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

2020-01-06 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
>Also, try using `su` with no arguments and see if that asks for a password also. The problem was resolved by using the "su" command on its own (as opposed to "su user", which prompted me for a password), which brought me straight into "bash-5.0#", where I used the "cat >

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 while I'm at it. This

[qubes-users] Qubes 4 starts, but no VMs will load.

2020-01-06 Thread aisteruannanorna
Dear Fellows, I can boot into Qubes normally, except I get some scary looking boot messages (see boot.log contents below.) No VMs will start. After some digging in logs, I found that there was a syntax error on trying to load /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/qubes.conf. The file seemed to be corrupted, so

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

2020-01-06 Thread Claudia
January 6, 2020 8:45 PM, "Chris Laprise" wrote: > On 1/6/20 3:22 PM, Claudia wrote: > > I think s/he is really using a "minimal" template here. That would cause > sudo to be disabled by default. On these minimal templates, you can only > gain root privs by using 'qvm-run -u root' in dom0 or by

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

2020-01-06 Thread Claudia
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 while I'm at it. This was >> even before the

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

2020-01-06 Thread Chris Laprise
On 1/6/20 3:22 PM, Claudia wrote: January 6, 2020 5:02 AM, fiftyfourthparal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Oops, I forgot to reply to this. Sorry. I have a fresh installation of Qubes 4.0.2 on a Dell Inspiron 5593 with an untouched fedora-30 template. Aside from some minor hiccups during

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

2020-01-06 Thread Claudia
January 6, 2020 5:02 AM, fiftyfourthparal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, Oops, I forgot to reply to this. Sorry. > I have a fresh installation of Qubes 4.0.2 on a Dell Inspiron 5593 with an > untouched fedora-30 > template. Aside from some minor hiccups during installation, no compatibility >

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

2020-01-06 Thread Chris Laprise
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 while I'm at it. This was even before the recent Intel shit show. Indeed. These management engines are

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

2020-01-06 Thread Chris Laprise
On 1/6/20 9:20 AM, gorked wrote: Thanks for replying.   I will keep what you say in mind in using Debian when I get into a position to try out QUBES.  Apparently I made a mistake in that, I thought I read on the CentOS Forum that if I did updates, it would receive the same security updates as

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2020-01-06 Thread Claudia
December 30, 2019 7:12 PM, "qubes123" wrote: >> The improper grouping is probably somewhere in AGESA, which is provided > >>> to the manufacturers by AMD. It could be because of hardware related >>> limitations, which again are supplied by AMD. Sometimes vendors take >>> liberties (cost cutting

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

2020-01-06 Thread dhorf-hfref . 4a288f10
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:35:07PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On vrijdag 3 januari 2020 03:21:07 CET Andrew David Wong wrote: > > Qubes 4.0.2 is available on the Downloads page: > I'm only seeing 4.0.2-rc3, but not the final one on that page. retracted because a critical kernel bug made it

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

2020-01-06 Thread Diederik de Haas
On vrijdag 3 januari 2020 03:21:07 CET Andrew David Wong wrote: > Qubes 4.0.2 is available on the Downloads page: > > https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/ I'm only seeing 4.0.2-rc3, but not the final one on that page. The files are on https://ftp.qubes-os.org/iso/ so I assume it's also on other

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

2020-01-06 Thread Claudia
January 6, 2020 2:20 PM, "gorked" wrote: > To Morph this post a bit, being a lot of intrusions are now coming in with > the Web Browser, which > Web Browser is now the recommended one for Security? I have been using > Firefox, with a lot of > Addons, but I had to turn off the Java Script to

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

2020-01-06 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
> > I'm certainly no expert though. I meant that you seem to be an expert in technology, maybe with a formal background in some form of engineering. I didn't mean to say that you were a Qubes expert, though three years of use and a year of in-depth tinkering does sound like an expert

[qubes-users] Standalone Win10VM with private networt

2020-01-06 Thread Hayden Tim
I finally was able to get some time to install qubes on an HP laptop that became free to play with. I installed version 4.0 and have updated it a few times. Everything works at this point, except having a USB-VM. I ended up having to let dom0 handle the USB hardware. This is not a problem. My

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

2020-01-06 Thread gorked
Thanks for replying. I will keep what you say in mind in using Debian when I get into a position to try out QUBES. Apparently I made a mistake in that, I thought I read on the CentOS Forum that if I did updates, it would receive the same security updates as Red Hat. Perhaps Red Hat is not

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

2020-01-06 Thread Claudia
January 6, 2020 5:16 AM, fiftyfourthparal...@gmail.com wrote: >> What can I say, I like doing things the hard way. > > Some might say it's good for character building--like climbing Everest with > minimal assistance when > you can instead just hire a bunch of Sherpas to carry you. > >> I don't