On 2025-09-12 12:18, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 05:48:22 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
On 2025-09-11 22:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> My usual way to upgrade was
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
Without doing that RTFM I don't know what is the difference between
"upg
On 2025-09-16 09:09:56 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg wrote:
> > > The release notes say when upgrading from Bookworm to Trixie to perform:
> > > apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
> > > followed by:
> > > apt full-upgrade
>
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > This is new compared to the prev
Hi,
i wrote:
> > The release notes for buster
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes.en.txt
> > do not recommend
> > apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
> > but rather
> > apt-get upgrade
> > without extra options.
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> It is possible that I did not re
Hi,
i quoted:
> >https://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes.en.txt
> > "Please note that using apt-get is not recommended for the upgrade
> > from etch to lenny."
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> That's VERY old.
Yeah. We all were much younger back then.
> The algorithms used by apt
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 13:33:09 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> In
> https://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes.en.txt
> it says
> "Please note that using apt-get is not recommended for the upgrade
>from etch to lenny. If you do not have aptitude installed you are
>recomm
On 2025-09-15, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>
>> The release notes say when upgrading from Bookworm to Trixie to perform:
>>
>> apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
>>
>> followed by:
>>
>> apt full-upgrade
>>
>> Of course, all this after having pointed your sources list to Trixie and
>> updating the
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 09:09:56 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Is there any reason?
>
> The release notes say that "apt upgrade" before "apt full-upgrade"
> avoids problems with removal of large numbers of packages.
I believe the question was "Why did the release notes start recommending
the a
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:04:00 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> I use Mate terminal and often ssh to different systems using multiple tabs
>
> Usually the tab title changes to the new system when I ssh in, but often it
> doesn't revert when I exit.
>
> Is there an
Hi,
Greg wrote:
> > The release notes say when upgrading from Bookworm to Trixie to perform:
> > apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
> > followed by:
> > apt full-upgrade
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> This is new compared to the previous upgrades.
I have this sequence already in my upgrade plan from 10
I use Mate terminal and often ssh to different systems using multiple tabs
Usually the tab title changes to the new system when I ssh in, but often
it doesn't revert when I exit.
Is there any way to make this work consistently?
On 2025-09-13 16:33:51 -, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-09-12, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >>
> >> Here's a table:
> >>
> >> Command NewPkgs RmvPkgs KeepDebs
> >> --- --- ---
> >> apt-get upgrade
Hi,
it seems the upgrade is stuck with this conflict
---
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-themes-extra-data_3.28-4_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/apps.rc',
On 13/09/2025 19:50, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 12:26:44 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
Is checked KeepDebs for apt-get above a typo?
No. It's right there in the changelog entry that you cited:
My bad. I am sorry, Greg. I can not figured out why I decided that this
row is inco
list '~o'" output prior to upgrade may
help to avoid the issue with file conflict.
On 12/09/2025 04:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
i suspect that upgrading a 2 year old early "trixie" Sid VM remains
incomplete and has spoiled ssh access to the VM from its Debian 12
host system.
/var/lib/dpkg/status
when the update aborted with a file conflict.
But who would come to the idea that "standard-data" is outdated
and has been replaced by "extra-data" ?
Another obstacle was the presence of a now forbidden sshd configuration
line
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-
On 2025-09-12, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>
>> Here's a table:
>>
>> Command NewPkgs RmvPkgs KeepDebs
>> --- --- ---
>> apt-get upgrade✓
>> apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs✓
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 12:26:44 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> Is checked KeepDebs for apt-get above a typo?
No. It's right there in the changelog entry that you cited:
> > Please note that the behavior of apt-get is unchanged. The
> > downloaded debs will be kept in the cache directory after
-
Now i hope that this problem will not bite again when i upgrade to Sid.
(But first i need to clean up in /etc/ssh/sshd_config so that the next
upgrade does not spoil the ssh service if any of them becomes an
unsuported feature.)
> As t
On 2025-09-12 07:18:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Command NewPkgs RmvPkgs KeepDebs
--- --- ---
apt-get upgrade✓
apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs✓ ✓
apt upgrade
t. It is the reason why I mentioned
"apt remove" above.
