Re: Ethernet werkt niet

2024-03-20 Thread Richard Lucassen
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:37:56 +0100 Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Zoiets was dat bij mij ook. Ik vroeg me af of er ook een soort PING > was op MAC niveau. arping -I eth0 a.b.c.d Dat zendt arp who-has naar a.b.c.d: # arping -I wlan0 -c 1 192.168.66.1 ARPING 192.168.66.1 from 192.168.66.252 wlan0

Re: Filsystemkorruption i ext4?

2024-03-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 11:28 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I have now done the following: > * Checked the RAID array - no problems found. > * Run fsck. It found three cases of the block count being incorrect. I > don't know which the other two affected files are. > * Run one pass of memtest86+.

Re: een soort ping op MAC niveau.

2024-03-20 Thread Geert Stappers
Previous-Subject: Re: Ethernet werkt niet In-Reply-To: On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:37:56PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > Ik vroeg me af of er ook een soort PING was op MAC niveau. > $ apt show arping Package: arping Version: 2.21-2 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Salvatore

Re: Ethernet werkt niet

2024-03-20 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:34:21PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hallo Geert en anderen, > > Bedankt voor je uitgebreide reactie. Ondertussen werkt het, maar toch > interessant. > > Op 18-03-2024 om 22:34 schreef Geert Stappers: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 02:13:11PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Lee
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 3:50 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > De : Lee > À : Pierre-Elliott Bécue > Cc : Debian Users ML > Date : 20 mars 2024 20:40:52 > Objet : Re: Root password strength > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:47 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > >> > >> Brad Rogers wrote on

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 19:16:16+0100: > > [...] > >> Noone asks someone to remember more than two or three passwords. The > >> rest belongs to a password manager. > > > > Huh? This is discussed in detail in Peter

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
De : Lee À : Pierre-Elliott Bécue Cc : Debian Users ML Date : 20 mars 2024 20:40:52 Objet : Re: Root password strength > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:47 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> >> Brad Rogers wrote on 20/03/2024 at 18:39:30+0100: >>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:09:31 +0100 >>>

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Lee
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:47 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Brad Rogers wrote on 20/03/2024 at 18:39:30+0100: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:09:31 +0100 > > Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > > > Hello Pierre-Elliott, > > > >>Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. > > > >

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
John Hasler wrote on 20/03/2024 at 19:35:42+0100: > Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: >> My home sees plenty different people coming in. Some I trust, some I >> trust less. Also videocalls is a nice way to get a paper password >> recorded (and yes it happens). > > I keep my passwords in a small book

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > Actually, I use between pwgen -n 8 (user pw) and pwgen -n 16 (LUKS > encryption). -n is the default for pwgen. Note that this slightly reduces the size of the search space. Unfortunately many sites require it. > I memorize the most important of them. I memorize the ones I use

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Brad Rogers wrote on 20/03/2024 at 19:03:48+0100: > [[PGP Signed Part:No public key for 0F3EE001F02A3E20 created at > 2024-03-20T19:03:48+0100 using RSA]] > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:46:04 +0100 > Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Hello Pierre-Elliott, > >>You have a rather bad cybersecurity

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread John Hasler
Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: > My home sees plenty different people coming in. Some I trust, some I > trust less. Also videocalls is a nice way to get a paper password > recorded (and yes it happens). I keep my passwords in a small book the size of a passport and I secure it the same way I secure

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 19:16:16+0100: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:45 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> >> >> Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 18:30:34+0100: >> >> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Jeffrey Walton wrote on

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:46:04 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Hello Pierre-Elliott, >You have a rather bad cybersecurity approach. I use password generators and vaults for all my passwords. Nothing wrong with my cyber-security. Also note that I put 'written down' in single quotes - it was

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote on 20/03/2024 at 19:04:10+0100: > On 20 Mar 2024 18:46 +0100, from p...@debian.org (Pierre-Elliott Bécue): Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. >>> >>> Not in your own home. And in any event, it depends where one

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:45 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > > Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 18:30:34+0100: > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue > > wrote: > >> > >> Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:19:46+0100: > >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Mar 2024 17:07 +0100, from p...@debian.org (Pierre-Elliott Bécue): > Let's stop to overcomplexify, the best course of action for passwords > you need to remember are passphrases, and to this matter, Randall nailed > the matter properly. If you're referring to https://xkcd.com/936/ I believe

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Mar 2024 18:46 +0100, from p...@debian.org (Pierre-Elliott Bécue): >>> Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. >> >> Not in your own home. And in any event, it depends where one keeps that >> 'written down' password. >> >> And if it *does* become an issue at home,

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 11:02:41AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Use one of the password generating programs such as pwgen to produce a > 12 character random password. Write it down. Actually, I use between pwgen -n 8 (user pw) and pwgen -n 16 (LUKS encryption). I memorize the most important of

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Brad Rogers wrote on 20/03/2024 at 18:39:30+0100: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:09:31 +0100 > Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Hello Pierre-Elliott, > >>Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. > > Not in your own home. And in any event, it depends where one keeps that > 'written

