>> However, it seems to me that nobody is getting the point about fake
>> login screens: if I am an *user* of somebody else's network, how can I
>> protect myself from another *user* faking a login screen, used as the
>> only running X application, and stealing my password?
>
> You have evidence th
On Sunday 15 February 2009 3:12:32 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > No, Jaunty simply won't have C-A-B feature enabled by default. Simple
> > as that. Release notes doesn't have such speculation as "OMG, visual
> > interface have changed, someone could use it to steal information from
> > people".
> >
>
Dane,
Please see my bug-report on launchpad filed as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329644
Additionally,
Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard
this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with
better than just basic knowledge a
2009/2/15 Mike Jones :
> Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard
> this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with
> better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and such, so I am a
> bit thrown off.
>
It's the sequence of lett
>> This is a basic system event that has changed, a system event that has
>> security and usability implications. Furthermore, this deviates from
>> the behaviour of every other major Linux distro, and from the
>> behaviour of Ubuntu itself in previous versions.
>
> False. This is an upstream chan
2009/2/15 Alex Cockell :
> Umm -please forgive me, but you mention that removing the
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace three-key-salute was proposed for removal two years
> ago... Has this been made absolutely clear to preinstall manufacturers
> in time for them to print new manuals?
>
This discussion is abou
On 14/02/2009 Thomas Jaeger wrote:
> C-A-B offers no protection against this attack, as users can easily
> remap keys. If you don't believe me, run
>
> xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = '
>
Therefore, I was completely wrong along the last 10 years (and fancy how
many passwords I gave as a gift to my co
On 15/02/2009 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> the kernel *does* intercept
> Alt+SysRq+K as pointed out a billion times already. Seriously, we
> have a
> userspace and a kernelspace way around this one.
This is obviously not working from X11, so it seems like we don't have a
secure access key under
Mike Jones wrote:
> Additionally,
>
> Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never
> heard this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by
> trade, with better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and
> such, so I am a bit thrown off.
Each l
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 06:54:03PM +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> However, it seems to me that nobody is getting the point about fake
> login screens: if I am an *user* of somebody else's network, how can I
> protect myself from another *user* faking a login screen, used as the
> only running
Olá Alexander e a todos.
On Friday 13 February 2009 11:16:39 Alexander Sack wrote:
> > Some repos will want to replace system packages (eg medibuntu)...this
> > seems incompatible with these requirements.
>
> I am not sure what medibuntu does. Is that a derivate?
Its a 3rd party repo with licens
Olá Alexander e a todos.
On Thursday 12 February 2009 10:24:49 Alexander Sack wrote:
> However, if necessary, the repository may actually be removed from the
> users' sources lists. This may be necessary if there are severe
> problems on the repository such as data lose errors, security
> problems
Olá Scott e a todos.
On Thursday 12 February 2009 14:48:11 Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:15 +, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
> > Hope I dont start a flame war here, but is there any *easy* way for
> > non-devel-but-somewhat-advanced-users to pick the _current_ installe
Olá John e a todos.
On Friday 13 February 2009 02:08:35 John Moser wrote:
> (read: Firefox RELOADS the tab it was in, it doesn't come back up into the
> exact same state it shut down in! This sucks!)
Give TabMix Plus (session saver feature) Firefox addon a try.
it restores everything to me, ev
Olá Matthew e a todos.
On Friday 13 February 2009 18:27:06 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I have no doubt that it could be solved if people put their minds to
> it. System Monitor (or a process-specific buset) could reduce the
> priority of your other programs whenever it is running, be special-case
hi,
On Do, 2009-02-12 at 14:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> I'd do something like:
>
> - iterate /sys, looking for the devices
> - track to their drivers (either by looking at what's loaded, or
>comparing modalias to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE)
isnt that what MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs.co
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Arguing that something's a security feature without checking that it's
> actually a security feature isn't a good plan.
Obviously. But I do think this is a security issue that needs to be
solved. Let's forget the whole C-A-B discussion. We
-Original Message-
> hi,
> On Do, 2009-02-12 at 14:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > I'd do something like:
>
> > - iterate /sys, looking for the devices
> > - track to their drivers (either by looking at what's loaded, or
> >comparing modalias to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE)
> isnt t
Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).
For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becomes SysRQ when Alt is
being pressed.
If you change the GNOME keyboard settings you could find different
results. Is it possible that whe
> From: Mike Jones
> Subject: Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional.
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com, dmutt...@gmail.com
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>
> Dane,
>
>Please see my bug-report on launchpad filed as
>
> https://bugs.launchpa
Olá Stefan e a todos.
On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:56:32 Stefan Hamminga wrote:
> Here is what I've got so far:
>
> for mod in `((lspci -v | grep -i "Kernel driver in use: " | cut -b 24-) &&
> (lspci -v | grep -i "Kernel modules: " | cut -b 18-)) | sort -u` ; do
> echo `grep $mod $(find
-Original Message-
> Olá Stefan e a todos.
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:56:32 Stefan Hamminga wrote:
> > Here is what I've got so far:
> >
> > for mod in `((lspci -v | grep -i "Kernel driver in use: " | cut -b 24-) &&
> > (lspci -v | grep -i "Kernel modules: " | cut -b 18-)) | sort -u
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:24:32 pm Dylan McCall wrote:
> Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
> works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).
>
> For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becomes SysRQ when Alt is
> being pressed.
Don't you mean when Fn is bein
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:50 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:24:32 pm Dylan McCall wrote:
> > Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
> > works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).
> >
> > For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becom
Hi all,
This morning's upload of PulseAudio to jaunty makes two notable changes for the
desktop user:
Firstly, autospawn is now enabled, which means that if the daemon is not
running when the first client attempts to connect, it will be executed
automatically. This step tests a workaround for
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