Suspicious Debian 10.0.0 download behaviour.

2019-08-09 Thread Rick
Dear Debian Admin, when I tried to download Debian 10.0.0 via Distrowatch I was surprised to be asked for my admin password at the end of the download plus there was another window requesting something else. I cancelled them both and could not find the downloaded file. I initially contacted

Re: Suspicious Debian 10.0.0 download behaviour.

2019-08-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rick wrote: > when I tried to download Debian 10.0.0 via Distrowatch I was surprised to be > asked for my admin password at the end of the download plus there was > another window requesting something else. > [...] > The original download link from Distrowatch was: > (1)https://cdimage.debian.

Re: Suspicious Debian 10.0.0 download behaviour.

2019-08-09 Thread Michael .
I just tried the 1st link and it works fine, I tried the second link and I get a 404 not found. The distrowatch link in the reply above works as it should, there is no 403 forbidden on that page for me. Cheers. Michael. On 09/08/2019, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Rick wrote: >> when I tried t

Re: Suspicious Debian 10.0.0 download behaviour.

2019-08-09 Thread Andreas Heinlein
I suspect that whatever you were downloading with tried to automatically open the iso file with some kind of write-image-to-disk app, which would require root privileges. Bye, Andreas Am 9. August 2019 09:08:34 MESZ schrieb Rick : >Dear Debian Admin, > >when I tried to download Debian 10.0.0 vi

Re: Suspicious Debian 10.0.0 download behaviour.

2019-08-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael wrote: > I just tried the 1st link and it works fine, I tried the second link > and I get a 404 not found. Hm. Both work for me. But they deliver different ISOs. "gnome" versus "cinnamon". So the original report by Rick might be a URL patchwork from two different attempts to download.

Re: Suspicious Debian 10.0.0 download behaviour.

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/09/2019 02:46 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Rick wrote: when I tried to download Debian 10.0.0 via Distrowatch I was surprised to be asked for my admin password at the end of the download plus there was another window requesting something else. [...] The original download link from Distro