Re: [qubes-users] Disk image backup - dd / partclone / clonezilla?

2020-02-11 Thread Chris Laprise
ned partitions, which will probably make it into a future release). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qub

Re: [qubes-users] Using Single External Storage Device with Multiple VMs

2020-02-03 Thread Chris Laprise
On 2/2/20 3:20 AM, David Hobach wrote: On 2/2/20 12:40 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: On 2/1/20 4:12 PM, curiouscuri...@mailbox.org wrote: To remain secure, must one use a different external storage devices per VM / security domain? Can one use a single external storage devices to store files from

Re: [qubes-users] Using Single External Storage Device with Multiple VMs

2020-02-01 Thread Chris Laprise
just want to move some files between multiple VMs and an external device. I have read the documentation and searched the list but feel like I'm missing something. Many thanks in advance. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E

Re: [qubes-users] Can a compromised AppVM be made trustworthy by truncating its private volume?

2020-01-25 Thread Chris Laprise
to persist on startup. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubs

Re: [qubes-users] feature request

2020-01-25 Thread Chris Laprise
f all your templates. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [qubes-users] debian-10-minimal template sudo

2020-01-22 Thread Chris Laprise
a regular template, or you could do what I prefer and tie sudo to a dom0 yes/no prompt: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vm-sudo/#replacing-passwordless-root-access-with-dom0-user-prompt -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E

Re: [qubes-users] Choosing a TemplateOS for security

2020-01-20 Thread Chris Laprise
to disable it at install time, I can find and disable it now? Is the debian way a bad idea? I do like that the template with the necessary packages installed is significantly smaller than the fedora (1.6gb vs 2.1gb). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/tt

Re: [qubes-users] Choosing a TemplateOS for security

2020-01-20 Thread Chris Laprise
write). There was an effort like that years ago. The doc is here and you can still suggest edits: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/security-guidelines/ But there are also a number of other security guides on the doc page: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket

Re: [qubes-users] Choosing a TemplateOS for security

2020-01-20 Thread Chris Laprise
it to a separate VM). The reason is that dom0 uses rpm/dnf and Fedora template is needed to handle it properly. Also, Fedora template is currently required for building Qubes itself and Qubes templates. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP:

Re: [qubes-users] “Help! Qubes problems" : McAfee ENS not not installing on debian-10 Template vm

2020-01-19 Thread Chris Laprise
to add qvm-copy to the process. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubs

Re: [qubes-users] Are there any security benefits of setting up standalonevm instead of appvm?

2020-01-08 Thread Chris Laprise
each time the vm starts. Another thing that might help you is my Qubes-VM-hardening project. It allows you to perform automatic checks and run scripts, and disable /rw-based malware on vm startup: https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-VM-hardening -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes, boot from SD card?

2020-01-08 Thread Chris Laprise
comfortably). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this grou

Re: [qubes-users] Default fedora-30 template asking for password that I don't have

2020-01-07 Thread Chris Laprise
s to get it done, also. One is to 'su' to root first, but you'd have to do it indirectly like this: $ sudo su - You can also do it without a new shell: $ cat | sudo tee test.txt -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 76

Re: [qubes-users] Does the latest Linux kernel improve security for qubes?

2020-01-06 Thread Chris Laprise
On 1/6/20 4:11 PM, Claudia wrote: January 6, 2020 8:20 PM, "Chris Laprise" wrote: On 1/5/20 11:30 PM, Claudia wrote: I don't know much about PSP, or ME for that matter, but it seems to me you're mostly screwed either way, so I figured I might as well save some money

Re: [qubes-users] Default fedora-30 template asking for password that I don't have

2020-01-06 Thread Chris Laprise
ink you'll find different opinions about this. IMO, as with adding extra firewall to VPN VMs, it just wastes resources. The VPN or Tor gw already has 'low' attack surface and firewall capability, and they typically filter which external gateways they do and don't talk to based on crypto-enforced

Re: [qubes-users] Does the latest Linux kernel improve security for qubes?

