Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] [PATCH] (security) launcher: don't attempt to execute arbitrary binaries

2020-01-13 Thread Evilham via Dng
Hello Enrico, On dt., gen. 07 2020, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What might supposed to be convenience functionality, poses a real-life security threat: A user can be tricked be tricked to download malicious code, unpack it with +x permissions (eg. via tar) and execute it by just clicking on the i

Re: [DNG] I wrote IBM

2019-09-29 Thread Evilham via Dng
On dg., set. 29 2019, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2019-09-28 21:32, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just wrote IBM asking them to reconsider systemd, given that IBM's business model is different from the old Red Hat's. [cut] I encourage all of you to write IBM. If I'm right and it helps,

Re: [DNG] why does mount expect NTFS?

2019-08-11 Thread Evilham via Dng
Hey, On dg., ag. 11 2019, Hendrik Boom wrote: So I want to find out what's in /dev/sda4 on my hard drive. The computer has *never* had Windows on it. So I try to mount it, and am told: april:/farhome/hendrik# mount /dev/sda4 /test NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/sda4': Inv

Re: [DNG] Mirror 141.84.43.19 - Frequent unavailability

2019-07-18 Thread Evilham via Dng
Final update on this so it doesn't stay "open" forever: On dc., jul. 17 2019, Evilham wrote: On dc., jul. 17 2019, Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote: b) If not and this a confirmed defect, would not it be reasonable to remove said host from the pool until the maintainer can inspect what is going

Re: [DNG] Mirror 141.84.43.19 - Frequent unavailability

2019-07-17 Thread Evilham via Dng
On dc., jul. 17 2019, Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote: Thx Evilham for your answer. Glad it was not sinkholed ;o) Not at all :-). But maybe it'll be interesting to add simple monitoring at a connection level same way you ran your tests. I'll try to setup a thing in the next couple days. I wa

Re: [DNG] Mirror 141.84.43.19 - Frequent unavailability

2019-07-17 Thread Evilham via Dng
Hello, On dc., jul. 17 2019, Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote: After I stumbled, by chance, on mirror 141.84.43.19 (being part of the deb.devuan.org pool) being unavailable for a couple of minutes, I set a script up checking TCP/80 availability for all of mirrors in said pool. The conclusion is

Re: [DNG] User services

2019-05-13 Thread Evilham via Dng
\o/ this is pretty cool and significantly more than I thought would be the beginning. On dv., maig 10 2019, Martin Steigerwald wrote: And now feel free already to contribute your own services. :) I welcome merge requests. Let me just add: not only creating the Merge Requests, but also req

Re: [DNG] cannot reach gitlab

2019-05-01 Thread Evilham via Dng
Didier Kryn writes: Hello. I have had a few authentication failures this morning trying to clone and push my project on Devian's gitlab. Now I get a timed out connection either with git or with my browser. Am I banned or did I crash the git server ? Sorry if I tried crazy actions.

Re: [DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-23 Thread Evilham via Dng
Am 24. April 2019 00:24:56 MESZ schrieb Steve Litt : >On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:22:44 +0200 >Didier Kryn wrote: > >>     Hello Devuaneers. >> >>     I have put on https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman an application >> to let mount/umount/open filesystems on hotplug mass storage devises >> such as US

Re: [DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-23 Thread Evilham via Dng
Didier Kryn writes: Hello Devuaneers. I have put on https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman an application to let mount/umount/open filesystems on hotplug mass storage devises such as USB sticks or SD cards. This is a replacements for features provided by Desktop Environments. It only

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-09 Thread Evilham via Dng
Am 9. April 2019 10:53:40 MESZ schrieb aitor : >Hi all, > >On 4/2/19 7:35 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Many April Fools are done/around/ the time of 1st April some >get >> in early on purpose, irregardless of time zones. >> >> Still, moving on; we've been promised that this won't happen aga

Re: [DNG] What you saw on devuan.org yesterday was an April's fools joke

2019-04-02 Thread Evilham via Dng
Jaromil writes: he is now in moderation. if the trolling comes back from other accounts please don't feed. Thank you, I was coming to suggest that as well. The whole going-for-blood-or-else thing was getting on my nerves. People particularly concerned with security did the sensible thing as

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-01 Thread Evilham via Dng
Mike Bird writes: On Mon April 1 2019 14:18:38 Martin Steigerwald wrote: For me that is good enough. When core team member Evilham writes "it still looks as if gdo and the build system were compromised" [1] I need a lot more than a limited admission of guilt from KatolaZ before trusting tha

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-01 Thread Evilham via Dng
Evilham via Dng writes: Evilham via Dng writes: (*): **to my knowledge** means that I am still trusting the communications and the project, even if I decided keep in place the temporarily disconnect of my systems from devuan's infra. FWIW if anyone cares, I checked what I coul

Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-01 Thread Evilham via Dng
Evilham via Dng writes: (*): **to my knowledge** means that I am still trusting the communications and the project, even if I decided keep in place the temporarily disconnect of my systems from devuan's infra. FWIW if anyone cares, I checked what I could and things under my control

[DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess

2019-04-01 Thread Evilham via Dng
Following is on a personal note after having tried to fix things behind curtains and to get something "official" out. First things first and because I think somebody has to say it in the right tone the situation merits: I am really sorry for the mess of today (+/- 13 hours because timezones)