Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 4:22 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:52 PM deb > wrote: They won't all be admins, but the top tech folks will be. (But, those are likely the ones who will cause the most trouble). Do you know how to "disable" select a

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 7:43 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:44:15AM -0400, deb wrote: Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? If in your /etc/apt/sources.list you stick to one distribution

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

Hello, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:44:15AM -0400, deb wrote: > Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro > or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? If in your /etc/apt/sources.list you stick to one distribution and don't include "contrib" and "non-f

Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

Hello, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:31:07AM -0400, deb wrote: > For someone trying to pull Windows (and Mac) users into Linux > does anyone have: > > Preferred other email lists, for new users? Honestly I don't recommend mailing lists for technical support. Especially this one wh

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:52 PM deb wrote: > > They won't all be admins, but the top tech folks will be. > (But, those are likely the ones who will cause the most trouble). > Do you know how to "disable" select administrative commands using /etc/sudoers? It can be useful in these situations. You

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 3:14 PM, bw wrote: in-reply-to= Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? Well... that's a deep subject. You mention three different categories of pkgs, but I think many people would say the

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

in-reply-to= >Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / >out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, >PRE-INSTALL? Well... that's a deep subject. You mention three different categories of pkgs, but I think many people would say there are only two main catego

Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

tch specific threads, so they post a > question, when it arrives in their inbox from the list, tag it to watch. > > I suggest this, as it is the main list for Debian, plus I am not a full > expert but can still help with some stuff, and happy to do so. > > Also new users asking

Re: (Paul) Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

On 2019-03-22, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> Like that ^ > > I have no way to know what ^ is pointing to from your perspective. > >> It's pointing at Paul from my perspective.

Re: (Paul) Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

f there were more "yielding" > > > lists. > > > > > > > > > The last thing I want to do is have new users rebuffed in the spot I > > > send them to for help. > > > > One of the sure ways to do that is to unnecessarily modify the Subj

Re: (Paul) Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 1:36 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 13:14 -0400, deb wrote: I guess I found that some folks here (not many, but vocal) can be gruff and insensitive; and I just wanted to see if there were more "yielding" lists. The last thing I want to do is have

Re: (Paul) Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 13:14 -0400, deb wrote: > > I guess I found that some folks here (not many, but vocal) can be gruff > and insensitive; and I just wanted to see if there were more "yielding" > lists. > > > The last thing I want to do is have new users rebu

(Paul) Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 12:39 PM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 22/03/2019 15:31, deb wrote: Hello folks: For someone trying to pull Windows (and Mac) users into Linux does anyone have: Preferred other email lists, for new users? Perhaps more basic than this one? There are forums, but the emails are a good

Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

On 22/03/2019 15:31, deb wrote: > Hello folks: > > > For someone trying to pull Windows (and Mac) users into Linux > does anyone have: > > > Preferred other email lists, for new users? > > Perhaps more basic than this one? > > There are forums, but t

Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

Hello folks: Again, for someone trying to pull Windows (and Mac) users into Linux ... Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? A portion of the users are going to have the ability to sudo apt-get ins

Other lists? Fire support for new users

Hello folks: For someone trying to pull Windows (and Mac) users into Linux does anyone have: Preferred other email lists, for new users? Perhaps more basic than this one? There are forums, but the emails are a good way to work too. Thanks!

Re: File association for all and new users in the KDE?

*SORRY about the duplicate post if it showed up.* One did on my side. Browser must have hiccuped when I tried to send a simple text email while simultaneously upgrading Debian on $17 local small town dialup. :) On 2/17/19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/16/19, Serkan KURT wrote: >> How ca

Re: File association for all and new users in the KDE?

On 2/16/19, Serkan KURT wrote: > How can some application and file types be set to default for all users? > For Debian 9, "/usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list" was the solution to > edit the file. The same method in Debian 8 version did not work. Hi.. I *used* to try to do that when I first

Re: File association for all and new users in the KDE?

On 2019-02-12, Serkan KURT wrote: > > How can I get the file association for all and new users in the KDE system? Maybe kcmshell5 filetypes https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol5/filetypes/index.html I guess the defaults are somewhat dependant upon what software is installed.

Re: File association for all and new users in the KDE?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Serkan KURT wrote: > How can I get the file association for all and new users in the KDE > system? What do you mean? Like what program will open "*txt" or "*mkv" (etc.) files?

