Some little problems after `full-upgrade' to Sid: no sound... Besides, when
trying to install new packages, the following message appears:
# aptitude install alsaplayer-alsa pulseaudio
pulseaudio is already installed at the requested version (12.0-1)
pulseaudio is already installed at the reques
It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's full-upgrade
in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... Everything seems all
right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... Last time this happened, it
was solved installing pulseaudio and alsaplayer-alsa... Now it won
Hi.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:05:28AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Some little problems after `full-upgrade' to Sid: no sound... Besides, when
> trying to install new packages, the following message appears:
>
> # aptitude install alsaplayer-alsa pulseaudio
> pulseaudio is already in
Rodolfo Medina, Di 07 Aug 2018 09:05:28 CEST:
> Some little problems after `full-upgrade' to Sid: no sound... Besides, when
> trying to install new packages, the following message appears:
>
> # aptitude install alsaplayer-alsa pulseaudio
> pulseaudio is already installed at the requested versi
On 07.08.18 09:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
> Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/lo
Reco writes:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:05:28AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Some little problems after `full-upgrade' to Sid: no sound... Besides, when
>> trying to install new packages, the following message appears:
>>
>> # aptitude install alsaplayer-alsa pulseaudio
>> pulseaudio is a
Erik Christiansen writes:
> On 07.08.18 09:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
>> dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
>> dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
>> Note: root's P
Markus Schönhaber writes:
>> Please help... I'm not expert.
>
> In that case, you shouldn't use sid...
I'm thinking of that now... I'v been using Sid for years and never had
problems...
Rodolfo
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
$ echo $PATH
/home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
Password:
You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you?
The su binary was replaced with another one, and now Debian is brea
Stephan Seitz writes:
> On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>$ echo $PATH
>>/home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
>>rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
>>Password:
>
> You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you?
>
> The su binary was replaced wit
Hi.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Reco writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:05:28AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >> Some little problems after `full-upgrade' to Sid: no sound... Besides,
> >> when
> >> trying to install new packages, the follow
Hi members,
I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed at some
points in this list.
I have a strong opinion about su, which is, avoid it whenever it is possible
and use 'sudo' instead. This is the case in close to a 100% in all cases I can
think of.
This opinion is bas
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:35:32 +0300, Reco wrote:
rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
Don't. Do. That. Ever.
That’s bullshit. I did it all the time until Debian decided to break
things.
I never had your mentioned problems.
„su” doesn’t change the working directory. So if you compile software as
a us
Hi.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:01:02PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:35:32 +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
> > Don't. Do. That. Ever.
>
> That’s bullshit. I did it all the time until Debian decided to break things.
It never hurts to check an app
Rodolfo Medina writes:
> It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's
> full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... Everything
> seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... Last time this
> happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio a
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 11:58:48 +0200
Martin Drescher wrote:
> Hi members,
>
> I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed
> at some points in this list. I have a strong opinion about su, which
> is, avoid it whenever it is possible and use 'sudo' instead. This is
> the case
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 01:18:59 +0300, Reco wrote:
I never had your mentioned problems.
Either you have /sbin in your user's path, or you haven't run a single
apt-get all these years. There are other possibilities, of course,
though less flattering.
Bullshit again. You didn’t read the thread,
On 08/07/2018 04:58 AM, Martin Drescher wrote:
Hi members,
I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed at some
points in this list.
I don't recall that discussion. Can you give a link to the archives?
I have a strong opinion about su, which is, avoid it whenever it
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:40:29AM +0100, Joe wrote:
Why, I don't know, but the last time I installed stable, sudo was not
installed by default, and never has been in my experience. I always add
sudo and mc immediately after an installation.
If you set a root password in d-i (as it asks you to)
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:58:48 +0200, Martin Drescher wrote:
And I'm curious why Debian still prefers the use of su over sudo?
I don’t know if Debian does, but the difference between su and sudo seems
quite like to the difference between ssh logins with password and with
keys. Both have adva
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> After yesterday's full-upgrade
> in Sid
well this is self explaining -> Sid
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm not even sure where to report this problem since I can't identify
a specific package that is causing it. However since Gnome Flashback
seems to be working, I'd guess that it is in the flashier desktop
elements.
You can report a bu
On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:00:15AM +, Matthew Crews wrote:
On 8/1/18 3:47 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition.
All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me.
*snip*
A question would be:
a) How to enter th
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Yes, if becoming root with with `su -' the error about what is the present
> thread disappears...
