Re: Can't activate my account

2020-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, lars.fran...@telia.com wrote: > I was trying to register on the user forum. If we continue to discuss this, please Cc debian-user@lists.debian.org because there might be others who know more than i do. Hopping around in forums.debian.net i got to "HOWTO contact forum admins" http://foru

Re: Amazon Workspaces Linux Client?

2020-09-15 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 9/16/20 6:33 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > Anyone here have any experience with Amazon Workspaces' Linux client? > https://clients.amazonworkspaces.com/ It looks like it's for Ubuntu > 18.4. Will Debian Buster be close enough? > > I hesitate to install a binary blob from Amazon without first chec

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 21:38 (UTC-0500): > I ought to have guessed—I don't know how you keep track of so many! I have a spreadsheet for tracking several things, such as dates of last update/upgrade, video card installed, which DE. Each disk's partition inventory is comprised mostly

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 18:50 (UTC-0500): > But also bear in mind that not so many people have actually run the > debian-installer itself without Recommended packages being installed. > I certainly never have (I don't know how to do it), even though at > one time I ran an already insta

Amazon Workspaces Linux Client?

2020-09-15 Thread Charles Curley
Anyone here have any experience with Amazon Workspaces' Linux client? https://clients.amazonworkspaces.com/ It looks like it's for Ubuntu 18.4. Will Debian Buster be close enough? I hesitate to install a binary blob from Amazon without first checking here. Thank you. -- Does anybody read signat

Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have a fresh install of Buster which is running MATE as the Desktop Environment.  It has taken me until now to get it working, without messing up my current Stretch install on the same machine.  The next thing that I want to do is replace systemd with sysvinit.  I am not trying to start a fla

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 14:42:11 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 12:32 (UTC-0400): > > > Felix's first post came from, I don't quite get. > > Fallible memory. I use multiple distros, and do a lot more upgrading than new > installs. openSUSE, last I installed, a mon

Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

2020-09-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 9/12/20 12:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages? No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an apt concept. Otherwise, all packa

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 21:23:20 (+0200), Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Brian writes: > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > The Debian desktop environment installs task-desktop. This package > > recommends desktop task packages. task-gnome-desktop is the first one >

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 21:23:20 +0200, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > The Debian desktop environment installs task-desktop. This package > > recommends desktop task packages. task-gnome-desktop is the first one

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-15 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Brian writes: > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The Debian desktop environment installs task-desktop. This package > recommends desktop task packages. task-gnome-desktop is the first one > listed, so it will be the one installed. In that sense, the installer > does k

Re: cron consolekit pam_ck_connector.so: no such file

2020-09-15 Thread Beco
Thanks Reco, I don't know how you keep up after all these years seen you here on the debian list. Congrats. Beco. On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 11:36, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:19:39AM -0300, Beco wrote: > > Is this pam module deprecated? > > Yes, it was removed fr

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

2020-09-15 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Nate Bargmann writes: > I am going to be deploying a Debian system at a location where I am > unsure if I can make any inbound connection into that system. I am > going to set up an SSH tunnel from that system to a host in my LAN. > What I am concerned about is the remote possibility of theft and

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 12:32 (UTC-0400): > Felix's first post came from, I don't quite get. Fallible memory. I use multiple distros, and do a lot more upgrading than new installs. openSUSE, last I installed, a month ago, puts something on each of tty1-12. 1 is the installer itself, i

Re: Can't activate my account

2020-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lars Fransén wrote: > I have created an account, user name LarsGIF, e-mail address > lars.fran...@telia.com. The subscription page of this list https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ does not ask for a username, only for a mail address. So you probably applied somewhere else. Where exactly

Re: Can't activate my account

2020-09-15 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:23:07 +0200 Lars Fransén wrote: > Hello, > > I have created an account, user name LarsGIF, e-mail address > lars.fran...@telia.com. I am not receiving any mail to activate the > account. An account for what, exactly? The mailing list? If you get this then you're probably

Can't activate my account

2020-09-15 Thread Lars Fransén
Hello, I have created an account, user name LarsGIF, e-mail address lars.fran...@telia.com. I am not receiving any mail to activate the account. I have made several attemts to force a send and I have looked in different folders in my mail client. Please help. Best regards Lars Skickades från

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

2020-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 04:39:49 (+1000), David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 04:27, David wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 00:10, David Wright wrote: > > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 19:48:37 (+1000), David wrote: > > > > > To explore and confirm and maybe learn something from > > > > smarter peopl

Re: cron consolekit pam_ck_connector.so: no such file

2020-09-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:19:39AM -0300, Beco wrote: > Is this pam module deprecated? Yes, it was removed from main archive back in 2018 - [1]. > I can't find the package that provides it on > debian buster. There's no package in buster that provides the PAM module or ConsoleKit it

cron consolekit pam_ck_connector.so: no such file

2020-09-15 Thread Beco
Dear debians, Is this pam module deprecated? I can't find the package that provides it on debian buster. And I get a lot of logs: CRON: PAM adding faulty module: pam_ck_connector.so SSHD: PAM adding faulty module: pam_ck_connector.so unable to dlopen(pam_ck_connector.so): /lib/security/pam_ck_co