As to ssh and libssl, my guess is that at certain point of upgrade
process available (or running) executable file was inconsistent with
dynamically loaded libraries present in the file system.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> it seems the upgrade is stuck with this conflict
> ---
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-themes-extra-data_3.28-4_all.deb (--unpack):
> try
/status i removed the sections under
Package: gnome-themes-extra
and
Package: gnome-themes-extra-data
This enabled a long run of
apt --fix-broken install
which ended without error indication.
service ssh restart
still refused with the new error message
Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708
On 2025-09-12 07:18:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> "apt-get upgrade" will not install any new packages, nor will it remove
> any packages, in order to satisfy the dependencies. The .deb files are
> left in place.
>
> "apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs" will install new packages if needed,
> but w
On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 05:48:22 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2025-09-11 22:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > My usual way to upgrade was
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
> Without doing that RTFM I don't know what is the difference between
> "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade".
> I
On 2025-09-11 22:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
My usual way to upgrade was
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Without doing that RTFM I don't know what is the difference between
"upgrade" and "dist-upgrade".
I had assumed that "upgrade" does the software and "dist-upgrade" does
the kern
On 12/09/2025 04:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
E: Unable to read /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-cvyXki - opendir (2: No such file or
directory)
I hope, you have checked for obvious issues like no free space on /tmp
tmpfs.
Any idea how to solve this "OpenSSL version mismatch" while the
VM is still runni
Hi,
i suspect that upgrading a 2 year old early "trixie" Sid VM remains
incomplete and has spoiled ssh access to the VM from its Debian 12
host system.
The attempt to restart the ssh service fails.
The output of
journalctl -xeu ssh.service
contains th
On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:44:47 -0700
Paul Scott wrote:
> > waterhorse.dyndns.org
On the off chance it might be useful:
charles@peregrine:~$ host waterhorse.dyndns.org
waterhorse.dyndns.org has address 68.2.200.21
charles@peregrine:~$ host 68.2.200.21
21.200.2.68.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer i
dress which has a machine answering pings.
If your ISP has re-assigned the IP you were using, and someone
else is using it, then ping will work and your ssh will fail.
That's why I asked you to post your ddclient config, minus any
passwords.
Here it is:
#protocol=dyndns2
#use=if, if=et
.
If your ISP has re-assigned the IP you were using, and someone
else is using it, then ping will work and your ssh will fail.
That's why I asked you to post your ddclient config, minus any
passwords.
Here it is:
#protocol=dyndns2
#use=if, if=eth0
#server=https:members.dyndns.org
#login=
On 8/30/25 08:35, Paul Scott wrote:
On 8/29/25 4:31 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 16:01:53 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
On 8/29/25 3:40 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
1) Your dyndns.org entry is not pointing to the correct IP address.
ping and looking at my account on dyndns.org, the IP
27;t be asking for help.
Log into it, and look at the
web interface it presents. Find the place where port forwarding is
set up. You MUST have set this up at some point, if it ever worked at
all. This is not a thing that will ever work out of the box.
I probably did this 10 years ago.
por
up. You MUST have set this up at some point, if it ever worked at
all. This is not a thing that will ever work out of the box.
So, find where the port forwarding is configured, and LOOK at it. See
if it's correct. The internal IP address and port number that the ssh
connections are being
ther on port 22 or on
>all ports, before it hits your router/server.
>
> I'm not sure how to determine that.
You could tell us what the hostname is and what port you think SSH is
listening on, and we could tell you if we see something that looks like
SSH listening there. Assuming
On 8/29/25 3:40 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 02:53:24PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of
view.
Last time you asked about this we got as far as:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/08/msg00526.html
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 02:53:24PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of
> view.
Last time you asked about this we got as far as:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/08/msg00526.html
Can you reply to the points raised th
On 29/08/2025 15:09, Paul Scott wrote:
Even if ping returns the same IP address as is currently shown by my
account on the Dyndns.org website?
Depends... I don't know what's in the website.
If it's a "current IP" then likely the dyndns updater is working.
It it's just the last IP that was set
gs.
If your ISP has re-assigned the IP you were using, and someone
else is using it, then ping will work and your ssh will fail.
That's why I asked you to post your ddclient config, minus any
passwords.
-dsr-
.
If your ISP has re-assigned the IP you were using, and someone
else is using it, then ping will work and your ssh will fail.
That's why I asked you to post your ddclient config, minus any
passwords.
-dsr-
.
If your ISP has re-assigned the IP you were using, and someone
else is using it, then ping will work and your ssh will fail.
Even if ping returns the same IP address as is currently shown by my
account on the Dyndns.org website?
Paul
That's why I asked you to post your ddclient con
w pieces involved:
1) Your Debian system must be running sshd, listening on some port.
By default this is port 22, but that can be configured.
2) Your router must forward incoming ssh traffic to your Debian system.
2a) Usually this first means you need to have a static IP address on
t
through dyndns.org.
I can ping my desktop from my laptop with its dyndns.org address. The
address is maintained by ddclient.
From several months ago ssh to that same address times out. (This worked for
years before that.)
I don't know how to diagnose this.
For some reason Thunderbird o
ter is not always easily accessible. I often access it
> > > from
> > > my laptop through dyndns.org.
> > >
> > > I can ping my desktop from my laptop with its dyndns.org address. The
> > > address is maintained by ddclient.
> > >
> > > F
> I can ping my desktop from my laptop with its dyndns.org address. The
> address is maintained by ddclient.
>
> From several months ago ssh to that same address times out. (This worked for
> years before that.)
This is the give-out. While other advice here is good, we already
On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:53:24 -0700
Paul Scott wrote:
> I can ping my desktop from my laptop with its dyndns.org address. The
> address is maintained by ddclient.
>
> From several months ago ssh to that same address times out. (This
> worked for years before that.)
>
>
laptop with its dyndns.org address. The
> address is maintained by ddclient.
>
> From several months ago ssh to that same address times out. (This worked for
> years before that.)
>
> I don't know how to diagnose this.
dyndns and similar services map a domain name to an IP
addr
with its dyndns.org address. The
address is maintained by ddclient.
From several months ago ssh to that same address times out. (This worked for
years before that.)
I don't know how to diagnose this.
For some reason Thunderbird os not allowing me to "Reply List"
dyndns and similar
ddclient.
From several months ago ssh to that same address times out. (This
worked for years before that.)
I don't know how to diagnose this.
TIA for any help,
Paul
On 8/15/25 12:58 PM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:
ping [username].dyndns.org works.
ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
and
ssh [IP address given by the ping]
also hangs.
Your use of English is a bit odd here, which leads me to wonder about a
typo. Specifically your
Paul Scott wrote:
> ping [username].dyndns.org works.
>
> ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
>
> and
>
> ssh [IP address given by the ping]
>
> also hangs.
Your use of English is a bit odd here, which leads me to wonder about a
typo. Specifically your use of '
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 12:32:50 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Oops!
>
> ssh [username].dyndns.org hangs.
Ah. That changes *everything*.
At this point, the possibilites are:
1) Your dyndns.org entry is not pointing to the correct IP address.
2) Your ISP is blocking incoming connection
On 8/15/25 12:25 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
As of a few months ago ssh hangs trying to access my desktop.
ping [username].dyndns.org works.
ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
and
ssh [IP address given by the ping]
also hangs.
Did
On 8/15/25 12:25 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
As of a few months ago ssh hangs trying to access my desktop.
ping [username].dyndns.org works.
ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
and
ssh [IP address given by the ping]
also hangs.
Did
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> As of a few months ago ssh hangs trying to access my desktop.
>
> ping [username].dyndns.org works.
>
> ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
>
> and
>
> ssh [IP address given by the ping]
>
> al
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Hello, wonderful helpers,
>
> I have used my dyndns account for years to access my desktop remotely.
>
> As of a few months ago ssh hangs trying to access my desktop.
>
> ping [username].dyndns.org work
On 8/15/25 11:25 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
ping [username].dyndns.org works.
ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
and
ssh [IP address given by the ping]
also hangs.
Has ssh changed somehow?
It's possible that you've conf
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> ping [username].dyndns.org works.
> ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
>
> and
>
> ssh [IP address given by the ping]
>
> also hangs.
>
> Has ssh changed somehow?
It's possible that you've conf
Hello, wonderful helpers,
I have used my dyndns account for years to access my desktop remotely.
As of a few months ago ssh hangs trying to access my desktop.
ping [username].dyndns.org works.
ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
and
ssh [IP address given by the ping]
also hangs.
Has ssh
Does anyone know if cross realm ssh gss authentication is working in
Debian 13? I'm testing the included krb5-kdc 1.21.3 and OpenSSH
10.0p2.
