eCryptfs slow on CIFS share

2017-02-12 Thread Michael Luecke
Hello, I tried to set up an eCryptfs onto an CIFS share which resulted in an incredibly slow transfer rate. The CIFS share is located on a QNAP NAS with Gbit-Ethernet connection. The CIFS share was normally mounted with: $ mount -o username=guest,password=guest -t cifs //nas/Public /tmp/test/

Re: [Offtopic]: Compress Downloads on the fly

2017-01-28 Thread Michael Luecke
On 01/28/2017 08:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I would like to download a large csv file from a JavaScript intensive web page. My client system has not enough storage for the file, but if I could compress the file on the fly, things would work, since the file has a huge compression ratio. If y

Re: NTP insecure defaults

2017-01-07 Thread Michael Luecke
On 01/07/2017 09:33 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Turns out the Debian default is indeed to provide time service if you install NTP. Shouldn't that be limited to localhost only, so that an admin must deliberately open up the service if they want to provide NTP service to the outside world? Did yo

Re: jessie: ALSA fails on first use after reboot

2017-01-01 Thread Michael Luecke
D. R. Evans wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: Is there some way to find out what process is using ALSA when snd_pcm_open() returns that error? (If indeed there is such a process.) Still, if anyone has any suggestions as to how to discover what is going on, I'd appreciate it. I'm not a great fan of mys

Re: sudo + gpg - howto?

2016-11-27 Thread Michael Luecke
On 11/27/2016 10:10 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: 2. cannot run pinentry (my guess is that tty is owned by user kjonca and pinentry should be as user backup) That's the problem. The owner of ttyX must match with the user for which pinentry is running. You could change the permissions of tty to the

Re: Zero filling my HDD before installation

2016-05-02 Thread Michael Luecke
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Ralph Sanchez wrote: > I can't find a reply to list, I tried reply all, does that work? It seems so, make sure you're replying to the list's address (here: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"). It's usually not neccessary to reply to all [1]. In this lists code of cond

Re: Installation of openssh-client stops with error in groupadd

2016-04-27 Thread Michael Luecke
Hi, On 04/26/2016 09:03 PM, Michael Luecke wrote: My gut feeling tells me that one should blame filesystem (btrfs) implementation in cases such as this. It's nothing to blame btrfs for, the same thing happens at this system with ext4. Sent a bug-report. Bug#822808 Best regards Michael

Re: Installation of openssh-client stops with error in groupadd

2016-04-26 Thread Michael Luecke
Hello, On 04/26/2016 08:54 PM, Reco wrote: For the sake of the purity of the experiment, it would be nice to reboot the system with "init=/bin/sh" added to kernel commandline (to exclude systemd interference), but I foresee that the result would be the same. I'll try this if I have a little bit

Re: Installation of openssh-client stops with error in groupadd

2016-04-26 Thread Michael Luecke
Hi, I've done your commands: On 04/26/2016 08:04 PM, Reco wrote: > unshare -m /bin/bash > mount -o bind / /mnt > mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc > mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev > chroot /mnt Without failure until here. > strace groupadd -g 1234 test The known failure again: rename("/etc/group+", "/

Re: Installation of openssh-client stops with error in groupadd

2016-04-26 Thread Michael Luecke
Hi, as I restarted my computer today. I wanted to install lsof via apt-get and at least it configured openssh-client without failure. So I thought that problem fixed itself, but it didn't. I tried to add another group manually so I typed as root: # groupadd -g 1234 test groupadd: failure whi

Re: Installation of openssh-client stops with error in groupadd

2016-04-25 Thread Michael Luecke
> Please post the output of: ... ++ # strace /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 117 ssh execve("/usr/sbin/groupadd", ["/usr/sbin/groupadd", "-g", "117", "ssh"], [/* 25 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x7f17b521 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) =

Installation of openssh-client stops with error in groupadd

2016-04-25 Thread Michael Luecke
Hello, I have a fresh installation of Debian jessie. As I wanted to install 'openssh-client' it stops with an error in groupadd. It seems that I cannot add any groups, because I get the error also when I try to add the group manually. In /etc there are two files, group and group+. Their diffe