Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-13 Thread Tito via Dng
On 2/14/20 3:37 AM, Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote: Does this help? You've probably seen this already. https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/gksu-is-dead-long-live-pkexec/ https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/0.105/pkexec.1.html On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:28 PM Gastón via Dng

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-13 Thread Ozi Traveller via Dng
Does this help? You've probably seen this already. https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/gksu-is-dead-long-live-pkexec/ https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/0.105/pkexec.1.html On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:28 PM Gastón via Dng wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:16:58PM

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-13 Thread Gastón via Dng
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:16:58PM -0800, tom wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 16:50:15 + > Mark Hindley wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan? > > > > > > After

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] [PATCH] (security) launcher: don't attempt to execute arbitrary binaries

2020-02-13 Thread tom
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:27:40 +0100 Evilham via Dng wrote: > Hello Enrico, > > On dt., gen. 07 2020, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > What might supposed to be convenience functionality, poses a > > real-life > > security threat: > > > > A user can be tricked be tricked to download malicious code,

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-13 Thread tom
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 16:50:15 + Mark Hindley wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan? > > > > After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try to install it, > > it says it

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-13 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
13/02/2020 19:33:27 +1100 Ralph Ronnquist : > Traversing / directly like that is not a good idea. Rather do: > > # mount -obind / /mnt > # du -sh /mnt/* > > so that you traverse the root file system without traversing all special > mounts (/proc, /sys etc) > > Thenn you'll do > # umount /mnt

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:26:23 + Owen wrote: > Hi, > > looking to get away from systemd, I'm moving from Ubuntu to Devuan > (ascii). > > The system was installed 10 days ago, all went well and updates and > additional pgograms installed well unyil today . . . > > The / partition was set as

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-13 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Traversing / directly like that is not a good idea. Rather do: # mount -obind / /mnt # du -sh /mnt/* so that you traverse the root file system without traversing all special mounts (/proc, /sys etc) Thenn you'll do # umount /mnt to release the bind mount Ralph. Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote on