Re: reading/copying a drive??

2013-12-21 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 20 December 2013, bruce sent: The drive in question has multiple partitions, but I was only trying to access the drive as a raw/data drive if that was/is possible. the sys monitor app lists the file systems for the drive as being: /dev/mapper/vg_dell45-lv_root /

Use firewall-cmd to filter by MAC address?

2013-12-21 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. In a previous version of Fedora I had iptables rules of the form: -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 25 -m mac --mac-source \ AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF -j ACCEPT in order to accept email only from selected local systems. I've just installed Fedora 20, and I'm trying to implement the same

Re: where is skype tray icone on F20?

2013-12-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:04:42 -0500 Temlakos temla...@gmail.com wrote: I use KDE. How do I integrate Skype into that environment? Temlakos Will KDE allow you to create your own launcher on the Desktop, or whatever taskbar it's uses? -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: Seconded. I use keepassx as well. My database is on a VFAT partition on a 1G USB Flash drive I carry with me with a second copy on my Droid phone...just in case I need it. Keepass and friends are worthy alternatives,

Re: where is skype tray icone on F20?

2013-12-21 Thread Temlakos
On 12/21/2013 05:06 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:04:42 -0500 Temlakos temla...@gmail.com wrote: I use KDE. How do I integrate Skype into that environment? Temlakos Will KDE allow you to create your own launcher on the Desktop, or whatever taskbar it's uses? I haven't

Re: f20 - upgrading to

2013-12-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Dan Mossor wrote: I've been looking for f19-20 upgrade instructions, but I must be blind. Someone can point me to the correct page on the net? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading Thanks, seems obvious. It didn't show when searching for it. I obvioiusly fail at searching as well as

Re: f20 - upgrading to

2013-12-21 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 21.12.2013 12:50, Timothy Murphy wrote: Dan Mossor wrote: I've been looking for f19-20 upgrade instructions, but I must be blind. Someone can point me to the correct page on the net? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading Thanks, seems obvious. It didn't show when searching for it.

Re: f20 - upgrading to

2013-12-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: It's easier (for me) to find something on wiki pages using external search engines than following links and searching internally. I'm not saying it's impossible but Fedora's wiki lacks clear content organization. That may be true in general, but it is not true in

Re: encrypted automounting

2013-12-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 23:30:48 +0100, Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com wrote: Hello, I forgot to unchek keep memory of the password when I mounted an encrypted partition. How can I reset it ? Now, every time that the USB key is plugged, then this partition is also mounted! You can use

F20 and playing from firefox a Microsoft Media Server (MMS) file

2013-12-21 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hello, I installed Fedora 20 on x86_64. I try to access with firefox a radio audio broadcast that was recorded and is on the site now. I see this message: The following plugin is required: Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol source. Do you want to search for this now ? I press yes and I get:

Re: encrypted automounting

2013-12-21 Thread Alchemist
Manage your keys/passwords using seahorse, or manually backup/remove ~/.local/share/keyrings/* 2013/12/21 Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com Hello, I forgot to unchek keep memory of the password when I mounted an encrypted partition. How can I reset it ? Now, every time that the USB key is

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/21/13 17:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: /etc/default/grub is missing on my newly installed F20. What's replacing its functionality? It is there on mine [egreshko@f20f default]$ ll /etc/default/grub -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 382 Dec 19 06:34 /etc/default/grub -- Getting tired of

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/20/2013 04:32 PM, David Beveridge wrote: Add the new partition to your volume group # vgextend vg_name /dev/sdb5 What should I enter for vg_name? I am trying to add /dev/sdb4 to /dev/sdb3, at least I think that's what I'm trying to do. [/dev/sdb5 is now /dev/sdb4] # vgextend vg_name

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 16:25, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/21/13 17:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: /etc/default/grub is missing on my newly installed F20. What's replacing its functionality? It is there on mine [egreshko@f20f default]$ ll /etc/default/grub -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 382 Dec 19 06:34

Re: where is skype tray icone on F20?