Re: Wireless card on New users computer

Greetings Just to confirm my wifi card is now working I have search for the package "firmware-iwlwifi" using the browser and found the page https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi from there I had just followed the instructions. I also admit that I made use of the text editor "nano" to edit the list source

Re: Wireless card on New users computer

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote: > Sorry for not giving enough details initially. No worries. > My laptop is LENOVO IDEA PAD 300 > INTEL PROCESSOR of 64 Bits with 4 G Ram & 500 HDD > Is true I had installed UBUNTU 18.04 But didn't appreciate it's sluginesh > Àn

Re: Wireless card on New users computer

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:24:52AM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote: > Greetings > Greetings > Am writing from Cameroon and am a FOSS enthusiast. > I wish to receive assistance for me t install the wireless drivers of my > laptop. Apart from Dan's (which is good advice, anyway), to be able to help

Re: Wireless card on New users computer

Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote: > Greetings > Greetings > Am writing from Cameroon and am a FOSS enthusiast. > I wish to receive assistance for me t install the wireless drivers of my > laptop. > I also admit being a complete beginner and I wonder in case there's a > self-learning program I can follow

Wireless card on New users computer

Greetings Greetings Am writing from Cameroon and am a FOSS enthusiast. I wish to receive assistance for me t install the wireless drivers of my laptop. I also admit being a complete beginner and I wonder in case there's a self-learning program I can follow to have my feet wet with the system? My go

how to create new users and give permissions on proftpd debian linux

Hello , i have just installed proftpd on debian 6 . I would like to add some users and give permissions and privileges to them. I have seend the useradd and groupadd commands , but i do not know how to use them . I was wondering if you could give me any ideas and how tos ? I would appreciate any

Re: Universally Change PS1 For All New Users

Quoting Carlos Mennens on 2010-08-04 11:40:33, in Message-Id Sorry to necro the thread; was reading through my archives and found this message just now :) > How can I force Debian to use a custom colored PS1 I have defined > under /root/.bashrc for all new users I create with '

Re: Universally Change PS1 For All New Users

Carlos Mennens wrote: > 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

Universally Change PS1 For All New Users

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

Re: new users

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:21 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:44:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >I'm slowly developing myself a web-toolbox that I can access from > > >anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a web-based antivirus client > > >(applet) for win

Re: new users

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: Darren, you cannot do file transfers via SSH. You will need to use FTP to transfer the files. Or you can use SAMBA or CIFS to do file sharing on the Debian box, which is what I do. That's about as wrong as you can be, I think. The

Re: new users

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Darren, you cannot do file transfers via SSH. You will need to use FTP > to transfer the files. Or you can use SAMBA or CIFS to do file sharing > on the Debian box, which is what I do. > Sorry, the statement "you cannot do file tr

Re: new users

Darren, you cannot do file transfers via SSH. You will need to use FTP to transfer the files. Or you can use SAMBA or CIFS to do file sharing on the Debian box, which is what I do. Darren wrote: Hello. I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network. I want th

Re: new users

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:44:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I'm slowly developing myself a web-toolbox that I can access from > >anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a web-based antivirus client > >(applet) for windows that I can host for personal use? Oh and how about > Not reall

Re: new users

I'm slowly developing myself a web-toolbox that I can access from anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a web-based antivirus client (applet) for windows that I can host for personal use? Oh and how about You could have an applet that scanned documents but you haven't a hope of doing a full

Re: new users

A good article on freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1576/ Then on your web server use the sftp javascript client mentioned in the article... and no, the webserver does not need to be on the same machine... My website (hosted by a service) uses the sftp applet to allow me an easy way to

Re: new users

Darren wrote: Hello. I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network. I want the ability to access it like a ftp server from any pc on the net. My friend told me to setup an ssh server rather than ftp for security reasons and due to the fact I want to access it

Re: new users

Darren wrote: Hello. I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network. I want the ability to access it like a ftp server from any pc on the net. My friend told me to setup an ssh server rather than ftp for security reasons and due to the fact I want to access i

new users

Hello.  I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network.  I want the ability to access it like a ftp server from any pc on the net.  My friend told me to setup an ssh server rather than ftp for security reasons and due to the fact I want to access it from an web

New users can not connect via FTP

I have users who can connect to my server via FTP. Now, when I create new users, they can not connect via FTP. I use vsftp. Any ideas?

new users shell set to /bin/false - are there any security issues?

i'm using a pretty much standard debian stable machine... i need to allow users FTP only access - i can create them with #adduser --shell /bin/false in the /etc/proftpd.conf file i can set RequireValidShell off so that the proftpd server allows the users access even though they don't hav

Re: New users not working via NIS and PAM

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using Sarge. New users made through adduser can't log in on NIS >clients (OS X). Old users (created when it was Woody) can. When I log in >as an old user and try to su to a new user, I get

