Re: ssh-keygen and rsa Keys

2016-09-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/27/2016 12:19 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: >... > The short story is that the Mac now uses openssh-7 > instead of open-ssh-6. Dsa encryption keys have been declared > obsolete for some time now and openssh-7 defaults to ignoring > any id_dsa.pub keys you might have been using. >... That

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-26 Thread Seeker
On 9/26/2016 2:44 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:19:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: But now we have > User configuration may be done in a few different ways. The simplest > way is to create a ~/.xsessionrc file,. The pedantic side of me asks - why is it the simplest way? An

Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell

2016-09-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-09-26 at 23:49, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/26/2016 10:42 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> # string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi >>> >>> I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam . >>> I ca

Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell

2016-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/26/2016 10:42 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: # string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam . I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash. Are you asking how

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-26 Thread Ben Finney
Stephen Allen writes: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:00:03AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Especially when patches are needed, you shouldn't expect those > > patches to apply to anything except the exact upstream version. The > > work of a Debian package maintainer includes re-working the patches >

Re: Canon printer minor quibble

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 07:14:26PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:50:39 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > ... > > > > The colour abnormality could be simply be because the Canon driver is > > rubbish at colour management or it needs adjusting. There is a driver i

Re: Canon printer minor quibble

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > The colour abnormality could be simply be because the Canon driver is > rubbish at colour management or it needs adjusting. There is a driver in > printer-driver-gutenprint which is for your printer; I'd suggest testing > that with the pri

ssh-keygen and rsa Keys

2016-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
After upgrading a Mac to sierra which is their newest version of macosx, I discovered that I could no longer ssh without a password in either direction from the Mac to a debian system or vice versa. I first thought the system key had changed but it hadn't. The short story is that t

Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:01:01PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:36:54 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Any advice on the smoothest way to get background archiving (which in > > this case means deletion) of old messages in this scenario? I'm not > > married to a Mutt solution,

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 02:52:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > Hi Lisi, > If you look at the second line of the terminal output I reproduced, you > find that the openssl component in use within the package openssh Debian > Jessie is one step behind. "Standalone" OpenSSL package is now at > versio

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Lars, Lars Noodén: [...] > ssh-add -L > > It has to be run in the same shell as you would then run ssh. > > That will list the public key matching the private key which has > actually been loaded into the available agent. But that availability > might be the issue here, as with the ear

Re: Building Debian Package From Upstream Source

2016-09-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:00:03AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Stephen Allen writes: > > > So, I downloaded the upstream source, downloaded the most recent > > version of the Debian Package, so that I have a Debian source tree. > > Is the upstream source you downloaded, different from the upstrea

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-26 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:19:27 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 Sep 2016 at 18:55:03 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > The existence of ~/.xessionrc appears to cause more problems than it > > purportedly solves. > > And it still won't lie down and die. It is determined to take over the > traditional role o

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:19:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > But now we have > > > User configuration may be done in a few different ways. The simplest > > way is to create a ~/.xsessionrc file,. > > The pedantic side of me asks - why is it the simplest way? And in what > cirumstances? Because

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 25 Sep 2016 at 18:55:03 +0100, Brian wrote: > The existence of ~/.xessionrc appears to cause more problems than it > purportedly solves. And it still won't lie down and die. It is determined to take over the traditional role of ~/.xsession and prove its worth. However, kudos for the editin

Re: automated install using preseeding

2016-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:34:18PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > Is there any documentation on how to do an automated install of debian > testing? I've done a manual install of debian in a VM and would like > to automate the process. I've read the debian admin manual > (appendices) and I'm

Re: Canon printer minor quibble

2016-09-26 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:50:39 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: ... > > The colour abnormality could be simply be because the Canon driver is > rubbish at colour management or it needs adjusting. There is a driver in > printer-driver-gutenprint which is for your printer; I'd suggest tes

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

2016-09-26 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this > point > of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign > fonts "working", but that is another story.) > > Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him. I.e., what do > those

automated install using preseeding

2016-09-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Is there any documentation on how to do an automated install of debian testing? I've done a manual install of debian in a VM and would like to automate the process. I've read the debian admin manual (appendices) and I'm afraid it's a bit over my head. Is there any site/link that explains somethi

Re: Canon printer minor quibble

2016-09-26 Thread Brian
On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:50:39 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Finally getting around to raising an issue I have faced for years and > never made much inroads into... > > I have a Canon iX6530 A4 / A3 inkjet printer purchased in Japan. It is > connected via a USB cable to my Jessie PC. I have the

Re: Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell

2016-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > # string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi > > I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam . > I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash. Are you asking how to check for the substring "bob" in your

Substring search in dash [ _NOT_ bash ] shell

2016-09-26 Thread Richard Owlett
The Installation Manual in _B.5.3. Chainloading preconfiguration files_ says in part: # More flexibly, this runs a shell command and if it outputs the names of # preconfiguration files, includes those files. #d-i preseed/include_command \ # string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cf

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stephan Beck wrote: > Dan Purgert: >> Mark Fletcher wrote: >>> If I'm reading the above right, it looks like the server is offering an >>> rsa key to authenticate itself, but won't accept rsa to authenticate the >>> client. Which is a bit cheeky. >>

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/26/2016 05:46 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: > ... it might > not be necessary to fire it up with eval $(ssh-agent). > Thanks for the command, makes it more easy. No problem. If you want to see which keys are available to ssh, you can use ssh-add for that: ssh-add -L It has to be run in

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Mark, Mark Fletcher: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 at 19:22, Stephan Beck wrote: > >> If I'm reading the above right, it looks like the server is offering an > rsa key to authenticate itself, but won't accept rsa to authenticate the > client. Which is a bit cheeky. > > You may need a key created wi