2020-01-06 Thread Chris Laprise
t will fix this is flashing it with Coreboot. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" g

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Perplexed, why do so many here seem to prefer Fedora instead of ?

2020-01-06 Thread Chris Laprise
on, Whonix) is also evolving into this approach but Tor's outproxy default is a snag.    Surveillance Capitalism now rules. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received th

Re: [qubes-users] Perplexed, why do so many here seem to prefer Fedora instead of ?

2020-01-05 Thread Chris Laprise
://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e050ed1e-181a-45b4-89be-b8250c1924fc%40googlegroups.com ). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [qubes-users] How to Upgrade an Application in VM

2020-01-04 Thread Chris Laprise
.d/local' containing this line: APT::Default-Release "stable"; 2. Edit the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' to add this line: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian sid main 3. Run 'sudo apt-get update' to refresh the package db. Then you can install the 8.9 version with 'sudo apt-get install

Re: [qubes-users] What happened to "paranoid mode"?

2020-01-04 Thread Chris Laprise
had slowed over the last few months, but I'm spending more time on it again and hope to have a beta release this month. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Recommended laptop?

2020-01-02 Thread Chris Laprise
On 1/2/20 2:51 PM, Thierry Laurion wrote: Le jeudi 2 janvier 2020 00:10:09 UTC-5, Chris Laprise a écrit : On 1/1/20 8:28 PM, Thierry Laurion wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 4:12 PM Chris Laprise <mailto:tas...@posteo.net>> wrote: > &g

Re: [qubes-users] Is it plausible to use Debian template with sys-XXX VM?

2020-01-02 Thread Chris Laprise
ys-xxx for years. The important thing to install is the wifi driver for use as sys-net. However, changes from this issue should eventually make that step unnecessary for most people: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5123 -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket htt

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Recommended laptop?

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Laprise
On 1/1/20 8:28 PM, Thierry Laurion wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 4:12 PM Chris Laprise <mailto:tas...@posteo.net>> wrote: On 1/1/20 1:36 PM, Thierry Laurion wrote: > > > Le mercredi 1 janvier 2020 13:32:00 UTC-5, Chris Laprise a écrit : > &g

Re: [qubes-users] HOWTO: Enable screen poweroff (instead of blanking)

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Laprise
em. That is probably the case since this was one of the problems that got solved when I switched to KDE. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Recommended laptop?

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Laprise
On 1/1/20 1:36 PM, Thierry Laurion wrote: Le mercredi 1 janvier 2020 13:32:00 UTC-5, Chris Laprise a écrit : On 1/1/20 5:43 AM, Lorenzo Lamas wrote: > Hello Thierry, > > Thanks for all that you are doing for the community. Do you see a > possibilit

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Recommended laptop?

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Laprise
r ill-gotten revenue. The biggest problem I see is peoples' willingness to go along with what is becoming a tradition of anti-competition. Whatever logical fallacies are put forward to make it seem palatable with CPUs will also undermine user motivations in other areas. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.ne

Re: [qubes-users] Need some guide with Qubes VPN support problem, after recent update

2019-11-24 Thread Chris Laprise
out of equation and narrows down the possible causes for the problem. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 My version from sudo dnf info qubes-core-dom0 4.0.48

Re: [qubes-users] Need some guide with Qubes VPN support problem, after recent update

2019-11-24 Thread Chris Laprise
for the problem. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [qubes-users] Could use some help with my iptables configuration

2019-11-23 Thread Chris Laprise
-firewall: Add a general eth0 block on top of the FORWARD chain. Then, have a script that waits for the first vif to appear; when it does, add FORWARD rule to allow it, then exit the script. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E

Re: [qubes-users] update mgr ques frequent and multiple updates for Fedora 30 templates

2019-11-20 Thread Chris Laprise
excessive. Would Debian 10 based app templates be more persistent? Fedora's aim is to publish software as soon as its available, not really to have production-ready stability. So this frequency is pretty typical. Debian updates are more like 1 or 2 per week. -- Chris Laprise, tas

