RE: [cobalt-developers] [Qube3] New OS release, Security settings?

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Andy,
> 
> >Firstly, hats off to Cobalt for a great upgrade for the Qube3 OS, 
> >providing all the new features everyone has been talking about 
> >recently.
> 
> About which features are you talking. On the mailing list I 
> cant find it 
> either.
> Would be great if you could shed some light.
> 
> best regards
> jakob


No problem! It is all quiet at the moment about it, since its only
appearing through BluelineQ, not the site, etc.
Basically they've added in VPN server capability (pptpd from what I can
see), additional security settings to allow selective access to the
administration (e.g. give one person responsibility for user
administration, and they can't access network configuration)

The Software updates list is now categorised into third party and sun
software so easier for developers for the Qube (i.e. me!)

The Qube also supports printer sharing as well as the windows/apple
shares (printing available to apple's too)
Secure Shell is built-in now, so you can disable telnet via the
web-interface and enable secure shell only.

An interesting extra is that when booting I noticed the following:
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc282f000, IRQ 6
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver usblp

So looks like the USB port is ready to rock aswell, although I haven't
tested this.

And in case other developers are wondering, their applications shouldn't
break when they update, as the sausalito seems pretty much the same as
before. I did an upgrade whilst I had admin menus, cce components, etc.
and they all continued fine.

So go enjoy!  (note: there are a couple of posts in cobalt-users of it
causing problems though, so naturally BACKUP!!!!)

Andy
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