Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread emetib
> > Sorry, you have to stop this. Now! > > I thought that to be a basic manner as the original questioner. > Why do you think isn't that good? > Everybody else, how do you think? he's saying don't change 4 things at once. change one, test change another, test that's how you trouble shoot

Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt partitions on boot

2016-12-07 Thread Ken Heard
In my Wheezy box I have two encrypted hard drive partitions, /dev/mapper/md07_crypt for /home and /dev/mapper/md05_crypt for /mnt. (Mnt is no longer used. That partition was originally for /tmp; in a weak moment I persuaded myself that I needed to encrypt /tmp. I have since changed the mount po

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
2016-12-08 1:07 GMT+09:00 Henning Follmann : >> > Thank you for your reply, Andy. >> > > Please be so nice and trim your post to be meaningful and concise. Don't > just slapp something on the top. 2016-12-08 3:23 GMT+09:00 Henning Follmann : >> Thank you for the quick response, Henning. >> > > Sor

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
Hi, 2016-12-08 5:25 GMT+09:00 Brian : > Random script kiddy attacks are of absolutely no consequence. Annoying > perhaps, but no threat whatsoever. In terms of security, changing the > port number for ssh does bugger all. What security risk can changing the port number for ssh cause? Cheers, Een

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
Hi, 2016-12-08 2:52 GMT+09:00 Greg Wooledge : > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:37:09AM +0900, EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: >> $ ls -ls /home/testac/.ssh >> total 12 >> 4 -rwx-- 1 u1 u1 776 Dec 8 11:05 authorized_keys >> 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 u1 u1 388 Dec 6 11:57 id_rsa_test.pub >> 4 -rwx-- 1 u1 u1 444

Ice dove and calendars?

2016-12-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey folks, I’m having a devil of a time syncing my Icedove calendar (lightning); to google calendar. I’m aware of the google calendar provider, and have it installed. For my personal google account, sync is non-functional: some items edited in Icedove eventually to the google calendar web clie

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-12-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 07 December 2016 14:55:40 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-10-13 00:09:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 07 October 2016 15:43:17 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >

Re: non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Steve Greig
Thanks for your help. Responses to your suggestions are given below. Ben Finney: Detect network hardware. Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy. The missing firmware files are: b43/ucode15.fw b

Re: default "Default-Release" for APT

2016-12-07 Thread Martin T
Hi, as I showed in my initial post, I don't have that file: # ls -l /etc/apt/apt.conf ls: cannot access /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory # That's what made me wondering what is the default release if "APT::Default-Release" is not configured and based on what this default release is d

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Reco
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:54:46 -0500 Henning Follmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:14:51 +0200 > > Antti Talsta wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > Changing the p

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Reco
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 22:46:16 +0200 Antti Talsta wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > How fail2ban can help against an army of bots trying one single > > password per bot? > > It doesn't. My point exactly. Using sshd on non-standard port does, as bots are too stup

Re: non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Steve Greig wrote: > When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines > laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the The output of "lspci" and cat "/proc/cpuinfo" would tell us a lot more. I don't recall the name of the hard

Re: default "Default-Release" for APT

2016-12-07 Thread maderios
On 12/07/2016 07:26 PM, Martin T wrote: Hi, I read the apt_preferences man page and it says that "To configure the default release in the configuration file, use: APT::Default-Release "stable";". While I have multiple distributions in sources.list file(stable, testing, unstable, jessie-backports

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-12-07 Thread Doug
On 11/30/2016 09:57 AM, do...@mail.com wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:34:03 -0500 Jape Person wrote: Hi. I'm getting ready to replace all of our old equipment that has been used for well over a decade in our home network. I decided to try to do everything with FOSS -- open source Luxul router

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Antti Talsta
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: > How fail2ban can help against an army of bots trying one single > password per bot? It doesn't. -- Antti Talsta signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:14:51 +0200 > Antti Talsta wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > Changing the port at least decreases the number of brute force attacks > > > against you,

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:14:51 +0200 Antti Talsta wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Changing the port at least decreases the number of brute force attacks > > against you, which saves resources (bandwidth, CPU) that are otherwise > > wasted b

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Brian
On Wed 07 Dec 2016 at 13:49:34 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:23:23PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > > Also changing the port to a nonstandard port is not a safety measure. Not a > > reasonable at least. Unless there is some sane reason (like the network > > operator pr

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Antti Talsta
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Changing the port at least decreases the number of brute force attacks > against you, which saves resources (bandwidth, CPU) that are otherwise > wasted by the attackers. How about fail2ban for that? -- Antti Talsta signature.as

Re: "command not found"

2016-12-07 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 07:33:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 06 December 2016 17:26:55 Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > It may be an ownership problem if you have the fetchmail package > > installed on your system. The .fetchmailrc file may be in your > > account but that doesn't necessar

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:23:23PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > > Also changing the port to a nonstandard port is not a safety measure. Not a > > reasonable at least. Unless there is some sane reason (like the network > > operator

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread emetib
On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 11:40:04 AM UTC-6, EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > > $ ls -ls /home/testac/.ssh > total 12 > 4 -rwx-- 1 u1 u1 776 Dec  8 11:05 authorized_keys > 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 u1 u1 388 Dec  6 11:57 id_rsa_test.pub > 4 -rwx-- 1 u1 u1 444 Dec  6 20:46 known_hosts > check the pe

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:23:23PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > Also changing the port to a nonstandard port is not a safety measure. Not a > reasonable at least. Unless there is some sane reason (like the network > operator prevents using port 22) keep it! I disagree with this. Changing the

default "Default-Release" for APT

2016-12-07 Thread Martin T
Hi, I read the apt_preferences man page and it says that "To configure the default release in the configuration file, use: APT::Default-Release "stable";". While I have multiple distributions in sources.list file(stable, testing, unstable, jessie-backports), then I don't have the "Default-Release"

