[arch-general] Arch VM + QEMU/KVM + libvirt + Systemd

2014-02-10 Thread arnaud gaboury
Dear all, I have been reading and working hard these past few days to set up a Arch VM guest on my Arch host. The guest partition is on /dev/sdc and mounted on my root partition as /dahlia (name of the machine). First question : is this Ok or shall I instead use /machine/dahlia as container direc

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2014-02-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/10/2014 05:16 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > WorMzy Tykashi wrote: > >> On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux >> wrote: >>> I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading >>> somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newb

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2014-02-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/10/2014 05:16 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > WorMzy Tykashi wrote: > >> On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux >> wrote: >>> I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading >>> somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newb

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2014-02-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux
WorMzy Tykashi wrote: >On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux > wrote: >> > > I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading > > somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newbie. > > I disagree with your source. If anything, Arch Linux is

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2014-02-10 Thread WorMzy Tykashi
On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > > I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading somewhere > that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newbie. I disagree with your source. If anything, Arch Linux is aimed at experienced Linux users,

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2014-02-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > Feliz Xett wrote: > >> I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with >> it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first >> question to the forums at bbs.archlinux.org. On the bott

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2014-02-10 Thread Daniel Micay
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > Feliz Xett wrote: > >> I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with >> it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first >> question to the forums at bbs.archlinux.org. On the bott

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2014-02-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux
Feliz Xett wrote: > I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with > it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first > question to the forums at bbs.archlinux.org. On the bottom of the > registration page there was a very clever "captcha". The questio

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-10 Thread Damjan
On 01.02.2014 04:55, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: I want to run root X application in a terminal. [root@archbox ~]# smplayer smplayer: cannot connect to X server [root@archbox ~]# I followed the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_X_apps_as_root added export XAUTHORITY=/home/a

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-10 Thread Heiko Becker
Am 10.02.2014 13:34, schrieb Martti Kühne: On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Heiko Becker wrote: Hey, I cannot reproduce your exploit. I'm not sure if you misunderstood me. I was enumerating the 2 or 3 more obscure ways to configure this (and tbh, I'd be looking for a while to find these), wh

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2014-02-10 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/10/2014 10:48 AM, Feliz Xett wrote: > > Hi Pierre and others, > > thank you for your replies. > > > Thomas Bächler: >> By reading manpages (readily available on the internet), an online >> sha256 calculator and some brain function, you can easily solve this >> without a Linux computer. >

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2014-02-10 Thread Vinicius Rezende
...or Cygwin http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ work) On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Nowaker wrote: > Could this please please please be replaced with a real captcha? >> > > If any captcha is needed, I prefer copy-paste-enter captcha like this > instead

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2014-02-10 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Vinicius Rezende wrote: > ...or Cygwin > > http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ > work) Except you need to replace "$(uname)" with "Linux", otherwise you won't get the right hash.

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2014-02-10 Thread Kyle
According to Dimitris Zervas wrote: # I've seen graphical captcha, but not with numbers and letters, but # with games or with photos. # I don't remember the names right now, but google does. # The downside, is that it requires flash player... The other downside is that it would exclude visually im

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2014-02-10 Thread Victor Silva
Also a suggestion is http://simpleshell.com/ Just tested it and works quite well. 2014-02-10 15:14 GMT-02:00 Vinicius Rezende : > ...or Cygwin > > http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ > work) > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Nowaker wrote: > > > Could t

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2014-02-10 Thread Ryan Fredette
Did that work for you? My result was different on my linux box at work. What does `uname` report in cygwin? On 02/10/2014 12:14 PM, Vinicius Rezende wrote: ...or Cygwin http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ work) On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Nowaker

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2014-02-10 Thread Nowaker
Could this please please please be replaced with a real captcha? If any captcha is needed, I prefer copy-paste-enter captcha like this instead of some weird recaptchas. If you are on Windows, go get a free shell account. ;) -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu

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2014-02-10 Thread Felix Kaiser
You could have used http://bellard.org/jslinux/ :-) /var/root # date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' 4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9 Felix

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2014-02-10 Thread Dimitris Zervas
I don't think that using a computer command is suitable to avoid computer bots. They can easily read the captcha, solve it (just execute the command) and that's it. I've seen graphical captcha, but not with numbers and letters, but with games or with photos. I don't remember the names right now, bu

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2014-02-10 Thread Feliz Xett
Hi Pierre and others, thank you for your replies. Thomas Bächler: > By reading manpages (readily available on the internet), an online > sha256 calculator and some brain function, you can easily solve this > without a Linux computer. I know I could have solved it, as could have every other Arc

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2014-02-10 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 10.02.2014 15:42, schrieb Feliz Xett: > Hi all! > > I hope it's ok to bother this list with this question/suggestion/rant about > the forum registration process. Hi, I implemented this "captcha" some years ago as we had massive spam and troll problems. We are not just fighting spam bots but a

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2014-02-10 Thread luc
Hi, ~> date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' 4a65f65b40cc2b0a7aaa726e895d72425ede255021e2ce3e935dd2719e4d33b9 but that somehow looks wierd :P Cheers, Luc

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2014-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2014 15:42, schrieb Feliz Xett: > On the bottom of the registration page > there was a very clever "captcha". The question was: > > What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"? > > I might even have found this funny if I wasn't ON A NON-LINUX LAPTOP. By reading m

[arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Feliz Xett
Hi all! I hope it's ok to bother this list with this question/suggestion/rant about the forum registration process. I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first question to the forums at bbs.archlinux

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-10 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Heiko Becker wrote: > Hey, > > I cannot reproduce your exploit. > I'm not sure if you misunderstood me. I was enumerating the 2 or 3 more obscure ways to configure this (and tbh, I'd be looking for a while to find these), which I basically worked around in my .bas