> No, it's my way to run things as root, in general. I distrust su, sudo
> and friends.
>
su is mature, well understood and the standard way of doing things. If you
had run an extra term in your X session that had been su'd to root, you
wouldn't be exposing a root shell at the console. Perhaps
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:30 AM Laurence Perkins
wrote:
> When the security auditors come through and ask what standard I use for
> securing my systems I'd like to have something to tell them.
>
> I've had a few suggestions like USGCB, etc. But looking at them they
> all seem to start from the
A wrapper script like this seems to do the trick.
#!/bin/bash
setxkbmap -option srvrkeys:none
i3lock -c 003355 -n
setxkbmap -option ''
Artur
Ian Zimmerman writes:
On 2019-07-10 20:44, François-Xavier CARTON wrote:
> On 7/10/19 7:03 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > Here is my next "low
When the security auditors come through and ask what standard I use for
securing my systems I'd like to have something to tell them.
I've had a few suggestions like USGCB, etc. But looking at them they
all seem to start from the direction of "take a bloated, wide-open
Microsoft/Redhat default OS
I guess you are using xorg. man xorg says that there is an option in
serverflags section which disables this functionality.
Option "DontVTSwitch" "boolean"
So you could add a section into xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d/
Artur
Ian Zimmerman writes:
On 2019-07-10 20:44, François-Xavier CARTON
On 2019-07-10 20:44, François-Xavier CARTON wrote:
> On 7/10/19 7:03 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > Here is my next "low information" question, haha.
> >
> > I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays
> > no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured
On 2019-07-10 15:23, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:03:42AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > Here is my next "low information" question, haha.
> >
> > I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays
> > no movies or games, just blanks the screen with
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, at 19:04, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Here is my next "low information" question, haha.
>
> I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays
> no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or
> image. To unlock it you have to type your
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:23:08 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>
> > Which init are you using, what display manager, and how are you
> > launching it? I'm using systemd and sddm, and when I run `i3lock', I
> > cannot switch to
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:23:08 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> > It bothers me that even when i3lock has locked the X session, I can
> > still switch to other Linux virtual consoles with Alt-Control-F ,
> > without typing the password. It so happens that on one of the other
> > virtual consoles
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Alt-Control-R should switch between normal rendering and Reader mode.
> All the documentation available including the "tooltip" that pops up
> when I hover my mouse over the Reader icon agrees.
>
> And yet, in the File menu, there is an item "Restart (Developer)" with
> the
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:03:42AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Here is my next "low information" question, haha.
>
> I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays
> no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or
> image. To unlock it you have to
On 7/10/19 7:03 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Here is my next "low information" question, haha.
I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays
no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or
image. To unlock it you have to type your password.
It
Alt-Control-R should switch between normal rendering and Reader mode.
All the documentation available including the "tooltip" that pops up
when I hover my mouse over the Reader icon agrees.
And yet, in the File menu, there is an item "Restart (Developer)" with
the same shortcut. And when I in
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:31:19 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:06:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:06:43 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> > > > I've just tried upgrading mariadb again while watching it, and got
> > > > similar
> > > > results. I
Here is my next "low information" question, haha.
I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays
no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or
image. To unlock it you have to type your password.
It bothers me that even when i3lock has locked the
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:10 PM Andrew Lowe wrote:
>
> * ACCESS DENIED: open_wr: /dev/snd/controlC0
> * ACCESS DENIED: open_wr: /dev/snd/controlC0
This has nothing to do with permissions, and everything to do with the sandbox.
Most emerge phases are sandboxed. This uses
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:06:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:06:43 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> > > I've just tried upgrading mariadb again while watching it, and got
> > > similar
> > > results. I did notice that an error notice came up about being unable to
> > >
Hello,
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> If I log in as my usual user, alsaplayer will run the song. If I then
> "su"
>into root, I'm in wheel, alsaplayer will play the song. The problem is that
>when the emerge runs, then fails, alsaplayer can't appear to fire up. When an
>emerge
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:10:52 BST Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> This all happens on an up to date openrc machine with the profile
> default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma
>
> I've added a few hooks to the emerge process via the bashrc that is
in
> /etc/portage. One of the things
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:06:43 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> > I've just tried upgrading mariadb again while watching it, and got similar
> > results. I did notice that an error notice came up about being unable to
> > store
> > a message received via POP3, which is my main incoming source. I
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