Re: Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

2019-07-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/12/19 6:57 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 19-07-12 15:47:58, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so that you could do things and manipulate files. This seems to have bee

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

2019-07-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/12/19 10:49 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 08:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: In the event anyone is interested. The short answer is Unless a file or directory has a "FILE transition rule" defined in the selinux policy it will inherit the context of the directory where it

Re: tracer told me to systemctl restart dbus-broker - bad move

2019-07-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Whenever I do an dnf update, I run tracer to see what action I need to > take. Tracer tells you what needs restarting... but does not go into any of the possible consequences of doing so. -- rex ___ users mailing list -- us

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

2019-07-13 Thread Tim via users
Joe Zeff: >> Is there a way to undo this noxious action? Because if not, I'll be >> migrating both of my computers to CentOs. Tom H: > What makes you think that CentOS would be different? It uses the same > installer. It's been pointed out to me that it depends on what spin you install from. I u

Re: What to do instead of using rc.local?

2019-07-13 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 Tim via users wrote: > Tom H: >> >> What makes you think that CentOS would be different? It uses the >> same installer. > > It's been pointed out to me that it depends on what spin you > install from. I used the MATE spin (with current release CentOS and > Fedora), and its ins

Re: Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

2019-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Awesome! Thanks everyone for your help. And I'm sorry I didn't give more information... I'm running Fedora 30, and I don't have a root password, seems that my password isn't even required when installing apps and what not (Thought it was supposed to be created upon install did they do away wit

quick (I hope) e-mail security question.

2019-07-13 Thread home user via users
I just received a message from [sender]@gmail.com but the last line in the message is a bluish line saying "Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android" I do know someone named [sender] but the from address is not what I have for that person, though the sender could have gotten a new e-mail address ve

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question.

2019-07-13 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-07-13 17:58:12, home user via users wrote: I just received a message from [sender]@gmail.com but the last line in the message is a bluish line saying "Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android" I do know someone named [sender] but the from address is not what I have for that person, though the

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question.

2019-07-13 Thread home user via users
(Tony Nelson said) > [snip] > > Look at the message header. (View Source is a good way, > as it will be exact.) The first Received: line and any > lines before it come from your email provider, who is > mostly to be trusted, though anyone can make mistakes. > If that line says the "from" is reason

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question.

2019-07-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 07/13/2019 05:58 PM, home user via users wrote: I just received a message from [sender]@gmail.com but the last line in the message is a bluish line saying "Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android" I do know someone named [sender] but the from address is not what I have for that person, thoug

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question.

2019-07-13 Thread jdow
On 20190713 16:29:20, home user via users wrote: (Tony Nelson said) > [snip] > > Look at the message header. (View Source is a good way, > as it will be exact.) The first Received: line and any > lines before it come from your email provider, who is > mostly to be trus

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question.

2019-07-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 7/14/19 7:56 AM, jdow wrote: > You erased one of the more important clues for legitimacy. Do the "Reply-To:" > and "From:" headers make sense when considered together? You forgot the most important factor.  If you have to ask the question: "Is this message probably genuine or probably  a spoo

Re: quick (I hope) e-mail security question. [SOLVED]

2019-07-13 Thread home user via users
Good evening, (jdow asked) > Do the "Reply-To:" and "From:" headers make sense > when considered together? They match. >Does the "From:" make sense considering the contents. Yes. Likewise the subject. But the info in those parts could have been obtained from social networking sites. (res