Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-20 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 14:57 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I've got a Gentoo image running in Linode without any problem. > > I'm fairly certain that they offer Gentoo as an option when creating > the VPS.  It's been too long and I've messed with too many things > since then. They do. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:05 PM Daniel Frey wrote: > > They don't even need to defeat a password. If they have root, it's > trivial to unlock a locked session without knowing the password - just FYI. > ... > The screen locks in linux are security by obscurity, if something is > that sensitive,

Re: [gentoo-user] wifi networks not seen by networkmanager

2022-03-20 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 14:47, MK wrote: > Thu Mar 17 09:30:09 2022 >>> net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.10-r1 is > more-than-likely the problem. I had the same issue yesterday and eventually > switched to iwd. There's also this thread in the forums regarding the same > issue: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-03-19 01:03, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been thinking.  Yea, that's dangerous.  lol  If I logout of KDE, or have the screen locked, ctrl+alt=L key sequence, how secure is that if I have good passwords that are virtually impossible to crack?  My login manager is sddm.  As a example, if someone