Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 mai 20, 12:30:03, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 17 mai 20, 10:10:38, deloptes wrote: > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Please elaborate that. I haven't found any way to enable that in Debian > > > 10, yet somehow you did it. > > > > perhaps what is meant here is apt-get from source with unknow

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 mai 20, 10:10:38, deloptes wrote: > Reco wrote: > > > Please elaborate that. I haven't found any way to enable that in Debian > > 10, yet somehow you did it. > > perhaps what is meant here is apt-get from source with unknown gpg key. I > personally do not see another option. But I also

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > Please elaborate that. I haven't found any way to enable that in Debian > 10, yet somehow you did it. perhaps what is meant here is apt-get from source with unknown gpg key. I personally do not see another option. But I also do not know how one can workaround this. @Gary L. Roach W

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 04:54:30PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > 2) The latest annoyance is finding that I can't download and install programs > because they are not signed. Please elaborate that. I haven't found any way to enable that in Debian 10, yet somehow you did it. Reco

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread deloptes
Gary L. Roach wrote: > 1) Not being able to use Dolphin as root is annoying  beyond belief. > Yes, I know, use sudo. What a  pain. I am in and out of root files > constantly either copying or moving them. I always keep two tabs on my > bash console, one as root and one as normal user. Whenever I

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread didier gaumet
if you like risky business: 1) assuming you use sddm: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193261 (you probably also may auto-login as root which would be simpler) 2) https://askubuntu.com/questions/74345/how-do-i-bypass-ignore-the-gpg-signature-checks-of-apt

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-16 Thread David
On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 09:54, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > Could someone please show me how to bypass some of the recent security > measures that have been installed in Debian and Ubuntu. [...] > I do scientific computer modeling as a hobby (been retired since 1999) > and use a lot of software that

Excess security measures

2020-05-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Could someone please show me how to bypass some of the recent security measures that have been installed in Debian and Ubuntu. I have a fire-walled 3 computer local network that doesn't contain anything that is not replaceable. I have antivirus software installed and my wife and I are the only