Re: [qubes-users] QSB #053: TSX Asynchronous Abort speculative side channel (XSA-305)

2019-11-15 Thread Chris Laprise
On 11/15/19 3:01 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2019-11-14 8:50 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: One of the packages came down with an incorrect signature: *** ERROR while receiving updates: Error while verifing kernel-4.19.82-1.pvops.qubes.x86_64.rpm

Re: [qubes-users] QSB #053: TSX Asynchronous Abort speculative side channel (XSA-305)

2019-11-14 Thread Chris Laprise
is necessary for the patch, but that is what downloaded when I specified qubes-dom0-security-testing. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you

Re: [qubes-users] 2 new Intel vulnerabilites

2019-11-14 Thread Chris Laprise
and delivered products that match; Its much better (and simpler) for people to move to AMD at least for the time being. It would help if the Qubes community had some clear AMD choices. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A

[qubes-users] Intel's continued security meltdown, MDS edition:

2019-11-14 Thread Chris Laprise
e – that competition is vitally important for the availability of desirable and safe products – I think it would be best if the Qubes project and community recognized the situation and made a modest effort to certify AMD hardware as a safer alternative to Intel. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.ne

Re: [qubes-users] Listing all available templates in a given repo

2019-11-12 Thread Chris Laprise
t said "qubes-templates-itl" under "Repo" instead of "qubes-templates-itl-testing", so I'm /guessing/ it's out of testing, but I'd like confirmation. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes VPN routing

2019-11-05 Thread Chris Laprise
in forwarding, such as what is shown in the Qubes Network Manager VPN doc (i.e. block all forwarding to eth0). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc2 has been released!

2019-11-04 Thread Chris Laprise
. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 4 and VPN, client VMs cannot access Internet

2019-11-03 Thread Chris Laprise
more robust. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this gro

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 4 and VPN, client VMs cannot access Internet

2019-11-02 Thread Chris Laprise
On 11/2/19 6:06 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: On 10/29/19 5:36 PM, Eric S wrote: Great point. Initially I was having connection problems on sys-vpn. I was only able to get the popup notification and Internet access after I added 'vpn-handler-egress' service (I had already added 'vpn-handler

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 4 and VPN, client VMs cannot access Internet

2019-11-02 Thread Chris Laprise
it tested recently. Its working fine on my end with openvpn and using plain fedora-20 for sys-vpn and the appvm. The arrangement is appvm->sys-vpn->sys-net. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D10

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 4 and VPN, client VMs cannot access Internet

2019-10-25 Thread Chris Laprise
andler'. You can also check firewall settings with 'sudo iptables -L -v -t nat' and the 'Chain PR-QBS' should have ip addresses pointing to your VPN provider's DNS server in the rightmost column (traffic can appear to be blocked if this doesn't get set). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net http

Re: [qubes-users] Activating FDE on lid close

2019-10-24 Thread Chris Laprise
more complete and functional. For example, the system shutdown option is available and may also be triggered with a keyboard shortcut. Monitor power save mode also works correctly with KDE on various systems but in Xfce it usually doesn't. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/taske

Re: [qubes-users] [VPN GUIDE] - ProxyVM loses internet connectivity after first restart

2019-10-24 Thread Chris Laprise
or creating network VMs. Basic connectivity in the network VMs should be totally unaffected. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [qubes-users] Re: persistance of change by iptables for portforwarding

2019-10-08 Thread Chris Laprise
On 10/6/19 5:47 PM, lik...@gmx.de wrote: On 2019-10-05 16:42, Chris Laprise wrote: On 10/5/19 10:35 AM, liked2-mmb7mzph...@public.gmane.org wrote: Hi! I found a script to ease the setup of port forwarding, which uses iptables: https://gist.github.com/Joeviocoe

Re: [qubes-users] Should I Continue?

2019-10-05 Thread Chris Laprise
Thank you very much. It would surprise me if that report didn't suffer from some kind of error. Maybe the owner forgot to turn on the VT-d setting in the BIOS. With a Thinkpad T430 its definitely worth trying to continue...its in one of the most Qubes-compatible product lines. -- Chris

Re: [qubes-users] persistance of change by iptables for portforwarding

2019-10-05 Thread Chris Laprise
to modify one of the following: /rw/config/qubes-ip-change-hook /rw/config/qubes-firewall.d /rw/config/qubes-firewall-user-script The qubes-firewall.d is a directory where you can add multiple scripts. See https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/config-files/ -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https

Re: [qubes-users] Moving Qubes+VMs to Larger SSD - How to Handle Storage Pools on Other Disks?

2019-09-07 Thread Chris Laprise
INT $PPID # Stop tar/parent fi else # This file is data; create an hmac from stdin for comparison with next file echo echo "FOUND " $fname echo -n "Calculating..." openssl dgst -hmac "$passphrase" >verifyqb.tmp read myhmac echo $myhmac fi

Re: [qubes-users] Have to drop Qubes because of company policy: workarounds?

2019-09-07 Thread Chris Laprise
le via qvm-copy). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from

[qubes-users] ANN: Qubes-VM-hardening V0.9.3 released

2019-09-02 Thread Chris Laprise
browser bookmarks whenever the VM starts. Applying these configuration tags to VMs is easy and can help keep the number of custom templates low. Github link - https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-VM-hardening -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett P

Re: [qubes-users] Moving Qubes+VMs to Larger SSD - How to Handle Storage Pools on Other Disks?

2019-09-01 Thread Chris Laprise
management commands to mirror the volume group onto the new drive, but there would be extra steps you'd need to take for a Qubes boot partition: https://casesup.com/knowledgebase/how-to-migrate-lvm-to-new-storage/ -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https

Re: [qubes-users] slightly off-topic: self-resetting OS idea

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Laprise
that need protection. But you're relying entirely on Linux security at that point. - Re: Intel processors, have you seen the threads about AMD based hardware like the Lenovo G505s? -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E

Re: [qubes-users] Re: On new installs, is exotic procedure still needed to cure debian apt bug or can we simply update/apt-upgrade from deb template?

2019-08-20 Thread Chris Laprise
in testing but is working fine): qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes*testing qubes-template-debian-10 -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you

Re: [qubes-users] KDE problems

2019-08-20 Thread Chris Laprise
ters (like trackpads) which are driven by dom0. 3. IIRC screen standby mode doesn't work with lightdm, regardless of the DE used. Only KDE + sddm combo gets screen standby working. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A

Re: [qubes-users] Emergency shell on boot; qubes_dom0-pool00_tmeta: read failed: Input/output error

2019-08-20 Thread Chris Laprise
critical medium error" indicates a basic hardware access issue, such as a bad hardware sector or block. Best to run a command like 'smartctl -H ' to check drive health status. You could also run a thorough test with 'smartctl -t long '. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://git

Re: [qubes-users] Enabling Apparmor in Debian-10 Fedora-30 Templates

2019-08-18 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/18/19 2:50 AM, ronpunz wrote: On 8/17/19 5:30 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: On 8/17/19 6:27 AM, ronpunz wrote: Is it recommended to enable Apparmor in TemplateVM's? I note from whonix docs that this can be achieved in dom0 using qvm-prefs -s templatename kernelopts "nopat apparmor=1 sec

Re: [qubes-users] The VPN avalibel in Qubes

2019-08-18 Thread Chris Laprise
Thank you for the feedback. :) On 8/17/19 9:34 PM, 799 wrote: # MANUAL step (at the moment): # Add "vpn-handler-openvpn" to the Settings > Services Tab This part can be done in dom0 with: qvm-service $AppVM vpn-handler-openvpn on -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https

Re: [qubes-users] using static dispVM for sys-net

2019-08-16 Thread Chris Laprise
allows more re-use of a template instead of having to make clones.) The result isn't quite as secure as using a DispVM, because the Ext4 filesystem itself could (theoretically) be exploited. But I think it raises the bar quite a bit. https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-VM-hardening -- Chris L

