Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

2024-12-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:07:52AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: > writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:22:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > >> songbird writes: > >> > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier > >> > to just continue using the credentials as they exist

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

2024-12-16 Thread Loris Bennett
writes: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:22:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> songbird writes: >> > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier >> > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having >> > to set everything up all over again for no real gai

Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

2024-12-16 Thread tomas
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:22:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > songbird writes: > > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier > > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having > > to set everything up all over again for no real gain. > > Then fol

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread John Hasler
songbird writes: > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having > to set everything up all over again for no real gain. Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*. -- John Hasler j...@s

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread songbird
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: ... > Why does your mother need to memorize all of your dead stepfather's > identities? Just let them die with him. perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having to set

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread songbird
Franco Martelli wrote: ... > I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises, I'd > like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to ask him > for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose. > Does anybody know a mailing-list for C language questions? comp

Re: k3b problem?

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/24 12:19, Joe wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:06:18 -0500 gene heskett wrote: I rebooted, and found that k3b still suffers from the lag. Which apparently  messes with its mind. In 2 different dvd writers in this machine, I was not able to burn the unzipped .iso into a bootable dvd+rw

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/24 11:50, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:25 AM gene heskett wrote: What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, and k3b insists on reformatting a dvd+rw, but then does not recognize it to bur

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/24 11:09, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? I use my own program xorriso, mostly in scripts as the list of arguments can become lengthy. If you describe what you want to do then i could describe what i would do. xfburn

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:45:59 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: > But I did create a > small FAT32 partition to be mounted on /boot/efi if one day I needed > it. Which option in the installer's partitioner did you use, one of the FAT options, or the EFI one? The latter will create a partition with

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:50:02 + Joe wrote: > So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found. > I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory > did not contain a Microsoft directory containing bootmgfw.efi. > Previously, it had been happy to boot f

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM Poon Weng Chee wrote: > > Dear Debian, > > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is > used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious IP > address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php. > > Despite

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 20:12 +, Andy Smith wrote: > deb.debian.org is hosted by the Fastly CDN as are literally millions of > other sites, because that is the point of a CDN. Furthermore, it is not a single IP address, but there is some geolocation going on, so deb.debian.org resolves to differ

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM Franco Martelli wrote: I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. I'm using Valgrind to check for memory leak since I use the malloc calls. In the past I was used to using "valkyrie" but sadly isn't available an

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread jeremy ardley
On 17/12/24 03:29, George at Clug wrote: On Tuesday, 17-12-2024 at 06:08 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Monday 16 December 2024 08:09:08 am Poon Weng Chee wrote: Dear Debian, We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is used to access the Debian repositories, is

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 20:42, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 16 Dec 2024 17:21 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): Put in something to count the number of calls to malloc() and free() respectively. Don't forget calls outside of loops. There isn't calls to malloc() or free() outside loops.

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 17:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 17:34:36 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: void dealloc() { for ( const DIGIT *p = head; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) if ( p->prev != NULL ) free( p->prev ); free( last ); }

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Poon, [Note that you have emailed a large number of Debian addresses, most of which are read by volunteers who do not speak for Debian. I'm one of those.] On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 01:09:08PM +, Poon Weng Chee wrote: > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM Franco Martelli wrote: > > I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. I'm using Valgrind to > check for memory leak since I use the malloc calls. In the past I was > used to using "valkyrie" but sadly isn't available anymore for Bookworm > (does anybody know

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 16 Dec 2024 17:21 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): >> Put in something to count the number of calls to malloc() and free() >> respectively. Don't forget calls outside of loops. > > There isn't calls to malloc() or free() outside loops. What do you mean? >From a quick re-gla

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/24 10:50, Joe wrote: I would add that many modern computers are almost hardwired for Windows. ... So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found. I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory did not contain a Microsoft directory containing

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 17-12-2024 at 06:08 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Monday 16 December 2024 08:09:08 am Poon Weng Chee wrote: > > Dear Debian, > > > > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is > > used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or mal

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Joe
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:39:22 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 12/16/24 00:45, Roger Price wrote: > > I have a Dell T5820 workstation.  I had already installed Debian 12 > > in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a > > USB memory stick.  I left in place the existing Wind

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 16 December 2024 08:09:08 am Poon Weng Chee wrote: > Dear Debian, > > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is > used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious IP > address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php. > Desp

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:05:26 +0100 Franco Martelli wrote: > I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. By all means do the exercises in your handbook as a learning experience. After that, I have found very useful Roger Sessions, Reusable Data Structures For C, Prentice Hall (1989). -- D

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/24 00:45, Roger Price wrote: I have a Dell T5820 workstation.  I had already installed Debian 12 in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory stick.  I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the workstation.  All went well - a very smooth i

k3b problem?

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
I rebooted, and found that k3b still suffers from the lag. Which apparently  messes with its mind. In 2 different dvd writers in this machine, I was not able to burn the unzipped .iso into a bootable dvd+rw disk. I finally used dd to put it on a 32G usb key which worked, 32 gigs of ram is all g

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/15/24 15:15, gene heskett wrote: On 12/10/24 23:06, David Christensen wrote: On 12/10/24 18:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 18:01:24 -0800, David Christensen wrote: If official Debian packages cause your system to crash, then your Debian installation is broken. Or the

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:25 AM gene heskett wrote: > What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? xfburn claims burn mode > isn't implemented yet, and k3b insists on reformatting a dvd+rw, but > then does not recognize it to burn the image. Is there some magic > invocation I'm not doing? >

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 17:34:36 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > > > void dealloc() > > > { > > > for ( const DIGIT *p = head; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) > > > if ( p->prev != NULL ) > > > free( p->prev ); > > > free( last ); > > > } > > > > I think you might ha