2013-12-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Temlakos wrote: On 12/20/2013 12:50 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:48 AM, Temlakos wrote: On 12/20/2013 10:44 AM, Adel ESSAFI wrote: hello list The new F20 graphical interface is very good, however, I can't find skype skype icon in the tray. Do you have the same problem? Any

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
you will need to run pvscan and determine what the name of the vg is you want to add the storage to. to get /dev/sdb5 - /dev/sdb4 you reworked the partition table (ie removed the extend partition and made sdb4 a primary?). if still lost give this info: fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] pvscan df On Sat,

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/21/2013 11:25 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: you will need to run pvscan and determine what the name of the vg is you want to add the storage to. to get /dev/sdb5 - /dev/sdb4 you reworked the partition table (ie removed the extend partition and made sdb4 a primary?). if still lost give this

Upgrading from F18

2013-12-21 Thread John Aldrich
Can I use FedUp to go directly from Fedora 18 to Fedora 20 or do I need to upgrade to F19 first? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

F20: not mounting swap? Is this a real problem?

2013-12-21 Thread Steven Stern
When rebooting after this morning's kernel update: --- during shutdown Dec 21 11:17:34 sds-desk-2 systemd: Deactivating swap /dev/sda4... Dec 21 11:17:34 sds-desk-2 systemd: Deactivating swap /dev/sda4... Dec 21 11:17:34 sds-desk-2 systemd: Deactivating swap /dev/sda4... Dec 21 11:17:34

Re: Upgrading from F18

2013-12-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:14 PM, John Aldrich wrote: Can I use FedUp to go directly from Fedora 18 to Fedora 20 or do I need to upgrade to F19 first? fedup can be used for a direct upgrade Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

wireless issue in F20

2013-12-21 Thread Bill Oliver
I just installed F20 KDE spin on my home laptop and am noticing a change in the NetworkManager. The issue is this: Local networks are discovered without a problem Initial connection occurs without a problem However... If the connection is dropped (the most common reason at home is that my

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing. [SOLVED]

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 16:48, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 21/12/13 16:25, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/21/13 17:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: /etc/default/grub is missing on my newly installed F20. What's replacing its functionality? It is there on mine [egreshko@f20f default]$ ll /etc/default/grub -rw-r--r--.

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:43 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: /etc/default/grub is missing on my newly installed F20. What's replacing its functionality? This file is created by anaconda BIOS and UEFI computers. It's not created if the install boot loader option is disabled in the

Re: F20: not mounting swap? Is this a real problem?

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: Dec 21 11:17:35 sds-desk-2 systemd: Unit dev-sda4.swap entered failed state. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#Error_messages_about_swap_activation_if_swap_is_on_a_plain_partition_on_a_GPT_disk

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Roger Heflin rogerhef...@gmail.com wrote: you will need to run pvscan and determine what the name of the vg is you want to add the storage to. to get /dev/sdb5 - /dev/sdb4 you reworked the partition table (ie removed the extend partition and made sdb4 a

Help! Killed nautilus

2013-12-21 Thread Richard Vickery
I think I did a cntl x to kill it; any ideas on what I can do to get it running again? Here's what I get: $ nautilus Could not register the application: Timeout was reached I'm on f20, and since it has been released, I assume that I write on this list rather than test Thanks, Richard --

Re: OT: [solved] scp question

2013-12-21 Thread Mike Wright
12/21/2013 09:00 AM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to automate a box to box backup. When I run the scp command from the command line it uses my public/private key pair and everything works well but if I execute the same command from a cron job the receiving end reports, Failed

Connection fails F19-F20 Rsync

2013-12-21 Thread David Highley
After doing a fedup upgrade from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 the Fedora 19 systems are not able to rsync to the Fedora 20 system. If you do: rsync host:: You get: rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(764) [Receiver=3.0.9]

Re: F20: not mounting swap? Is this a real problem?

2013-12-21 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/21/2013 12:45 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: Dec 21 11:17:35 sds-desk-2 systemd: Unit dev-sda4.swap entered failed state.