New users not working via NIS and PAM

Hello all. I'm using Sarge. New users made through adduser can't log in on NIS clients (OS X). Old users (created when it was Woody) can. When I log in as an old user and try to su to a new user, I get a pam_authenticate error. Does anyone know if there's a "reported" is

Re: sympa: can't create new users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:58:26PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I can't seem to create new users or change passwords in sympa. Or > login. > > Here's the log entries from attempting to have wwsympa send me a > password

sympa: can't create new users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't seem to create new users or change passwords in sympa. Or login. Here's the log entries from attempting to have wwsympa send me a password... Oct 1 23:51:50 ursine wwsympa[13759]: [client ursine.ca] do_sendpasswd([EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: default permissions on new users' home directories

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:16:38AM +, Jim Breton wrote: > Is there a way to configure this? > > It gets kind of tiring having to chmod the directories of new users. :) > > I suppose I could make a wrapper script around adduser, but I'd like to > avoid the kludge-meth

Re: default permissions on new users' home directories

check /etc/adduser.conf Seeya At 01.16 27/6/00 +, Jim Breton wrote: Is there a way to configure this? It gets kind of tiring having to chmod the directories of new users. :) I suppose I could make a wrapper script around adduser, but I'd like to avoid the kludge-method if pos

New users looking for sources.list

I just installed debian this morning. I've got gnome installed, but apparently on a much older version of Enlightenment. When I do a "dpkg --list | grep enlightenment" it doesn't show as installed, and when I try to install it, it complains that there's about 5 incompatabilities such as imlib

Re: New Users FAQ - comment?

"Carley, Jason \(Australia\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would be happy to look at putting such a list together. Essentially a Q&A > of the most common questions asked on the list. As a relative newbie myself > this will also help me learn more about my system. However, I may also need > some

Re: New Users FAQ - comment?

On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:11:17AM +1000, Carley, Jason Australia" wrote: > I would be happy to look at putting such a list together. Essentially a Q&A > of the most common questions asked on the list. As a relative newbie myself > this will also help me learn more about my system. However, I may a

RE: New Users FAQ - comment?

:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 9:55 AM To: Carley, Jason (Australia) Subject: Re: New Users FAQ - comment? On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:11:17AM +1000, Carley, Jason Australia" wrote: > Any comments welcome. > > Jason. OK, from what I see, the most common problems

New Users FAQ - comment?

I would be happy to look at putting such a list together. Essentially a Q&A of the most common questions asked on the list. As a relative newbie myself this will also help me learn more about my system. However, I may also need some help from the more experienced users to come up with the One True

Re: Introduction for new users

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Dale Scheetz writes: |> Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but |> compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that "less is more", is more |> than a cute word play, it is true for every context of "more". | |less is better, but DOS users know a

Re: Introduction for new users

Dale Scheetz writes: > Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but > compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that "less is more", is more > than a cute word play, it is true for every context of "more". less is better, but DOS users know about more and the name is easie

Re: Introduction for new users

On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Olivier THARAN wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > I would just recommend only less. > > more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will > choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-

Re: Introduction for new users

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + "Oliver Elphick" > wrote: > > > You have to log in (as with Windows) by entering a username and password. > ^^^ > You don't log in with Windows 3.x, and I don't think you do wi

Re: Introduction for new users

robert havoc pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't > > seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date. > > > > I attach a document that might ser

Re: Introduction for new users

On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > I would just recommend only less. more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-dead Unices don't have less. So in the first time one

Re: Introduction for new users

On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 10:08:14PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > type [file]: says where to find [file] in your search path type is a bash build-in and will not work with tsch logins . A better choice is probably /usr/bin/which ( "which" is also a csh build-in). Ioannis Tambouras

Re: Introduction for new users

This is an excellent document. Placing it on the CD would be helpful, but, IMHO, it would be even better if it were posted on the debian web site, and referred to in the CD's README file. Following are some suggested additions/modifications. Bob On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + "Oliver E

Re: Introduction for new users

On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't > seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date. > > I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could > be added to the files

Re: Introduction for new users

> more [textfile]: lists [textfile] to the screen in pages so that >you can read it > less [textfile]: like `more' but with more features and somewhat >different behaviour I would just recommend only less. > ed [file]: the original line editor

Re: Introduction for new users

Content-Description: TO_BEGIN [Attachment, skipping...] Hi. May be it is worth removing ':' after the commands? Alex Y. > Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > > PGP key from public servers;

Introduction for new users

Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date. I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could be added to the files on the CD. Would anyone like to suggest additions: