Re: Unlock LUKS with login/password

2023-03-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:33 AM Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:11 PM Adrien CLERC wrote: > >> Le 08/03/2023 à 16:28, Alexey Kuznetsov a écrit : >> >> Hello! >> >> I have an idea about how modern linux should work with encrypted LUKS >> partitions. >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm usin

Grub Password configuration during install

2023-03-04 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, Would it be possible to add a section to the installer when Grub is being installed and configured to configure a grub password? Thanks Tim -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀

Re: Populating non-free firmware?

2022-12-24 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:15 PM M. Zhou wrote: > On Sat, 2022-12-24 at 11:44 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > > > The non-free-firmware [component] has been created, but so far it > > only > > contains the rasbpi-firmware package. > > Please ensure to include the packages for wifi cards, especi

Re: looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-15 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 8:51 AM Alastair McKinstry < alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie> wrote: > Hi, > > Is Qt6-base not in testing, for bookworm? I've an app (metview) that I > switched over Qt5->Qt6, should I move it back? > > Bookworm currently has Qt 6.3.1 and 6.4.0 packaged. > regards > > Alasta

Re: looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-13 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 12:51 AM Imre Nagy wrote: > Hi, > > What do we think about "accessibility" in this thread? The MSAA like > helping for visually challenged, or the global avaiblity (and > acceptance) of QT? > > As of Qt 5.15, (and Qt 6.4.x lately) you do not have to make the hard > choice

Re: RFC: Switch default from netkit-telnet(d) to inetutils-telnet(d)

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:19 PM Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > There's been talk about switching away from netkit-telnet and > netkit-telnetd as the default implementations for some time now, > and replacing them with the ones from inetutils, which is a maintained > project and does see releases

bullseye-updates does not have a Release file

2022-05-07 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
When I run sudo apt update I receive the following error messages: Err:5 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-updates Release 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:77::644 80] *E: *The repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-updates Release' does not have a Release

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-23 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 4:50 PM Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Op 23-04-2022 om 16:10 schreef Andrey Rahmatullin: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 03:13:29PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >>> I see several possible options that the images team can choose from > here. > >>> However, several of these op

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
> > My laptop requires the non-free binary blobs for WiFi, AMD GPU and HDMI > Sound. I think making the non-free images easier to find is a good idea. I > didn't know they even existed until I got this new laptop and nothing was > working with the regular installer. Placing the non-free and non-fre

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-08 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 6:18 PM Richard Laager wrote: > > On 3/8/22 10:49, Marc Haber wrote: > > (1) > > #202943, #202944, #398793, #442627, #782001 > > The bug reporters are requesting the default for DIR_MODE to be changed > > from 0755 to 0700, making home directories readable for the user only.

Re: Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-08 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I am against automatically setting HTTPS. Their should be an option in the installer to set or unset HTTPS while configuring the mirror! I like a lot of folks am on a metered internet connection with a UTM proxy firewall. I have multiple computers that need patched and only having to download

Re: testing for rootfs vs. /usr reproducibility regressions

2021-08-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On 8/21/21, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 05:29:54PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >> I have a new-be question, what is the point of merged-usr? > > I put "debian merged-usr" into my favourite search engine and the &g

Re: Debian 11 Bullseye Setup Problems Error Report

2021-08-20 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I have been using Debian 11 since Alpha 1 release. I installed with non-free live DVD using the calamaris installer. I have it installed on three systems one Intel Celeron, one Intel i5 and one AMD Ryzen 7. I give the installer a 5 star rating although I would like to see some improvements made to

Re: testing for rootfs vs. /usr reproducibility regressions

2021-08-20 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, Sorry I am a little late to this party so I have a new-be question, what is the point of merged-usr? It seems like a lot of work for a little reward, as the packages already work. Is there a legitimate benefit for changing all these file paths that I am missing? Thanks Tim

Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I just ran across this article https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root shell prompt. Tim

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I am fine with Debian's release cycle but It would be nice to see more packages. For example Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. I am happy to see Debian 11 gained KDE Elisa music manager. I am sad to see that VirtualBox is not available on Debian 11. I had to jerry-rig it using the Ubunt

Re: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-30 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I performed a clean install from https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/ and now everything works. thanks Tim

Re: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-29 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On 5/29/21, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > Am 29. Mai 2021 18:33:34 MESZ schrieb "Andrew M.A. Cater" > : >>Are you using the unoffcial non-free firmware .iso to install from? >> >>Are you installing firmware-amdgpu from the non-free repository if not? > > Please note that there is no such package wit

debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-29 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I just successfully installed bullseye RC 1 on my Asus notebook model X200CA. Everything is working. If you are looking for a notebook to run Debian I highly recommend this model. I installed Bullseye RC 1 on my new HP Pavillion 15-eh0097nr laptop. The AMD Ryzen 4700 is a work horse but the

Realtek RTL8723DE, RTL8821CE, RTL8822BE and RTL8822CE chipsets

2021-03-29 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, Currently in Bullseye the Realtek 8822CE WiFi adapter is not being recognized. There is a patched driver available at: git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88.git is it too late to get this driver into Bullseye. I ask because I have a laptop with a 8822CE adapter that is not functional.

Re: I'm orphan my packages and leave the project as maintainer

2021-03-26 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
The FSF with out RMS would be like the Linux Foundations with out Linus. With their personality quirks it is sometimes hard for some people to like them but at the end of the day they get the job done. RMS has done alot for FLOSS it would be sad to see his contributions come to a halt but he can al

Re: BinUtils /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

2020-11-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I added a symbolic link "libGL.so -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1" and that fixed the issue. Timothy M Butterworth

BinUtils /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

2020-11-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I'm trying to built software with Qt Creator and I get the following error message /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL. I'm running Debian 10 with KDE fully patched to the latest point release. Timothy M Butterworth