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 18:30:34+0100: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> >> Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:19:46+0100: >> >> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> John Hasler wrote on

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:09:31 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Hello Pierre-Elliott, >Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. Not in your own home. And in any event, it depends where one keeps that 'written down' password. And if it *does* become an issue at home,

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

2024-03-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > I admit "dithering" may be incorrect term, [...] > Consider 2 squares having size of 2.5×2.5 pixels. Non-even sizes and fuzzy > lines variants: > █████ > ██████ > ████ ██ >██ ██ >█████ > Second variant might have sense if an

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:19:46+0100: > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue > > wrote: > >> > >> John Hasler wrote on 20/03/2024 at 16:58:01+0100: > >> > >> > Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: >

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

2024-03-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/03/2024 01:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: When vector graphics, that does not match device resolution, is rasterized, the result is either non-even sizes of similar elements or fuzzy lines due to dithering. Nitpicking: "Dithering" in raster graphics is emulation of color

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
John Hasler wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:21:20+0100: > Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: >> Writing down a password is a bad idea. > > Why? Because anyone falling on the paper with the password can do a lot of harm. Because you can't control what this paper will become with certainty, while it's easier

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Jeffrey Walton wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:19:46+0100: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> >> John Hasler wrote on 20/03/2024 at 16:58:01+0100: >> >> > Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: >> >> A phrase you will easily remember but that would be hardcore to guess >> >>

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/03/2024 23:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote: The network attacker cannot (yet) reach through a monitor and read a sticky note. It may be visible during a video call performed from a smartphone.

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread songbird
Detlef Vollmann wrote: > Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? > I'm currently stuck with a hard to maintain Sid system. > It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to > install new packages. > > I've looked e.g. into gnutls (on amd64), and

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread John Hasler
Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: > Writing down a password is a bad idea. Why? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > John Hasler wrote on 20/03/2024 at 16:58:01+0100: > > > Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: > >> A phrase you will easily remember but that would be hardcore to guess > >> through social engineering is perfect. > > > > Better is a random

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
John Hasler wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:02:41+0100: > Use one of the password generating programs such as pwgen to produce a > 12 character random password. Write it down. Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. -- PEB signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
John Hasler wrote on 20/03/2024 at 16:58:01+0100: > Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: >> A phrase you will easily remember but that would be hardcore to guess >> through social engineering is perfect. > > Better is a random string that you write down. When people try to > generate phrases that meet

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread John Hasler
Use one of the password generating programs such as pwgen to produce a 12 character random password. Write it down. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Mar 2024 10:58 -0500, from j...@sugarbit.com (John Hasler): >> A phrase you will easily remember but that would be hardcore to guess >> through social engineering is perfect. > > Better is a random string that you write down. When people try to > generate phrases that meet those

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread John Hasler
Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: > A phrase you will easily remember but that would be hardcore to guess > through social engineering is perfect. Better is a random string that you write down. When people try to generate phrases that meet those requirements they usually fail. -- John Hasler

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote on 20/03/2024 at 16:16:41+0100: > On 20 Mar 2024 15:45 +0100, from p...@debian.org (Pierre-Elliott Bécue): >>> it should be like 32 symbols with special symbols? Or this paragraph >>> in a handbook is rather paranoid? >> >> It's not paranoid. > >

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Jan Krapivin
I must mention that "32 characters" is only my guess. In the Handbook it is said: "The root user's password should be long (12 characters or more) and impossible to guess." Also, i must again say that in my case we speak just about a humble home desktop, without a ""ssh" access"" or whatever

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Mar 2024 15:45 +0100, from p...@debian.org (Pierre-Elliott Bécue): >> it should be like 32 symbols with special symbols? Or this paragraph >> in a handbook is rather paranoid? > > It's not paranoid. For 82 symbols (mixed-case alphanumeric plus 20 special characters), 32 characters is

Re: Filsystemkorruption i ext4?

2024-03-20 Thread Franco Martelli
On 20/03/24 at 09:15, Jesper Dybdal wrote: [Sorry for the accidental Danish-language subject line :-( ] On 2024-03-19 21:47, Franco Martelli wrote: On 19/03/24 at 15:43, Jesper Dybdal wrote: My plan is to boot a rescue disk and mount that partition read-only. Then: * If the file looks ok

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Jan Krapivin wrote on 19/03/2024 at 15:42:55+0100: > I read Debian Administrator's handbook now. And there are such words: > > The root user's password should be long (12 characters or more) and > impossible to guess. Indeed, any computer (and a fortiori any server) > connected to the

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 09:23:58AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > > Also, are you saying that you do not let users rotate their keys > > themselves; and if so, why on Earth not? > > Key continuity has turned out to be a better security property than > key rotation. It is wise to avoid

Client ''frozen'' dans un environnement avec un serveur LTSP

2024-03-20 Thread Alex PADOLY
Bonsoir à tous, J'ai mis en place un réseau dans lequel il y a un serveur LTSP fonctionnant sous DEBIAN. Aucun problème concernant la configuration du serveur. Je n'arrive toujours pas à comprendre pourquoi, après le démarrage du client, celui-ci se fige au déplacement de la souris ou à

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 7:03 AM Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > > On 20 Mar 2024 15:46 +0800, from jeremy.ard...@gmail.com (jeremy ardley): > > Regarding certificates, I issue VPN certificates to be installed on each > > remote device. I don't use public key. > > What exactly is

Re: Filsystemkorruption i ext4?

