On 26/07/15 00:08, Bob Bernstein wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote:
ntp
No. This is an incorrect response.
Really?
apt-cache search ntp | grep ^ntp
ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs
ntp-doc - Network Time Protocol documentation
ntpdate - client for
On 21/05/15 09:45, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I have posted this message to the general Debian Users list, rather
than to only the LTS list, as, whilst my interest is limited to Debian
6 LTS, I believe that, if the issue involving any possible problem,
applies, then it would likely apply to all
On 21/05/15 22:15, Bob Proulx wrote:
Iain M Conochie wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs
some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has
already been done, or is pending.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
On 17/05/15 18:24, Iain M Conochie wrote:
Hi all,
I have recently switched my desktop (environment?) from KDE to xfce
on a jessie install. I am still running kdm. I have noticed that the
Switch User functionality within the action buttons on the top panel
(Panel 1) is grey-out
Hi all,
I have recently switched my desktop (environment?) from KDE to xfce
on a jessie install. I am still running kdm. I have noticed that the
Switch User functionality within the action buttons on the top panel
(Panel 1) is grey-out. Is there a specific xfce package I have to
install to
On 12/04/15 17:34, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Iain M Conochie (i...@thargoid.co.uk):
snip
IMHO, the issues with perl and python is that you will have to
understand Object Orientated Programming (OOP) to get the most out
of them, especially for GUI development. This was one of the reasons
I
On 12/04/15 09:33, Petter Adsen wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:51:24 +0800
Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/04/2015, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote:
Now that you mention security, that leads me to another question -
are there any good books on writing secure programs? I would
snip
It was until fairly recently general practice to allocate a few hundred
MB to / if /usr and /var were separate. It's only in the last few years
that the size of /lib/modules has really exploded, and /usr now needs
(in practice) to physically live under /.
I once tried to put /lib/modules
On 12/01/15 16:50, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 1/12/2015 11:36 AM, i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote:
Forwarding to the list as I seemed to have managed to leave it off.
Apologies.
Knowledge is easier to duplicate than a physical item. You mentioned the
ATM attack.
Incorrect. Knowledge cannot be
On 12/01/15 16:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 1/12/2015 10:10 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
snip
Oh, come on!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/context
It is all about *who* you are, or claim to be.
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/security-identification-authentication-and-authorization/
You have
On 11/01/15 23:18, Brian wrote:
On Sun 11 Jan 2015 at 22:32:39 +, Iain M Conochie wrote:
On 10/01/15 20:31, Brian wrote:
By all means advocate and use ssh keys. But at least provide some
substantial reason for spurning password login for that particular
situation. A blanket don't use
On 11/01/15 23:47, Bob Proulx wrote:
Iain M Conochie wrote:
These increase in security as you go higher up the number. So (assuming the
implementation is secure) my fingerprint (being something I am) is more
secure than a password. Also, an ssh-key (being something I have) is more
secure than
On 10/01/15 20:31, Brian wrote:
By all means advocate and use ssh keys. But at least provide some
substantial reason for spurning password login for that particular
situation. A blanket don't use passwords or keys are better
doesn't cut it.
There are 3 (current) factors in authentication:
On 02/11/14 05:58, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 14:17 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Succinct!
man pam_umask?
That is not a solution to the original question I asked, unless you
alias it to man umask. You don't _type_ pam_umask.
Carl
Perhaps apropos is your friend here?
:$ apropos
snip
Perhaps apropos is your friend here?
:$ apropos umask
pam_umask (8)- PAM module to set the file mode creation mask
As I said in the original, I found it almost immediately.
However, doesn't the Debian policy manual require a man page for every
program?
Not being a DD or DM I
On 22/10/14 19:49, John Bleichert wrote:
Hello All,
As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following
when running aptitude upgrade:
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack):
unable to create
password hackmebaby
d-i passwd/root-password-again password hackmebaby
### User config
d-i passwd/user-fullname string Iain M Conochie
d-i passwd/username string iain
d-i passwd/user-password password r00tm3
d-i passwd/user-password-again password r00tm3
d-i passwd/user-uid string 1004
### Clock
Hey Brian,
On 26/09/14 19:24, Brian wrote:
On Fri 26 Sep 2014 at 19:02:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote:
I am trying to compose a real basic preseed file, that will answer
all the d-i questions so that the install is completely automated.
This works on a PXE boot (with dhcp
Evening,
In case people may have missed this:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-6271
Upgrade available for wheezy.
Cheers
Iain
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On 24/09/14 21:52, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi everyone,
Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment
Variables (CVE-2014-6271)
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223
My current Debian setup is vulnerable, as shown below:
==
snip
Don't be rude. Many of us are not system programmers (some of us aren't
professional programmers at all, we just use computers) but are
(sometimes) able to gather enough useful information to help report or
even fix a bug.
But there's no point in putting any effort into reporting the kind
On 13/09/14 07:40, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 07:02:06PM +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote:
Not at all. This is a basic preseed file I was using for wheezy installs. I
am testing it again on a new VM - gimmie an hour or so and I will post the
results
The one you posted
On 12/09/14 17:35, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 12.09.2014 15:30, schrieb Martin Vegter:
hello,
when installing Jessie, systemd is installed as default init.
Is it possible to use preseeding to override this, so that systemd will
not be installed?
No, this is currently not possible.
Oh really?
On 12/09/14 18:37, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 12.09.2014 18:55, schrieb Iain M Conochie:
If you want the preseed file that built this VM I can email it to you.
I will, of course, take out any sensitive info with suggestions for
replacements
I assume you used a post-install hook to uninstall
On 12/09/14 18:54, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 12.09.2014 19:37, schrieb Michael Biebl:
Am 12.09.2014 18:55, schrieb Iain M Conochie:
If you want the preseed file that built this VM I can email it to you.
