Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun Apr 3 23:07:14 2022 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:45:47PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [...] > >>> Indeed, all of this happens, usually without any explanation >>> whatsoever. >>> For whose benefit are such requirements constructured? > > Much of it is securi

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > I tried to install it with apt-get. > The response I got asked "Are you root"? No, as I have reported in > another thread, I don't seem to be able to get a root password. > -- > Noah Sombrero > Hi Noah, Did you install the lap

Re: networking.service fails

Hi. It's pretty straightforward. On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 02:38:39AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > Dear Debian community, First we have this - don't be confused by the "kernel's" timestamps, systemd likes to add its own messages into the kernel's ringbuffer: > Apr  4 00:37:28 debian ker

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On 4/3/22 21:07, ghe2001 wrote: On Sunday, April 3, 2022 7:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: Mozart is famous enough that I expect transcripts of all of his works exist. Yes, but they don't know it's Mozart. And he wrote lots of pieces with words. Suppose the attacker prepares dictionar

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 04:43:30PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: [...] > I've worked on linux-based software which is covered by overseas medical > device law as well as US HIPAA [...] > > Changing passwords at frequent intervals? Total nonsensense as far as > > advice goes. > > > > See above

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:45:47PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] > > Indeed, all of this happens, usually without any explanation whatsoever. > > For whose benefit are such requirements constructured? Much of it is security theater. Someone (TM) up the chain can tick the checkbox "passwo

Re: WAS: Re: Monthly FAQ for debian-user mailing list. Debian as worldwide

> In the same way, if I give my opinion > about German politics / independence for Catalunya - Germans and people in > Spain and Catalunya could say ""Who is this Andy Cater and what does he know > about anything? He should just go away and mind his own business." Very proper example! Thanks ^^^

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On 4/3/22 20:05, Greg Marks wrote: i have a trouble of creating a password.. It says "The password does not contain the required characters." I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. You might try a command like this: That's sick. I like it. }:-> 2022-04-03 21:25:48 dp

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, April 3, 2022 7:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: > Mozart is famous enough that I expect transcripts of all of his works > exist. Yes, but they don't know it's Mozart. And he wrote lots of pieces wit

Re: toshiba video problem

I found this: If this matches your laptop, the native display resolution is 1440x900, which should be what we are shooting to acquire by our efforts. If this is not a match, please provide your display

Re: networking.service fails

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:48:31PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 02:38:39 (+0200), Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > > On 2021-02-17 14:21, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > Are you using eth0, eth1? > > > Or are you using predictable network names? > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Network

Re: networking.service fails

On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 02:38:39 (+0200), Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > On 2021-02-17 14:21, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > Are you using eth0, eth1? > > Or are you using predictable network names? > > https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames > Well, I use eth0/eth1 as I have renamed them from predict

Re: password

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:19:52PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > I've never installed any version of Debian without a root password > over a period of 25 years, ie since buzz. I type it here: We're still waiting for the plot twist in which it's revealed that they're not actually installing Debian.

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 20:41:39 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 18:04 (UTC-0400): > > > Bash says pastebinit command not found. > # aptitude search pasteb > p pastebinit - command-line pastebin client > # aptitude search hwinfo > p hwinfo

Re: password

On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 21:25:45 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge > wrote: > > >On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during > >> installation, regardless of

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

> i have a trouble of creating a password.. It says "The > password does not contain the required characters." > > I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. You might try a command like this: signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

On 4/2/22 14:10, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 10:58:49 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: Start LibreOffice, open the 'Tools' menu and click on 'Options'. Under the 'LibreOffice' heading select 'General' and in about the middle of the new set of options you will see 'Document Status'. Be su

Re: networking.service fails

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 02:38:39AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > I've exercised several directions to solve the issue, however I've failed. > Would be great if somebody can share his idea. After upgrading from Debian > buster to bullseye I still have the same issue: Upgrading from one release t

Re: networking.service fails

On 4/4/22 10:31 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: In my case I am delegating ipv6 prefixes that I obtain from my ISP and also advertising them, making radvd redundant. I have kept my ISC dhcp servers as I am doing DDNS with my bind instance. Possibly systemd-networkd.service does DDNS as well but I

Re: networking.service fails

On 4/4/22 10:15 am, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 09:50:19 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: * systemd-networkd.service * networking.service * NetworkManager.service Possibly because they do different things. I have no experience what the first one does. systemd.networkd.serv

Re: password

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:27:57 -0400 Noah Sombrero wrote: > >Otherwise, once you have installed, for temporary access to root use > >sudo -i. Then change the password with passwd. > > I get error "user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be > reported." Getting entered in the sudoer

Re: networking.service fails

On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 09:50:19 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: > * systemd.networkd.service > * networking.service > * NetworkManager.service Possibly because they do different things. I have no experience what the first one does. The latter two are not mutually exclusive. Use networking.service

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:30:01 +0200, Charles Curley wrote: >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:04:21 -0400 >Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> Bash says pastebinit command not found. > >charles@ideapc:~$ apt-cache search pastebinit >pastebinit - command-line pastebin client >charles@ideapc:~$ > >Usually diagnostic to

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:30:01 +0200, Charles Curley wrote: >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:15:32 -0400 >Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> Bash says, hwinfo: command not found. > >charles@ideapc:~$ apt-cache search hwinfo >backupninja - lightweight, extensible meta-backup system >forensics-extra - Forensics Envi

Re: networking.service fails

On 4/4/22 8:38 am, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: Dear Debian community, I've exercised several directions to solve the issue, however I've failed. Would be great if somebody can share his idea. After upgrading from Debian buster to bullseye I still have the same issue: # systemctl status networking.

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during >> installation, regardless of what the installer says. > >This is not correct. So much for online hel

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Charles Curley wrote: >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:56:56 -0400 >Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during >> installation, regardless of what the installer says. To get a root >> password, I need to add >> rw i

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On 4/3/22 14:05, ghe2001 wrote: Another password generator suggestion: I'm 79 and memory isn't what it used to be, so I find those "secure" passwords generated by computers to be less than optimal. I use a system that I claim can't be hacked by a dictionary search and almost certainly not by

Re: networking.service fails

Dear Debian community, I've exercised several directions to solve the issue, however I've failed. Would be great if somebody can share his idea. After upgrading from Debian buster to bullseye I still have the same issue: # systemctl status networking.service — networking.service - Raise networ

Re: password

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:56:56 -0400 Noah Sombrero wrote: > I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during > installation, regardless of what the installer says. To get a root > password, I need to add > rw init=/bin/bash > to the grub start up script or > ro init=/bin/bash

Re: password

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during > installation, regardless of what the installer says. This is not correct. > To get a root > password, I need to add > rw init=/bin/bash > to the grub start up s

Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 18:04 (UTC-0400): > Bash says pastebinit command not found. # aptitude search pasteb p pastebinit - command-line pastebin client # aptitude search hwinfo p hwinfo - Hardware identification system # apt install

Re: password

On 4/3/22 16:56, Noah Sombrero wrote: I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during installation, regardless of what the installer says. I installed via: debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso The root password I set during installation works. Please document and po

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:04:21 -0400 Noah Sombrero wrote: > Bash says pastebinit command not found. charles@ideapc:~$ apt-cache search pastebinit pastebinit - command-line pastebin client charles@ideapc:~$ Usually diagnostic tools and other programs folks on this list mention are available as a D

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:15:32 -0400 Noah Sombrero wrote: > Bash says, hwinfo: command not found. charles@ideapc:~$ apt-cache search hwinfo backupninja - lightweight, extensible meta-backup system forensics-extra - Forensics Environment - extra console components (metapackage) hwinfo - Hardware i

password

I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during installation, regardless of what the installer says. To get a root password, I need to add rw init=/bin/bash to the grub start up script or ro init=/bin/bash to end of the kernel line Either way I get an error message saying th

GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather long time. Today I wanted to reduce it and to my astonishment found that GNOME "progressed" to the point when even this basic feature h

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 08:40 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks. I did find suggestions like this online. But it appears that >> xorg.conf is no longer used, and is indeed missing from xorg.conf.d. >> So I can simply create a new file w

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 08:40 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks. I did find suggestions like this online. But it appears that >> xorg.conf is no longer used, and is indeed missing from xorg.conf.d. >> So I can simply create a new file w

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 3:00 PM Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 19:45:47 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 08:25:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 20:10:14 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 21:31:34 +0300 > > > > PanosGR w

Re: fluxbox: appliaction lacks frame

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 03:47:20PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 02:55:38PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > Usually when I start an application under fluxbox it has a frame, At > > top is the application name and buttons to hide or maximize and there > > is a left scrollbar

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 at 1:45 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > One of the bits of advice is to use long passwords made up of three > random words and to use a different password per website / to use > your w

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 19:45:47 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: Hello Andrew, >maintain security - it can mean that people use password01, password02 >and things like that. My previous employer was wise to that; If I tried such tactics their password vetting software would reject the new version

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 20:25:46 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >For whose benefit are such requirements constructured? I suspect that's a rhetorical question, but just in case it's not; The idea is to promote the use of more complex passwords that should be harder to guess. Of course, they're st

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 19:45:47 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 08:25:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 20:10:14 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 21:31:34 +0300 > > > PanosGR wrote: > > > > > > Hello PanosGR, > > > > > > >I have t

Re: fluxbox: appliaction lacks frame

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 02:55:38PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Usually when I start an application under fluxbox it has a frame, At > top is the application name and buttons to hide or maximize and there > is a left scrollbar. > > I installed Chromium and it lacks the top frame and left scrol

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 08:25:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 20:10:14 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 21:31:34 +0300 > > PanosGR wrote: > > > > Hello PanosGR, > > > > >I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. > > > > Very often passwords are r

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 20:10:14 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 21:31:34 +0300 > PanosGR wrote: > > Hello PanosGR, > > >I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. > > Very often passwords are required to contain a mix of upper and lower > case letters and one or more

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 21:31:34 +0300 PanosGR wrote: Hello PanosGR, >I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. Very often passwords are required to contain a mix of upper and lower case letters and one or more numerals. Some sites require 'special' characters (%#~$, etc) to be used, s

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 09:31:34PM +0300, PanosGR wrote: > Hello there, i have a trouble of creating a password.. It says "The > password does not contain the required characters." > > I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. > > Perhaps could you give me a password just to create a

fluxbox: appliaction lacks frame

Usually when I start an application under fluxbox it has a frame, At top is the application name and buttons to hide or maximize and there is a left scrollbar. I installed Chromium and it lacks the top frame and left scrollbar. I also cannot access its settings except for background color and

Can't create a password successfully.

Hello there, i have a trouble of creating a password.. It says "The password does not contain the required characters." I have tried everything and still doesn't get to work. Perhaps could you give me a password just to create an account? Thanks, Panos.

"Failed unmounting /var/cache" error message when shutting down

Hi. This problem is some months old, and I have sent a similar message on 20 Jan 2022 11:57:35 (UTC). Since then I have slightly simplified my Btrfs subvolume layout but the problem remains. When I shutdown or halt my laptop, I get error messages like: [FAILED] Failed unmounting /var/cache.

Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 08:40 (UTC-0400): > Thanks. I did find suggestions like this online. But it appears that > xorg.conf is no longer used, and is indeed missing from xorg.conf.d. > So I can simply create a new file with these entries and put it in > place? /etc/X11/xorg.con* a

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:10:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero wrote: >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter >wrote: > >>Noah Sombrero wrote: >>> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >>> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >>> display is

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter wrote: >Noah Sombrero wrote: >> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >> display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any >> referenc

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 10:45:06 +0200 didier gaumet wrote: > > > Hello, > > - Yes, I was suggesting both running VMs as an ordinary user instead of > root and running VMs as session instead of system > - But myself not running any VM as a server, I was not aware of the > limitations inherent to t

Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero wrote: > I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), > yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the > display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any > reference on the web that shows how to adjust that, although there ar

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 03:20:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-02 20:35 (UTC-0400): > >> That is the desktop version. Mine is built into my toshiba laptop. >> Go5200 is the laptop version. Nvidia seems to use Go a lot to >> distinguish the difference between desk and

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

Hi, sonbird wrote: > i was just going to suggest that he clone your brain. :) If brain cloning is a viable option then i propose those of Vladimir Serbinenko and Daniel Kiper because of their experience as maintainers of GRUB. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: why some wifi connection method is better than other

Thank tomas! i'm mistaken, gnome can't connect to weak wifi network too though cell phone can use it, but it's unstable, sometime it disconnects

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

> I think that at least in the past it was possible to boot Debian Live systems > with `toram` option, too. You should probably just try it out? Well, it seems DL has its own "toram", "fromhd", "bootfrom", ... but not as parameters to be entered right in the first splash screen while it boots up

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

Hello, - Yes, I was suggesting both running VMs as an ordinary user instead of root and running VMs as session instead of system - But myself not running any VM as a server, I was not aware of the limitations inherent to the use of "session" compared to "system" - SSH tunnel: I was just saying

Re: why some wifi connection method is better than other

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 01:56:19AM -0400, lou wrote: > Thanks! > > it's same hardware, bullseye is in hard disk while opensuse live image is > copied to usb disk You might want to issue a "sudo iwconfig" in a shell under both environments and compare their outputs. Perhaps they are using differen

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 15:10:46 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: Hello Charles, >Thanks. Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I tried checking it; >that also modified on printing. Libreoffice appears to be ignoring that >flag. Works here. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious i