Re: [qubes-users] Re: Whonix-gw: trouble after disabling passwordless root access

2020-08-07 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
On Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:24:38 UTC+8, 54th Parallel wrote: > > > There might be potential attacks against the hypervisor or > daemons/backends in dom0 that require root access. Qubes founder Joanna > Rutkowska initially assessed there was limited benefit from isolating the > root account

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Whonix-gw: trouble after disabling passwordless root access

2020-08-06 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
On Thursday, 6 August 2020 17:36:05 UTC+8, Chris Laprise wrote: > > IIRC she gave some indication that guest VMs shouldn't be defenseless > internally. > > -- > Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net > https://github.com/tasket > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Whonix-gw: trouble after disabling passwordless root access

2020-08-06 Thread Chris Laprise
On 8/5/20 11:48 PM, fiftyfourthparal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:37:08 UTC+8, Qubes wrote: What risk(s) are you mitigating by disabling passwordless root?  You should look at this the other way around--what do I stand to lose by keeping passwordless root? If I can

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Whonix-gw: trouble after disabling passwordless root access

2020-08-05 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
On Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:37:08 UTC+8, Qubes wrote: > > What risk(s) are you mitigating by disabling passwordless root? > You should look at this the other way around--what do I stand to lose by keeping passwordless root? If I can take a low-cost step that would dramatically raise the

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Whonix-gw: trouble after disabling passwordless root access

2020-08-05 Thread Qubes
On 8/5/20 6:12 PM, fiftyfourthparal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:29:46 UTC+8, 54th Parallel wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the recent spam--I've been spending a lot more time with Qubes and coming across issues that I haven't seen mentioned here yet. Here's another one: If

[qubes-users] Re: Whonix-gw: trouble after disabling passwordless root access

2020-08-05 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:29:46 UTC+8, 54th Parallel wrote: > > Hi all, > > Sorry for the recent spam--I've been spending a lot more time with Qubes > and coming across issues that I haven't seen mentioned here yet. > > Here's another one: > > If you disable passwordless root access in