I guess sudo is always better to use
On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 10:54:59PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
And I'm now 99% sure that the culprit of all this confusion is...
plymouth! It has a password caching facility and systemd seems to use it
to get the cached password.
Almost certainly, yes, although, if plymouth is passing t
On 2018-08-07 at 05:58, Martin Drescher wrote:
> Hi members,
>
> I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed
> at some points in this list. I have a strong opinion about su, which
> is, avoid it whenever it is possible and use 'sudo' instead. This is
> the case in close t
As far as I can see "su -" saves a lot of grief if you're the only admin on
a system. Tried sudo ing to a protected directory? Doesn't work. Tired of
entering your password every couple of minutes?
sudo does mean that the admin actions of a particular user are logged, but
unless you lock down what
That
> If you set a root password in d-i (as it asks you to), it doesn't
> install sudo. If you try to set a blank root password, it locks the root
> account, installs sudo and sets up the user you created with sudo
> access.
is new to me, I never knew! And I think it is good approach. Does one a
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 06:40:49
> From: Rodolfo Medina
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: New `no sound' problems
> Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:41:15 + (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Rodolfo Medina writes:
> I don’t know if Debian does, but the difference between su and sudo seems
> quite like to the difference between ssh logins with password and with keys.
> Both have advantages and disadvantages.
By far: No.
su only invokes or acts like login, pam included. sudo may represent a complex
role
On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote:
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
$ echo $PATH
/home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
Password:
You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you?
The su binary was replac
I never riceve the answer from my email.
Can you give me please the feedabck.
Thanks.
Il giorno lun 6 ago 2018 alle ore 11:43 Ehsan Esteki
ha scritto:
>
> Hello,
> My name is Ehsan Esteki from Italy. I would like help you to translate
> your guide and wiki in Farsi Language ( Iranian language).
>
On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote:
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
$ echo $PATH
/home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
Password:
You are using testing/unstable, aren’t you?
The su binary was replac
Am 07.08.2018 um 13:20 schrieb The Wanderer:
> On 2018-08-07 at 05:58, Martin Drescher wrote:
>
>> Hi members,
>>
>> I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed
>> at some points in this list. I have a strong opinion about su, which
>> is, avoid it whenever it is possible
On 2018-08-07, James Allsopp wrote:
>
> sudo does mean that the admin actions of a particular user are logged, but
> unless you lock down what they can do, they can change/delete the logs
> easily enough.
>
But it seems the whole point of the thing in a multi-user environment is
that you can use
On 08/07/2018 07:40 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 11:58:48 +0200
> Why, I don't know, but the last time I installed stable, sudo was not
> installed by default, and never has been in my experience. I always add
> sudo and mc immediately after an installation.
It's installed if you choose to
deloptes writes:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> After yesterday's full-upgrade
>> in Sid
>
> well this is self explaining -> Sid
What please do you mean...?
Rodolfo
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 12:11:50 +0100
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:40:29AM +0100, Joe wrote:
> >Why, I don't know, but the last time I installed stable, sudo was not
> >installed by default, and never has been in my experience. I always
> >add sudo and mc immediately after an
On 2018-08-07 12:47, mick crane wrote:
On 2018-08-07 09:18, Stephan Seitz wrote:
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:08:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
$ echo $PATH
/home/rodolfo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
Password:
You are using testing/unstabl
On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
> Am 07.08.2018 um 13:20 schrieb The Wanderer:
>
>> On 2018-08-07 at 05:58, Martin Drescher wrote:
>>
>>> Hi members,
>>>
>>> I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su'
>>> discussed at some points in this list. I have a strong opinion
>>> a
Jude DaShiell writes:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 06:40:49
>> From: Rodolfo Medina
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: New `no sound' problems
>> Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:41:15 + (UTC)
>> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:22:53PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote:
> As far as I can see "su -" saves a lot of grief if you're the only admin on
> a system. Tried sudo ing to a protected directory? Doesn't work. Tired of
> entering your password every coup
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Ehsan Esteki wrote:
> I never riceve the answer from my email.
> Can you give me please the feedabck.
Hi, Ehsan,
(CC'ing Ehsan, just in case)
There were several answers. Perhaps you are not subscribed to the
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 01:18:59PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:01:02PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> > On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:35:32 +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > > rodolfo@sda6-acer:~$ su
> > > Don't. Do. That. Ever.