2024-03-20 Thread Jesper Dybdal
I have now done the following: * Checked the RAID array - no problems found. * Run fsck.  It found three cases of the block count being incorrect.  I don't know which the other two affected files are. * Run one pass of memtest86+.  Nothing found. So it seems not to be a problem with the disks.

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Dan Ritter
jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 20/3/24 19:03, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 20 Mar 2024 15:46 +0800, fromjeremy.ard...@gmail.com (jeremy ardley): > > > [users are locked out from uploading their public key using ssh-copy-id] > > So the private keys aren't private, thereby invalidating a lot of >

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Mar 2024 12:17 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de: >>> For ssh use I issue secret keys to each user and maintain matching public >>> keys in LDAP servers [...] > >> So the private keys aren't private, thereby invalidating a lot of >> assumptions inherent in public key cryptography. > > We are

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Mar 2024 19:21 +0800, from jeremy.ard...@gmail.com (jeremy ardley): >>> Regarding certificates, I issue VPN certificates to be installed on each >>> remote device. I don't use public key. >> >> What exactly is this "certificate" that you speak of? In typical >> usage, it means a public key

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread jeremy ardley
On 20/3/24 19:03, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 20 Mar 2024 15:46 +0800, fromjeremy.ard...@gmail.com (jeremy ardley): Regarding certificates, I issue VPN certificates to be installed on each remote device. I don't use public key. What exactly is this "certificate" that you speak of? In typical

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 11:03:16AM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 20 Mar 2024 15:46 +0800, from jeremy.ard...@gmail.com (jeremy ardley): > > Regarding certificates, I issue VPN certificates to be installed on each > > remote device. I don't use public key. > > What exactly is this

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Mar 2024 15:46 +0800, from jeremy.ard...@gmail.com (jeremy ardley): > Regarding certificates, I issue VPN certificates to be installed on each > remote device. I don't use public key. What exactly is this "certificate" that you speak of? In typical usage, it means a public key plus some

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Detlef Vollmann
Marco Moock wrote: It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to upgrade the packages if they depend on the t64 libs. No, only the package names have the 't64' suffix, the

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Marco Moock
Am 20.03.2024 um 09:29:12 Uhr schrieb Erwan David: > Since I begin to have this in tetsing : and what should we do when a > package tries to remove other (except wait) ? > > eg, now in testing upgrading nextcloud-desktop would remove > plasma-discover, and fwbuilder would remove cups. Be

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Marco Moock wrote: > The libs will have a suffix of t64 I wonder whether those suffixes will go away at some stage of this effort. (Further i wonder when the package tracker appearance of libisoburn will become less ugly than currently: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libisoburn and how

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/03/2024 à 09:09, Marco Moock a écrit : Am 20.03.2024 um 08:22:16 Uhr schrieb Detlef Vollmann: It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to upgrade the packages if they

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:22:16 +0100 Detlef Vollmann wrote: Hello Detlef, >Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? I'm far from an expert, but from what I've read, this transition is *huge*. Possibly the largest that has ever occurred in Debian. It's going to take

Re: Filsystemkorruption i ext4?

2024-03-20 Thread Jesper Dybdal
[Sorry for the accidental Danish-language subject line :-( ] On 2024-03-19 21:47, Franco Martelli wrote: On 19/03/24 at 15:43, Jesper Dybdal wrote: My plan is to boot a rescue disk and mount that partition read-only. Then: * If the file looks ok after reboot, then I'll strongly suspect the

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Marco Moock
Am 20.03.2024 um 08:22:16 Uhr schrieb Detlef Vollmann: > It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to > install new packages. The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to upgrade the packages if they depend on the t64 libs. Although, carefully read

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread jeremy ardley
On 20/3/24 13:32, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: How will a "VPN" with a "certificate" (whatever that means in this > context) be more secure than a SSH (assuming key pair authentication, > not password)? > > They are doing the same dance (key exchange, key pair validation, > session key

How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Detlef Vollmann
Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? I'm currently stuck with a hard to maintain Sid system. It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. I've looked e.g. into gnutls (on amd64), and libgnutls30t64 (3.8.3-1.1) as well as

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 02:01:44AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:32 AM wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 04:22:29AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > A 'safer' implementation will not even expose an ssh port. Instead there > > > will be a certificate based VPN

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:32 AM wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 04:22:29AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > A 'safer' implementation will not even expose an ssh port. Instead there > > will be a certificate based VPN where you first need a certificate to > > connect and then you need a