Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-14 Thread deloptes
Eugen Dedu wrote: > Thank you to all for your comments.  After the post, it worked ok until > yesterday.  Yesterday I shut down the laptop and noticed that the > problem affected grub again, so X is not faulty.  I opened the laptop, > but only the back cover; the keyboard is on the front cover, an

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-14 Thread Thomas Pircher
Henning Follmann wrote: > Either keys generated thru ssh-genkey or if you use > gnupg to manage your keys. > gnupg has the advantage that you could use > a gnupg card to store your keys. Thanks for the clarification, it was purely out of interest. As someone who has discovered ssh CAs only relativ

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Aug 2020 at 08:25:20 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 aug 20, 20:14:03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an > > external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I > > think I want to

Re: RFE: The installation DVD use LVM2 and crytsetup, why can't you use them with the live DVD?

2020-08-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
Well, yes, the installation disk contains the cryptsetup and lvm libraries. What I couldn't find is what kind of coppying/rsyncing it uses. I could only parse some "boot/grub/x86_64-efi/gptsync": _SDIR="/media/cdrom0" find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex .*"\(crypt\|lvm\|sync\)".* $ find "${_SDIR}

Re: RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
anything "ephemeral" and having a(n apparently) "simple" only way of doing things play into their games. They are using javascript to get into and mess with people's computers/life. They can change both the link to the installation file to be downloaded and to the signatures of the files on the

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-14 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:38:04PM +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Henning Follmann wrote: > > Maintain a good keychain and you wont need 2FA. > > I'm curious, What do you mean by keychain in context of ssh? The > application of that name or something else? > > Thomas > Either keys generated thru

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-14 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:31:08AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:32:13PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > >Two for sure and put them in a RAID1 -- formatted ext4. And watch that > >mdstat. > > > >And a third or fourth to see if you can get ZFS going. > > For playing around wit

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:32:13PM +, ghe2001 wrote: Two for sure and put them in a RAID1 -- formatted ext4. And watch that mdstat. And a third or fourth to see if you can get ZFS going. For playing around with tech, sure: for part of a mundane, reliable backup strategy for the OP, and as

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-14 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi, I have a Dell Latitude 5580 laptop, and have been a happy debian unstable user for 20 years. I have a very weird problem with its builtin keyboard which slows down my work significantly (ctrl-c, ctrl-x, ENTER etc. do not work): Since several months ago some keys on my keyboard do not work