Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-11 Thread tlze
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better > backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any > backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the > occasional tarball an

[gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the occasional tarball and download it, and have used tar+ssh to restore, but that's not co

[gentoo-user] Re: removal of esound

2012-01-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: >I may take it upstream to mozilla.org. No need for that. I just heard the notification sound with the new build of SM. :) Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread walt
On 01/11/2012 02:05 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-11 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> The site doesn't say much. It has one page, no internal links >> (quite a few external ones) and a single link to an image. > > Weird... the wiki tree is gone... there are a *ton* of pages there, > I'll ha

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-11 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2012 21:45:21 Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even > after > > > setting these, I'm still getting this error. I'm adding all the > device > > > drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:40 -0500 "Mike Edenfield" wrote: > > I agree. Longer pass{words,phrases} only increases the difficulty > > of the problem, but not significantly so. > > After I read the aforementioned xkcd comic, my main question was how > he defined the various bits of entropy for e

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:48:50 -0600 Dale wrote: > On a security related question. Why does so many people have their > facebook accounts and other similar sites hacked? Do hackers just > guess their passwords or do they break into the websites? I have > facebook, myspace, google+ and a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 21:41:47 Mick wrote: > My wife uses the full KDE and I'll have to break the news to her that > Kmail which she prefers to T'bird may no longer be usable. I do hope > things improve with Kmail. Me too. At least in the meantime you can put a set of atoms into package.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a mentalist will presume you're thinking about '7', your average demographic would probably draw from a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.01.2012 00:09, Mike Edenfield wrote: > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] Sent: > Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:48 PM > >> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 Michael Mol >> wrote: >> >>> I'm seriously unconvinced that concate

RE: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:48 PM > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 > Michael Mol wrote: > > > I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly > > increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a mentalist will

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:05:28 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-11 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The site doesn't say much. It has one page, no internal links > > (quite a few external ones) and a single link to an image. > > Weird... the wiki tree is gone... there are a *ton* of pages the

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: > I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly > increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a mentalist will > presume you're thinking about '7', your average demographic would > probably draw from a small pool of sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 5:05 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Actually, it does, and once the site is back up I'll post here and you can go read all about it... Even weirder... The menu tree is actually still there, but it is displayed way down the page, so something definitely is broken. I've already emailed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:41 -0500 > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 2012-01-11 3:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 >>> Tanstaafl wrote: http://passwordmaker.org/ >>> >>> I haven't read the site yet, but just on the basis of your >>> de

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: The site doesn't say much. It has one page, no internal links (quite a few external ones) and a single link to an image. Weird... the wiki tree is gone... there are a *ton* of pages there, I'll have to poke the maintainers... maybe they were updatin

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tamer Higazi
I tell you the right way todo it. Make it easy as possible, not so difficult like the others in the thread! Download system rescuecd (which is a nice gentoo system with lots of beautiful tools running out of the box): http://www.sysresccd.org/Download download, burn and boot from the cd. This i

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:41 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-11 3:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 > > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> http://passwordmaker.org/ > >> > > > > I haven't read the site yet, but just on the basis of your > > description, all I'm seeing is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 12:14:18 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:20:06AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:53:48 +, Mick wrote: > > > I did not yet try deleting akonadi db and nepomuk and trying > > > re-importing everything. I'm not sure if it is e

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 3:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: http://passwordmaker.org/ I haven't read the site yet, but just on the basis of your description, all I'm seeing is a teeny-weeny amount of entropy leading to passwords that are very easy for com

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-11 9:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 > > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I > >> can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every si

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 1:47 PM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer something that doesn't store the passwords an

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: > On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale wrote: >> These things sure beat trying to remember a really strong password. My >> bank and credit card passwords are off the chart. > > Yeah, but what about those moron banks that only allow you to use > lowercase letters - and only a max of 6

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 1:47 PM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer something that doesn't store the passwords anywhere, ever...

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer something that doesn't store the passwords anywhere, ever... I have to many places to remember all

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-11 11:36 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> Most of my passwords are some hash[1] of a common passcode[2] and some >> site-specific or service-specific mnemonic. I imagine this would work >> similarly, using the absolute URL in place of a mnemonic. >> >> The downside would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 11:51 AM, Dale wrote: I use Lastpass for my stuff. It is encypted locally but available anywhere. It works pretty well. Heard good things about it, but I prefer something that doesn't store the passwords anywhere, ever... These things sure beat trying to remember a really str

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 11:36 AM, Michael Mol wrote: Most of my passwords are some hash[1] of a common passcode[2] and some site-specific or service-specific mnemonic. I imagine this would work similarly, using the absolute URL in place of a mnemonic. The downside would be if the server changed its URL r

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:27 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the username/password for me (if i

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:35:57 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > > So it stores the data and method needed to recreate the password, same > > thing. Or does it not store the username, in which case you have to > > use the same username everywhere? > > It would be easier for you to understand how it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the usernam

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 11:27 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the username/password for me (if it is a web login p

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can > >> have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto > >> fills the username/password for me (if it is a web login page), but > >> doesn't store any

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 9:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the username/password for me (if it is a web login pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen > wrote: > > The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user > > whose password is know to you. > > Afterwards you can log in an change the password again. > > Thanks, I lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 7:35 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: While booting, pass init=/bin/bash in the kernel command line I did... otherwise, it still requires you to know the password... ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Jan 11, 2012 5:57 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: >> >> The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user >> whose password is know to you. >> Afterwards you can log in an change the password again. > > > Thanks, I like that be

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user whose password is know to you. Afterwards you can log in an change the password again. Thanks, I like that better and it worked like a charm, this way the root account is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:20:06AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:53:48 +, Mick wrote: > > > I did not yet try deleting akonadi db and nepomuk and trying > > re-importing everything. I'm not sure if it is even worth it to bother > > with KDE anymore. > > You'd get rid o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: korganize-4.7.3 broken

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:53:48 +, Mick wrote: > I did not yet try deleting akonadi db and nepomuk and trying > re-importing everything. I'm not sure if it is even worth it to bother > with KDE anymore. You'd get rid of the whole of KDE just because the mail client sucks? You know, you can run