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Response below/inline for email Paul M. Foster wrote: > (original email sent 8 Oct 2024 at 20:50) > > Let me provide a dissenting view. I use "pass". +1 it allows for a hierarchical representation of the different entries and bonus marks because there is an excellent Emacs mode. -- Eric S Frag

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On October 8, 2024 7:50:29 PM CDT, "Paul M. Foster" wrote: >On 10/8/24 19:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: >> what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager >> i've always used firefox's builtin manager >> but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time >> it's a pita look

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On 09/10/2024 06:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager Have you had a look into mailing list archives? E.g. Password managers. Thu, 9 Nov 2023 11:05:53 -0500

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 17:39:53 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Wow. Thanks for explaining that. Fortunately, I only have Debian and plan > to change things as little as possible in the future, so I think that if I > leave things as they are, they'll keep working for a while. I do have > ~/.xsessio

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On 10/9/24 17:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 15:55:35 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: That worked. Maybe ~/.xinitrc is an old location? I'll probably leave it there unless there's a good reason to move it. [algorithm from heck] If reading this leads you to scream "WHY in the HE

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Hi, Le 09/10/2024, Greg Wooledge a écrit: > If reading this leads you to scream "WHY in the HELL is it this > COMPLICATED?!", know that you are not alone. Unfortunately, this is > only a small part of the picture. The full picture is even worse. Yup, I'm pretty sure there was also ~/.dmrc at

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 15:55:35 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > That worked. Maybe ~/.xinitrc is an old location? I'll probably leave it > there unless there's a good reason to move it. .xinitrc is the dotfile used by startx across multiple Unix/Linux implementations. Debian's startx will use that

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On 10/9/24 10:05, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 10/8/24 22:11, Ash Joubert wrote: To set environment variables for applications started by XFCE, add lines before the last line in ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc That file doesn't exist, but this one might work: eben@cerberus:~$ stat ~/.xinitrc ... I put

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Hello, I would personally recommend Bitwarden[1], it has pretty good functionalities with proper syncing out of the box. Though if you want 2fa included in it you will have to either pay or self-host an instance (I self host my own Vaultwarden[2] instance and it is fairly easy.) [1] https:/

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KeepPass here as well, and (not my choice) a proprietary locker at work. Can't help responding to someone with a Life glider in their sig :-) On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 9:30 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > On Oct 08, 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manag

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On 10/8/24 22:11, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 10/8/24 20:13, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx.  The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small.  It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5

Re: qt5ct and environment variables (was: Re: password manager)

On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 09:52:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 09/10/2024 07:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > > > Huh.  If I run it from a terminal emulator it looks fine, but if XFCE > > launches it the text is tiny.  Looks like QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME isn't being > > set.  Which means something is runni

qt5ct and environment variables (was: Re: password manager)

On 09/10/2024 07:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: Huh.  If I run it from a terminal emulator it looks fine, but if XFCE launches it the text is tiny.  Looks like QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME isn't being set.  Which means something is running a not-login shell, something between startx and xfwm.  It's defined in ~

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On 2024-10-09 13:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 10/8/24 20:13, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx.  The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small.  It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5 application and honours Qt font settin

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On 10/8/24 19:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy Let me provide a di

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On 10/8/24 20:13, Ash Joubert wrote: On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx. The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small. It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5 application and honours Qt font settings. Under XFCE, I use qt5ct and set the

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On 09/10/2024 00:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy I've relied on P

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On 2024-10-09 13:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: I use (and like) keepassx.  The only thing I don't like is right now the type is really small.  It used to be readable. keepassxc is a Qt5 application and honours Qt font settings. Under XFCE, I use qt5ct and set the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMT

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On 2024-10-09 12:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy keepassxc -- As

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On 10/8/24 19:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy I use (and like) ke

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On Wed, Oct 9, 2024, at 00:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager > i've always used firefox's builtin manager > but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time > it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords > and i'm lazy

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On Oct 08, 2024, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager keepassxc here. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 06:08:04AM +0100, Oliver Schode wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:58:17 -0500 > wrote: > >As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for. > >My original code stores all passwords in a single file, whereas pass > >stores each password in a separate file

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On 2023-11-16, Oliver Schode wrote: > (hence almost all in-repo managers) and bash/git magic all but out of > the question for anyone also using mobile. I use bash and git on android with termux. Working easily with apt :)

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On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:58:17 -0500 wrote: >As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for. >My original code stores all passwords in a single file, whereas pass >stores each password in a separate file. In addition, I don't need pass >in order to decode the password files.

