RE: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-09 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Justin M. Wray Enviado el: jue 08/05/2008 5:41 Para: Andrew Sayers; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Asunto: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier >As for a name, I personally donot like remote help, nor remote recover.

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-08 Thread Jan Claeys
Op maandag 05-05-2008 om 20:26 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Andrew Sayers: > * There should be three ways to enable remote recovery: > - In the GRUB menu, there should be a "remote recovery" option This could also be based on a special boot image; that way it would work in even more cases... -

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Martin Owens
Wow, you guys are going at this problem with a ferocious intent. We are already working on a remote support tool, a lot of what you've been talking about we have already talked about and built. So far it's not finished and much work is needed in peer review so if you can lend your time to looking

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Andrew Sayers < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Creating or modifying an account that has the necessary permissions > 2) Creating an SSH connection > 3) Destroying or reverting an account to its original state thread. > ... > Reliably doing (2) is a hard problem. T

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Justin M. Wray
emote Assistance is taken :( We need some good name ideas... Thanks, Justin M. Wray Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -Original Message- From: Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 01:35:50 To:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
Okay, I've got the auction part of the dash adventure completed. In principle, the rest should be relatively easy. The code isn't vastly useful or commented so far, it's just a proof of concept really. The script doesn't prune unlikely matches (e.g. socat+ssh when ssh is already provided), becau

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Justin M. Wray
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 19:28:34 To:"Andrew Sayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED],ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier I see no reason why we can't (even with C) come up with a u

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Justin M. Wray
ists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier We're certainly getting there! I haven't yet given up hope of doing this with a shell script (evidentiary question again). The benefit of a shell script is that it leaves open the possibility of packaging a "lit

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
We're certainly getting there! I haven't yet given up hope of doing this with a shell script (evidentiary question again). The benefit of a shell script is that it leaves open the possibility of packaging a "lite" version of the program as a single architecture-neutral file, so that we can suppor

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Justin M. Wray
Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 18:57:41 To:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier Having looked quickly at cryptcat, it seems like some interfaces would be best served by cryptcat+socat, so that you can get security

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
Having looked quickly at cryptcat, it seems like some interfaces would be best served by cryptcat+socat, so that you can get security and a pseudo-terminal. To generalise your idea even further, how about a bidding system? For example, say the expert asks for a forward remote shell on the friend'

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
On the other hand, I'm wrong about that :) I've just discovered a package called socat, which is an extremely general command line tool for creating connections between things - more so even than netcat. It's in Universe, so it's presumably not that much of an ask to have it upgraded to main. I

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
Justin, I agree that a single solution would be best, but I can't see how to make it work in the case of a system that's mostly broken. However, it looks like it's going to be an evidentiary question - either we can make it work or we can't. How would you feel about the following working arrange

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Justin M. Wray
ughts? Thanks, Justin M. Wray Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -Original Message- From: Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:06:53 To:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier (starting a new sub-thread fo

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
(starting a new sub-thread for a new proposal) I'm currently swinging back towards remote recovery and remote help being distinct problems that need different solutions. There are three reasons for that: 1) As I mentioned in a previous post, remote recovery needs to be done in an extremely de

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Justin M. Wray
t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:31 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:Christopher Halse Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier Le mercredi 07 mai 2008

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 03:44 +, Justin M. Wray a écrit : > Another idea would be to not only tunnel SSH but also VNC. > > Allowing the "newbie" to watch the "helper" do something at times might be > the goal, and will make help facilitate learning. In addition the issue > might be with a

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Justin M. Wray
2 To:"Christopher Halse Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Andrew Sayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier This was the original idea, with the SSH reverse tunnel... It would be the ea

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Justin M. Wray
t SSH to loclhost only) Thanks, Justin M. Wray Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -Original Message- From: "Christopher Halse Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 11:51:29 To:"Andrew Sayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.u

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Justin M. Wray
Wray Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -Original Message- From: Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 01:40:44 To:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier Based on this evidence, does anybody object to a bug

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 5/7/08, Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, I'm trying to walk the line between unrealistic "wouldn't > it be great if..." type ideas and overly-strict reliance on solving the > specific problem I have in my head, so I'd like to go back to first > principles for a moment

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Todd Deshane
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Based on this evidence, does anybody object to a bug report being filed > against openssh-server, saying that password authentication should be > disabled by default? Of course, that leaves all my ideas in serious > trou

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew Sayers
Based on this evidence, does anybody object to a bug report being filed against openssh-server, saying that password authentication should be disabled by default? Of course, that leaves all my ideas in serious trouble, but that's a secondary matter. - Andrew -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mail

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Todd Deshane
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 06 May 2008 23:56:18 +0100 Andrew Sayers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At this point, I'm trying to walk the line between unrealistic "wouldn't > >it be great if..." type ideas and overly-strict reliance on so

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 06 May 2008 23:56:18 +0100 Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At this point, I'm trying to walk the line between unrealistic "wouldn't >it be great if..." type ideas and overly-strict reliance on solving the >specific problem I have in my head, so I'd like to go back to first >princ

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew Sayers
At this point, I'm trying to walk the line between unrealistic "wouldn't it be great if..." type ideas and overly-strict reliance on solving the specific problem I have in my head, so I'd like to go back to first principles for a moment. Please tell me if any of these are false: 1) It's common fo

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:39:25PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > I've now updated the page that Pedro kindly started at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Recovery/Remote - this includes all the ideas > I've got so far. This is my first Ubuntu development thing, so yes, any > help very much appreciated! W

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew Sayers
I've now updated the page that Pedro kindly started at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Recovery/Remote - this includes all the ideas I've got so far. This is my first Ubuntu development thing, so yes, any help very much appreciated! You're quite right that the people you have to worry about aren't the on

RE: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
De: Andrew Sayers Enviado el: lun 05/05/2008 21:26 Para: ubuntu-devel-discuss Asunto: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier >I'm a Linux user of sufficient experience that friends are starting to phone me up when there's a problem with their computer. I guess most people here know how long a

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
Personally, I'd suggest leaving any neophyte user's computer exposed to the internet and not behind a firewall of some kind would be a mistake. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-05 Thread Justin M. Wray
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 02:51:25 To:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier Milosz Derezynski wrote: > There is IMO no real need for a random password; instead, the user of > the machine to be recovered should be all

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-05 Thread Andrew Sayers
Milosz Derezynski wrote: > There is IMO no real need for a random password; instead, the user of > the machine to be recovered should be allowed to enter a password which > he then can tell to the user recovering the machine remotely. This > doesn't neccessarily have to be more insecure; a random a

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-05 Thread Milosz Derezynski
There is IMO no real need for a random password; instead, the user of the machine to be recovered should be allowed to enter a password which he then can tell to the user recovering the machine remotely. This doesn't neccessarily have to be more insecure; a random alphanum password is probably bett