Re: How to gain control over the system?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 09:42:46AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: [...] > I use a laptop but I've never needed to ssh into a laptop computer. > Also, if you want to set up ssh, add ssh client and set up your user > (sudo enabled) account and random obscure

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 07/12/2017 09:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [snip] I've been following this back-and-forth for a while. Yes, I think it's a good idea to use the root account as little as possible. Myself, I use sudo in the overwhelming majority of cases. But I learnt the hard way that sometimes it's a

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Thu 13 Jul 2017 at 15:11:59 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:34:39PM +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > > [...] > > [added cc debian-user] > > > Can you have this defined from /etc/fstab too? I have had no success > > in that. > > This line in the fstab works for me

Re: How to gain control over the system?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 08:12:46AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > > UTC Time: July 13, 2017 11:13 AM > > From: to...@tuxteam.de > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at

Re: How to gain control over the system?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:34:39PM +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: [...] [added cc debian-user] > Can you have this defined from /etc/fstab too? I have had no success > in that. This line in the fstab works for me (note: no systemd here; systemd is

Re: How to gain control over the system?

> UTC Time: July 13, 2017 11:13 AM > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:08:27PM +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > [...] >> As always only root can mount a file system. In the case vfat, which >> does

Re: How to gain control over the system?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:08:27PM +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: [...] > As always only root can mount a file system. In the case vfat, which > does not have an access system by its own, the owner of the mounted > system will be root. As a hint (I'm

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 2017-07-12 at 03:49, Felix Miata wrote: Kaj Persson composed on 2017-07-11 22:29 (UTC+0200): ... ls -Al /home: drwxr-xr-x 39 kaj kaj 16384 jul 11 17:23 kaj OK... and from the command tree -qpadxugL 2 /home: /home ... │ ├── [drwxrwx--- root kaj ] DATA ... │ ├──

Re: How to gain control over the system?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:30:12AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: [...] > To remove the root password so root can't log in again: > > sudo passwd -l root I've been following this back-and-forth for a while. Yes, I think it's a good idea to use the root

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 07/09/2017 06:11 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: Hi Jimmy, Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a password. So, against my real whish, not to activate the root account, I gave the command

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:49:15PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Again: > > chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/ > > as root should fix them all. If it doesn't, chown would seem to be broken. Looks correct. > Maybe this in addition? > > chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/.* No, NOT correct. Do

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Kaj Persson composed on 2017-07-11 22:29 (UTC+0200): ... > ls -Al /home: > drwxr-xr-x 39 kaj kaj 16384 jul 11 17:23 kaj OK... > and from the command > tree -qpadxugL 2 /home: > /home ... > │ ├── [drwxrwx--- root kaj ] DATA ... > │ ├── [drwxrwx--- root kaj ] Hämtningar

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:54:21PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > $ find ~ -mount -not -group 1000 -exec ls -ld {} \; -o -not -user 1000 -exec > ls -ld {} \; find ~ -mount \( ! -group 1000 -o ! -user 1000 \) -ls (You could also use DeMorgan's laws to factor out the "!", but this way seems a

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Tue 11 Jul 2017 at 22:29:45 (+0200), Kaj Persson wrote: [...] > I see nothing which gives me an idea of what is wrong. Are there any > more files or directories to look at? In /etc perhaps? I don't know whether this would be useful, but # find / -mount -not -group 0 -exec ls -ld {} \; -o -not

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 2017-07-10 at 01:36, Felix Miata wrote: Kaj Persson composed on 2017-07-09 14:54 (UTC+0200): * Regarding access to my user directory: During my search I did in fact find some files and directories owned by user root or group root. These are changed to be owned by my user id and group id,

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 10-07-17, Kaj Persson wrote: > Hi Jimmy, > Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the > root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a > password. So, against my real whish, not to activate the root account, I > gave the command sudo

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Kaj Persson wrote: > Hi Jimmy, > Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the > root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a > password. So, against my real whish, not to activate

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Kaj Persson composed on 2017-07-09 14:54 (UTC+0200): > * Regarding access to my user directory: During my search I did in fact > find some files and directories owned by user root or group root. These > are changed to be owned by my user id and group id, but this did not > help. By the way, On

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 07/09/2017 03:11 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: Hi Jimmy, Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a password. So, against my real whish, not to activate the root account, I gave the command

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Hi Jimmy, Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a password. So, against my real whish, not to activate the root account, I gave the command sudo passwd root, and entered a password.