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On 15/11/2023 15:40, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2023-11-15, Max Nikulin wrote: For Chromium it is better to have a password manager (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. Encryption is not applied

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On 2023-11-15, Max Nikulin wrote: >>> For Chromium it is better to have a password manager >>> (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs >>> a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. >>> Encryption is not applied otherwise. >> What about Firef

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On 15/11/2023 03:05, Anssi Saari wrote: Max Nikulin writes: For Chromium it is better to have a password manager (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. Encryption is not applied otherwise. What

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On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:38:58 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/11/2023 09:58, paulf wrote: > > > > As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking > > for. > [...] > > Plus, it will insert any line in the password file > > into the clipboard. > > In general it is better to avo

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Max Nikulin writes: > For Chromium it is better to have a password manager > (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs > a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. > Encryption is not applied otherwise. What about Firefox then? Does it work

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On 14/11/2023 09:58, paulf wrote: As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for. [...] Plus, it will insert any line in the password file into the clipboard. In general it is better to avoid secrets copied to the clipboard. Even JavaScript from a web page might read

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pa...@quillandmouse.com writes: > On Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:48:14 -0600 > John Hasler wrote: > > > Why does "accepted/popular" matter? > > Not a great choice of words, perhaps. I was thinking in terms of those > password managers which are written by others and included in the > Debian repositories

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On Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:48:14 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Why does "accepted/popular" matter? Not a great choice of words, perhaps. I was thinking in terms of those password managers which are written by others and included in the Debian repositories. As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precise

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Why does "accepted/popular" matter? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

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On 13/11/2023 21:29, Erwan David wrote: That was a bad idea : lokking closer I see that kpcli does not support the latest keepass file format (v4) Trying "apt search" I have noticed some python tool "secrets" having python3-pykeepass in its dependency. Does anybody use it (or at least have tr

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Le 13/11/2023 à 15:11, Klaus Singvogel a écrit : Erwan David wrote: Note that you may have less dependencies with kpcli (a cli client for keepass password files) I always was peering at kpcli. Do you have any experience switching between the CLI (kpcli) and the GUI (keepassxc) version frequen

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Erwan David wrote: > Note that you may have less dependencies with kpcli (a cli client for > keepass password files) I always was peering at kpcli. Do you have any experience switching between the CLI (kpcli) and the GUI (keepassxc) version frequently? Is this flawless possible to switch from t

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Am Sonntag, 12. November 2023, 18:23:20 CET schrieb Joe: What about kwallet? Should run on other window managers than plasma5 as well. Hans

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On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 22:07:33 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 10/11/2023 01:48, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > KeepassXC if you want a primarily GUI solution which also happens to > > be open source. (There's also a command-line version keepassxc-cli > > which can either be driven from the command line

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Le 12/11/2023 à 16:53, Michael Kjörling a écrit : On 12 Nov 2023 22:07 +0700, from maniku...@gmail.com (Max Nikulin): Having system booted from Debian Live image (assume some disaster), how many packaged have to be installed to get access to passwords stored by KeePassXC? I don't know about Deb

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On 12 Nov 2023 22:07 +0700, from maniku...@gmail.com (Max Nikulin): > Having system booted from Debian Live image (assume some disaster), how many > packaged have to be installed to get access to passwords stored by > KeePassXC? I don't know about Debian Live images, but from an up-to-date install

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On 10/11/2023 01:48, Michael Kjörling wrote: KeepassXC if you want a primarily GUI solution which also happens to be open source. (There's also a command-line version keepassxc-cli which can either be driven from the command line or used interactively in a terminal session.) Having system boote

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On 10/11/2023 10:32, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM Timothy M Butterworth > wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:11 AM John Conover mailto:cono...@panix.com>> wrote: John Darrah writes: > On Thu, 2023-1

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On Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 at 12:46, Todd Zullinger wrote: > You may like pass[1]. It's a bash script which uses gpg, so > it's somewhat familiar to what you've written in a sense. +1 *and* it has an Emacs interface which is very easy to use. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-06-19) o

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:11 AM John Conover wrote: > >> John Darrah writes: >> > On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: >> > > Folks: >> > > >> > > Does anyone know of

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:11 AM John Conover wrote: > John Darrah writes: > > On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > > Folks: > > > > > > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > > > user-defined information for each login, and not stor

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I can also recomend a Keepass compatible password manager. I am personally using the offical Keepass2 app over Mono, but KeePassXC has also worked well. I have been using Syncthing to sync it between my devices, include my Android smartphone. For Android, I have found KeepassDX and Keepass2Andro

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On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:39:08 -0500 wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 12:46:23 -0500 > Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > > > [1] https://www.passwordstore.org/ > > > > Excellent suggestion! > > I can't get it to work properly, because there must be something > fundamentally missing in my understanding o

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On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 12:46:23 -0500 Todd Zullinger wrote: > Hi, > > pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd > > like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have > > with the other password managers I've looked at is th

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Am 09. Nov, 2023 schwätzte der.hans so: moin moin, below I said KeePassXC doesn't have a way of syncing passwords with another password database file. Tonight I was looking at KeePassXC SSH integration documentation and I see there is a sharing option, KeeShare. "KeeShare allows you to share a

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John Darrah writes: > On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > Folks: > > > > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > > user-defined information for each login, and not store that > > information > > on the internet (and which is free as

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On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > user-defined information for each login, and not store that > information > on the internet (and which is free as in beer)? > Take a look at 'secr

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Am 09. Nov, 2023 schwätzte pa...@quillandmouse.com so: moin moin Paul, Folks: I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a very limit

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On 9 Nov 2023 11:05 -0500, from pa...@quillandmouse.com: > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > user-defined information for each login, and not store that information > on the internet (and which is free as in beer)? KeepassXC if you want a primarily GUI solution

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Hi, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd > like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with > the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a very > limited amount of information for each "acco

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On 11/9/23 11:05, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a very limited amount of informati

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 11:05:53AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd > like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with > the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a ve

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On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 08:59:15 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > 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 S

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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 which it's revealed that they're not actually installing Debian.