Re: [qubes-users] The VPN avalibel in Qubes

2019-08-13 Thread Chris Laprise
sys-whonix. OTOH, Whonix has some instructions on configuring a VPN inside sys-whonix. I'm not familiar with it, so I'll leave it there. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You rece

Re: [qubes-users] Disk usage warning

2019-08-13 Thread Chris Laprise
s to resolve Indeed. There is an old issue with qubes-backup that asks for leaner operation. Wyng backup (name changed from 'sparsebak') treats volume data like a stream, so no extra copies are stored... using it avoids the problem in addition to other large reductions in time/resource use. -- C

Re: [qubes-users] Disk usage warning

2019-08-12 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/12/19 7:41 PM, Franz wrote: @Chris On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:22 PM Chris Laprise <mailto:tas...@posteo.net>> wrote: On 8/12/19 12:03 PM, Franz wrote: > On the upper right corner of the screen a black message alert: > > Disk usage warning! >

Re: [qubes-users] Data recovery - data loss during cut and paste

2019-08-12 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/12/19 10:50 AM, ger...@riseup.net wrote: Chris Laprise: On 8/12/19 9:37 AM, ger...@riseup.net wrote: Is there a possibility, to recover data after moving it with cut and paste? Description what I did: I have a VM based on a Fedora 28 template (Qubes 4.0) and attached a USB 3.0 SD reader

Re: [qubes-users] Disk usage warning

2019-08-12 Thread Chris Laprise
. To graphically examine disk usage within a VM, you can use the gnome "Disk usage" app. The shell executable name for this is "baobab". -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1

Re: [qubes-users] whonix gateway and Tor or VPN an Tor

2019-08-12 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/12/19 4:48 AM, 27casanov...@gmail.com wrote: What is safer an why? The Whonix website has a writeup on this subject: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tunnels/Introduction -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A

Re: [qubes-users] Data recovery - data loss during cut and paste

2019-08-12 Thread Chris Laprise
re-startup) isn't removed from the system until you shut down the VM. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &q

Re: [qubes-users] Print services are broken: Fedora and Debian

2019-08-09 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/9/19 9:12 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: unman: On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:45:00AM +, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Chris Laprise: I'm currently unable to print from Qubes using either fedora-30, debian-9 or debian-10 templates. In debian-based vms, when I run 'system-config

[qubes-users] Print services are broken: Fedora and Debian

2019-08-09 Thread Chris Laprise
-control-center' it segfaults. In neither environment can I browse to 'localhost:631' cups server. I don't recall having such a problem accessing printers from Qubes in the past. To me, this looks like Qubes has done something un-announced to suppress print services. -- Chris Laprise, tas

Re: [qubes-users] handling DNS resolution when running comercial VPNs

2019-08-07 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/7/19 11:23 AM, thecodingninjaisb...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 9:45:51 AM UTC-4, Chris Laprise wrote: On 8/7/19 9:39 AM, thecodingn...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 9:45:51 PM UTC-4, Chris Lapr

Re: [qubes-users] handling DNS resolution when running comercial VPNs

2019-08-07 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/7/19 9:39 AM, thecodingninjaisb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 9:45:51 PM UTC-4, Chris Laprise wrote: On 8/6/19 7:57 PM, thecodingn...@gmail.com wrote: > Running ```sudo iptables -C FORWARD -o eth0 -j DROP``` throws an error > itself: iptable

Re: [qubes-users] Autoconnect to VPN not working in fedora based AppVM

2019-08-06 Thread Chris Laprise
has a section about making NM start the VPN using an external script (its step 4): https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vpn/#set-up-a-proxyvm-as-a-vpn-gateway-using-networkmanager -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4A

Re: [qubes-users] handling DNS resolution when running comercial VPNs

2019-08-06 Thread Chris Laprise
to completion (i.e. if you installed to your template, but forgot step 4). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [qubes-users] handling DNS resolution when running comercial VPNs

2019-08-06 Thread Chris Laprise
behave just like a firewall in Qubes 4. This is assuming you trust the VPN software not to be attacked/exploited in some way (and IMO this is a rather low risk). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1