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Lisi, Lisi Reisz: > On Monday 26 September 2016 12:48:00 Stephan Beck wrote: >> Well, I better rephrase because that was a bit misleading! >> >> I pray for the OpenSSH package being patched >> soon in Jessie with respect to its OpenSSL component! > > Could you explain why "openssl regr

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Lars, Lars Noodén: > On 09/26/2016 01:18 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: >> ... >> Before establishing connection for the first time I did >> >> eval $(ssh-agent) >> PID >> ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa >> >> But it seems that the ssh-agent does not really authenticates to the >> remote server and as a fa

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, Dan Purgert: > Mark Fletcher wrote: >> If I'm reading the above right, it looks like the server is offering an >> rsa key to authenticate itself, but won't accept rsa to authenticate the >> client. Which is a bit cheeky. > >> You may need a key created with a stronger method, such as ecdsa or

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:38:01PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 26/09/16 16:03, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > >> A possibility is that you have processes writing into deleted fil

Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-09-26 Thread Brian
On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:36:54 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Any advice on the smoothest way to get background archiving (which in > this case means deletion) of old messages in this scenario? I'm not > married to a Mutt solution, any solution that will automatically delete > the right mails at

Re: boot problem after updating dropbear [solved -- MANUAL initrd works required]

2016-09-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Okay, it turns out that the only files that were missing were ones that I had in the /etc/initramfs-tools/root/ directory. The only files in the faulty initrd image were from the /etc/initramfs-tools/root/.ssh/ directory, so missing .profile and other required files. I modified the initr

Canon printer minor quibble

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
Finally getting around to raising an issue I have faced for years and never made much inroads into... I have a Canon iX6530 A4 / A3 inkjet printer purchased in Japan. It is connected via a USB cable to my Jessie PC. I have the Canon iX6500-series driver installed. It seems to work fine. I have

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26/09/16 16:03, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > >> A possibility is that you have processes writing into deleted files. You can >> see them with lsof +L1 (as root) > > Short and sweet. That's even better :-) > That's great; thanks Toma

Mutt and monthly delete old messages

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi I'm aware there are large number of proponents of Mutt on this list, and so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I've got fetchmail downloading from my gmail account only the folder that I have Google Inbox putting all the list messages for this list in, and forwarding them to my local user on my

gdm3 runs, gnome-shell failed to start?

2016-09-26 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey folks, I am on a fully-updated Stretch system, on a Thinkpad W520, which worked like a charm till this morning. When booting this morning, gdm3 came up great, but after logging in, gnome-shell failed to launch and defaulted to the x server -- i.e, I do see all my login programs (emacs, firefo

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > A possibility is that you have processes writing into deleted files. You can > see them with lsof +L1 (as root) Short and sweet. That's even better :-) - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 September 2016 12:48:00 Stephan Beck wrote: > Well, I better rephrase because that was a bit misleading! > > I pray for the OpenSSH package being patched > soon in Jessie with respect to its OpenSSL component! Could you explain why "openssl regression update" is not at least p

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Fletcher wrote: > If I'm reading the above right, it looks like the server is offering an > rsa key to authenticate itself, but won't accept rsa to authenticate the > client. Which is a bit cheeky. > > You may need a key created with a stronger me

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/26/2016 01:18 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: > ... > Before establishing connection for the first time I did > > eval $(ssh-agent) > PID > ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa > > But it seems that the ssh-agent does not really authenticates to the > remote server and as a fallback password auth is selected

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Stephan Beck
Well, I better rephrase because that was a bit misleading! I pray for the OpenSSH package being patched soon in Jessie with respect to its OpenSSL component! Lisi Reisz: > On Monday 26 September 2016 11:18:00 Stephan Beck wrote: > [snip] >> NOTE: I pray for the OpenSSL version OpenSSH ships with

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 September 2016 11:18:00 Stephan Beck wrote: [snip] > NOTE: I pray for the OpenSSL version OpenSSH ships with being patched > soon in Jessie! Is this what you are meaning? https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/e1bnwuv-000727...@master.debian.org Lisi

Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 at 19:22, Stephan Beck wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully uploaded my SSH public key to the authorized_keys > file in ~/.ssh on the remote server using ssh-copy-id. I connected using > password authentication to check whether it really is the correct key > there and it is. P

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:42:41AM CEST, Tony van der Hoff said: > Hi, > > For the last few days, my jessie VM has apparently run out of disk space > overnight. df shows 100% usage on / but du does not show any enormous files. > > If I reboot, the disk usage goes back to 50% on a 40GB volume. >

Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

2016-09-26 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, I have successfully uploaded my SSH public key to the authorized_keys file in ~/.ssh on the remote server using ssh-copy-id. I connected using password authentication to check whether it really is the correct key there and it is. Permissions are ok. Public key authentication is the first (in

Re: system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > For the last few days, my jessie VM has apparently run out of disk space > overnight. df shows 100% usage on / but du does not show any enormous files. > > If I reboot, the

system gobbles disk space

2016-09-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, For the last few days, my jessie VM has apparently run out of disk space overnight. df shows 100% usage on / but du does not show any enormous files. If I reboot, the disk usage goes back to 50% on a 40GB volume. How can I determine what is eating the space? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:

Re: libre office fail

2016-09-26 Thread Felix Miata
Ric Moore composed on 2016-09-26 03:01 (UTC-0400): ...the java version has fonts too small to read... Everything Java, except LO, always has too small fonts for me to read. LO fonts are no longer too small only after a lot of effort to figure out its unorthodox sizing configurability. Its ic

Re: libre office fail

2016-09-26 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/25/2016 04:01 AM, Floris wrote: Op Sun, 25 Sep 2016 03:22:23 +0200 schreef Ric Moore : Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ libreoffice National_Reentry_Resources.odt (soffice:14215): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_wid