> >
> > That’s bullshit. I did it all the time until Debian dec
On 2018-08-07, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> deloptes writes:
>
>> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
>>> After yesterday's full-upgrade
>>> in Sid
>>
>> well this is self explaining -> Sid
He means it's self-explanatory given you're using testing and when using
testing shit
happens (things break). It goes wit
On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:58:48 AM -04 Martin Drescher wrote:
> Hi members,
>
> I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed at some
> points in this list. I have a strong opinion about su, which is, avoid it
> whenever it is possible and use 'sudo' instead. This is the
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:46:55 +, Curt wrote:
But it seems the whole point of the thing in a multi-user environment is
that you can use a granular approach to permissions, so I suppose if you
didn't desire a particular user modifying the logs, while granting her
other administrative privileg
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 01:33:20 +0200, Martin wrote:
I don’t know if Debian does, but the difference between su and sudo
seems quite like to the difference between ssh logins with password
and with keys. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
By far: No.
su only invokes or acts like login, pam
Am 07.08.2018 um 14:07 schrieb The Wanderer:
> On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
>
>> Am 07.08.2018 um 13:20 schrieb The Wanderer:
>>
>>> On 2018-08-07 at 05:58, Martin Drescher wrote:
>>>
Hi members,
I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su'
discussed at s
Am 07.08.2018 um 14:19 schrieb Stephan Seitz:
> On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:46:55 +, Curt wrote:
>> But it seems the whole point of the thing in a multi-user environment is
>> that you can use a granular approach to permissions, so I suppose if you
>> didn't desire a particular user modifying the
On 08/07/2018 09:06 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 12:11:50 +0100
> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> If you set a root password in d-i (as it asks you to), it doesn't
>> install sudo. If you try to set a blank root password, it locks the
>> root account, installs sudo and sets up the user you creat
On 2018-08-07 at 08:27, Martin wrote:
> Am 07.08.2018 um 14:07 schrieb The Wanderer:
>
>> On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
>>> As a system operator, you need some elevated privileges on a
>>> daily basis. How do you do that without sudo?
>>
>> No, I don't. I only need them when I'm doing e
Hello, I have a system with Kernel 4.9.0-7-686, installed RAM are 3x 1GB
but free -m only show 2GB.
Whats wrong here?
# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 2018 203 1204 25
610 1569
Swap:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:53:18PM +0200, basti wrote:
Hello, I have a system with Kernel 4.9.0-7-686, installed RAM are 3x 1GB
but free -m only show 2GB.
Whats wrong here?
Install a -pae kernel.
Mike Stone
Am 07.08.2018 um 14:50 schrieb The Wanderer:
> On 2018-08-07 at 08:27, Martin wrote:
>
>> Am 07.08.2018 um 14:07 schrieb The Wanderer:
>>
>>> On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
>
As a system operator, you need some elevated privileges on a
daily basis. How do you do that without sudo
On 2018-08-07 07:30, deloptes wrote:
mick crane wrote:
I'm not very good at sound.
Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then
there will become some sound event that is very loud.
It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is
it.
I'm not exactly
The Wanderer (2018-08-07):
> "su OPTIONAL_USERNAME -c 'YOUR_COMMAND'"
The superiority of sudu over su in this particular case is that it does
not require an extra level of quoting.
> But it's more secure to require a second password to do elevated things
> than to permit doing those things with t
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:27:48PM +0200, Martin wrote:
Am 07.08.2018 um 14:07 schrieb The Wanderer:
On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
As a system operator, you need some elevated privileges on a daily
basis. How do you do that without sudo?
No, I don't. I only need them when I'm doing el
Hi.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:45:51PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 01:18:59 +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > I never had your mentioned problems.
> > Either you have /sbin in your user's path, or you haven't run a single
> > apt-get all these years. There are other possibi
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:46:55AM +, Curt wrote:
I've never used it myself. I'm all by my lonesome on this machine. I've
been using 'su' from the very beginning (but maybe I should start or
will start whenever the future and the new 'su' arrives using 'su -').
I've long forgotten why, but
On 2018-08-07 at 09:04, Martin wrote:
> Am 07.08.2018 um 14:50 schrieb The Wanderer:
>
>> On 2018-08-07 at 08:27, Martin wrote:
>>> So, what is bad with 'sudo -u TARGETUSER YOUR_COMMEND'? How do
>>> you edit a file with su? Invoke a shell? Take a look at
>>> sudoedit!
>>
>> "su OPTIONAL_USERNAM
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 08:07:56AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
> > The point is not, that ONE person needs a root password. All people
> > intended to do privileged things will have to share this password.
> > This is a security nightmare!
>
> If they're all
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:22:53PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote:
> As far as I can see "su -" saves a lot of grief if you're the only admin on
> a system. Tried sudo ing to a protected directory? Doesn't work.
