Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread netfab
Le 22/03/25 à 21:37, Michael a tapoté : > You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the > SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM. For firefox, you may want to disable cache-on-disk and enable cache-on-memory instead of setting-up the tmpfs stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] disable password login for ssh

2025-03-22 Thread Nate Eldredge
Oh, actually, I think I see the issue. I think it's that PAM authentication, including via password, will be allowed if *either* of PasswordAuthentication or KbdInteractiveAuthentication are enabled. My other box already had "KbdInteractiveAuthentication no". > On Mar 22, 2025, at 18:50, Nate

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-22 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > Sorry it took me a bit to do anything with this.  We still working on > that tree.  We getting close to being done.  Anyway, I mounted the new > SSD OS on the old OS and copied over /etc and /root again.  I really > don't need /home much since I only use root on that thing.  Oh, for

Re: [gentoo-user] disable password login for ssh

2025-03-22 Thread Alexis
ralfconn writes: Setting "PasswordAuthentication no" is not sufficient. If you fail key authentication e.g. by pressing at the passphrase prompt you'll be prompted for the password unless you do the above. That's controlled by the AuthenticationMethods parameter, which has a default value

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 23/3/25 07:37, Michael wrote: You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM. Consider the same for any configurable applications which are caching heavily. Also, if you use swap, then use zswap to r

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 22 March 2025 18:50:48 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD >> drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a >> Samsung 1TB drive. I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2

Re: [gentoo-user] disable password login for ssh

2025-03-22 Thread Nate Eldredge
On my Ubuntu box, which also doesn't have AuthenticationMethods set in sshd_config, simply setting "PasswordAuthentication no" does in fact prevent password login. Moreover, the stock sshd_config has a comment above the PasswordAuthentication option saying "To disable tunneled clear text passwo

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD > drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a > Samsung 1TB drive. I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2 in my main rig for the > OS. I read some

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 22 March 2025 18:50:48 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD > drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a > Samsung 1TB drive. I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2 in my main rig for th

[gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread Dale
Howdy, As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD drives thingys.  As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a Samsung 1TB drive.  I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2 in my main rig for the OS.  I read some things ages ago about these things when they first came out

Re: [gentoo-user] disable password login for ssh

2025-03-22 Thread ralfconn
Il 21/03/25 00:50, Peter Humphrey ha scritto: On Thursday, 20 March 2025 19:03:49 Greenwich Mean Time ralfconn wrote: maybe it is documented somewhere and I missed it, but to disable password login on an ssh server it is not sufficient to specify UsePAM=no (which is the default) in /etc/ssh/ssh