Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:53:48 +, Mick wrote: I did not yet try deleting akonadi db and nepomuk and trying re-importing everything. I'm not sure if it is even worth it to bother with KDE anymore. You'd get rid of the whole of KDE just because the mail client sucks? You know, you can run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:20:06AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:53:48 +, Mick wrote: I did not yet try deleting akonadi db and nepomuk and trying re-importing everything. I'm not sure if it is even worth it to bother with KDE anymore. You'd get rid of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user whose password is know to you. Afterwards you can log in an change the password again. Thanks, I like that better and it worked like a charm,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Jan 11, 2012 5:57 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user whose password is know to you. Afterwards you can log in an change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 7:35 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: While booting, pass init=/bin/bash in the kernel command line I did... otherwise, it still requires you to know the password... ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user whose password is know to you. Afterwards you can log in an

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 9:16 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the username/password for me (if it is a web login page), but doesn't store any password

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 11:27 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the username/password for me (if

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the username/password

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:35:57 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: So it stores the data and method needed to recreate the password, same thing. Or does it not store the username, in which case you have to use the same username everywhere? It would be easier for you to understand how it works if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:27 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 11:36 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Most of my passwords are some hash[1] of a common passcode[2] and some site-specific or service-specific mnemonic. I imagine this would work similarly, using the absolute URL in place of a mnemonic. The downside would be if the server

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer something that doesn't store the passwords anywhere, ever... These things sure beat trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:36 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Most of my passwords are some hash[1] of a common passcode[2] and some site-specific or service-specific mnemonic. I imagine this would work similarly, using the absolute URL in place of a mnemonic. The downside

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer something that doesn't store the passwords anywhere, ever... I have to many

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 1:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer something that doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: These things sure beat trying to remember a really strong password. My bank and credit card passwords are off the chart. Yeah, but what about those moron banks that only allow you to use lowercase letters - and

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 1:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-11 9:16 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 3:56 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: http://passwordmaker.org/ I haven't read the site yet, but just on the basis of your description, all I'm seeing is a teeny-weeny amount of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 12:14:18 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:20:06AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:53:48 +, Mick wrote: I did not yet try deleting akonadi db and nepomuk and trying re-importing everything. I'm not sure if it is even

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:41 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-11 3:56 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: http://passwordmaker.org/ I haven't read the site yet, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tamer Higazi
I tell you the right way todo it. Make it easy as possible, not so difficult like the others in the thread! Download system rescuecd (which is a nice gentoo system with lots of beautiful tools running out of the box): http://www.sysresccd.org/Download download, burn and boot from the cd. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The site doesn't say much. It has one page, no internal links (quite a few external ones) and a single link to an image. Weird... the wiki tree is gone... there are a *ton* of pages there, I'll have to poke the maintainers...

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:41 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-11 3:56 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: http://passwordmaker.org/ I haven't read

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 5:05 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Actually, it does, and once the site is back up I'll post here and you can go read all about it... Even weirder... The menu tree is actually still there, but it is displayed way down the page, so something definitely is

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a mentalist will presume you're thinking about '7', your average demographic would probably draw from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:05:28 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-11 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The site doesn't say much. It has one page, no internal links (quite a few external ones) and a single link to an image. Weird... the wiki tree

RE: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:48 PM On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.01.2012 00:09, Mike Edenfield wrote: From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:48 PM On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seriously unconvinced that

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 Michael Molmike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a mentalist will presume you're thinking about '7', your average demographic would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 21:41:47 Mick wrote: My wife uses the full KDE and I'll have to break the news to her that Kmail which she prefers to T'bird may no longer be usable. I do hope things improve with Kmail. Me too. At least in the meantime you can put a set of atoms into

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:48:50 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: On a security related question. Why does so many people have their facebook accounts and other similar sites hacked? Do hackers just guess their passwords or do they break into the websites? I have facebook, myspace,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:40 -0500 Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: I agree. Longer pass{words,phrases} only increases the difficulty of the problem, but not significantly so. After I read the aforementioned xkcd comic, my main question was how he defined the various bits of

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-11 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2012 21:45:21 Jeff Cranmer wrote: Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even after setting these, I'm still getting this error. I'm adding all the device drivers as modules

[gentoo-user] Re: Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread walt
On 01/11/2012 02:05 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The site doesn't say much. It has one page, no internal links (quite a few external ones) and a single link to an image. Weird... the wiki tree is gone... there are a *ton* of pages

[gentoo-user] Re: removal of esound

2012-01-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: I may take it upstream to mozilla.org. No need for that. I just heard the notification sound with the new build of SM. :) Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)

[gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the occasional tarball and download it, and have used tar+ssh to restore, but that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-11 Thread tlze
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create