Re: Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-31 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
I'm mounting and unmounting through the stick icon's menu on Xfce desktop. Maybe a fancy file chooser dialogue stays around analyzing the directory, as you suspect? But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefox is capable of stealing files off my USB stick.

help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread DdB
Hello list, i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware. Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core Intel with 64 GB RAM. Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, which got lvm partitioning and is basically empty. As

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 11:18:30AM +0200, DdB wrote: > Hello list, > > i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware. > Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core > Intel with 64 GB RAM. > Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working fr

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
DdB composed on 2024-03-31 11:18 (UTC+0200): > Suggestions are welcome :-) https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ All my installations use this NET method. What I usually do though is extract linux and initrd.gz from it or directly from the mirrors and load them with Grub rather than booting the NET

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 31 Mar 2024 11:18 +0200, from debianl...@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de (DdB): > As i have no working > CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for > bookworm onto an lvm-LV. Using grub, i can manually boot from that ISO > and see the first installer screens. But after asking

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 11:18:30 (+0200), DdB wrote: > Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, > which got lvm partitioning and is basically empty. As i have no working > CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for > bookworm onto an lvm-LV. Using

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 09:42:37 (+0300), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > I'm mounting and unmounting through the stick icon's menu on Xfce desktop. > Maybe a fancy file chooser dialogue stays around analyzing the directory, > as you suspect? But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefox is capable of stealing >

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 05:30:50PM -0400, Lee wrote: > I just saw this advisory > Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (CVE-2024-28085) > https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Mar/35 > where they're talking about grabbing other users sudo password. I note that "write" and

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 07:00:50PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 05:30:50PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > I just saw this advisory > > Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (CVE-2024-28085) > > https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Mar/35 > > where they're t

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread gene heskett
On 3/31/24 15:26, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 07:00:50PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 05:30:50PM -0400, Lee wrote: I just saw this advisory Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (CVE-2024-28085) https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 04:27:52PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/24 15:26, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html > Does this mean its now safe to update our bookworm installs? I am not aware of a time when it was not safe

Re: System hangs at GDM login or a bit later...

2024-03-31 Thread nimrod
On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 18:32 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM nimrod wrote: > > > > I'm having this annoying behaviour from GDM (or something related). > > > > Quite ofter, after the GDM login screen appears, the host freezes > > completely: every input device is unr

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread gene heskett
On 3/31/24 17:16, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 04:27:52PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 3/31/24 15:26, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html Does this mean its now safe to update our bookworm installs? I am not awa

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 12:24 PM Joe wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:53:04 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:47:44PM -, Curt wrote: > > > On 2024-03-28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > > A more proactive endeavor would be to document known best > > >

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 07:19:41PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I would think A Smith's comment here was directed to this interesting bit > from the report he cited: > > Given the activity over several weeks, the committer is either directly > involved or there was some quite severe comp

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 01:45:07AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 07:19:41PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > I would think A Smith's comment here was directed to this interesting bit > > from the report he cited: > > > > Given the activity over several weeks, the c

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-31 Thread Antti-Pekka Känsälä
I filed bug report 1068122. I feel fine, despite my concern over my data. Heartfelt thanks for all the advice!

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread David Christensen
On 3/31/24 02:18, DdB wrote: Hello list, i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware. Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core Intel with 64 GB RAM. Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, which got lvm partitio

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2024-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
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autofs for /home: exclude admin users

2024-03-31 Thread Felix Natter
hello debian-users, I configured autofs for /home: * -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,bg,intr SERVER:/share/& But now the login as "admin" does not work any more, since it tries to mount SERVER:/share/admin -> Is it possible to exclude a user from automounting? The workaround [1] I use is this: admin -fst