Security Flaw:

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Bostrom
I cannot update my passphrase in crypttab although the passphrase is updated in the OS I cannot enter my OS without using the latest passphrase. Yours sincerely Richardh Bostrom

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > >setfattr -n system.nfs4_acl -v > > > '\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\26\1\247\0\0\0\6OWNER@\0\0\0\0\0' /tmp/x Max Nikulin wrote: > Shell does not interpret backslashes in single (and double) quotes. Non-interpretation by the shell was my intention. I wanted the string to reach

Re: change video driver

2024-07-09 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-07 09:36, mick.crane wrote: On [cough] Trixie, just how do I change the video driver. I'm using driver xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on older kernel There must have been a reason, likely the available resolution. With kernel 6.9.7-amd64 have to "startx" and then the available di

Reviving Usenet Was: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Max writes: > Gnus (Emacs) should be a bit more than just text UI. Yes, of course Gnus: it's what I use. But there is no point in mentioning anything connected with Emacs when talking about enticing people away from Facebook et al even though it is actually quite easy to use these days. -- John H

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 08:20:23 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 10/07/2024 02:35, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Here the error happens while trying to set the attribute. > > Shell equivalent is > > > >setfattr -n system.nfs4_acl -v > > '\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\26\1\247\0\0\0\6OWNER@\0\0\0\0\0'

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/07/2024 23:15, John Hasler wrote: I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. Even easier might be a browser plugin. Thunderbird supports NNTP and likely Claws as well. Gnus (Emacs) should be a bit more than just text UI. I am in doubts what you mean by "browser

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 10/07/2024 02:35, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Here the error happens while trying to set the attribute. Shell equivalent is setfattr -n system.nfs4_acl -v '\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\26\1\247\0\0\0\6OWNER@\0\0\0\0\0' /tmp/x Shell does not interpret backslashes in single (and double) quotes.

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 12:51 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. > > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? > Others must have the same general p

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread eben
On 7/9/24 16:32, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:20:01 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. > Even easier might be a browser plugin. The Pan newsreader does the job nicely and is about as graphical as you'd want to

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread cgibbs
On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:20:01 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. > Even easier might be a browser plugin. The Pan newsreader does the job nicely and is about as graphical as you'd want to get. Although I normally use slrn for Usen

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (I Cc: patrice.dur...@gmail.com because i see no "LDOSUBSCRIBER" in the "X-Spam-Status:" header.) Jumping ahead: Look into the local file /etc/xattr.conf and try what happens if you change system.nfs4_acl permissions to system.nfs4_acl s

Re: Re: Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Patrice Duroux
> Looks like the error happens while trying to set the extended attributes > on the destination file. I don't really know how xattr works, but > it looks like it's trying to set an attribute named "system.nfs4_acl" > on a file that's in the /tmp directory. That is more clear to me now. And so I c

Re: Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 19:12:28 +0200, Patrice Duroux wrote: > $ LANG=C strace cp -p test.sh /tmp [...] > read(6, "# /etc/xattr.conf\n#\n# Format:\n# "..., 4096) = 681 > read(6, "", 4096) = 0 > close(6)= 0 > fgetxattr(4, "system.nfs4_acl", NULL

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 12:30 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 07:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. This is somewhat tangential to the main question, but I find that ned

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 12:25 PM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? Others must have

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 07:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group > for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. This is somewhat tangential to the main question, but I find that nedit has everything I need. If you can't

Re: Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Patrice Duroux
> If we can't figure it out from her replies to our *many* requests for > additional information, then my next request would be to strace it, > and see exactly which system call is failing. $ LANG=C strace cp -p test.sh /tmp execve("/usr/bin/cp", ["cp", "-p", "test.sh", "/tmp"], 0x7ffe58e09538 /*

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group > for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. > > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? > Others must have the same general problem. Did you look at https:/

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 09:06 AM, Sirius wrote: On tis, 2024/07/09 at 07:55:28 GMT, Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. I was going to suggest comp.editors, but then I recognised your name. :-

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 08:59 AM, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: When posting, I assumed a mailing list would be the more likely solution. I just don't know how to find suitable list. Did you try the general KDE mailinglist? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde I do