Works fine for me:
dave$ sudo bash
[sudo] password for dave:
root# cd /some/protected/dir
On 2018-08-07 at 09:09, Nicolas George wrote:
> The Wanderer (2018-08-07):
>
>> "su OPTIONAL_USERNAME -c 'YOUR_COMMAND'"
>
> The superiority of sudu over su in this particular case is that it
> does not require an extra level of quoting.
I don't consider that a significant downside; in some con
On 2018-08-07 at 09:22, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 08:07:56AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
>>
>>> The point is not, that ONE person needs a root password. All
>>> people intended to do privileged things will have to share this
>>> pas
The Wanderer (2018-08-07):
> I don't consider that a significant downside;
Maybe your uses are too limited for you to experience it.
> in some contexts, it may
> even be an advantage.
No, it may not. With sudo, adding "sh -c" allows to emulate su's
b
> I've long forgotten why, but I committed "sudo su -" to muscle memory
First, you execute sudo with target UID 0 (aka. root).
While doing that, sudo does all the fancy things for you, like setting or
unsetting environments (eg SUDO_COMMAND, SUDO_UID, SUDO_USER) and check, if you
will be grante
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:22:07AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
Or, rather, that you can do elevated-access things with the same
credentials as are used to permit non-elevated access.
I consider that to be, by definition, a security hole.
That can be addressed three ways: first, you can have sud
>> Once you let a user run an editor with escalated privileges, you're
>> fu**ed. In almost every editor, you can load a different file, save
>> the buffer with a different file name.
>
> Of course.
>
> Again, that comes down to: do you trust this user with elevated access,
> or not?
It is not
On 2018-08-07 10:58, Martin Drescher wrote:
Hi members,
I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed
at some points in this list.
I have a strong opinion about su, which is, avoid it whenever it is
possible and use 'sudo' instead. This is the case in close to a 100%
in al
On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:27:48 +0200, Martin wrote:
Come on. You are telling me, it is more secure to share one secret among
multiple people against every person having it own?
If the password is stored in a password safe, and everyone in the IT has
access to it, where is the problem?
First
On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 13:23:06 (+0200), Martin Drescher wrote:
> That
>
> > If you set a root password in d-i (as it asks you to), it doesn't
> > install sudo. If you try to set a blank root password, it locks the root
> > account, installs sudo and sets up the user you created with sudo
> > acces
[...]
>>
>> is new to me, I never knew! And I think it is good approach.
>> Does one actually get pointed to this during install?
>
> ┌───┤ [?] Set up users and passwords
> ├┐
> │
On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 08:07:56 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote:
> I'm fairly sure that when I did (some of) my existing installs - which,
> to be fair, was years and years ago - sudo came with the system, even
> though I didn't even consider the concept of setting the machine up with
> no root passwor
On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 15:31:43 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
> The Wanderer (2018-08-07):
> > > Anyone who learns the user's password can obtain the second password
> > > pretty easily.
> > How so?
>
> Just insert a fake su in their path. There are more subtle ways.
This does make me wonder wh
Martin writes:
> [...]
>>>
>>> is new to me, I never knew! And I think it is good approach.
>>> Does one actually get pointed to this during install?
>>
>> ┌───┤ [?] Set up users and passwords
>> ├┐
>> │
I think as a general philosophy it used to be
this is your computer, as user we make sure it works and you can do some
things.
You can also be root but if you break it you get to keep the bits.
mick
--
Key ID4BFEBB31
David Wright (2018-08-07):
> This does make me wonder why nobody here seems to have pointed out
> that su should be spelled "/bin/su -". My fingers have been wired
> that way for 20 years.
As I said, there are more subtle ways, and the full path will not
protect you from them.
Regards,
--
Nic
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 06:29:58PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> David Wright (2018-08-07):
> > This does make me wonder why nobody here seems to have pointed out
> > that su should be spelled "/bin/su -". My fingers have been wired
> > that way for 20 years.
>
> As I said, there are more subtle
deloptes writes:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Yes, if becoming root with with `su -' the error about what is the present
>> thread disappears...
>
> I guess sudo is always better to use
I'd always thought that `su' was Debian's and `sudo' was Ubuntu's... :-)
Rodolfo
Hi,
On a new Sid installation I need to ftp some files to another computer
on the network. sftp appears to be the only ftp program available. The
other computers on the network do not use ssl so the ftp connection is
refused from both directions. One computer is using vsftp under
Jessie.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:14:26AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 15:31:43 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
The Wanderer (2018-08-07):
> > Anyone who learns the user's password can obtain the second password
> > pretty easily.