I will, of course, take out any sensitive info with suggestions for
replacements
I
On 09/09/14 03:54, John Conover wrote:
Nmap of a Debian 7.6 KDE machine indicates rpcbind (port 111) open.
This otherwise known as the portmapper service. It is used by Remote
Procedure Call services, such as NFS (hence the RPC in the name) You can
check what services are using this with the
I just updated my jessie box, and noticed ssh was no longer running:
systemctl status ssh
ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2014-08-29 10:33:29 BST;
2h 25min ago
Main PID: 16698
snip
Does anyone have any idea why systemd wants to stop ssh after it has
started? After I run:
Sounds like https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756547
Caused by the ifupdown hook /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server rapidly
restarting the ssh service (if you have multiple
On 28/08/14 14:32, AW wrote:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:15:10 +0200
B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote:
Treating sysV of overly complex against systemd is… quite intriguing
(to stay polite and avoid referring to brain and other things;)
All of the above is opinion, not source code based, and has
Yeahrp, def'nitely tha end of Debian!
It really is a sad, sad day.
None of:
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd
was in the slightest convincing ... barely even interesting.
Zennan
Thank you! Finally someone has bother to post a link to the whole
debate behind this. Apologies
On 15/08/14 19:08, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 8/15/2014 1:52 PM, Brian wrote:
On Fri 15 Aug 2014 at 09:28:42 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
Sometimes firefox doesn't really exit (despite all its windows being closed)
so when I say shutdown gnome pops up this dialog asking if I want to
shutdown
On 12/08/14 22:23, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 12 August 2014 17:53:19 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
But if the english meaning of the words give
exact this difference, so well. In my understanding there never was much of
a difference between halt and poweroff.
I'm not quite clear what you are
On 03/08/14 00:21, Joel Rees wrote:
Google has too much money and is out of control.
The NSA has too much money and is out of our control.
I find it interesting that you feel more in control of a privately
funded corporation than a legitimate arm of a sovereign government. It
is obvious
Hello debian people
I am trying to install jessie into a vm, using a netboot. The
installer complains about not being able to find modules for the running
kernel. I downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd from the following directory
from the mirror I am trying to install from:
On 14/06/14 13:57, Brian wrote:
On Sat 14 Jun 2014 at 11:50:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote:
Can you categorically state what _are_ the preseed options for the
openssh-server package? I can find 4:
The ones you listed below are for a fresh install of Wheezy. Jessie is
different. This output
snip
To date I haven't been able to find documented lists of preseeds
anywhere, except for the standard debian installer values given in
You haven't looked hard enough.
Debian's and Ubuntu's example preseed files. I found this preseed option
in forum postings somewhere.
Which preseed option?
snip
Hi Iain,
I removed all the partman related lines and created a new preseed
file. It works now on vm but has issue with baremetal for which i'll
start a new thread. This is my complete preseed file for reference -
http://paste.debian.net/88147/
Cheers,
Sandeep.
I think it was
Hi Sandeep
I think you are missing a section to describe the LVM volume group
you want to create. This one works for me:
100 1000 10 ext3 \
$defaultignore{ } \
$primary{ } \
On 25/01/14 19:09, Garry wrote:
I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my house. I have
everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one setup successfully about
a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure out how I did it.
There's only two email addresses I would
snip
A lot of Linux geeks spent a lot of time worrying about Microsoft's
desktop dominance over those years. I would often hear people claim
that Linux had to get on to the desktop *now* (1999, 2004, 2007, etc)
or it would be locked out *forever*.
I concluded some time in the late 90s
On 12/12/13 08:20, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Iain M Conochie writes:
On 11/12/13 08:01, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Encrypt your hard disk.
Hoping that the encryption you use has no backdoor.
You do understand what the peer review process is right?
I got it about 20 years ago
On 12/12/13 11:43, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Iain M Conochie writes:
I got it about 20 years ago. Is it enough?
Mayeb - just maybe ;)
Indeed, never be sure! :)
You say it. It is not bullet proof. The bullet has already pierced the
target once. Therefore it may happen again
On 11/12/13 08:01, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Encrypt your hard disk.
Hoping that the encryption you use has no backdoor.
You do understand what the peer review process is right? Although not a
magic bullet, it can help weed this out.
Choose a *very* good password.
For the encryption, I
On 10/12/13 16:56, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
snip
Physical security is indeed an issue. When attackers can put their
greedy hands on a computer there is nothing to stop them :)
Encrypt your hard disk. Choose a *very* good password. That will slow
them down, if not halt them. But it depends on
Does the daemon allow dropping privileges? If not, then it will bot be able to
bind to a port below 1024.
This option does not seem to be available in dhcpd
Cheers
Iain
Andrew Wood and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk wrote:
On 28/08/13 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Reading through the bug report,
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 17:30 +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote:
Hi,
I've setup and environment to automatically install some Debian boxes
via the network using PXE, TFTP and Preseed. If this part is working
fine, I'm facing a little issue when the installation is done.
I'm trying to make
You also have a default file in your pxelinux.cfg file with the
following in it:
This should read pxelinux.cfg Directory not file. And the default file
is called default
Ta
Iain
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Good evening people,
I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot partition.
When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to ask if I
wish to continue as I have no /boot partition. I answere yes (twice!) and the
installation continues. I can boot the
Thanks Brian. I will check this out and report back.
Cheers
Iain
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Thu 20 Jun 2013 at 21:58:36 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote:
I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot
partition.
When partman runs, it creates recognises
On Friday 21 Jun 2013 11:45:04 Tom H wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie i...@shihad.org wrote:
I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot
partition.
When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to
ask if I
wish
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