Cross realm authentication works for a NFSv4 sec=krb5p share, however
only *current realm* authentication works for ssh. I try to ssh cross
realm, ena
On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM Alain D D Williams wrote:
>
> In my investigations I did read a note somewhere that the only error that is
> given is "Bad passphrase" no matter what the error really is. This is crap
> coding of the highest order (high as in 'it stinks'), it is unfortunately all
>
On 2025-08-05 14:49, Alain D D Williams wrote:
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
I have been using ssh to login to remote machines for years. Many of
which I
use a private key - so I just go "ssh machine-name" and login without
needing
to give a password. To be able to do that
David Christensen wrote:
>
> AIUI SSH, RSA keys, and SHA-1 are now considered bad practice:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34196504
SHA-1 is bad practice - true.
But when it comes to RSA vs. ECC, the future is uncertain. We simply don't know
which will prove more
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:10:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> AIUI "ed25519" keys are now preferred (untested code):
>
> $ ssh-keygen -t ed25519
Which is what I now have - only ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
In my investigations I did read a note somewhere that the only error th
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:10:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> AIUI SSH, RSA keys, and SHA-1 are now considered bad practice:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34196504
The link you cite explains that this relates to the ssh-rsa signature
algorithm, not rsa public key
On 8/5/25 06:49, Alain D D Williams wrote:
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
I have been using ssh to login to remote machines for years. Many of which I
use a private key - so I just go "ssh machine-name" and login without needing
to give a password. To be able to do that I ident
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 02:49:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> So: After reboot (logging in again) I needed to re-identify myself and used
> ssh-add as usual.
>
> It tells me: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa:
> ...
Life is too short ... I removed
racters
> move; and I'm not typing in what I think I'm typing in.
I am sure ... I ran it under strace and can see it reading the correct
characters.
> If that checks out, you can test the passphrase with 'ssh-keygen -yf
> PRIVKEY' .
That does not work:
~/.ssh$ ss
Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
>
> https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Tutorials/Unix-And-Linux/ssh-passwordless-login.html
>
> I have disk hardware problems, I decided to reboot (first time in ~2 months)
> to
> see if this would fix it (no it did n
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 09:56:30AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> My openssh-client is
> Version: 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u7
That is what I have.
> ssh-add works properly for me:
>
> $ ssh-add
> Enter passphrase for /home/dsr/.ssh/id_rsa:
> Identity added: /home/dsr/.ssh/id_rsa (
On Aug 05, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
> [...]
> So: After reboot (logging in again) I needed to re-identify myself and
> used ssh-add as usual.
>
> It tells me: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa:
>
> I tried m
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
I have been using ssh to login to remote machines for years. Many of which I
use a private key - so I just go "ssh machine-name" and login without needing
to give a password. To be able to do that I identify myself with ssh-add. I
even wrote a tutori
On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 23:09:18 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> It may be installed, but I've always had to use:
>
> [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion # Use bash-completion
> if available
>
> in order for it to work:
>
> $ grep -A8 'bash completion' /etc/bash.bashrc
> #
On Fri 16 May 2025 at 14:57:15 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 16:39:15 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> > > when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
> > > numeric and names
> > > where do they come
On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 16:37:07 +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> and it is quite rare to SSH into localhost.
It's not something I do on a daily basis, but I've done it several
times, because it's an excellent way to test various things, such as
changes to your dot files, sshd
fxkl4...@protonmail.com writes:
> and i also see it looks in ~/.ssh/known_hosts
> i also have several i don't recognize
You are probably wondering about the default IPv6 entries in /etc/hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
Of
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 09:02:03PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> thanks
You are welcome :-)
> i understand the no host hash in an industrial setting
> but in a home network it seems unnecessary
Well -- there are mixed cases. In my
tion or wildcard operators may be applied.
>>
>> i don't see how to change it
>
> Ah, no,, sorry. I lied to you, it's in the ssh_config (/etc/ssh/ssh_config).
> Here's the extract from man ssh_config:
>
> HashKnownHosts
> Indicates that ssh(1) sh
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 16:39:15 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> > when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
> > numeric and names
> > where do they come from
>
> Assuming you are using bash (or another shell that does TAB
> com
, sorry. I lied to you, it's in the ssh_config (/etc/ssh/ssh_config).