> How so?
Just insert a fake su in their path. Th
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:53:57AM -0700, Fred wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a new Sid installation I need to ftp some files to another computer on
> the network. sftp appears to be the only ftp program available. The other
> computers on the network do not use ssl so the ftp connection is refused
> from
On 8/7/2018 6:53 PM, Fred wrote:
Hi,
On a new Sid installation I need to ftp some files to another computer
on the network. sftp appears to be the only ftp program available. The
other computers on the network do not use ssl so the ftp connection is
refused from both directions. One comput
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:53:57AM -0700, Fred wrote:
> On a new Sid installation I need to ftp some files to another computer on
> the network. sftp appears to be the only ftp program available. The other
> computers on the network do not use ssl so the ftp connection is refused
> from both dire
Rodolfo Medina writes:
> It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's
> full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... Everything
> seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... Last time this
> happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio a
On 2018-08-07, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:14:26AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>>On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 15:31:43 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
>>> The Wanderer (2018-08-07):
>>
>>> > > Anyone who learns the user's password can obtain the second password
>>> > > pretty easily.
Curt (2018-08-07):
> I thought his point might be that in typing the full path at least you
> know you're getting '/bin/su' and not some other 'su' that a malevolent
> individual might have created in your home directory after prepending HOME
> to your path, for example (in that malevolent person's
On 2018-08-07, Nicolas George wrote:
>
> Curt (2018-08-07):
>> I thought his point might be that in typing the full path at least you
>> know you're getting '/bin/su' and not some other 'su' that a malevolent
>> individual might have created in your home directory after prepending HOME
>> to your
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 06:01:27PM +, Curt wrote:
I thought his point might be that in typing the full path at least you
know you're getting '/bin/su' and not some other 'su' that a malevolent
individual might have created in your home directory after prepending HOME
to your path, for example
Hi,
Ehsan Esteki wrote:
> I never riceve the answer from my email.
> Can you give me please the feedabck.
> Thanks.
>
> Il giorno lun 6 ago 2018 alle ore 11:43 Ehsan Esteki
> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hello,
> > My name is Ehsan Esteki from Italy. I would like help you to translate
> > your guide and
2018-08-07 14:50 keltezéssel, The Wanderer írta:
>
> But it's more secure to require a second password to do elevated things
> than to permit doing those things with the same password as is used for
> ordinary activities.
Then use other pam backend module for sudo and not the 'common-auth'.
There
On 08/07/2018 10:20 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:53:57AM -0700, Fred wrote:
On a new Sid installation I need to ftp some files to another computer on
the network. sftp appears to be the only ftp program available. The other
computers on the network do not use ssl so the
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:15:34PM -0700, Fred wrote:
> I need to ftp some files from a new Sid installation to either of two other
> computers on the network. Neither is configured for a "secure" version of
> ftp and there is no reason to do that and Sid only has sftp.
If you only need an FTP cl
On Tuesday 07 August 2018 15:08:34 Nemeth Gyorgy wrote:
> 2018-08-07 14:50 keltezéssel, The Wanderer írta:
> > But it's more secure to require a second password to do elevated
> > things than to permit doing those things with the same password as
> > is used for ordinary activities.
>
> Then use o
Le 07/08/2018 à 14:53, basti a écrit :
Hello, I have a system with Kernel 4.9.0-7-686, installed RAM are 3x 1GB
but free -m only show 2GB.
Whats wrong here?
(...)
As I know 686 can address 4GB RAM
No. It can address 4 GiB memory space. Memory space does not contain
only RAM, it is also used
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I'd always thought that `su' was Debian's and `sudo' was Ubuntu's... :-)
No - both are linux and sudo is for the use to be able to use specific
commands. So in general I add sudo rule for my use for bash and it is done.
Alternatively add user to sudo group and you can use
Hi,
On Aug/07/2018, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 10:54:59PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> >
> > And I'm now 99% sure that the culprit of all this confusion is...
> > plymouth! It has a password caching facility and systemd seems to use it
> > to get the cached passwo
Curt wrote:
> He means it's self-explanatory given you're using testing and when using
> testing shit happens (things break)
its not even testing it is sid - as far as I know it is after testing and
there even more shit happens, so I don't understand why he/she should
bother us or we should bothe
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I `aptitude purge-d' pulseaudio and... (after maybe reboot) sound back
> again...
>
usually it helps
logout
remove .pulse from use home
reboot
in .pulse and previously in .config/pulse (AFAIR) there are/were internal DB
and it did not work well a
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