Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread g
On 02/15/2015 10:16 PM, Tim wrote: <<>> > Well if you use a crappy encryption technique, it doesn't matter how > good your password is, if you have a technique to be able to reverse > engineer it (which is entirely different from just throwing passwords > at some remote service which only give

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread g
On 02/15/2015 10:09 PM, Tim wrote: <<>> > It's a hell of a long time since I did probabilities in high school > maths, but if you just use letters instead of numbers, each position > could be any of 26 characters (instead of 10 options), and each > position is not related to any other character

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.02.2015, Tim wrote: > > Please search the net on "dictionary attack" in combination with words > > like "feasibility", "speed" and the like. You will be blown away by > > reading what can be done. > Of course that kind of implies that you have something that will let you > continuously t

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/16/2015 06:41 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, Thanks for this! In case you do not to intend to submit this package to Fedora, the only way to avoid this clash, is to resort to renaming your package (e.g. to call it pdfstapler). How and where in the .spec file should I do this? Something

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > Also, I hadn't realized the boot partition could be anywhere, > I somehow thought it had to be the first partition. GRUB2 can find and load /boot/vmlinuz+initramfs pretty much anywhere: primary or extended partitions, on an LVM LV (the insta

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, Thanks for this! > In case you do not to intend to submit this package to Fedora, the only > way to avoid this clash, is to resort to renaming your package (e.g. to > call it pdfstapler). How and where in the .spec file should I do this? What happens to the binary, etc inside the package?

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/15/2015 06:03 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Also, the binary is called stapler. However, there is already a stapler binary (as part of a totally different package for URL applications). Is there a way to name this automagically? (The package and the binary that I am packaging are called stap

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 02/15/2015 02:31 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.02.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Your only practical option is to remove the oldest kernel, which should allow you to update, and change the installonly_limit setting in /etc/yum.conf Yep! And maybe he can live with two kernels installed. On my

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread jd1008
On 02/15/2015 09:29 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, Heinz Diehl sent: Please search the net on "dictionary attack" in combination with words like "feasibility", "speed" and the like. You will be blown away by reading what can be done. Of course that kind of implies that

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, Heinz Diehl sent: > Please search the net on "dictionary attack" in combination with words > like "feasibility", "speed" and the like. You will be blown away by > reading what can be done. Of course that kind of implies that you have something that will le

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, g sent: > a few years ago +1 day, when i needed to find password for a client > running w98se, that had an employee leave. he actually was fired and > when asked for his password, he supplied wrong password. > > granted, with w98se, such was not a great pro

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: > I have discovered a method of creating passwords that has helped me > greatly throughout the years. I learned it from this girl who was > always teased in school for being "weird" LoL! (Thank you > Sharon..wherever you are

Re: Dropbox is dangerous

2015-02-15 Thread Roger
On 16/02/15 12:52, jd1008 wrote: On 02/15/2015 05:31 PM, Mickey wrote: On 02/15/2015 07:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mickey writes: My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% of memory, afte

Re: Dropbox is dangerous

2015-02-15 Thread jd1008
On 02/15/2015 05:31 PM, Mickey wrote: On 02/15/2015 07:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mickey writes: My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbo

Re: Dropbox is dangerous

2015-02-15 Thread jd1008
On 02/15/2015 04:58 PM, Mickey wrote: My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbox and then I uninstalled it and now my computer is back to normal

Re: mtp devices

2015-02-15 Thread jd1008
On 02/15/2015 04:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 15:46 -0700, jd1008 wrote: When I connect my phone via usb, gnome (or more exactly, mate) pops up a window which displays 2 icons named: internal storage sd card however, mount command does not show them mounted. I want

Re: mtp devices

2015-02-15 Thread jd1008
On 02/15/2015 03:55 PM, Steven Usdansky wrote: Look under /run/user//gvfs. You'll find a directory something like mtp:host=%5Busb%3A002%2C005%5D$ which is the mount point for your phone I do not see any mtp files or dirs there. $ pwd /run/user/1008 $ ls -1R .: dconf/ gvfs/ ksocket-jd/ pulse/

Re: Dropbox is dangerous

2015-02-15 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Mickey wrote: > My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. > I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% > of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbox and then I uninstalled it > and now my computer is b

Re: Dropbox is dangerous

2015-02-15 Thread Mickey
On 02/15/2015 07:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mickey writes: My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbox and then I uninstalled it and now my

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
Also, some possibly related bugs: SecureBoot enabled causes Win 8 UEFI to not start from grub https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170245#c23 After a BIOS install of Fedora to a hard disk containing a UEFI install of Windows 8, the Windows 8 install fails to boot https://bugzilla.redhat.co

Re: Dropbox is dangerous

2015-02-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mickey writes: My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbox and then I uninstalled it and now my computer is back to normal. What the "H" is h

Dropbox is dangerous

2015-02-15 Thread Mickey
My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbox and then I uninstalled it and now my computer is back to normal. What the "H" is happening ? -- users

Re: mtp devices

2015-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 15:46 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > When I connect my phone via usb, gnome (or more exactly, mate) > pops up a window which displays 2 icons named: > internal storage > sd card > > however, mount command does not show them mounted. > > I want to browse them via the terminal cli int

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-02-15 11:59, Chris Murphy wrote: I suggest booting live media with and without the legacy option enabled, and compare dmesg from both boots. Check things like video and trackpad support (if this is a laptop) and also the libata messages for what linkage is made with the drive. This is hig

Re: mtp devices

2015-02-15 Thread Steven Usdansky
Look under /run/user//gvfs. You'll find a directory something like mtp:host=%5Busb%3A002%2C005%5D$ which is the mount point for your phone -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedor

mtp devices

2015-02-15 Thread jd1008
When I connect my phone via usb, gnome (or more exactly, mate) pops up a window which displays 2 icons named: internal storage sd card however, mount command does not show them mounted. I want to browse them via the terminal cli interface. How do I force mate or gnome to mount them the traditio

how to deal with two RPMs of thr same name

2015-02-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have packaged stapler (alternative to obsoleted pdftk) as an RPM. But there is already another package by the same name doing something else in the Fedora repos. Is there an easy way to rename my stapler to pdfstapler or something like that. I don't feel that it is my place to ask the sta

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Your only practical option is to remove the oldest kernel, which should > allow you to update, and change the installonly_limit setting in > /etc/yum.conf Yep! And maybe he can live with two kernels installed. On my system, they take less than 200 MB. Coul

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stuart McGraw writes: I made a mistake when I installed my Fedora 21 system -- I specified a /boot partition size of 200MB rather than the recommended 500MB -- and didn't notice my mistake until I had too much time invested in the install to redo it to correct the size. (I am using plain vanill

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
I suggest booting live media with and without the legacy option enabled, and compare dmesg from both boots. Check things like video and trackpad support (if this is a laptop) and also the libata messages for what linkage is made with the drive. This is highly mixed, but on all of my EFI Macs, when

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
I'm not sure what all is in your /boot but kernel+initramfs only takes ~25MB per kernel. So I don't know how you're running out of space with only three kernels. Anyway, from easiest and least risky, to hardest and most risky: a. Keep only two kernels at a time instead of three. If using yum, edit

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Stuart McGraw wrote: > When I tried to do a yum upgrade today (which includes a > new kernel) it failed with a message that my boot partition > space was short by 6MB. > What can I do to fix or mitigate this problem? Remove all kernels except one which you have verified to be bo

Re: swapping

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
ausearch -m AVC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelin

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I use Figaro's Password Manager. I don't know how good it is > (and would like to hear about that) Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with it, so I can't answer here. > .. but it does give me a lot of options in creating the password. This plays a minor role,

Re: boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:12:17 -0700 Stuart McGraw wrote: > I made a mistake when I installed my Fedora 21 system -- I > specified a /boot partition size of 200MB rather than the > recommended 500MB -- and didn't notice my mistake until > I had too much time invested in the install to redo it to >

boot partition too small

2015-02-15 Thread Stuart McGraw
I made a mistake when I installed my Fedora 21 system -- I specified a /boot partition size of 200MB rather than the recommended 500MB -- and didn't notice my mistake until I had too much time invested in the install to redo it to correct the size. (I am using plain vanilla ext4 partitions not lv

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 15:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > > > 1. Power on the system, press F2 as soon as the logo screen appears > > Thanks a lot, will do! > I have an ASUS Z97Pro. Press when you see the BIOS splash screen to enter the BIOS se

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:32:05 + "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 15:30 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > > > > > Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? > > > > KeePassX has strong encryption, is easy to han

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 15:30 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > > > Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? > > KeePassX has strong encryption, is easy to handle and has user-configurable > hash > iteration to delay brute force attacks.

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello, > However, your suggestions really helped me and I was able to modify the spec > file (was missing the python2-sitelib part) and can make a rpm. Here is the > spec file: > > $ fpaste pdfstapler.spec > Uploading (2.4KiB)... > http://ur1.ca/jqgcf -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/185742/1

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread g
On 02/15/2015 08:50 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: <<>> > [htd@keera ~]$ pwgen -sy 17 1 ?AQqh/utFcIl+p$2; > > Use KeePassX and encrypt its database with this password. Then, run > Austrumi and report back how long time it took and how much > expenditure it was to pay the electricity bill. You are allowe

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> >> > >> Your rpm.spec's %files section is incomplete. > > > > Thanks, Ralf! What would complete it? > > Adding the missing files to the spec's file section? > > E.g. your spec seems to be missing > > %files > ... > %{_bindir}/stapler > ... > > and something similar to > ... > %{python2_sitel

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/15/2015 04:18 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 08:07:47 +0100 Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/15/2015 06:46 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/bin/stapler /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/staplelib/__init__.

Re: PyPDF2 and stapler (RPM build error for stapler)

2015-02-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 08:07:47 +0100 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/15/2015 06:46 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > RPM build errors: > > Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: > > /usr/bin/stapler > > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/staplelib/__init__.py > > /usr/lib/python2.7/si

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/15/2015 09:43 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: imagine if the "word" ISN'T a word that's found in the dictionary.ANY dictionary.would that qualify it as being a bit more secure? Here's the "math" behind it, so you can calculate for yourself: The

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, g wrote: > granted, with w98se, such was not a great problem, except that he > had also encrypted a lot of files. It totally depends on how much entropy a password has, assumed the crypto used is strong and not flawed (e.g. proper implementation of AES, serpent, twofish and the li

Re: swapping

2015-02-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, As I said in another message, The issue may not be due to seltroubleshhoting but to firefox! I can get 20 firefox processes running requiring 5% of Mem each and filling the 8Go of mem. How can I get the list of AVC's? Thank. ===

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > imagine if the "word" ISN'T a word that's found in the dictionary.ANY > dictionary.would that qualify it as being a bit more secure? Here's the "math" behind it, so you can calculate for yourself: The password strength (entropy) is calculate

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I agree that a human might not be able to crack it but even a PC would have > a hard time if you use phrases, foreign words, and the like. Please search the net on "dictionary attack" in combination with words like "feasibility", "speed" and the like

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread g
On 02/15/2015 06:16 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <> > On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 22:07 +1030, Tim wrote: <> a few years ago, i would have agreed with you both. except for, a few years ago +1 day, when i needed to find password for a client running w98se, that had an employee leave. he actually wa

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? KeePassX has strong encryption, is easy to handle and has user-configurable hash iteration to delay brute force attacks. For me, it seems to be perfectly suited. -- users mailing list use

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/15/2015 09:27 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: ..the simple trick is to "push" each letter over by one! That's it! ROT1 (or ROTX, where X is any number) is a common part of most of the dictionary attacks, very easy to implement and causes near zero CPU l

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/15/2015 09:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 09:18 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I have discovered a method of creating passwords that has helped me greatly throughout the years. I learned it from this girl who was always teased in school for being "weird" LoL!

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > 1. Power on the system, press F2 as soon as the logo screen appears Thanks a lot, will do! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > ..the simple trick is to "push" each letter over by one! That's it! ROT1 (or ROTX, where X is any number) is a common part of most of the dictionary attacks, very easy to implement and causes near zero CPU load. So your ROT'ed password has not a sing

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 09:18 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I have discovered a method of creating passwords that has helped me > greatly throughout the years. I learned it from this girl who was > always > teased in school for being "weird" LoL! (Thank you > Sharon..wherever > you ar

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 19:17 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? [Please don't top-post. See the list Guidelines] I don't want to get into which of these is "better" as we all have different ideas of what better means. Personally I use

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/15/2015 08:47 AM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Hi, Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? Krishna Prajapati On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan mailto:pocallag...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 22:07 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun,

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi, Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? Krishna Prajapati On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 22:07 +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 01:04 -0600, g wrote: > > > an interesting page on "needles"; > > > > > > https

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi, 1. Power on the system, press F2 as soon as the logo screen appears and enter the bios. 2. Use the down arrow to select the *legacy bios.* 3. Save and exit bios. Krishna Prajapati On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 15.02.2015, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > > My brand ne

Re: swapping

2015-02-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
On 02/12/2015 06:42 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I did both. Unfortunately, sometimes, like today I have to kill > the setroubleshootd process all the times without much success at the end! > > Any suggestion? > > ==

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2015, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > My brand new laptop allows you to switch to legacy mode. The only way > to find out is by accessing the settings which should be same as for > old BIOSes eg it's F2 on my laptop. Thanks a lot for your answer! The new mainbord will be an Asus H97-Pro (or s

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:29:40 +0100 Heinz Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > I've built countless computers in the last 20 years, but none with > the nowadays modern UEFI bioses. Unfortunately, my main machine seems > to have gotten some problems after the last lightning storm, and it's > time to renew the w

F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, I've built countless computers in the last 20 years, but none with the nowadays modern UEFI bioses. Unfortunately, my main machine seems to have gotten some problems after the last lightning storm, and it's time to renew the whole thing. On the SSD, there's a fully updated F21, which I'd lik

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 22:07 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 01:04 -0600, g wrote: > > an interesting page on "needles"; > > > > https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm > > "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" gave interesting numbers, but all > you need was three obscure, unrelated, words (

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

2015-02-15 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 01:04 -0600, g wrote: > an interesting page on "needles"; > > https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" gave interesting numbers, but all you need was three obscure, unrelated, words (e.g. bluepigsskiing) to come up with some ridiculously diffi