Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 05:52:55PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: [...] > Running a browser as root? Same as above, but worse. Well, the cryptocurrency miner might have the chance to run faster then ;-) Cheers - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

ssh config "Include" and bash completion

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I recently started using the Include directive in my .ssh/config file - so all the definitions are now in .ssh/config.d/. Now bash completion of hostnames no longer works. Is this expected behaviour? Anyone know how to fix it, without reverting to a single file? I couldn't work out how t

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/05/18 07:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/13/2018 09:09 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 08:18:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning >>> sudo &/or /

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 May 2018 at 14:44:14 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/13/2018 09:09 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 08:18:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>The underlying problem is not understanding what I read conc

Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 May 2018 at 19:08:48 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 13/05/2018 à 17:18, David Wright a écrit : > >On Fri 11 May 2018 at 15:13:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > >> > >>That's good to know. I guess my source material ( > >>https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 May 2018 at 08:18:26 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning sudo &/or > /etc/sudoers (*INCLUDING* man pages). > > Only *ONE* individual has physical access to my _personal_ machine. Not an unusual view. Generally advanced by pe

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The bad log has two suspicious lines before that range: > [6.997775] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=abcd, idProduct=1234 > [7.000181] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, > SerialNumber=3 > Looks much like phony default values. > They are

Re: AI spam filter

2018-05-13 Thread Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian)
Have any spam filters attempted to use neural networks? How well did that work out? Nicolas George: > Gregory Seidman (2018-05-13): >> Spamassassin has a Bayesian classifier (a standard AI technique) in >> addition to its rules-base classification. > > Thanks for the pointer. But as I explained,

Re: AI spam filter

2018-05-13 Thread Nicolas George
Gregory Seidman (2018-05-13): > Spamassassin has a Bayesian classifier (a standard AI technique) in > addition to its rules-base classification. Thanks for the pointer. But as I explained, I already use bogofilter, which is already a Bayesian filter (and IIRC much lighter than Spamassassin). But B

Re: AI spam filter

2018-05-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
Spamassassin has a Bayesian classifier (a standard AI technique) in addition to its rules-base classification. You train it on positive (spam) and negative (non-spam) messages. I've been using it for at least a decade and I've been very happy with its increasing accuracy as I retrain it on correct

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2018 09:26 AM, bw wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: The result I wish to achieve is to click on the icon for either GParted or Synaptic *WITHOUT* being asked for a password (either root's or user's). I've found vague hints that adding a line to my local /etc/sudoers

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2018 09:09 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 08:18:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning sudo &/or /etc/sudoers (*INCLUDING* man pages). Only *ONE* individual

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2018 09:12 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 13/05/2018 18:48, Richard Owlett wrote: The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning sudo &/or /etc/sudoers (*INCLUDING* man pages). Only *ONE* individual has physical access to my _personal_ machine. Therefore, a

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mike Kupfer wrote: > (full files sent off-list) Received. > Hmm. The bad log has > > [7.015708] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas > [ 25.552030] random: crng init done It is quite sparse from that point on: [ 29.034207] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 2

Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/05/2018 à 17:18, David Wright a écrit : On Fri 11 May 2018 at 15:13:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote: That's good to know. I guess my source material ( https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/) is wrong. Or I misunderstood it. While a lot of the de

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > I have a copy of kern.log from the first (successful) boot, and I have > > the dmesg output from the second (failed) boot. If anyone wants to look > > at them, let me know. > > I am interested. Especially whether there are messages from the ISO 966

UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 May 2018 at 15:13:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg > wrote: > > > Le 11/05/2018 à 20:33, Kent West a écrit : > > > >> > >> I learned that EFI boot drives need to have a GPT partition table. On a > >> > > > > This is not correct. The UEFI sp

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread bw
On Sun, 13 May 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: > > The result I wish to achieve is to click on the icon for either GParted or > Synaptic *WITHOUT* being asked for a password (either root's or user's). > > I've found vague hints that adding a line to my local /etc/sudoers file > such as > richar

Re: Auto-assembled SW RAID in rescue mode

2018-05-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/05/2018 à 13:34, Niclas Arndt a écrit : At boot, I was prompted with a BIOS message saying that there was no boot device. No, a BIOS upgrade doesn't modify fstab. I believe that EFI has anti-tampering mechanisms that might have been triggered by the BIOS upgrade. (At least it's currentl

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 13/05/2018 18:48, Richard Owlett wrote: The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning sudo &/or /etc/sudoers (*INCLUDING* man pages). Only *ONE* individual has physical access to my _personal_ machine. Therefore, any distinction between 'richard' and 'root' is inherently

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 08:18:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning > sudo &/or /etc/sudoers (*INCLUDING* man pages). > > Only *ONE* individual has physical access to my _personal_ machi

Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning sudo &/or /etc/sudoers (*INCLUDING* man pages). Only *ONE* individual has physical access to my _personal_ machine. Therefore, any distinction between 'richard' and 'root' is inherently artificial. The result I wish to achieve

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > The messages quoted by Kent could well indicate that the "CD-ROM" was > > found Curt wrote: > I was laboring under another erroneous impression for some reason, but > looking back at the OP he did say that the installer complained about > not being able to "read" the cdrom (not t

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-13, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Curt wrote: >> I've mounted usb sticks that spontaneously 'umounted' themselves while >> producing similar I/O reset errors. >> Which might conceivably explain why the installer would begin asking for >> the cdrom; > > The messages quoted by Kent could wel

AI spam filter

2018-05-13 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. For years I have been using bogofilter as my main spam filter. But nowadays, neural networks and machine learning have made enormous progress. I wonder if there is somewhere in Debian a spam filter (working on the same principles as bogofilter: a stand-alone program that reads a mail from its

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mike Kupfer wrote: > usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 If we assume that 110 is a Linux errno, then this would be ETIMEDOUT 110 /* Connection timed out */ > usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd That's what my USB attached DVD drives somet

Re: Block sizes in ISOs. was: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > I have never seen a hard disk or flash drive with a sector size of 2048 > (only 512 or 4096) so the kernel must be correct and the Apple partition > table must be wrong. Both are correct. The kernel reports what it perceives as hardware block size ("physical"). The Ap

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-13, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 > ... > usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd > > I tried booting from a different USB port; that worked once, but on a > subsequent attempt it failed with the same issue. > I've moun

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/05/2018 à 21:38, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Why then does parted complain about a block size discrepancy ? Because the Apple Partition Map announces to count blocks with size 2048 whereas the Linux device file announces 512 (via ioctl(BLKSSZGET) ?)). I already kno