Re: attempts to hack in?

Allegedly, on or about 01 July 2017, William Mattison sent: > * I only access this system via the keyboard and trackball physically > connected (via cables) to the system. > > * I do not want anyone to be able to connect into this system from > outside. I myself have no need to connect to this

Re: attempts to hack in?

Today (Saturday), I booted up only once, logged in only once as my primary common user, and then a short while ago logged in to an different account with adequate privileges to view the journalctl. With over 12 hours as a common user, I hoped that searching the journalctl would be simpler. I

Re: F25 nfs not starting

On 07/02/17 08:00, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > Upgraded to F25 a couple of months ago and nfs stopped working. I was > hoping there would be a fix by now, but the problem persists. I had nfs > running on F24 and earlier with no issues, now it won't even start. Both > > systemctl start

Re: attempts to hack in?

On 07/01/2017 07:16 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Of course, you shouldn't be doing this with a foreign machine which you don't trust to some degree. With a USB stick or with a password, you've got to have faith that the machine isn't set up to capture your key and/or passphrase/password.

Re: attempts to hack in?

On 01Jul2017 17:55, jdow wrote: On 2017-07-01 15:52, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 01Jul2017 07:48, William Oliver wrote: On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 18:35 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Uh, mount the USB stick somewhere and use something like: ssh -i

Re: attempts to hack in?

On 2017-07-01 15:52, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 01Jul2017 07:48, William Oliver wrote: On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 18:35 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Uh, mount the USB stick somewhere and use something like: ssh -i /path/to/usb/stick/name-of-your-identity-file user@host e.g.

F25 nfs not starting

Upgraded to F25 a couple of months ago and nfs stopped working. I was hoping there would be a fix by now, but the problem persists. I had nfs running on F24 and earlier with no issues, now it won't even start. Both systemctl start nfs-server.service systemctl stop nfs-server.service hang. If

Re: attempts to hack in?

On 01Jul2017 07:48, William Oliver wrote: On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 18:35 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Uh, mount the USB stick somewhere and use something like: ssh -i /path/to/usb/stick/name-of-your-identity-file user@host e.g. mkdir ~/usbstick mount

Re: last update: thunderbird crashes

On 07/02/17 05:14, François Patte wrote: > With last thunderbird update: it often crashes, it is impossible to send > a mail when enigmail is activated I am using F25 with T-Bird 5.2.1 and enigmail 1.9.7. This message is being sent signed. I've also just sent to another account a signed

last update: thunderbird crashes

Bonsoir, With last thunderbird update: it often crashes, it is impossible to send a mail when enigmail is activated Regards -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél.

Re: Screensaver Anomaly in F25

I have the same issue with XFCE 4.12 on Fedora 25. After the xscreensaver gets triggered, I gets triggered again whenever I switch to another window in Firefox.I had to uninstall it because it became too annoying. The problem is that now Screen Lock on the panel does not work樂 JP On Thu, Jun

Re: attempts to hack in?

On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 18:35 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Uh, mount the USB stick somewhere and use something like: > > ssh -i /path/to/usb/stick/name-of-your-identity-file user@host > > e.g. > > mkdir ~/usbstick > mount /dev/sdb1 ~/usbstick > ssh -i

Re: attempts to hack in?

On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 09:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/01/17 09:14, William Oliver wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 10:23 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > If you cannot set up a key on the foreign machine ahead of time, > > > yes > > > stick your  > > > "travelling"

Re: Thanks, everyone, for your comments Re: CIA Outlaw Country attack against CentOS / Rhel (and Fedora?) Is this credible?

Tim: >> One day I noticed, while in the middle of browsing, that the "camera >> is on" LED had lit up, though not noticing *when* it came on. I >> wasn't doing anything nefarious, so somewhere in the midst of a pile >> of ordinary websites I'd browsed through, one of them was a nosey >> parker.