Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 04:03:57PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > Generally, 'impossible' email names are aimed at situations where an > > in-house SMTP server downloads domain email from an external POP3 > > server, > > I do exactly that, except for the bounce part. All incoming mai

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 03:44:24PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, 4 April 2022 12:03:59 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 11:51:47AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > Tomas, I've had fail2ban installed and running since wheezy. I don't > believe that in all that

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 03:42:46PM -0400, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: [...] > Looks that I failed to deliver the point in my post. > > All 4 steps are correct. And I most certainly can happily change the value > in the /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness file to whatever I want. > The problem

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather long time

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:20:01 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: >On 2022-04-04 at 15:40, Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter >> wrote: >> >>>Noah Sombrero wrote: I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It

Re: logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nchez?= writes: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:46:33PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > > > For the past few days, logcheck is sending: > > > > Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: Starting system activity accounting > > tool... > > Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]

Re: VMWare Horizon Client has glitchy graphics after update to Bullseye

Thanks for the answer, Kent. Sorry for the delay, but I have an update on this. > 1) Try a different Desktop Environment (e.g xfce4 instead of Gnome, etc) I tried it with LXQt+xfwm4, but the issue remained. I also tried updating to the backports 5.16 kernel, but the problem still persists. T

Re: password

On Sunday, April 03, 2022 11:19:52 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 21:25:45 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge > I've never installed any version of Debian without a root password > over a period of 25 years, ie since buzz. I type it

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 19:33:16 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: > > Thanks. Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I tried checking > > it; that also modified on printing. Libreoffice appears to be > > ignoring that flag. > > I just confirmed that the version of LibreOffice I'm running matches > what

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

Nicholas Geovanis writes: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:27 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > It's software written by folks who sometimes know what they're doing. > There are only so many Kevin Mitnick's and Phyber Optik's in the world at > time > :-) For which we're all grateful! > > So here's th

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

Joe writes: > Generally, 'impossible' email names are aimed at situations where an > in-house SMTP server downloads domain email from an external POP3 > server, I do exactly that, except for the bounce part. All incoming mail regardless of recipient is handed to spamassassin which disposes of the

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:32:51 -0400 Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > >I guess the next step is to reinstall debian without specifying a > >root password, so I can use sudo to establish one. After that, > >perhaps I can log in as root. > > That does work. I am on my way now to deal with the display

Re: toshiba video problem

On 2022-04-04 at 15:40, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter > wrote: > >>Noah Sombrero wrote: >>> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >>> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >>> display is offset to

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 15:32 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter > wrote: > > > Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), > > > yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the > > > dis

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter wrote: >Noah Sombrero wrote: >> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >> display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any >> referenc

Re: logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:46:33PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > For the past few days, logcheck is sending: > > Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: Starting system activity accounting > tool... > Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Succeeded. > Apr 4 11:40:13 jo

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter wrote: >Noah Sombrero wrote: >> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >> display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any >> referenc

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:40:47 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings > as usernames -- it looks li

logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

For the past few days, logcheck is sending: Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: Starting system activity accounting tool... Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Succeeded. Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: Finished system activity accounting tool. iterated every 10

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Monday, 4 April 2022 12:03:59 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 11:51:47AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I'd be watching the logs for the src address, and the 2nd time I saw > > the same address, add it to my iptables drop recipe. voila! [...] > That's what fai

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather long time. Today I wanted to reduce it and to my a

Re: toshiba video problem

On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 08:40 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks. I did find suggestions like this online. But it appears that >> xorg.conf is no longer used, and is indeed missing from xorg.conf.d. >> So I can simply create a new file w

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:53:34PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > One of the things I've noted about bullseye, is that apache2 is no longer > generating the "other" logs like it did for stretch for many years. That > was where all the bots wound up and I'm guessing there must be north of >

Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 12:20 (UTC-0400): >>> 2) must use all_generic_ide. This is suggested as an option by the >>> debian installer in the Special Situations section. >>Was this determination made years ago, or only just now with Debian 11? Some >>installation options are only a

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:27 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Joe Pfeiffer > wrote: > > > > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > > a

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

Nicholas Geovanis writes: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:20:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero wrote: >On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Charles Curley > wrote: > >>On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:56:56 -0400 >>Noah Sombrero wrote: >> >>> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during >>> installation, regardless of what th

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Monday, 4 April 2022 12:03:59 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 11:51:47AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I'd be watching the logs for the src address, and the 2nd time I saw > > the same address, add it to my iptables drop recipe. voila! [...] > That's what fai

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On 2022-04-04, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Chrome does that. > I never turned on 'Save passwords' or whatever it is so remained unaware of this feature.

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 08:09 (UTC-0400): > >> 1024x768 is the highest resolution offered by debian on my laptop. It >> is true that I got better with installations of ms server 2003 and win >> 7. > >When was this discovery fir

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 08:09 (UTC-0400): > >> 1024x768 is the highest resolution offered by debian on my laptop. It >> is true that I got better with installations of ms server 2003 and win >> 7. > >When was this discovery fir

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 11:51:47AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > I'd be watching the logs for the src address, and the 2nd time I saw the > same address, add it to my iptables drop recipe. voila! [...] That's what fail2ban does for you. Only that it looks at many logs in parallel (your ssh

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings > as usernames -- it looks like t

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Monday, 4 April 2022 10:27:09 EDT Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2022-04-04 07:40:47-0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > > attempts to access my mail host using what a

Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 08:09 (UTC-0400): > 1024x768 is the highest resolution offered by debian on my laptop. It > is true that I got better with installations of ms server 2003 and win > 7. When was this discovery first made, Debian 11, or some older release? If older release, whi

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

> NOTES: all risk is your responsiblity ;;; Please take tomas' message: (better way) https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/04/msg00128.html Sincerely, Linux fan Byung-Hee -- ^고맙습니다 _救濟蒼生_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Charles Curley wrote: >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:56:56 -0400 >Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during >> installation, regardless of what the installer says. To get a root >> password, I need to add >> rw i

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 17:27 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2022-04-04 07:40:47-0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > > attempts to access my mail host using what

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

Joe Pfeiffer writes: > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings > as usernames -- it looks like this: > > Apr 4 03:04:30 snowb

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 10:20:09 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Chrome does that. As does Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-generate-secure-password-firefox > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:04 AM Curt wrote: > > > On 2022-04-03, Brian wrote: > > > > > >> One of the bits of advice is t

Re: password

On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 08:59:15 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > When starting debian, you are first presented with the grub partition > selector. Press space to stop it continuing automatically. Then > press e. This takes you to the editing the startup script where you > can enter rw init=/bin/bas

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

Teemu writes: > I would guess that someone has tried to automatically collect a lot of > email addresses and ended up getting also those message id's. Then an > attacker tries to intrude with those addresses. Web sites insisting on using email addresses as user names is one of the many pernicious

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

* 2022-04-04 07:40:47-0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings > as usernames -- it looks like this:

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

Chrome does that. On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:04 AM Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-03, Brian wrote: > > > >> One of the bits of advice is to use long passwords made up of three > >> random words and to use a different password per website / to use > >> your web browser to generate an appropriate rando

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 07:40:47AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to > ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of > attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings > as usernames -- it loo

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 09:36:03AM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: [...] > >I suggest to try saving as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf, the > >following, [...] > Tried this, tried to save it. Response is that I do not have > permission to save a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ You've to be ro

random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

This isn't really debian-specific, but I don't know a better place to ask... recently, I've been having servers make a large number of attempts to access my mail host using what appear to be random strings as usernames -- it looks like this: Apr 4 03:04:30 snowball saslauthd[1179]: pam_unix(:aut

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On 2022-04-03, Brian wrote: > >> One of the bits of advice is to use long passwords made up of three >> random words and to use a different password per website / to use >> your web browser to generate an appropriate random password. >> Forcing passwords to change regularly may not be a good way

Re: password

On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 15:35 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > If I've been paying attention, the OP's is a "Toshiba Satellite p52 > S509"; that would be a Pentium 4, so yes, i386 seems appropriate. Ah, guess I've not been paying attention as I didn't notice the two threads were by the same perso

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:10:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >I found this: > > >If this matches your laptop, the native display resolution is 1440x900, which >should be what we are shooting to acquire by our

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:20:01 +0200, Tixy wrote: >On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 08:21 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >[...] >> Iso written to usb stick. debian-11.3.0-i386-netinst.iso > >This is not related to your password problem, but did you meant to >install a 32-bit OS? Yes this is an ancient toshiba

Re: password

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 02:14:41PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 08:21 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > [...] > > Iso written to usb stick. debian-11.3.0-i386-netinst.iso > > This is not related to your password problem, but did you meant to > install a 32-bit OS? For 64-bit you would w

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 05:30:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:19:52PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> I've never installed any version of Debian without a root password >> over a period of 25 years, ie since buzz. I type it here: > >We're still waiting for the plot twist in w

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 05:30:01 +0200, David Wright wrote: >On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 21:25:45 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: >> On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge >> wrote: >> >> >On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> >> I understand that debian 11 does not e

Re: password

On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 08:21 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: [...] > Iso written to usb stick. debian-11.3.0-i386-netinst.iso This is not related to your password problem, but did you meant to install a 32-bit OS? For 64-bit you would want the 'amd64' flavour of the installer not 'i386'. (Note, the 'a

Re: Debian 11.3 kernel panics on Epyc 7281 CPU

thanks Greg, will look into that when I have time, but I kind of thought if it was that universal it would have already been solved (by someone with more knowledge than me). Surely the issue will be related to a small combination of hardware rather than being common to a whole family of CPUs? reg

Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:10:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero > wrote: > > >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter > >wrote: > > > >>Noah Sombrero wrote: > >>> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), > >>> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and

Re: password

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 04:30:01 +0200, Charles Curley wrote: >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:27:57 -0400 >Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> >Otherwise, once you have installed, for temporary access to root use >> >sudo -i. Then change the password with passwd. >> >> I get error "user is not in the sudoers file.

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:30:01 +0200, "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> >> I tried to install it with apt-get. >> The response I got asked "Are you root"? No, as I have reported in >> another thread, I don't seem to be able to get a root

Re: toshiba video problem

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:10:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >I found this: > > >If this matches your laptop, the native display resolution is 1440x900, which >should be what we are shooting to acquire by our

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks, Debian 11 on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia Quadro K2100M card. I've been using the system with full (100%) screen brightness for rather long time. Today I wanted to reduce it and to my astonishment found that GNOME "progressed" t

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 11:12:07PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sun Apr 3 23:07:14 2022 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Much of it is security theater. > > I'll remember that phrase. I learnt it from Bruce Schneier [1]. I have the hunch that he coined it himself. > > Someone (TM) up the