Re: System Cloning [SOLVED]

2020-03-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/20/20 11:23 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: The problems was selinux.  Used the chroot process to edit /etc/selinus/config and disable selinux. Cloning is successful. Recap Knoppix DVD used to copy working Fedora 31 /boot and / to a usbdisk with rsync. If separate, /home and /var als

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/18/20 9:45 PM, sixpack13 wrote: On 19.03.20 03:58, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 3/18/20 12:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: ... The kernels from a cloned system are  far different from what is executing by doing a chroot from a live system, so `uname -r` is not useful. that coul

Re: /usr/ permissions ??

2020-03-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/22/20 11:26 PM, David wrote: I logged in as root just for the fun of it to mess around with my permission settings in the /usr/ directory not having any idea what the heck I was doing. I am the only user of the computer ( so I am the admin ). But now, I get a sudo error message when logged

/usr/ permissions ??

2020-03-22 Thread David
I logged in as root just for the fun of it to mess around with my permission settings in the /usr/ directory not having any idea what the heck I was doing. I am the only user of the computer ( so I am the admin ). But now, I get a sudo error message when logged in the normal way as admin or sole

Re: Jabber client for Fedora30

2020-03-22 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 21:13 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I see that there is pidgen, but what else? I always found pidgin to be the best instant messenger. Simple, small GUI that didn't take over your entire screen with crap. And you could turn off all the crap that others tried to use in th

Jabber client for Fedora30

2020-03-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This week is IETF107, but no in-person meeting only virtual. So for the first time I would benefit from a Jabber client on my Fedora30 system (Webex on Fedora is pretty bad, I will probably have to use my Win10 system for the video). I see that there is pidgen, but what else? The Jabber for

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/22/20 2:35 PM, bruce wrote: ok..  so there's a file that has bobs private key  that I copy to the local server  in the .ssh/ dir path.. It's not bob's private key. "bob" has the *public* half of the key. The private key is for the user that's connecting. so anyone who logs into the loc

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-23 07:35, bruce wrote: > > In your example, exactly what is the >   [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ssh-copy-id bob@frk copying?? > > is the cmd copying the  public key for meimei to the bob/.ssh dir/path It is copying/appending the public-key of user "egreshko" to the file bob/.ssh/authorized_ke

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread Kevin Becker
On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 06:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-03-23 04:36, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 3/22/20 1:19 PM, bruce wrote: > > >on the remote VM, I want to create a user "bob". I also want > > > to modify the remote to ssh into the VM as bob, using sshkeys > > > do I have to have a loc

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread bruce
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:43 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-03-23 04:19, bruce wrote: > > do I have to have a local user on my local linux as "bob".. pretty sure > I don't! but I'm not sure where the local ssh key should be placed, to > allow me to ssh into the remote using the key. Also, how doe

Re: Login screen related

2020-03-22 Thread Bob Marcan
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:09:49 -0500 David wrote: > Check out this backsplash on my login screen > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwy0qzey0vl4fjq/Davids_fancy_Log-in.jpg?dl=0 > > I wish all Linux desktop distros had more options for theming the login > screen. > > I am using Xfce ( in Rawhide

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-23 04:36, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/22/20 1:19 PM, bruce wrote: >>    on the remote VM, I want to create a user "bob". I also want to modify >> the remote to ssh into the VM as bob, using sshkeys >> >> do I have to have a local user on my local linux as "bob".. pretty sure I >> don't!

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-23 04:19, bruce wrote: > do I have to have a local user on my local linux as "bob".. pretty sure I > don't! but I'm not sure where the local ssh key should be placed, to allow me > to ssh into the remote using the key. Also, how doe this process work when > accessing the remote from o

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread bruce
ok.. so there's a file that has bobs private key that I copy to the local server in the .ssh/ dir path.. so anyone who logs into the local user.. where I've copied the private key/file can access ssh bob@1.2.3.4 did I miss something? On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 4:37 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On

Re: selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/22/20 1:19 PM, bruce wrote:   on the remote VM, I want to create a user "bob". I also want to modify the remote to ssh into the VM as bob, using sshkeys do I have to have a local user on my local linux as "bob".. pretty sure I don't! but I'm not sure where the local ssh key should be pla

selinux/ssh -- basic question

2020-03-22 Thread bruce
Hi. Stepping into centos 7 -- selinux... I've got a basic question for ssh. Creating a new/base VM- digitalocean. I create the VM via the DO website, get a test IP Address 1.2.3.4 (I'm running on a local linux/centos) with a test user "fooUser" the VM creation process creates the root user with

Login screen related

2020-03-22 Thread David
Check out this backsplash on my login screen https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwy0qzey0vl4fjq/Davids_fancy_Log-in.jpg?dl=0 I wish all Linux desktop distros had more options for theming the login screen. I am using Xfce ( in Rawhide ), and assume the procedure is the same in other desktop environme

Re: Is an encrypted Fedora Live CD possible?

2020-03-22 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 08:19, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 00:25 -0400, Earl Terwilliger via users wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've managed to use the kickstart files to create a Fedora 31 KDE live CD > > without any problems. > > > > Actually I have a simple python script which

Re: Is an encrypted Fedora Live CD possible?

2020-03-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 00:25 -0400, Earl Terwilliger via users wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to use the kickstart files to create a Fedora 31 KDE live CD > without any problems. > > Actually I have a simple python script which conglomerates all the KS > files together to make it easier to deal wit