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 15/09/2020 10:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Another choice would be to run Debian stable, but don't install Debian's > version of nginx. Use upstream's releases, compile them yourself, and > update them yourself whenever you need to (for security reasons or > otherwise). If one chooses to do so,

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 15/09/2020 10:38, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > No: no new version. > > If you're unhappy with that, think about these choices: > > - install upcoming Debian 11 (Testing, Bullseye) and live with the changes > of packages and possible errors in the system. Release date unknown. > > - install Debi

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 03:38:33PM +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > No: no new version. > > If you're unhappy with that, think about these choices: > > - install upcoming Debian 11 (Testing, Bullseye) and live with the changes > of packages and possible errors in the system. Release date unknown

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi Revanth, Suryadevara, Revanth wrote: > Hi Klaus, > > Just needed to re-confirm couple of things here > > 1. I understand that the NGINX version shipped by default is secured and will > be updated with patches should there be some security issues. But my question > is, Can we expect the lat

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Suryadevara, Revanth wrote: > Just needed to re-confirm couple of things here > > 1. I understand that the NGINX version shipped by default is secured and will > be updated with patches should there be some security issues. But my question > is, Can we expect the latest version of NGINX(i.e. v1

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:23:11PM +, Suryadevara, Revanth wrote: > Hi Klaus, > > Just needed to re-confirm couple of things here > > 1. I understand that the NGINX version shipped by default is secured and will > be updated with patches should there be some security issues. But my question

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:23:11PM +, Suryadevara, Revanth wrote: > 1. I understand that the NGINX version shipped by default is secured and will > be updated with patches should there be some security issues. But my question > is, Can we expect the latest version of NGINX(i.e. v1.18.x) to be

RE: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Suryadevara, Revanth
Hi Klaus, Just needed to re-confirm couple of things here 1. I understand that the NGINX version shipped by default is secured and will be updated with patches should there be some security issues. But my question is, Can we expect the latest version of NGINX(i.e. v1.18.x) to be available in

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

2020-09-15 Thread echo test
>Ideally, this restriction should be based on the public key of the pair but I've not seen in sshd_config(5) a way for the Match directive to use the public key as its trigger Not an expert but did you look at the certificate based authentication? You can define your own certificate authority and

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

2020-09-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Nate Bargmann wrote: > I am going to be deploying a Debian system at a location where I am > unsure if I can make any inbound connection into that system. I am > going to set up an SSH tunnel from that system to a host in my LAN. Use Wireguard. It's available in newer kernels and in backports.

Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

2020-09-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All. I am going to be deploying a Debian system at a location where I am unsure if I can make any inbound connection into that system. I am going to set up an SSH tunnel from that system to a host in my LAN. What I am concerned about is the remote possibility of theft and therefore exposing my

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 09:13:04AM +, Suryadevara, Revanth wrote: > 1.) Pertaining to Nginx there is no CVE-ID, main concern is, > According to nginx download page, (http://nginx.org/en/download.html) Nginx > 1.14.x is no longer supported and will not be getting regular patches. So, if > any

[SOLVED] Re: VirtualBox - vboxpci

2020-09-15 Thread Klaus Jantzen
On 9/6/20 11:17 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, I am trying to run VB 16.1.14 r140239 on my laptop under Debian Buster. After sucessfully signing vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp I installed the extension package. Now I have to additionally sign vboxpci. However, this module was not installe

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi Revanth, as you might have found out now, the Debian Security team is backporting security patches to older versions of OpenSource software, and Debian 10 isn't insecure. The advantage of backporting is, that you don't have to adapt config files to latest syntax on an update, nor introduce inc

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Reco
Hi. Please do not top post. On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 09:13:04AM +, Suryadevara, Revanth wrote: > Hi Klaus, > > 1.) Pertaining to Nginx there is no CVE-ID, main concern is, > According to nginx download page, (http://nginx.org/en/download.html) > Nginx 1.14.x is no longer suppor

RE: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Suryadevara, Revanth
Hi Klaus, 1.) Pertaining to Nginx there is no CVE-ID, main concern is, According to nginx download page, (http://nginx.org/en/download.html) Nginx 1.14.x is no longer supported and will not be getting regular patches. So, if any security Vulnerabilities arise then system would be at hig

Re: Security Vulnerabilities with Nginx v1.14.2 and GNOME Evolution

2020-09-15 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Suryadevara, Revanth wrote: > > We have a system running on Debian 10 with Nginx v1.14.2, GNOME Evolution > v3.30.5-1.1 installed along with other packages. > [...] > When can we expect latest versions of Nginx and GNOME Evolution to be > available in Debian 10 ? Which security bugs do you thi