Re: [qubes-users] fixing LVM corruption, question about LVM locking type in Qubes

2019-07-29 Thread Chris Laprise
from today! Avoid them unless the date-time was from when the system was (recently) still working. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you

Re: [qubes-users] fixing LVM corruption, question about LVM locking type in Qubes

2019-07-29 Thread Chris Laprise
the Qubes backup tool). -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubs

Re: [qubes-users] fixing LVM corruption, question about LVM locking type in Qubes

2019-07-29 Thread Chris Laprise
--back equivalent. Did you run "lvm lvconvert --repair qubes_dom0/pool00"? I think that would be one of the first things you do when the underlying thin device fails. If it needs additional space, you could delete the swap lv, then re-add it later. -- Chris Laprise, tas

Re: [qubes-users] Re: ANN: Qubes-VM-hardening v0.8.4 released

2019-07-29 Thread Chris Laprise
On 7/28/19 10:23 PM, Jon deps wrote: On 7/29/19 12:02 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: On 7/28/19 4:55 PM, Jon deps wrote: On 7/28/19 7:52 PM, Jon deps wrote: On 7/28/19 1:36 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: On 7/27/19 8:27 PM, Jon deps wrote: pardon my  non-sysadmin  query : any chance of some real

Re: [qubes-users] Re: ANN: Qubes-VM-hardening v0.8.4 released

2019-07-28 Thread Chris Laprise
On 7/28/19 4:55 PM, Jon deps wrote: On 7/28/19 7:52 PM, Jon deps wrote: On 7/28/19 1:36 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: On 7/27/19 8:27 PM, Jon deps wrote: pardon my  non-sysadmin  query : any chance of some real world  examples?  quite a few new terms there . so install into Debian-9

Re: [qubes-users] Re: ANN: Qubes-VM-hardening v0.8.4 released

2019-07-27 Thread Chris Laprise
/lib/systemd/system/vm-boot-protect.service /usr/lib/qubes/init/vm-boot-protect.sh /etc/default/vms -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: [qubes-users] R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2019-07-26 Thread Chris Laprise
On 7/26/19 7:52 AM, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 12:16:00 PM UTC-4, Chris Laprise wrote: On 7/25/19 11:04 AM, brend...@gmail.com wrote: > I was able to install that particular test build on a Thinkpad X230 for > testing: https://openqa

Re: [qubes-users] R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2019-07-25 Thread Chris Laprise
. Assuming you already have the testing 4.19 kernel, have you thought of upgrading it to the even newer 5.x one as 'latest'? The latest kernel is installed by specifying the special package named 'kernel-latest'. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.co

Re: [qubes-users] upgrading to fed 30 min for vpn proxy?

2019-07-23 Thread Chris Laprise
On 7/20/19 11:43 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: It sounds like it isn't installed or configured at all. If it was, traffic would be blocked by both the firewall and the forwarding switch. You should have the latest Qubes-vpn-support version installed and look at the log messages in the VPN VM

Re: [qubes-users] R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2019-07-22 Thread Chris Laprise
d vm kernels to 4.19 or later. The 4.19 versions from qubes*testing have been very stable for me. OTOH, there are also 5.x versions available. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: Insurgo PrivacyBeast X230 Laptop meets and exceeds Qubes 4.0 hardware certification

2019-07-22 Thread Chris Laprise
USB controller). They'll say Intel or X86 is fundamentally insecure, but won't begin to describe what a good alternative would look like at the component level; without that, there's nothing into which the hardware people to sink their teeth or even notice Qubes. -- Chris Laprise, tas

Re: [qubes-users] upgrading to fed 30 min for vpn proxy?

2019-07-20 Thread Chris Laprise
On 7/20/19 10:13 AM, Stumpy wrote: On 6/2/19 1:09 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: On 6/1/19 1:46 PM, Stumpy wrote: I upgraded to v30 fedora minimal, installed all the packages I installed on v28, and tried using the vpn vm but nada, its acting like its not even there? the vpn appvm has not been

Re: [qubes-users] Re: ANN: Qubes-VM-hardening v0.8.5 released

2019-07-19 Thread Chris Laprise
be possible to parse the $PATH for anything that references the private volume, then then automatically lock those paths down. BTW, thank you for the bug fix! I've already posted it with a note in the Readme. The current version is now 0.8.5. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com

Re: [qubes-users] ANN: Qubes-VM-hardening bugfix...