Here's the extract from man ssh_config:
HashKnownHosts
Indicates that ssh(1) should hash host names and ad‐
dresses when they are added to ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
These hashed names may be used normal
On Fri, 16 May 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 04:09:10PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> as an aside
>> in known_hosts there are many key fingerprints with no host identification
>> is there a way to identify what host the fingerprint is for
>
> The fi
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 04:09:10PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
[...]
> as an aside
> in known_hosts there are many key fingerprints with no host identification
> is there a way to identify what host the fingerprint is for
The file format is described in man 8 sshd.
Those with "no host
On Fri, 16 May 2025, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2025 14:56:41 +
> fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
>
>> when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
>> numeric and names
>> where do they come from
>>
>
> If I type 'ssh' I get pr
Hello,
first of all they come from ~/.ssh/config and there includes, if there.
Or they come from /etc/hosts.
Best Regards,
On 16.05.25 16:56, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
numeric and names
where do they come from
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
> numeric and names
> where do they come from
Assuming you are using bash (or another shell that does TAB
completion) I think it's probably just a list of file and directory
names in the current di
On Fri, 16 May 2025 14:56:41 +
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
> numeric and names
> where do they come from
>
If I type 'ssh' I get proposed tab completions of various
programs, all starting with ssh.
If I type &
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
> numeric and names
> where do they come from
Assuming that your shell is bash, it comes from the bash tab
completion function, which has an optional package:
bash-completion/stable,now 1:2
when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
numeric and names
where do they come from
Hi!
Am 11.04.25 um 20:47 schrieb john doe:
On 4/11/25 14:26, Andreas Haumer wrote:
So, finally, my question: Did anyone on this list manage to
use virt-manager to connect to a VM console using SSH with 2FA?
The Libvirt mailing list comes to mind! ;^)
Good point! :-))
I actually first
On 4/11/25 14:26, Andreas Haumer wrote:
So, finally, my question: Did anyone on this list manage to
use virt-manager to connect to a VM console using SSH with 2FA?
The Libvirt mailing list comes to mind! ;^)
--
John Doe
U+KVM based virtual machines.
I usually use virt-manager on my workstation as GUI to connect
to the VM host, manage the VMs and also to connect to the VM
console if needed.
To connect to the VM host I use SSH with public key authentication.
On the commandline with virsh this looks like this (ex
it's not your problem. While I
don't use Synaptic it seems to me your problem is covered e.g. here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1243897/pkexec-authentication-fails-over-ssh-x11-forwarding-why
You could try sudo synaptic-pkexec or run
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authen
On 4/4/25 17:00, Eben King wrote:
Also it suspends the OS after a few minutes, so I
gotta find out where that's controlled.
/etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults looks to be a likely candidate, as in
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/748759/disabling-suspend-etc-on-debian-12
I changed it
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM Eben King wrote:
>
> On 4/4/25 16:41, George at Clug wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > If you need to reboot to complete the installation
> > # systemctl reboot
>
> shutdown doesn't. I mean it acts like it does, goes through the
> motions, and ends up with a computer that's
ng is
enabled and disabled for ssh connection
udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 18:13:40 -0400
Eben King wrote:
> > Not necessarily. I routinely ssh into all my computers, to their
> > root and user accounts,
>
> So you ssh-login as root, or do you login as a user then su to root?
I log in as root. "ssh r...@dragon.example.com&q
On 4/4/25 18:08, Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:00:09 -0400
Eben King wrote:
to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself,
not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like
VNC.
So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:00:09 -0400
Eben King wrote:
> > to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself,
> > not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like
> > VNC.
>
> So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not all X
On 4/4/25 16:41, George at Clug wrote:
Hi,
I believe you are using a terminal from another computer, and not using a remote X or
Wayland client like VNC? (e.g. "I usually access it via ssh")
That is correct, ssh in bash in xfce4-terminal in XFCE in X11 under
kernel 6.1.0-32-a
Hi,
I believe you are using a terminal from another computer, and not using a
remote X or Wayland client like VNC? (e.g. "I usually access it via ssh")
If so, please use apt to install software.
for example, become root
$ sudo -i or just su (which is what I use) $ su
After logging
Hi. I have this machine "alexandria" onto which I installed Debian
yesterday:
eben@alexandria:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
12.10
It has a video card and a keyboard, but to log in there I have to get
down on the floor, so I usually access it via ssh. Right now I'm trying
to
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