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Yes, a good try, but ... Owner and group for /home is root resp. root, and for /home/cookoo (to use your example) is the correct user name resp. group. I have also looked one level further, hence /home/cookoo/subdir/, and all directories on this level have the same ownership (=user name -

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 07/08/2017 02:57 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: Hi all, So can someone help me get the command back, or do I have to make a new reinstall, hoping for better luck. Possibly setting a password on the Admin, hence activating that account, which I would prefer not having to. Thank you in advance Kaj

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Well, as I wrote my /home is an own partition, and so it has been for a long time. So it is not a new copy but a new mount. Certainly it therefore contains old config files that maybe ought to be removed. But on the other hand almost all of them are reused, since many of them belong to

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Again, did you copy your /home from a previous system or is it a new configuration that locked your panels? > UTC Time: July 9, 2017 12:54 PM > From: 70147pers...@telia.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Thank you all for thoughts and viewpoints on what can be wrong in my > installation of

Re: How to gain control over the system? [a security-side-note]

On 09-07-17, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Sunday, 9 July 2017 14:54:02 -04 Kaj Persson wrote: > > > > * Configuring sudo? No I have not done that explicitly, not more than > > what the install program did itself. I have looked at /etc/sudoers and > > what I think the important lines are: > > > >

Re: How to gain control over the system? [a security-side-note]

On Sunday, 9 July 2017 14:54:02 -04 Kaj Persson wrote: > Thank you all for thoughts and viewpoints on what can be wrong in my > installation of Debian 9. I have looked through places I might expect > can contain some explanation, but so far I have not been able to exclaim > an "Ah, that's it!".

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Thank you all for thoughts and viewpoints on what can be wrong in my installation of Debian 9. I have looked through places I might expect can contain some explanation, but so far I have not been able to exclaim an "Ah, that's it!". Here are some of my observations: * First source of install:

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 07/09/2017 05:08 AM, Fungi4All wrote: From: david...@freevolt.org To: debian-user@lists.debian.org As they say[1],[2],[3], do not use a live image for installs. 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00723.html 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00740.html 3.

Re: How to gain control over the system?

> From: david...@freevolt.org > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > As they say[1],[2],[3], do not use a live image for installs. > 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00723.html > 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00740.html > 3.

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On 09-07-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > > > On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 23:57 +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > > > > > But now I discovered an issue, I cannot manage my desktop. I have > > > always at the previous installations,

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 23:57 +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > > > But now I discovered an issue, I cannot manage my desktop. I have > > always at the previous installations, and they are quite many now, been > > advised to,

Re: How to gain control over the system?

On Sat, 8 Jul 2017, Kaj Persson wrote: Hi all, Anyone having an idea how to get back the command over my desktop, including the panels? Until two weeks ago I ran Debian 8 ("jessie"), but after a unsuccessful clean-up operation the whole system became totally corrupted, and I decided to to a

Re: How to gain control over the system?

> From: oflam...@gmail.com > To: Kaj Persson <70147pers...@telia.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Did you remember to reconfigure sudo? What Desktop Environment are you > using? He said Mate > On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 23:57 +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: >> But now I discovered an issue, I cannot

Re: How to gain control over the system?

Did you remember to reconfigure sudo? What Desktop Environment are you using? On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 23:57 +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone having an idea how to get back the command over my desktop,  > including the panels? Until two weeks ago I ran Debian 8 ("jessie"), > but  >

How to gain control over the system?

Hi all, Anyone having an idea how to get back the command over my desktop, including the panels? Until two weeks ago I ran Debian 8 ("jessie"), but after a unsuccessful clean-up operation the whole system became totally corrupted, and I decided to to a complete new install of the new Debian