Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Marco Moock
Am 25.04.2025 um 23:09:55 Uhr schrieb Dave Close: > Marco Moock wrote: > > >If you want server daemons, you have to install them > >manually. Unless you do it, they won't be reachable from the > >outside. > > Unfortunately, that is a bit over-simplified. Every time Firefox > (or other programs

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/25/25 8:45 PM, home user via users wrote: On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote: securing this workstation: part 2. The login screen has 2 named users: 1. a user that Anaconda had me create. 2. "Super User", which I did ***not*** create. T

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/25/25 10:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: I use slim login manager (and openbox WM, and no DE). Would this apparent change mentioned in this thread (of forcing a login screen on everyone) affect me when I upgrade to Fedora 42? There was no change to force a login screen. Maybe some

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Dave Close
Marco Moock wrote: >If you want server daemons, you have to install them >manually. Unless you do it, they won't be reachable from the outside. Unfortunately, that is a bit over-simplified. Every time Firefox (or other programs) makes a request through the Internet to some other system somewhere,

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2025-04-25 at 18:38 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, and dnf to be able to interact with > the "outside world" appropriately. I do occasionally need to be able to > download or upload things. > Beyond those (and maybe other appropriate things that d

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
Hi, I use slim login manager (and openbox WM, and no DE). Would this apparent change mentioned in this thread (of forcing a login screen on everyone) affect me when I upgrade to Fedora 42? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- ___ users mailing l

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Marco Moock
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:23:50 -0400 David King wrote: > Plugging the workstation directly into the Comcast cable modem puts > your computer directly on the internet, where everyone can hack away > at it trying to break in. This only applies if there is any service reachable, which isn't by defaul

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread David King
To find out what your ip address is do:    sudo ip addr This will list all the network adapters on your system and show their addresses, if they've been given one. As to firewalls: Plugging the workstation directly into the Comcast cable modem puts your computer directly on the internet, wh

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote: securing this workstation: part 2. The login screen has 2 named users: 1. a user that Anaconda had me create. 2. "Super User", which I did ***not*** create. Then there's something else below those that I ca

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/2025 7:47 PM, Fred wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600 home user via users wrote: The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The modem connects to the internet service provider (comcast) via common co-ax(?) cable. I lost ***all*** my notes.  How do I determ

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Fred
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:28:50 -0600 home user via users wrote: > On 4/25/2025 7:47 PM, Fred wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600 > > home user via users wrote: > > > >> The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The > >> modem connects to the internet service provid

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/25/25 8:28 PM, home user via users wrote: On 4/25/2025 7:47 PM, Fred wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600 home user via users wrote: The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The modem connects to the internet service provider (comcast) via common co-ax(?) cab

Re: SELINUX_ERR op=security_compute_sid invalid_context while running /etc/init.d script of my app

2025-04-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/25/25 6:09 PM, chaitanya singh wrote: Doing this on a RHEL8.10 distro. This is the *Fedora* users list and RHEL 8 is old. Maybe you should try on something newer. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote: securing this workstation: part 2. The login screen has 2 named users: 1. a user that Anaconda had me create. 2. "Super User", which I did ***not*** create. Then there's something else below those that I can use to log in as root. What is "Super Use

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 7:02 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM home user via users wrote: (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Fred
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600 home user via users wrote: > The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The > modem connects to the internet service provider (comcast) via common > co-ax(?) cable. > > I lost ***all*** my notes.  How do I determine this workstation's IP >

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
On 4/25/25 7:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/25/25 5:38 PM, home user via users wrote: (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office network. It is not dual-boot

SELINUX_ERR op=security_compute_sid invalid_context while running /etc/init.d script of my app

2025-04-25 Thread chaitanya singh
Doing this on a RHEL8.10 distro. I've created a user with staff_u role: # useradd -Z staff_u testadm And provided this user elevated permissions, for which did following steps: 1. created: /etc/sudoers.d/mysudoers 2. added this: %testadm ALL=(ALL) TYPE=sysadm_t ROLE=sysadm_r ALL Did reboot. Inst

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM home user via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) > > This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done > today. It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office > network. > Please

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/25/25 5:38 PM, home user via users wrote: (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office network. It is not dual-boot. I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, an

securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread home user via users
(Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation) This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office network. It is not dual-boot. I do need for Firefox, Thunderbird, and dnf to be able to interact with the "outside

Re: Managing dual boot

2025-04-25 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/29/25 12:01 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Robert McBroom composed on 2025-03-28 22:48 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: ... menuentry "Fedora 40 defkernel 3 on P18" { load_video set gfxpayload=keep search --no-floppy --set=root --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt18 --label

Re: need help with LC_TIme

2025-04-25 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi there, I am to set a custom LC_TIME LC_TIME='en_GB.UTF-8' /usr/bin/krusader from: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=ff-lc-time-category-locale-definition-source-file-format I am after mm dd HH:MM (24 hour format) For example: 2025-06-10 23:51 ChatGPT is your friend f

Re: Curse the login screen!

2025-04-25 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM Beartooth via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > My spouse & I live in our own house, just the two of us, and such > visitors as appear are adult friends. We've been running Fedora since it > was RedHat7, with never a login screen. Nor has tha