Re: Password recovery

On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 21:15 +0100, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: > Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:23:50 +0100 > Jerome Lille : > > > I've got it now running. But I'm wondering if 1.5 password tries > > per > > second is normal? I've given it several threads, but it doesn't > > seem > > to make any difference. The

Re: Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

Roberto Ragusa wrote: > and then the best: > - installs with: "curl http://random_site/install_script | sudo bash" Owww, my eyes! Please, make it stop. Any software I see which recommends that idiom in their instructions is immediately on the "never install this crapware under any circumstances.

Re: Odd screen rotation misbehavior

On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 10:11 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I have a Lenovo Yoga X1 (2nd gen) with Intel graphics, running GNOME > (fully up to date). Recently, the screen rotation lock control in the > system menu (drop-down in the upper right corner) disappeared and the > screen stopped auto-rot

Re: Password Recovery

On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 12:50 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/17/20 4:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > And at least one bank I know blocks you from using copy-paste, a policy > > which seems tailor-made to force people to use simple passwords. > > Luckily we're on Linux so we can do the middle

Re: Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

On 12/17/20 6:58 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Yes... and how the malicious bits were delivered thru the update mechanism...a nice reminder for us on how careful we need to be when adding 3rd-party repos be it yum repos, flatpak repos, container repos and so on. True. Even a single gpgcheck=0 is a

Re: Password Recovery

On 12/17/20 4:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: And at least one bank I know blocks you from using copy-paste, a policy which seems tailor-made to force people to use simple passwords. Luckily we're on Linux so we can do the middle-button thing, which they can't trap. Or has Wayland dropped supp

Re: Password recovery

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:23:50 +0100 Jerome Lille : > I've got it now running. But I'm wondering if 1.5 password tries per > second is normal? I've given it several threads, but it doesn't seem > to make any difference. The disc is connected over USB. It could take around 10 years at this pace. You ca

Re: Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

On Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:08:54 AM EST Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two > companies, FireEye and SolarWinds, which supply security software > to the US Government and to major corporations. (see: > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/1

Re: Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

On 12/17/20 1:41 PM, stan via users wrote: > The deeper issue is that this illustrates how easy it is for skilled > programmers to insert malicious code into software so that it does > nefarious things while not being detected. That certainly affects > Fedora because it affects any system using co

Re: Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 07:08:54 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two > companies, FireEye and SolarWinds,  which supply security software to > the US Government and to major corporations. >  (see: > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinio

Re: Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 07:08:54AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two > companies, FireEye and SolarWinds,  which supply security software to > the US Government and to major corporations. >  (see:  > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/

Re: "new USB hdd" not working

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 10:10, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 12/17/20 8:38 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > > On 12/17/20 7:23 PM, George N. White III wrote: > >> We need more data. Have a look at > >> https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/594?cversion=0&cnum_hist=7 > >>

Security Software Hack vs. Fedora

I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two companies, FireEye and SolarWinds,  which supply security software to the US Government and to major corporations.  (see:  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/fireeye-solarwinds-russia-hack.html  ).  Does this have any effect o

Re: "new USB hdd" not working

On 12/17/20 8:38 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: On 12/17/20 7:23 PM, George N. White III wrote: We need more data.  Have a look at https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/594?cversion=0&cnum_hist=7 . Bargain USB enclosures are often junk

Re: "new USB hdd" not working

On 12/17/20 7:23 PM, George N. White III wrote: We need more data.  Have a look at https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/594?cversion=0&cnum_hist=7 . Bargain USB enclosures are often junk.   If they are powered by the USB port they

Re: Screenshot software recommendations

On 17/12/2020 21:29, Earl Ramirez wrote: On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 07:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, I get the same result trying spectacle in a VM running GNOME. However, if I run spectacle in a VM running plasma-wayland it works as expected. Looks like I will have to file a bug for this behav

Re: Screenshot software recommendations

On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 07:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > FWIW, I get the same result trying spectacle in a VM running GNOME. > > However, if I run spectacle in a VM running plasma-wayland it works > as expected. Looks like I will have to file a bug for this behaviour when using Gnome. Thanks for v

Re: Screenshot software recommendations

> If you're using Gnome, why can't you use the builtin screenshot > functions? The builtin screenshot function works perfectly if there is no need to modify the screen shot. Let say, you want to add an arrow, magnify a portion of the screen shot, annotate, etc. To accomplish this one will have to

Re: Screenshot software recommendations

On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 05:39 +0800, Earl Ramirez wrote: > On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 00:26 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I use Spectacle under KDE (it's a KDE app) and it works fine under > > X11. > > KDE is still flaky with Wayland so I don't use it. > > I tried spectacle and unfortunately it d

Re: Password Recovery

On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 08:22 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I'm against the usual password polices, as well.  Repetitively changing > your password is no guarantee of avoiding being hacked, and is more > likely to lead to you forgetting your passwords.  And weird untypeable > and unmemorable number a

Re: "new USB hdd" not working

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 07:10, Frederic Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Just got an external 2TB HDD but it doesn't mount. dmesg gives me a lot > of information: > [ 611.933081] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, > SerialNumber=3 > [ 611.933082] usb 3-2: Product: VLI Product String > [

"new USB hdd" not working

Hi! Just got an external 2TB HDD but it doesn't mount. dmesg gives me a lot of information: [  611.933081] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [  611.933082] usb 3-2: Product: VLI Product String [  611.933084] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: VLI manufacture String [  611.9

Re: How do I use abrt to report bugs?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 11:04 PM Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: > > Hey, > > Best to talk about bugs in the @t...@lists.fedoraproject.org list. > But, overall, "how" is simple, > 1. Login to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ with your FAS > 2. write up the description and other mandatory feilds > 3. fill i