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 19:44, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: I'll do another F20 installation to see if it shows up this time. If not I suppose it is hardware related. Maybe anaconda doesn't like bios with uefi turned off. I had no problems with

Gnome login hangs F20 after fedup upgrade

2013-12-21 Thread David Highley
We upgraded a test system to Fedora 20 using the fedup process. There were 60 packages that were left from Fedora 19 after the upgrade that were subsequently fixed by doing a yum distro-sync. Since the upgrade we are not able to login into a Gnome session. We select the user in the greater and it

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 20, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: It is installed in less than 60 GiB's which leaves the rest of the drive unused, not what I wanted. I guess it preserved a /home partition for me? I certainly didn't want it to take up the

Re: Connection fails F19-F20 Rsync

2013-12-21 Thread David Highley
David Highley wrote: After doing a fedup upgrade from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 the Fedora 19 systems are not able to rsync to the Fedora 20 system. If you do: rsync host:: You get: rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/21/2013 02:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Based on the /dev/sdb layout it seems you used custom/manual partitioning in the installer, and created all of these mount points manually, is that correct? If so why not use Guided partitioning with either partition scheme set to LVM or Standard

openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, After Edward Snowden spilled the beans on the NSA I've become extremely paranoid about system security. If not the NSA, who else? I've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora use the Dual Elliptical Curve encryption method that RSA so politely (for a

ipv6 breakage

2013-12-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
IPv6 under f20, f19 and f18 has been rock solid for me this past year. Now in, the last few days, yum updates have brought some lossage that requires a periodic reboot to get IPv6 connections to the internet back. I can't immediately see what the problem is. The outward-facing interface still

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread David Beveridge
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: One of the failed attempts: [root@box10 bobg]# lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/fedora_box1000/lv_root /dev/sdb4 Logical volume lv_root not found in volume group fedora_box1000 Perhaps something

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: On 12/21/2013 02:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Based on the /dev/sdb layout it seems you used custom/manual partitioning in the installer, and created all of these mount points manually, is that

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/12/13 19:44, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: I'll do another F20 installation to see if it shows up this time. If not I suppose it is hardware related. Maybe

Re: Faith based partitioning...

2013-12-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
The unfortunate fact in all of this is that the old GUI for the old anaconda was just fine and exactly what you would expect. I find it particularly galling that a new partition can no longer fill all available space (as used to be avalable) for instance and we have to type some value in the hope

Re: Gnome login hangs F20 after fedup upgrade

2013-12-21 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 21.12.2013 20:40, David Highley wrote: We upgraded a test system to Fedora 20 using the fedup process. There were 60 packages that were left from Fedora 19 after the upgrade that were subsequently fixed by doing a yum distro-sync. Since the upgrade we are not able to login into a Gnome

Re: Just got my Crucial M500

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 20, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: but, it was advertised as 256GB, and on the packaging it says 240GB. 240GiB is actually 257GB. So report the results from lsblk. It reports in GiB. My Samsung 830 reports 256060514304 bytes, which is 256.1GB, or 238GB.

rkhunter - output

2013-12-21 Thread bruce
Hi. Ran rkhunter on a system a few days ago, and got no warnings on the files/rootkits. Just ran rkhunter again on the same box, and I get a bunch of warnings on the files, but again, no warning/alerts regarding the potential rootkits. In looking over sites/information on rkhunter, i'm not sure

Re: reading/copying a drive??

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:29 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I'm not aware of a desktop that will let you simply plug in and double-click on an icon to mount a logical volume, like you can with ordinary volumes (flash drives, USB hard drives, etc). Gnome Shell does this by default.

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
you will need a vgextend first something like vgextend fedora_box1000 /dev/sdb4 that will add the disk to the vg. the df shows these 2 are mounted: /dev/mapper/fedora_box1000-roo t 34G 4.5G 27G 15% / /dev/mapper/fedora_box1000-home 17G 7.2G 8.1G 47% /home so either

Re: Faith based partitioning...

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com wrote: The unfortunate fact in all of this is that the old GUI for the old anaconda was just fine and exactly what you would expect. I find it particularly galling that a new partition can no longer fill all available

Re: Faith based partitioning...

2013-12-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/21/2013 12:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: The Done button has been a thorn in my side UI wise since inception but all I ever got was ridiculously bad examples of how such upper left UI is used in other programs, which don't also split their navigation UI, or clutter the upper left with

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Roger Heflin rogerhef...@gmail.com wrote: you will need a vgextend first something like vgextend fedora_box1000 /dev/sdb4 that will add the disk to the vg. pvcreate first, then vgextend to add. /dev/mapper/fedora_box1000-home 17G 7.2G 8.1G 47% /home Oops,

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 21:53, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/12/13 19:44, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: I'll do another F20 installation to see if it shows up this time. If not I

Re: Gnome login hangs F20 after fedup upgrade

2013-12-21 Thread David Highley
Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 21.12.2013 20:40, David Highley wrote: We upgraded a test system to Fedora 20 using the fedup process. There were 60 packages that were left from Fedora 19 after the upgrade that were subsequently fixed by doing a yum distro-sync. Since the upgrade we are

Question: any problems if apply only security updates.

