Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 15:49 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: deb file:/media/dvd-mountpoint1 wheezy main contrib ^^^

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 15:49 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: deb file:/media/dvd-mountpoint1 wheezy main contrib

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 16:47 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: root@Innovator:/home/# apt-get update Ign file: wheezy Release.gpg Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD #Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy Release.gpg Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I am still getting used to handling mailing list from Gmail. Pretty hard with the new ui of Gmail. Anyways tried genisoimage and it worked. The only problem was I needed to search what I wanted to download. Now I have to do the same with the other two dvds. And then I have to make a provision

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:14:47PM +0200, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, For some unknown reason I did not activate the root account during the installation. I activated it from a user account, say John Doe. Now John Doe can become root anytime and do anything on my machine. How can I

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/13, Anubhav Yadav anubhav1...@gmail.com wrote: Anyways tried genisoimage and it worked. The only problem was I needed to search what I wanted to download. Now I have to do the same with the other two dvds. And then I have to make a provision that these disks get auto mounted at

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 23:17 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: If you have no need for the images otherwise, a local mirror might be what you want? Eg using debmirror, apt-move etc. And this does work without downloading completely everything by the Internet ;)? IIUC the ISOs should be used to avoid

Wheezy NetInstall problem - modules.builtin.bin 0k size

2013-08-14 Thread RamShadow R
Hi, i try to install Wheezy with an netinstall USB Stick. Within the Installation i get ask for a CDROM but i have non. After switching to a shell i can see that there is no Module for the Network Card installed. I have added the non free Firmware files to the USB Stick. I can see the Card

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread François Patte
Le 14/08/2013 14:44, Darac Marjal a écrit : On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:14:47PM +0200, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, For some unknown reason I did not activate the root account during the installation. I activated it from a user account, say John Doe. Now John Doe can become root anytime

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 23:17 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: If you have no need for the images otherwise, a local mirror might be what you want? Eg using debmirror, apt-move etc. And this does work without downloading completely

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 14/08/13 15:30, François Patte wrote: Moeover, by default on my debian install, I could see that root login through ssh is allowed: is it really the default configuration? Yeap ! For details, read the subsection `PermitRootLogin set to yes' in the first section of

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2013 8:44 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: I believe the idea is to discourage people from logging in as root. You can't get rid of root completely (any user with an ID of 0 is root), nor would you want to. But there have been many a horror story of people logging in as a super-user (either Root

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Lars Noodén
On 14.08.2013 17:36, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I agree in principle that sudo is better then su. The problem I have with it is security; when you use sudo you type in your own password. So if your password is compromised, the hacker can do anything the sudo user can do - which may be very bad.

using bluetooth.

2013-08-14 Thread atar
Hi there!! I've tried to use the 'hciconfig' command to initialize my Bluetooth antenna but after the initialization process, when I have tried to connect to nearby Bluetooth devices with the 'bluetooth-wizard' frontend program, the program failed to paired to them nor to send them or

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
root usually does connect to the Internet too, e.g. to run apt, ntp, etc. pp., even the internet connection for the user has to be established by root, maybe not by a human being, but at least e.g. on startup automatically. You don't have to give a user special permissions, it's the admin's task

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:36 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: However, when I use su, I need to key in the root password before doing anything. This adds another layer of security to the system. He? Than configure sudo to ask for the password too. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo mcedit [sudo]

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2013 12:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:36 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: However, when I use su, I need to key in the root password before doing anything. This adds another layer of security to the system. He? Than configure sudo to ask for the password too.

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2013 10:40 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 14.08.2013 17:36, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I agree in principle that sudo is better then su. The problem I have with it is security; when you use sudo you type in your own password. So if your password is compromised, the hacker can do anything the sudo

Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I appreciate your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I surely do not wish to have my posts unanswered. Introduction - Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and styled email. This is the way my Thunderbird is set. Mail list requirements are the reverse as I well know. Therefore, I

Re: Migrating 32 - 64

2013-08-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 8/11/2013 4:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I recently went through the exercise of putting a GbE NIC into an old 32 bit x86 machine w/PCI only. The first card I purchased, a $10 USD TP-Link w/RTL8169, couldn't power on.

