Re: [ubuntu-uk] System Security (Was Re: Password recovery)

2008-07-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > LOL, this is my biggest fear - forgetting the key to an encrypted > file/disk. I forgot one the other day for some of my personal > information encrypted using bcrypt - I had to ring my InLaws and as > them to post my backup disks back to me! Posting unenc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-06 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wulfy wrote: >> I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, >> /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. >> >> I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list >> of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be "un

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System Security (Was Re: Password recovery)

2008-07-06 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Tony, Quoting Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alternatively, encrypt your file systems and disks! Any would be hacker > would then need the encryption key before doing any of the above! > > (Well, she could format the disks, but would not get any information > from them. You need backups for th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System Security (Was Re: Password recovery)

2008-07-06 Thread Tony Arnold
Matt, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Indeed, if you have a live CD (even if it's a really basic one such as > a debian/ubuntu installer), there is a huge amount of damage you can > do to a system. > > From a relatively modern (last year or so) Linux-based Live CD, you > can do the fol

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-06 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: > I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove > it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... > > So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having > problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox and start from > sc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] drawing programme

2008-07-06 Thread alan c
London School of Puppetry wrote: > Hi there can anyone advise me on a drawing programme using a stylus that I > can use with Hardy Heron- and tell me where I can get it. Thanks. Caroline Do you mean a sort of drawing such as layout of a bathroom, or a manufacturing drawing of a double gate for w

[ubuntu-uk] System Security (Was Re: Password recovery)

2008-07-06 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you boot to the recovery console then you have full root access. from > here you can run "passwd " to change the password of that > user. I have had this problem before and it was worrying to find out how > easy it was to do this, although if someon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Liquorish
Jason Liquorish wrote: > Keith wrote: >> I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate >> any help. >> >> I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is >> on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both partitioned with home >> directories on a s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Liquorish
Keith wrote: > I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate > any help. > > I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is > on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both partitioned with home > directories on a separate partition. There is a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Matthew Wild
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday a problem arose with the Kubuntu distribution which I couldn't > resolve myself, so I decided to install v. 8.04.01, especially as it now > included KDE 4. All seemed to be OK until I tried to boot up Ubuntu > which stall

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
2008/7/6 Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >[snip] > However, when the other user tried to log in, Ubuntu would not accept > the password. I googled extensively but the only remedy I could find > was to recover my own password, which was not applicable here and didn't > help recover, or change, the passw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
Keith wrote: > included KDE 4. All seemed to be OK until I tried to boot up Ubuntu > which stalled and needed a CTRL-D to get to the desktop. Not to worry, > I thought, I'll reinstall with 8.04.1 which proceeded normally. > However, when the other user tried to log in, Ubuntu would not accept

[ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Keith
I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate any help. I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both partitioned with home directories on a separate partition. There is an additional user on eac