2013-12-21 Thread Edward M
Hello, I was wondering if my fedora system later in time will have any repercussions, if I only apply the security updates and not the entire updates from the catalog, by using the yum --security update command? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/21/2013 04:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Roger Heflin rogerhef...@gmail.com wrote: you will need a vgextend first something like vgextend fedora_box1000 /dev/sdb4 that will add the disk to the vg. pvcreate first, then vgextend to add.

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
You did not use pvcreate on sdb4 before using vgextend. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
it just wnats /dev/fedora_box1000/root or /dev/fedora_box1000/home the lv_ is not in the name of the lv. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: On 12/21/2013 04:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Roger Heflin

Re: OT: [solved] scp question

2013-12-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Dec2013 11:08, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: 12/21/2013 09:00 AM, Mike Wright wrote: I'm trying to automate a box to box backup. When I run the scp command from the command line it uses my public/private key pair and everything works well I would guess: via an

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/21/2013 05:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: You did not use pvcreate on sdb4 before using vgextend. Chris Murphy After using fdisk to change the type to LVM I ran: pvcreate /dev/sdb4 Did that yesterday. -- http://www.qrz.com/db/w2bod Box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux -- users mailing list

Re: rkhunter - output

2013-12-21 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 16:03 -0500, bruce wrote: Hi. Ran rkhunter on a system a few days ago, and got no warnings on the files/rootkits. Just ran rkhunter again on the same box, and I get a bunch of warnings on the files, but again, no warning/alerts regarding the potential rootkits.

Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread Roger
On 12/22/2013 07:05 AM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, After Edward Snowden spilled the beans on the NSA I've become extremely paranoid about system security. If not the NSA, who else? I've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora use the Dual Elliptical Curve

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/21/2013 05:21 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: it just wnats /dev/fedora_box1000/root or /dev/fedora_box1000/home the lv_ is not in the name of the lv. Eureka! That's the name I needed. [root@box10 bobg]# lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/fedora_box1000/home /dev/sdb4 Extending logical volume home to

Re: where is skype tray icone on F20? [SOLVED]

2013-12-21 Thread Temlakos
On 12/20/2013 12:58 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Temlakos wrote: That version seems to connect, but it cannot work with my sound device. Though everything else does work with sound. This is a bug in Skype Refer to

Re: Need help with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/21/2013 05:21 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: it just wnats /dev/fedora_box1000/root or /dev/fedora_box1000/home the lv_ is not in the name of the lv. Thanks to everyone in this thread for your invaluable help. It looks like I am finally where I need to be with this LVM, maybe I wont have to

Re: Gnome login hangs F20 after fedup upgrade

2013-12-21 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 21.12.2013 22:50, David Highley wrote: Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 21.12.2013 20:40, David Highley wrote: We upgraded a test system to Fedora 20 using the fedup process. There were 60 packages that were left from Fedora 19 after the upgrade that were subsequently fixed by doing a yum

Re: Question: any problems if apply only security updates.

2013-12-21 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 21.12.2013 23:06, Edward M wrote: Hello, I was wondering if my fedora system later in time will have any repercussions, if I only apply the security updates and not the entire updates from the catalog, by using the yum --security update command? Besides that you won't get any non

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the insight into this matter. It is actually a laptop that I use as mobile device. Why is it that UEFI enabled is better in this situation? Power? Yes. ACPI and AHCI are sometimes not native. Most of the

Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.comwrote: 've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora use the Dual Elliptical Curve encryption method that RSA so politely (for a tidy $um) made default at the request of the US's NSA. That is the

Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: I've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora use the Dual Elliptical Curve encryption method that RSA so politely (for a tidy $um) made default at the request of the US's NSA. That is the

Re: Question: any problems if apply only security updates.

2013-12-21 Thread Edward M
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 00:22 +0100, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 21.12.2013 23:06, Edward M wrote: Hello, I was wondering if my fedora system later in time will have any repercussions, if I only apply the security updates and not the entire updates from the catalog, by using the yum

Security/Hacked System - Now what?!!

