2f9xFknvNiE3NzhuHUgKBHOcrIqek8xgEYo= Received: by 10.54.100.1 with SMTP id x1mr1468846wrb; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.51.37 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:44:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:44:33 -0800 From: Michael Collette To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20050325114540.7d6619ec@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <44hdj6fjuo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050325102547.772af451@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050325114540.7d6619ec@Magellan.Leidinger.net> cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux fontconfig (was: Re: LDAP and Linux compatibility) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michael Collette List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:44:34 -0000 On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:45:40 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:18:38 -0800 > Michael Collette wrote: > > > I should have posted a follow up, but I didn't think it was relevant > > to security. Turned out all that was needed was to add a couple of > > missing font paths to the font.conf file in the > > /compat/linux/etc/fonts directory. I now have both Acrobat Reader 7.0 > > and RealPlayer up and running. > > Are we talking about non-standard font paths? Sure was. I had a TrueType and WinFonts directory defined in my xorg.conf file, but nowhere else. > > I still have some pretty serious concerns with how I needed to fix the > > uid lookup problem. > > The right solution is to get appropriate linux ports (pam_ldap, ...). Is there any reason why the system call couldn't be masked instead? I've only read enough thus far to be a danger, but it seems like that would be a more elegant way of handling authentication issues for whatever OS is being emulated. Later on, -- "When you come to a fork in the road....Take it" - Yogi Berra