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:37:09AM +0900, EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > Thank you for the quick response, Henning. > Sorry, you have to stop this. Now! I think it is great that you want to learn how to use ssh. It is an important skill for admins and users. However you are approaching it the wrong way

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:37:09AM +0900, EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > $ ls -ls /home/testac/.ssh > total 12 > 4 -rwx-- 1 u1 u1 776 Dec 8 11:05 authorized_keys > 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 u1 u1 388 Dec 6 11:57 id_rsa_test.pub > 4 -rwx-- 1 u1 u1 444 Dec 6 20:46 known_hosts Which machine is that -- the

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
Thank you for the quick response, Henning. 2016-12-08 1:07 GMT+09:00 Henning Follmann : > Please revert to your original configs. Key login works be default and > requires no change. By reverting to my original configs : PasswordAuthentication yes I was able to ssh. $ ssh -p testac@192.168.

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

2016-12-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Dec 2016 at 23:09:59 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 12/06/2016 09:26 PM, Brian wrote: > > That all said: I'm not a huge fan of NetworkManager, I think > some aspects of it are not well enough thought out to my > taste - but it does it's job in the case of WiFi, and it does > it wel

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 12:27:53AM +0900, EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: > Thank you for your reply, Andy. > Please be so nice and trim your post to be meaningful and concise. Don't just slapp something on the top. > ufw was enabled on the server machine. > Because I don't have enough knoledge about ip

Re: non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi, > I would appreciate any advice on this. Is it possible to run a test > to see what that software was and install it now. Although I would > prefer not have any non-free software I would have it if it was > something quite important such as controlling the fan. As said Santiago Vila, it is pr

Re: ssh doesn't work.

2016-12-07 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
Thank you for your reply, Andy. ufw was enabled on the server machine. Because I don't have enough knoledge about iptables, I did $ sudo ufw allow proto tcp from 192.168.0.3 to any port on the server machine. Then I successfully connected from the client machine by ssh. And next I want to do

Re: non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:11:29AM +, Steve Greig wrote: > When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines > laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the > software were given although I did not record the names. I decided to go > ahead witho

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-12-07 Thread Jape Person
On 12/07/2016 02:52 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 07/12/16 14:42, Jape Person wrote: I'll never forget hearing someone trying to prop an early version of Netscape up by saying that it was a good browser *because* it failed on badly written pages. It shouldn't crash, of course, but I think the w

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-12-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-10-13 00:09:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 07 October 2016 15:43:17 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > my position remains the same: > > > > aptitude is poorly designed.

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

2016-12-07 Thread maderios
On 12/07/2016 12:45 AM, Martin T wrote: Hi, what are advantages of using Debian "backports"("jessie-backports" in sources.list file) over "testing"("testing" in sources.list file)? As Hi You can't compare, they are completely different. Backport packages have stable/Jessie compatibility. Test

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

2016-12-07 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 07, 2016 08:25:17 AM Martin T wrote: > > On the other hand, upgrade your webserver to a backports version, > > and the webserver has been compiled against the libs you already have. > > thanks! Is this also one of the reasons why not all packages in > testing are available v

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

2016-12-07 Thread Martin T
Understood. Thanks! Martin On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:25:17PM +0200, Martin T wrote: >> Dan, >> >> > On the other hand, upgrade your webserver to a backports version, >> > and the webserver has been compiled against the libs you already hav

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

2016-12-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:25:17PM +0200, Martin T wrote: > Dan, > > > On the other hand, upgrade your webserver to a backports version, > > and the webserver has been compiled against the libs you already have. > > thanks! Is this also one of the reasons why not all packages in > testing are ava

Re: WiFi after initial install

2016-12-07 Thread Brian
On Wed 07 Dec 2016 at 07:28:24 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 03:10:41PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 07:25:47PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > [Assessement of three options snipped]. > > > > > > As a matter of interest - why was connman written

Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?

2016-12-07 Thread Martin T
Dan, > On the other hand, upgrade your webserver to a backports version, > and the webserver has been compiled against the libs you already have. thanks! Is this also one of the reasons why not all packages in testing are available via backports? I mean I could imagine that there are packages whi

Re: "command not found"

2016-12-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 08:17:44AM +, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:21:23 -0700 > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > I've run across this a number of times in the past, but it's usually a > > permissions problem, easily fixed. Not this time. > > > > holtzm@localhost:~$ ls -l .fetchmail > > -rwx-

Re: non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Greig writes: > When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines > laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the > software were given although I did not record the names. That's important information. Could you try running the installer a

non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Steve Greig
When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the software were given although I did not record the names. I decided to go ahead without the non-free software as I would have needed it on a media and I h

Re: can't install spotify in debian stretch

2016-12-07 Thread Frank Weißer
Hi Bart, just tried and instruction for stretch work fine for me. Maybe you copyed/pasted something like a cr/lf when trying ? The key seems to be wrapped. Am 06.12.2016 um 22:44 schrieb Bart Vliegen: > Executing: /tmp/tmp.WpSOFxxCW4/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkp://pool.sks- > keyservers.net --recv-

Re: "command not found"

2016-12-07 Thread Joe
On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:21:23 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > I've run across this a number of times in the past, but it's usually a > permissions problem, easily fixed. Not this time. > > holtzm@localhost:~$ ls -l .fetchmail > -rwx-- 1 holtzm holtzm 365 Nov 26 14:05 .fetchmail > > Sure looks lik