2013-12-21 Thread bruce
For sake of discussion, assume a fresh base desktop install of the OS (Fed/RHEL/Centos). After doing the install from the iso(s), you install : -rkhunter -chkconfig You then go through the services, and disable any services you don't need/want. You then mod SSH as required to disable root login

No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by default? I was just trying to mount a filesystem via realcrypt and kept getting errors about unable to setup the loop device. After some poking around with google searches I found some other folks with the same error claiming that the kernel no

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/22/13 09:19, Tom Horsley wrote: Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by default? I was just trying to mount a filesystem via realcrypt and kept getting errors about unable to setup the loop device. After some poking around with google searches I found some other folks with

Re: Security/Hacked System - Now what?!!

2013-12-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
bruce badouglas@gma il.com writes: You then mod SSH as required to disable root login OK, what else should you do? Root login isn't a bad idea in and of itself. More important is to not allow anything but public key logins (eg. ECDSA, RSA). For people logging in with root credentials, give

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 10:22 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Keepass and friends are worthy alternatives, but AFAIK they aren't usable from phones. I use Keepassdroid on an Android phone and it works just fine. It's a bit clunkier than on a desktop, but then, isn't everything? I manually

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by default? I was just trying to mount a filesystem via realcrypt and kept getting errors about unable to setup the loop device. After some poking around with google

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:56:12 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: 3.12 kernel? Something to bring up on the testing mailing list? Nope. I got updates just recently and it installed 3.12.5-200.fc19.x86_64. I don't have the testing repo enabled. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/22/13 09:56, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/22/13 09:19, Tom Horsley wrote: Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by default? I was just trying to mount a filesystem via realcrypt and kept getting errors about unable to setup the loop device. After some poking around with google

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/22/13 10:09, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:56:12 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: 3.12 kernel? Something to bring up on the testing mailing list? Nope. I got updates just recently and it installed 3.12.5-200.fc19.x86_64. I don't have the testing repo enabled. Yeah, that just

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-21 Thread bruce
ok guys.. since this has been hijacked to be a thread regarding passwds.. why don't you relabel the topic... On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 10:22 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Keepass and friends are worthy alternatives, but

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/21/2013 05:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: 3.12 kernel? Something to bring up on the testing mailing list? [joe@khorlia ~]$ uname -r 3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE Checking, I have no testing repos active. I updated my system earlier today, and there was a kernel update, so no, it's not

Re: No loop device in new kernel?

2013-12-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/22/13 09:19, Tom Horsley wrote: Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by default? I was just trying to mount a filesystem via realcrypt and kept getting errors about unable to setup the loop device. After some poking around with google searches I found some other folks with

Re: Security/Hacked System - Now what?!!

2013-12-21 Thread bruce
Hi Wolfgang, Ok, say you have a box that you want to remotely access. Never a need to access the box via the gui/login. And regarding the ssh/remote access, you specify public/private keys, and you have the key process run from the key file. This allows a user to be able to ssh into the box

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:43 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:28 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: my question: When creating the new VM in VBox Manager, did you choose the correct version of Fedora? I clicked on Fedora and I missed that there was an entry Fedora (64bit) ... It

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-21 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/21/2013 09:54 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:43 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:28 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: my question: When creating the new VM in VBox Manager, did you choose the correct version of Fedora? I clicked on Fedora and I missed that

Re: issues with upgrade from f19 - f20

2013-12-21 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 12-17-13 22:15:15 Ranjan Maitra wrote: %sudo yum --releasever=20 distro-sync and I get the following: [snip] Transaction check error: package dbus-libs-1:1.6.12-1.fc20.x86_64 is already installed package dbus-1:1.6.12-1.fc20.x86_64 is already installed package

Re: issues with upgrade from f19 - f20

2013-12-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 23:56:35 -0500 Garry T. Williams gtwilli...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-17-13 22:15:15 Ranjan Maitra wrote: %sudo yum --releasever=20 distro-sync and I get the following: [snip] Transaction check error: package dbus-libs-1:1.6.12-1.fc20.x86_64 is already installed

Απάντ.: f20 - Anyone else having problems installing x64

2013-12-21 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Hi, back in the early days of CDR media, we used to consider some drives even incompatible with certain colors. It was a long time ago so if I recall the dark blue ones were the best choose and the silver the worst. Where did your elephant memory recalled that ?? It should have remained in a