Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-04-12 Thread Eben King
On 4/10/25 05:26, Roland Mueller wrote: When starting the terminal with some command from command line one can add the -H flag to keep the terminal open. This way the window does not close after completion of the command but it cannot be used for running commands. /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 11, 2025, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > (That doesn't mean you have to use > > > > mdns, it just means that if you instead decide to do something like > > > > copy hosts files around the network you're choosing to make up your > > >

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-12 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Christoph Pleger wrote: > I have edited the source code of cups a little to get a some more > more detailed information about the problem (the actual code > only gives a meaningless message “The print file cannot be opened: > Permission denied") and then found out the following: Enabling the CUPS

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 09:29:41AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM tomas wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 01:32:06PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > On 12/4/25 13:24, tomas wrote: > > > > So, share your wisdom with us: what makes ssh less secure than > > > > "a VPN

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread Lee
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM tomas wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 01:32:06PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > On 12/4/25 13:24, tomas wrote: > > > So, share your wisdom with us: what makes ssh less secure than > > > "a VPN"? > > > > > > It's quite simple. If you have a VPN exposed to the

Re: Reverting back to the previous Chromium version

2025-04-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 10:31:26 +0200, local10 wrote: > Apr 12, 2025, 05:44 by cbr...@t-online.de: > > > You could grab the .deb files from snapshot.debian.org > > Thanks, I found Cromium files I needed there and copied them to > "/var/cache/apt/archives/". I know I can install them with dpkg b

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-12 Thread songbird
Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem with CUPS and hope that someone can help me > with the solution. ... > Does anyone have an idea why the strangely named process runs with root > rights on one machine, but not on the other? this is my guess... purge the problem ins

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/04/2025 à 20:12, Marc SCHAEFER a écrit : Hello, systemd dependancies that are activated on a Debian system imply a lot of library injections into sshd, much more than the stock OpenBSD ssh. To avoid this, there seem to be two approaches: - remove those dependancies (see below) -

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 09:39:53AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > sometimes, yes, I think [VPNs] are overblown compared to a "simple" > ssh server. I think that a decent modern VPN solution is much simpler than OpenSSH and especially when your alternative is recompiling OpenSSH to remove depen

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 09:39:53AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Hello, > > Jumping into your interesting ssh vs VPN discussion: [...] Thanks for all those interesting details. To sum up, I'd concur with Andy in one point: *if* you are running a VPN anyway, it's better to hide you SSH behind th

Re: Reverting back to the previous Chromium version

2025-04-12 Thread local10
Apr 12, 2025, 05:44 by cbr...@t-online.de: > You could grab the .deb files from snapshot.debian.org > Thanks, I found Cromium files I needed there and copied them to "/var/cache/apt/archives/". I know I can install them with dpkg but can it be done with aptitude? Somehow aptitude doesn't see t

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, Jumping into your interesting ssh vs VPN discussion: On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 07:24:17AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > - you didn't explain how "a VPN's" mechanism is inherently more > secure than sshd's, given that their mechanisms are all pretty > similar. I agree. Especially si