2019-07-19 Thread Chris Laprise
On 7/18/19 11:53 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: Description: Qubes-VM-hardening Leverage Qubes template non-persistence to fend off malware at VM startup: Lock-down, quarantine and check contents of /rw private storage that affect the execution environment.    * Acts at VM startup

[qubes-users] ANN: Qubes-VM-hardening v0.8.4 released

2019-07-18 Thread Chris Laprise
template-based AppVMs, sys-net and sys-vpn Version 0.8.4 expands protection to the /home/user systemd directory, and now hides its vms config directory on all VM startups (not just when its enabled). Upgrading is recommended. Github link - https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-VM-hardening -- Chris

Re: [qubes-users] The PGP Encryption Problem

2019-07-17 Thread Chris Laprise
n security as a field will have failed. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group.

Re: [qubes-users] Debian 10 Buster upgrade

2019-07-15 Thread Chris Laprise
ve to also comment those out for the upgrade procedure. Then do the following: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get autoremove This process worked for me. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc1 has been released!

2019-07-11 Thread Chris Laprise
, as release candidates can become the actual release. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users&q

Re: [qubes-users] are system hangs normal?

2019-07-10 Thread Chris Laprise
on. That has happened to me before and doing a fresh install fixed it. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc1 has been released!

2019-07-10 Thread Chris Laprise
/5149 -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this grou

Re: [qubes-users] are system hangs normal?

2019-07-09 Thread Chris Laprise
to mind when I read your post. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubs

Re: [qubes-users] VPN before sys-firewall ?

2019-07-09 Thread Chris Laprise
As a result, sys-vpn can perform both vpn and firewall functions. If you consider sys-vpn's role to be trusted and low-risk, then the third example can accomplish the same thing as the first two while consuming less memory and CPU. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/t

Re: [qubes-users] Exciting day for Debian! Watching the twitter feed

2019-07-08 Thread Chris Laprise
Heads up on the debian-10 update error (with workaround): https://forums.whonix.org/t/apt-get-error-e-repository-tor-https-cdn-aws-deb-debian-org-debian-security-buster-updates-inrelease-changed-its-suite-value-from-testing-to-stable/7704 -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com

Re: [qubes-users] how to reinstall whonix-14 templates

2019-07-08 Thread Chris Laprise
'. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiv

Re: [qubes-users] Installing qubes, new machine.

2019-07-06 Thread Chris Laprise
er/ Since nvidia is generally a source a problems, I'd check to see if you can change the BIOS/UEFI settings to turn off the Nvidia GPU and switch to integrated Intel graphics (if available). That should raise the compatibility profile substantially. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://

Re: [qubes-users] Exciting day for Debian! Watching the twitter feed

2019-07-06 Thread Chris Laprise
On 7/6/19 4:14 PM, drok...@gmail.com wrote: https://twitter.com/debian Buster has arrived! Yay! :D I have to admit, I moved the rest of my VMs over to it a day early (had already been using debian-10 for a while on a few misc things). Thanks to unman for keeping us up to date! -- Chris

Re: [qubes-users] Re: No vpn-handler-openvpn in service tab

2019-07-06 Thread Chris Laprise
script (that's because you chose not to add it to the OS template). So it won't be registered or active right after installation; a restart is necessary. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F

Re: [qubes-users] strange experince with Qube

2019-07-05 Thread Chris Laprise
users. So a Tor list or forum is probably a better place to discuss this issue. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Re: [qubes-users] TemplateVM updates almost instantly fail when target is VPN qube but dom0 updates run just fine

2019-07-05 Thread Chris Laprise
-10 to see if that helps. The problem started when I switched the update vm from fedora-28 to fedora-30. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you

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