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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 establish a root password during > >> installation, regardless of

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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. This incident will be > reported." Getting entered in the sudoer

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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 establish a root password during >> installation, regardless of what the installer says. > >This is not correct. So much for online hel

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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

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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 init=/bin/bash > to the grub start up script or > ro init=/bin/bash

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On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during > installation, regardless of what the installer says. This is not correct. > To get a root > password, I need to add > rw init=/bin/bash > to the grub start up s

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On 4/3/22 16:56, Noah Sombrero wrote: I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during installation, regardless of what the installer says. I installed via: debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso The root password I set during installation works. Please document and po

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

> You don't really get that far if your root FS is unmountable. Hmm... if it truly can't be mounted, then the system can't read `/etc/passwd` and then whether there is a root account or not makes no difference. In the "usual" case where the root FS is readable but fsck found errors, then indeed t

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 11:00:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > You don't really get that far if your root FS is unmountable. > > Hmm... if it truly can't be mounted, then the system can't read > `/etc/passwd` and then whether there is a root account or not makes > no difference. That's right

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 11:00:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Of course, the existence of a root password can occasionally be handy > for things like `rsync` (strictly speaking, you can probably arrange > for rsync to first log in as a normal user and then use `sudo`, but > it requires a fair b

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:49:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [trying to enter single user mode requires a root password] > > Of course, there are ways around that, but all of them involve having > access to another living instance of an operating system, Not all. You can supply kernel par

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:15:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:49:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Up to now, there is exactly one case I am aware of when you'd wish > > you had a root password: at boot, the root file system is deemed > > too broken

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

Hi. On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:49:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 06:06:50PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. > > > > You mean cases where `sudo zsh -l` is not an option? > > Up to now, there is

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 06:06:50PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. > > You mean cases where `sudo zsh -l` is not an option? Up to now, there is exactly one case I am aware of when you'd wish you had a root password: at boot, the root

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

> Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. You mean cases where `sudo zsh -l` is not an option? Stefan

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 17:00:39 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. > > What to do? Check out "sudo -i". -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

Thomas George (12021-08-14): > The installation from a usb stick went smoothly. Everything works sudo > commands work so I will rarely need to log on as root. > > Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. > > What to do? sudo passwd Regards, -- Nicolas George signature

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 16:13:19 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 03 December 2019 14:23:34 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 13:17:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 03 December 2019 11:37:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >

solved - Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Brian wrote: I wish I could have confidence in your interpretation of what you see. The pop-up has two blank fields. Why you maintain the default user is "root" and it needs to be changed is beyond me. Yes, I maintain it... I don't have 2 blank fields, but 2 fields co

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Tuesday 03 December 2019 15:58:45 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: > > When it pops up the requester, did you change it from the default > > root to your name you've added to lpadmin and your passwd? That > > works here. > >yes, I do that, and my password is

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Tuesday 03 December 2019 14:23:34 Brian wrote: > On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 13:17:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 December 2019 11:37:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: When it pops up the requester, did you change it from the default root to your name you've added to lpadmin and your passwd? That works here. yes, I do that, and my password is refused, as well as the root one

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 13:17:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 03 December 2019 11:37:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a > > normal user to the lpadmin group. Then by authenti

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Tuesday 03 December 2019 11:37:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a > normal user to the lpadmin group. Then by authenticating as that user > you can administer through the web interface. >

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 17:37:59 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a normal user >to the lpadmin group. Then by authenticating as that user you can >administer through the web interf

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)

On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a normal user to the lpadmin group. Then by authenticating as that user you can administer through the web interface. hi Roberto, alas, I already did that, without success. n

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631

On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a normal user to the lpadmin group. Then by authenticating as that user you can administer through the web interface. hi Roberto, alas, I already did that, without success. b

Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 06:01:18PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I tried to add a printer using the localhost:631 cups interface, > but the root password was refused, as well as mine > To be sure that the provided password was valid, I reset it with the > passwd command. > can anybody expla

Re: Password policy.

On 15/11/18 4:51 AM, Brian wrote: >> How about: >> >> 3. They had physical access to the drive in question (or any backup) and >> that data wasn't encrypted (LUKS for example). >> [boot machine with live boot USB, mount root file system and steal the >> file, remove live boot USB, allow machine to

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