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Larry Martell writes: > I use CrashPlan to back up to the cloud. Saved my ass more than once. What happened to CrashPlan though? I have a vague memory of running it for free, doing backups to a non-profit "cloud", in fact a computer club's server. Wasn't called cloud back then... But now CrashP

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Ahem, well, it is of course no SSD, just a harddrive with SATA port. > And I got this one from a heritage. Oohhh. big disappointment! Stefan

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 16:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 16:05:26 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: void add_element( unsigned int i ) { DIGIT *p; /* If the first element (the head) has not been * created, create it now. */ if ( head == NULL )

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > As far as I know, brasero and k3b relyon the same libs. Brasero depends on https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbrasero-media3-1 which does ISO 9660 production by libisofs and burning by libburn. Xfburn uses the same libraries for the same purposes. It recommends https://packa

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 16:43, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 16 Dec 2024 16:05 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): Is there a memory leak? What it sounds strange to me is that Valgrind reports: "total heap usage: 9 allocs, 8 frees, …" when for me the calls to "malloc" should be 8, not 9.

Re: unknown apt error (to me)

2024-12-16 Thread Henning Follmann
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 11:08:00AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > I try to install this package, but it fails > - > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > The following NEW packages will be

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? I use my own program xorriso, mostly in scripts as the list of arguments can become lengthy. If you describe what you want to do then i could describe what i would do. > xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, So

unknown apt error (to me)

2024-12-16 Thread Henning Follmann
I try to install this package, but it fails - Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libc6-i386 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 16:05:26 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > void add_element( unsigned int i ) > { > DIGIT *p; > /* If the first element (the head) has not been > * created, create it now. > */ > if ( head == NULL ) > { > head = last = (DIGIT *

Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread Poon Weng Chee
Dear Debian, We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious IP address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php. Despite attempting to submit this IP address for removal from the threat list

Re: dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread Hans
Hi Gene, most people are suggesting "brasero", but for me personally "k3b" is my favorite (I am using plasma as desktop). K3b: Are all binaries installed? Check for "/usr/bin/dvd+rw-format" in k3b below "programs". I never had issues with dvd formatting, even (and that makes me wonder) dvd-rw

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 16 Dec 2024 16:05 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): > Is there a memory leak? What it sounds strange to me is that Valgrind > reports: "total heap usage: 9 allocs, 8 frees, …" when for me the calls to > "malloc" should be 8, not 9. Put in something to count the number of call

dvd+rw burner

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
What app is everyone using to write dvd's today? xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet, and k3b insists on reformatting a dvd+rw, but then does not recognize it to burn the image.  Is there some magic invocation I'm not doing? Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be u

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Hans
Ahem, well, it is of course no SSD, just a harddrive with SATA port. And I got this one from a heritage. Hans Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2024, 16:10:02 CET schrieb Stefan Monnier: > > No problem for me, as I still only have one single 3,5" SSD. > > Really? A 3½" SSD? Where did you find such a bea

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No problem for me, as I still only have one single 3,5" SSD. Really? A 3½" SSD? Where did you find such a beast? I'm curious to know the make/model. Also curious what made you choose to buy such a thing instead of the more common 2½" SSDs. Stefan

OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
Hi, I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. I'm using Valgrind to check for memory leak since I use the malloc calls. In the past I was used to using "valkyrie" but sadly isn't available anymore for Bookworm (does anybody know for a replacement?). I suppose that Valgrind detects a

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/12/2024 06:15, gene heskett wrote: This is your t-bird doing that, beta is working fine, you are reading it. To be fair, the comparison must include new user profile for the ESR release packaged in Debian. By the way, the ESR branch is approximately half a year old. Beta is for tester

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Hans
Yes, same I cable I own. However, my only computer with this port is died. So at the moment I am looking for a new (better say: used) one. The cable worked well with 2,5" SSD, but 3,5" SSD need too much current, the port does not deliver. No problem for me, as I still only have one single 3,5"

Re: SOLVED ? Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > No zfs that I know of, everything is ext4. As I've just played with zfs, the zfs packages to purge are these: libnvpair3linux libuutil3linux libzfs4linux libzpool5linux zfs-dkms zfs-zed zfsutils-linux

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Roger Price wrote: > Device hd0: Filesystem type ISO9660 - Label 'Debian 12.7.0 amd64 n' > [...] > So it looks as if hd0 is the installation USB stick. Indeed (unless you have a hard disk with an ISO 9660 filesystem around the disk's partitions). > I don't understand why the USB stick no

Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Roger Price
I have a Dell T5820 workstation. I had already installed Debian 12 in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory stick. I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the workstation. All went well - a very smooth install. A few weeks later the Transcen

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread 🦓
apt install myownbank Op ma 16 dec 2024 om 08:57 schreef Andy Smith : > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 02:48:44AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:42 AM 🦓 wrote: > > > YubiKeys is a password manager in a dongle, thus the exact opposite of > passwordless. Your dogs and

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread 🦓
Op ma 16 dec 2024 om 08:42 schreef 🦓 : > YubiKeys is a password manager in a dongle, thus the exact opposite of > passwordless. > i ought to reword password to sustain my credibility, any publickeysignatures (PKS) are of course more unreplayable than presharedkeys (PSK) but call them token length

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:59 AM 🦓 wrote: > > You donot understand your own mistrust. You are trying to make it > unnecessarily difficult to use your tool. How would you like a spoon that > phishing-resistently refuses to spoonfeed you unless you have sufficiently > identified yourself as an a

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread 🦓
You donot understand your own mistrust. You are trying to make it unnecessarily difficult to use your tool. How would you like a spoon that phishing-resistently refuses to spoonfeed you unless you have sufficiently identified yourself as an authority-authorized credit card owner? Op ma 16 dec 20