Re: cannot change password: Authentication token manipulation error

2019-01-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/8/19 10:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/8/19 9:57 PM, Frédéric wrote: I cannot change the root password: # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 passwd Changing password for user root. New password: Retype new password: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error Anybody has an idea? Why do you need to s

Re: cannot change password: Authentication token manipulation error

2019-01-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/8/19 9:57 PM, Frédéric wrote: I cannot change the root password: # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 passwd Changing password for user root. New password: Retype new password: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error Anybody has an idea? Why do you need to set the LANG? Have you checked the journa

Re: cannot change password: Authentication token manipulation error

2019-01-08 Thread Frédéric
> I cannot change the root password: > # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 passwd > Changing password for user root. > New password: > Retype new password: > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error Anybody has an idea? Kind regards, F ___ users mailing list --

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/8/19 11:15 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Tom Horsley said: Intel sells boxes they call NUCs. NUC only has one ethernet port built-in, although newer models also have a Thunderbolt port, which should drive a decent speed network. The servers I run usually only have 1 Ethernet

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/8/19 4:52 PM, George N. White III wrote: Avoid USB NIC's.     Have a look at pfSense What is wrong with USB network devices? The USB3 ones can even do Gigabit and they work well. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 12:10, Alex wrote: > Hi, > I need a gateway for our new office. I'd like it to run Fedora. What > are my options? I'd like to be able to do the following: > > - provide VPN back to the main office > - provide basic masquerading of hosts on inside network > - be small e

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/8/19 12:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/08/2019 12:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: What does the "hostname" command give you?  I would suggest using "ALL" instead. Not a good idea unless you really trust that user.  This lets that person mount this partition when needed and nothing else.  (It m

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/08/2019 12:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: What does the "hostname" command give you?  I would suggest using "ALL" instead. Not a good idea unless you really trust that user. This lets that person mount this partition when needed and nothing else. (It might be a good idea to allow umount

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/8/19 11:21 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 1/8/19 10:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: sudo -l [sudo] password for pdupre: Sorry, user pdupre may not run sudo on Teucidide. Same for sudo -i Uhm you ARE entering the password for user pdupre, right? Do NOT use root's password, use your own. That

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/8/19 1:57 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I wanted that a user be able to do: mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB With visudo, I did pdupre localhost=/usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB/ (pdupre is also member of pdupre I tried also %pdupre localhost=/usr/bin/mount

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 1/8/19 10:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > OK, > > Sorry, > > But again: > > sudo -l > [sudo] password for pdupre: > Sorry, user pdupre may not run sudo on Teucidide. > > > Same for sudo -i Uhm you ARE entering the password for user pdupre, right? Do NOT use root's password, use your own. -

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 08.01.19 19:58, Patrick Dupre wrote: (Please do not top post) > sudo -l > [sudo] password for pdupre: > Sorry, user pdupre may not run sudo on Teucidide. I think you have to replace localhost in your sudoers either with your real hostname or with ALL. best regards Ulf _

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Terry Polzin said: > Raspberry PI PIs make terrible routers since the only NIC is on the USB2 bus (and so would any additional NIC). I don't get the fascination with PIs - they're cheap, but they are not a good solution to a great many things people try to use them for. -- Ch

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Tom Horsley said: > Intel sells boxes they call NUCs. NUC only has one ethernet port built-in, although newer models also have a Thunderbolt port, which should drive a decent speed network. A strike against the NUC is that Intel basically requires Windows from some types of fir

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
OK, Sorry, But again: sudo -l [sudo] password for pdupre: Sorry, user pdupre may not run sudo on Teucidide. Same for sudo -i === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de P

Re: Server goes catatonic after a few days

2019-01-08 Thread Terry Barnaby
You could try the program memtester "dnf install memtester" "memtester 1g". This is a user level memory tester. I also have a server that occasionally dies. It started doing this late last year under Fedora27. I wasn't sure if it was a particular kernel change or hardware, but I replaced the m

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 08.01.19 19:24, Patrick Dupre wrote: > sudo -l /usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB/ I guess there was a misunderstanding. 'sudo -l' is a single command to display the currently allowed rules. So you should try the commands: sudo -l sudo /usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thank. Right, but the behavior is exactly the same (with the /) I need to find the glitch. And sudo -l /usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB/ [sudo] password for pdupre: Sorry, user pdupre may not run sudo on Teucidide. instead of: pdupre is not allowed to run sudo on Teucidi

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 1/8/19 8:38 AM, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 08.01.19 10:57, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> With visudo, I did >> pdupre localhost=/usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB/ > >> sudo /usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB > > When you allow a specific command for sudo, you

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread Terry Polzin
Raspberry PI On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:44 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > Intel sells boxes they call NUCs. I'm running fedora on > one at home seems to work fine (as a media PC). Asus > makes similar sized bookshelf systems. A lot of them > come with Windows forced down your throat, I got a > NUC witho

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread Tom Horsley
Intel sells boxes they call NUCs. I'm running fedora on one at home seems to work fine (as a media PC). Asus makes similar sized bookshelf systems. A lot of them come with Windows forced down your throat, I got a NUC without memory or disk and added my own. Lookup mini PC on amazon for a vast sele

Re: sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 08.01.19 10:57, Patrick Dupre wrote: > With visudo, I did > pdupre localhost=/usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB/ > sudo /usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB When you allow a specific command for sudo, you *must* use *exactly* the same command. In this ca

Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-08 Thread Alex
Hi, I need a gateway for our new office. I'd like it to run Fedora. What are my options? I'd like to be able to do the following: - provide VPN back to the main office - provide basic masquerading of hosts on inside network - be small enough to fit on a shelf. Preferably fanless - web-base

New f29 install, windows 10 not detected / grub2-editenv nit

2019-01-08 Thread Richard Shaw
My son recently built his own computer and still needs Windows 10 for some games so when get got a new 2TB HD he installed Windows. This weekend I walked him through installing Fedora. We resized the NTFS partition and grabbed about 500GB for Fedora. The installation went smoothly. Upon reboot th

Re: [F29] Ext4 file system inconsistencies

2019-01-08 Thread Marco Guazzone
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 9:54 PM Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 05.01.19 21:10, Marco Guazzone wrote: > > > I'm running an up-to-date Fedora 29 x86_64 (kernel > 4.19.13-300.fc29.x86_64). > > > > My ext4 file system got inconsistent twice in a week: the first time, the > > '/home' partition; the last time,

sudo

2019-01-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am running user in old fashion I wanted that a user be able to do: mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB With visudo, I did pdupre localhost=/usr/bin/mount /dev/mapper/VolGrpUsr_DK0-home /mnt/USB/ (pdupre is also member of pdupre I tried also %pdupre localhost=/usr/bin/mount