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Tom wrote: Itchy wrote: Scratchy wrote: I'm hungry. [snip] I'm too. Let's cook Tux under the grill. No, let's eat tofu. Regards, Jerry Explaination: First Tom wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too, while doing this Itchy snipped irrelevant content, since Tom also

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jerry wrote: No, let's eat tofu. Hi Jerry, does it mean that we should eat veggie, or is it some kind of figure of speech for being against tofu posting style? Ciao, Ralf PS: You might notice that the -sign is used no #--- or anything else, that it can be read from top to

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, sorry, too many cats and mice. Jerry wrote: Tom wrote: Itchy wrote: Scratchy wrote: I'm hungry. [snip] I'm too. Let's cook Tux under the grill. No, let's eat tofu. Regards, Jerry CORRECTIONS: First SCRATCHY wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too,

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Oops, sorry, too many cats and mice. Jerry wrote: Tom wrote: Itchy wrote: Scratchy wrote: I'm hungry. [snip] I'm too. Let's cook Tux under the grill. No, let's eat tofu. Regards, Jerry CORRECTIONS: First SCRATCHY wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too, while

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Ethan :) now I reply to my own mail and fake that I'm you. Btw. I'm sorry the signs of my example were written by hand and not done by the MUA reply option and so it seems not to work as expected. Your last mail shouldn't look like http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00503.html .

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Joe
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:21:43 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 8/14/2013 12:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:36 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: However, when I use su, I need to key in the root password before doing anything. This adds another layer of

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 00:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: if it is an official Debian image then there won't be non-free there since the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) do not allow nonfree. At least for the firmware there are packages:

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Anubhav Yadav wrote: Zenaan Harkness wrote: Anubhav Yadav wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: And if it is an official Debian image then there won't be non-free there since the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) do not allow nonfree. deb file:/media/dvd-mountpoint1 wheezy main

Re: Wheezy NetInstall problem - modules.builtin.bin 0k size

2013-08-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Aug 2013 at 15:23:02 +0200, RamShadow R wrote: i try to install Wheezy with an netinstall USB Stick. Within the Installation i get ask for a CDROM but i have non. At what point in the installation was this asked? What exactly was the wording? After switching to a shell i can see

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Darac Marjal wrote: I believe the idea is to discourage people from logging in as root. I think it is more one of trying to simplify things for the non-technical user. Having non-technical users deal with one password is hard. Having non-technical users deal with two

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 20:03 +0100, Joe wrote: it has the sudo advantages [snip] of being required for each command. That's not true and it would be a disadvantage. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su Password: [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# exit [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo -i [sudo] password for

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
An advantage of sudo: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -c mcedit /etc/fstab su: user /etc/fstab does not exist [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -c mcedit /etc/fstab Password: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo mcedit /etc/fstab [sudo] password for rocketmouse: If you work much with command line as user

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Klaus
On 14/08/13 18:30, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I still do not understand and really wish to be helpful. If you could actually edit my sample, it would be DEEPLY APPRECIATED. TIA Ethan Ethan There are several aspects to this, maybe it's worth going through them one by one (this list is

Re: can't apt-get update

2013-08-14 Thread John Akintayo
thanks it work From: Diogene Laerce me_buss...@yahoo.fr To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:04 AM Subject: Re: can't apt-get update Hi good day sir. i just installed debian wheezy kde from a live cd image. but any time

can't hibernate

2013-08-14 Thread John Akintayo
i can't hibernate with debian wheezy kde it shutsdown instead

need help on install android development environment

2013-08-14 Thread Long Wind
does wheezy meet requirement below? GNU C Library (glibc) 2.7 or later is required. does wheezy have Eclipse? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 15/08/13 01:30, François Patte wrote: I think that sudo system is less secure than the old system root account. 1) Anybody with sudo root permission (as it is the case for the first person using sudo after an installation) can do sudo bash and he can run as many commands as he wants as

Re: need help on install android development environment

2013-08-14 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Long Wind wrote: does wheezy meet requirement below? GNU C Library (glibc) 2.7 or later is required. does wheezy have Eclipse? You can install the Android development environment on wheezy. Debian is a fine development environment for Android (among other things).

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
It's working nicely (atleast for the first DVD). Now since I have added the entry in the fstab file, will it get auto mounted on startup?

Re: need help on install android development environment

2013-08-14 Thread Long Wind
Thanks for your detailed help! I will try it without Eclipse. PS: Your email address looks pretty distinguished to me. On 8/14/13, Steve Witt saw...@ieee.org wrote: You can install the Android development environment on wheezy. Debian is a fine development environment for Android (among

Re: lpq versus lpstat

2013-08-14 Thread plaater
Opgelost, Op 28 juli 2013 22:36 schreef Geert Stappers stapp...@stappers.nl: Knip Tip: bij het opnieuw aanmaken van de printer _niet_ in de verleiding komen om dan de voorkeur te volgen van een programmatje, maak zelf de keuze. Als ik deze thread goed gevolg heb, dan werkt

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