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Sirius writes: > Usenet is rather quiet these days, something I hope will change once > people tire of web-forums that is more preoccupied with showing you > ads than they are solving your problem. Not as long as browsers fail to support it and the myth that it cannot handle anything but plain tex

Re: Production Ready

2024-07-09 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 02:03:55PM +, Richard Bostrom wrote: > I think Debian is production ready in it's current state. Check! > Users only needs full control over updates. Check! > A simple leaflet of best practices. Ten pages or so might be enough. We can do better than that: https://ww

Production Ready

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Bostrom
I think Debian is production ready in it's current state. Users only needs full control over updates. A simple leaflet of best practices. Ten pages or so might be enough. Yours sincerely Richardh Bostrom

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/7/24 22:06, Sirius wrote: On tis, 2024/07/09 at 07:55:28 GMT, Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. Mailing lists, well.. You could ask Debian Project nicely if they would cr

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Sirius
On tis, 2024/07/09 at 07:55:28 GMT, Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. I was going to suggest comp.editors, but then I recognised your name. :-D > In general, how does one find a s

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > When posting, I assumed a mailing list would be the more likely solution. I > just don't know how to find suitable list. Did you try the general KDE mailinglist? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 08:25 AM, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? For usenet you can search the active file of your server. I was using news.eternal-september.org Subscribe to some groups and see if someon

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? For usenet you can search the active file of your server. I was using news.eternal-september.org Subscribe to some groups and see if someone respond. But usenet is almost dead nowadays :/

How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? Others must have the same general problem.

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrice Duroux wrote: > user:1234:-w- So it's not that /tmp would refuse on ACL. > getfacl : suppression du premier « / » des noms de chemins absolus > (sorry for the french output) The translator to french was not overly capricious. So my school french suffices. Google would help if the t

Fwd: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Patrice Duroux
Sorry for my direct answer. -- Forwarded message - De : Patrice Duroux Date: mar. 9 juil. 2024 à 14:07 Subject: Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp To: Thomas Schmitt Hi Thomas, Thanks! Here is for the source file of the copy: $ getfacl test.sh # file: test.sh # owner: p

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 13:46:12 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Patrice Duroux wrote: > > > cp: preserving permissions for '/tmp/test.sh': Operation not supported > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I was thinking something similar, but the "ls -l ./test.sh" did not > > show any markup indicatin

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrice Duroux wrote: > > cp: preserving permissions for '/tmp/test.sh': Operation not supported Greg Wooledge wrote: > I was thinking something similar, but the "ls -l ./test.sh" did not > show any markup indicating ACL. At least cp calls ACL "permissions". See https://sources.debian.org/

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 13:20:04 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Patrice Duroux wrote: > > option: --preserve=mode > > cp: preserving permissions for '/tmp/test.sh': Operation not supported > > exitcode: 1 > > [...] > > It says that the operation is not supported but still the mode of the > > copy i

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrice Duroux wrote: > option: --preserve=mode > cp: preserving permissions for '/tmp/test.sh': Operation not supported > exitcode: 1 > [...] > It says that the operation is not supported but still the mode of the > copy is ok. Maybe it sees ACL at the source file and your /tmp filesystem ca

Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 11:04:14 +0200, Patrice Duroux wrote: > $ cat test.sh > #!/usr/bin/sh > > export LANG=C > ls -l ./test.sh > echo "option: -p" > cp -p ./test.sh /tmp > echo "exitcode: "$? > ls -l /tmp/test.sh > rm /tmp/test.sh > for p in mode timestamps ownership ; do > echo "option: --pres

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2024-07-09 Thread Farhan Faruqui
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question related to cp (-p) and /tmp

2024-07-09 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, On Sid (amd64), I am facing the following: $ ./test.sh -rwxr-x--- 1 patrice patrice 300 Jul 9 10:46 ./test.sh option: -p cp: preserving permissions for '/tmp/test.sh': Operation not supported exitcode: 1 -rwxr-x--- 1 patrice patrice 300 Jul 9 10:46 /tmp/test.sh option: --preserve=mode cp: p

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2024-07-09 Thread Richard Bostrom
rsync works perfectly well i apologize for whining it was a simple permissions issue. oh what you have to put up with ... Yours sincerely Richardh Bostrom Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.