1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log out.
2. Users home directories get created with 755 permissions. Anyone can
access your home directory and files.
3. Debian installer defaults to creating user group names which is just a mess.
Obviously these are not cri
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I always hate it that the default skeleton for normal users is to
> clear the screen on logout. It is one of the irritating things that I
> always fix on my systems so that it doesn't do that by default. It
> gets in the way of productivity. I
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> You should forward your query/proposal to Debian devel mailing list where
> "food is being cooked" :-)
Thanks for the info and I will forward it to the developer list. I
always wanted to tell them I hate the fact that when 'root' logs out,
the te
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> Carlos Mennens writes:
> The entries you are complaining about are
> placeholders. The idea is to standardize the UIDs of the various system
> users. See section 9.2 of the Debian Policy manual.
Not so much of a complaint rath
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> 12.1.12.1 Are all system users necessary?
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch12.en.html#s-faq-os-users
I guess I'm still puzzled. That link is a great explanation to what
each user does and it's fairly common sense that no
I am researching or trying to understand how I can understand why
Debian developers decided to implement a fresh installation of Squeeze
specifically with orphaned users listed in '/etc/passwd' file. What I
mean is if I do a fresh 'minimal' installation of Debian Linux
(Squeeze) and when I say 'min
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
> I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface.
It's dated in appearance and the lack of a back end database is what
killed it for me.
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> I like Postfix and Dovecot :-)
I think Postfix is the best open source MTA available on Linux hands
down. I have used Sendmail, Qmail, and Exim and none of them have
given me the flexability and security of Postfix. Not to mention it's
the easies
What is the deal now with 'restarting' networking services in Debian 5
& Squeeze? I use to be able to run the command:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Now when I do so in Debian, I get a strange error:
Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may
not enable again some inter
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:28 PM, GIE KALIFA COULIBALY
wrote:
>
>
>
> I am new to debian, and I don't have an OS installed on my hard drive yet. I
> was wondering if a finished debian Cd/DVD would boot off and do the
> installation at the start up of the computer.I
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> Yes, sorry, nothing there! nothing in my head either!!!
> Thierry
Who can we alert on this issue?
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:08:31 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 10 August 2010 14:27:08 Carlos Mennens wrote:
>>> Am I the only one who noticed that when you go to Debian's site and try
>>> an
Am I the only one who noticed that when you go to Debian's site and
try and download a daily image of Squeeze / Testing Netinst under
'amd64', there is nothing there. I see ISO downloads available for
i386 but not amd64. Anyone know what is going on?
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I don't understand why Debian defaults home directory permissions to
755 where most every other major distribution does 700. I find it
unusual that I have to 'chmod -R 700' a newly created users /home
directory. I know I can modify /etc/adduser.conf or
/etc/default/useradd.conf files to change the
I downloaded the latest 'Squeeze' Netinst ISO from the Debian site and
after the install was complete, noticed in the Grub kernel list it had
installed a Trunk kernel and was told by many that this is a dated
kernel and should not be used. Is this true? Why am I still getting
this 'Trunk' kernel fr
How can I force Debian to use a custom colored PS1 I have defined
under /root/.bashrc for all new users I create with 'useradd' or
'adduser'? Is there somewhere I can modify this like in /etc/profile?
Can someone just let me know what the correct process would be for Debian.
Thank you for any assi
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman
wrote:
> Everything in the 64 bit section is 64 bit, except the ia32 compability
> libraries. If you make sure you haven't installed those (which should be the
> case on a base system that doesn't need those), then you have a fully 64 bit
> system.
I was wondering if by default when I installed Debian Squeeze using
the "debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso" from Debian's site, does
it default to installing both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries / packages?
The reason I ask is because we're doing testing here in the Army where
I work and I need to
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote:
> I bet you did a netinstall, hence the 'trunk' kernel which is an older
> version than the 2.6.32-3 kernel. Once you've installed the latest version
> you can just remove the older. Sometimes virtualbox won't boot on the 32-3
> version either
Is the 'Trunk' kernel needed for Debian? I installed Squeeze and it
defaulted to the 'Trunk' kernel. I was told the Trunk kernel is no
longer supported or available. Is this true? I am confused because it
still installed and Virtualbox doesn't like it. I have to switch to
the default "2.6.32-3-amd6
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Abraham Chaffin wrote:
> What training / certification courses would you guys recommend for Sys Admin
> / Security Admin training or certification for Debian?
> Is the LPIC a good route? Go with Red Hat certification? Or what do you all
> suggest?
Certifications ar
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Lisi wrote:
> This is basically what Jordan means by "upstream" in this context - the
> drivers supplied by nVidia. Note that Jordan's advice is contradicted by
> Ron. "You pays your money and you takes your choice." ;-)
OK so I guess it's just personal preferen
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> The nvidia installer from upstream will give you issues. In debian we
> use module-assistant to install things such as this. You can find a
> detailed guide specific to nvidia drivers here:
> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
For Debian users is there a suggested and correct method for
installing nVidia drivers on their desktop systems? I was told by
other distributions I should only use their respected package manager
to use the nvidia drivers listed in their repository and avoid using
the binary I downloaded from nVid
I for whatever reason am unable to locate the Apache 'DocumentRoot'
directory setting in '/etc/apache2/apach2.conf' file. I normally would
find his in httpd.conf but that is emptry in Debian and they use
'apache2.conf' for whatever reason. Can someone please tell me why in
my 'apache2.conf' file th
I asked the list last week why I am unable to restart my networking
service on Debian...
/etc/init.d/networking restart
That command no longer seems to work in Debian Linux. I was then told
to try some kind of "invoke-rc.d/networking restart and that fails to.
Can someone please explain how an A
I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was
still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer
protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I
also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use or could care
about) and am trying to understa
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> First of all, "useradd" should not be invoked directly. I suggest the
> "adduser" frontend to useradd. Second, /etc/profile, the system-wide
> bash profile, contains a setting for the default umask. Perhaps this
> is what you want to chan
If I change the DIR_MODE=0700 in /etc/adduser.conf, will that also be
honored when using 'useradd'?
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I would like to know if it's possible when creating a new user with
the '/usr/sbin/useradd' script to set the users home directory
permissions to 700 rather than the Debian default of 755? I don't
understand why Debian does this not do I really care to debate it but
I don't like users being able to
I noticed two years ago when I installed Lenny (testing) that Gnome
showed no network connection however I did have an IP and could surf
fine. Last week I installed Squeeze and saw the same issue two years
later on completely different hardware. I just don't understand why
the network icon near the
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe:
>
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
>
> And put "libflashplayer.so" under your ~/.mozilla/plugins
>
> That's all, at least for Iceweasel :-)
No such directory structure exi
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Aioanei Rares
wrote:
> Squeeze is testing at the moment, so what is written in the wiki
> regarding testing works for you. Just follow the instructions carefully.
What is written on the Wiki is:
"To do only once : Make sure your APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list
I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find
Adobe Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt.
I searched the Wiki and found this link:
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
My current source.list looks like:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.
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