Re: 6.9 and (EFI/blackscreen) and UKC

2021-02-11 Thread Sven F.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 5:12 PM wrote: > > Having the same issue, since about a year ago > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs=160575016004118=2 > I do not see the model of the graphic card in your dmesg ? mine is HD 5500 I know HD630 is working way better, i tried to look at patches around

Re: home printer

2021-02-11 Thread Greg Thomas
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 4:15 AM Stuart Longland wrote: > > Maybe the imaging drum on your laser has an imperfection that means it > attracts proportionately more or less toner at a certain spot than other > areas of the drum. > > Hah, yeah, my old Brother 5250 lays down 3 blobs on every 8 1/2 x

Re: 6.9 and (EFI/blackscreen) and UKC

2021-02-11 Thread jpegbild
Having the same issue, since about a year ago https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs=160575016004118=2 February 11, 2021 6:39 PM, "Sven F." wrote: > Dear readers, > > Following some advice, > i am trying to > > boot> boot -c > UKC> disable inteldrm > UKC> quit > > on 6.9 - beta that was

Re: Bootloader on USB stick fails with "root device not found"

2021-02-11 Thread tetrahedra
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:06:37PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 11:47:04AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: In general, crypto softraid volumes don't auto-assemble. I forgot that softraid volumes that use a key disk instead of a passphrase will auto-assemble. Have you

Re: Bootloader on USB stick fails with "root device not found"

2021-02-11 Thread tetrahedra
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:59:12PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:00:33PM +, Frank Beuth wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:50:39PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > The idea of protecting key disks with a passphrase (two-factor auth) has > been raised before. It has

Re: pkg_add and an authenticating proxy

2021-02-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021-02-11, Stephan Mending wrote: > I'm a dork. I actually tried that but forgot to set "keepenv" in doas.conf. :| This is fairly recent, jca fixed ftp to do http over an authenticated proxy last year

Re: OpenBSD and Shells.com

2021-02-11 Thread Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
On Thu, Feb 11, 20210.00 at 4:00 PM Alex Lee wrote: > Just wanted to check in on this one and see if there was a chance to chat. > Thanks! > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 3:07 PM Alex Lee wrote: > > > Hi! My name is Alex Lee, and I am hoping that we can partner with > > OpenBSD. We offer virtual

Re: OpenBSD and Shells.com

2021-02-11 Thread Alex Lee
Just wanted to check in on this one and see if there was a chance to chat. Thanks! On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 3:07 PM Alex Lee wrote: > Hi! My name is Alex Lee, and I am hoping that we can partner with > OpenBSD. We offer virtual cloud computers that can be accessed from any > web enabled

Re: pkg_add and an authenticating proxy

2021-02-11 Thread Stephan Mending
I'm a dork. I actually tried that but forgot to set "keepenv" in doas.conf. :| Thank you anyway for pointing me at it ! Best regards ! On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 05:03:59PM -0300, Fabio Martins wrote: > > Works here for me: > > export http_proxy="http://user:password@127.0.0.1:/; && pkg_add

Re: pkg_add and an authenticating proxy

2021-02-11 Thread Fabio Martins
Works here for me: export http_proxy="http://user:password@127.0.0.1:/; && pkg_add -nu > Hi, > I was wondering if there was any way on how to allow pkg_add to use an > authenticating http-proxy ? Unluckily I cannot > find any documentation on the matter. > > Thanks alot so far. > > Best

Re: Bootloader on USB stick fails with "root device not found"

2021-02-11 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:56:40PM +, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:06:37PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 11:47:04AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > In general, crypto softraid volumes don't auto-assemble. > > > > I forgot that

6.9 and (EFI/blackscreen) and UKC

2021-02-11 Thread Sven F.
Dear readers, Following some advice, i am trying to boot> boot -c UKC> disable inteldrm UKC> quit on 6.9 - beta that was advertised for testing. I have an error : `kbc: cmd word write error` and I cannot enter anything in UKC prompt It s quite problematic and overall disabling driver is

Re: home printer

2021-02-11 Thread ropers
Thanks for the kind words, everyone. [more words below] On 11/02/2021, Stuart Longland wrote: > The thing is… the printer is an electro-*mechanical* device. > > There's backlash, there's timing glitches. Even *without* deliberate > "steganography" (are Stegosauruses involved?), your print-out

Dropping privileges and execve CAVEAT

2021-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If rather than setuid, a root process calls setgroups(1000) setresgid(1000, 1000, 1000) setresuid(1000, 1000, 1000) Is there anything to worry about in regard to the caveat in execve(2)? "If a program is setuid to a non-superuser, but is executed when the real uid is "root", then the process has

Re: home printer

2021-02-11 Thread Austin Hook
Good, that means we can encourage attention to the principle of the matter, and not have to worry about all the practical considerations. The principle of the matter is that it is a corrupt practice, if not specifically admited in the documentation and sales material. Each principle we

Re: home printer

2021-02-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 11/2/21 10:12 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > These are real-world devices, with real-world tolerances, and real-world > imperfections. If someone wants to track you, they will, stenography or > not. s/stenography/steganography/… time for the email client dictionary to learn a new word methinks,

Re: home printer

2021-02-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 11/2/21 2:52 am, ropers wrote: > Printer steganography is the kind of chain most people will only > notice once they move and start exercising their rights. If you're > only free because you don't dissent, you're not free. The thing is… the printer is an electro-*mechanical* device. There's

USB device getting disabled

2021-02-11 Thread Parodper
Hello, This is a new install. xenodm starts fine, but the USB mouse doesn't work. Looking at the dmesg I can see that some USB ports (I guess the ones connected?) are disabled because of "problems": uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: apic 2 int 21 uhci1 at