On Friday 26 July 2019 00:17:21 William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > On Thursday 25 July 2019 20:40:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 25 July 2019 16:17:27 Mike Bird wrote: > > > On Thu July 25 2019 10:51:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > gene@coyote:/etc/cron.daily$ tdesudo synaptic > > > > tdesudo: error while loading shared libraries: libtdecore.so.14: > > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > > > I have no idea how you can have TDE installed and running without > > > one of the most important TDE libraries. Perhaps a path problem. > > > > No, well not intentional. Its looking, or trying to, > > at /opt/trinity/lib64 but there's only a lib dir. Maybe this > > explains other stuff thats wonky too. Like my index problems with > > kmail a couple months back, etc etc. > > > > This was a 32 bit install until I updated to stretch for amd64 on > > this machine. > > > > So how do I convert an uptodate r14 install from 32 bit to 64 bit? > > > > here's the trinity.list > > # Trinity repositories > > deb > > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian/ > > stretch main > > deb > > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0 > >.0/debi an/ stretch main > > > > So I don't see an amd64 spec. > > > > > Meanwhile have you considered setting a root password? Requiring > > > a key instead of a password for ssh root login makes sense. And > > > requiring sudo on systems with multiple admins with different > > > privilege levels makes sense. But I don't see why you are making > > > things hard for yourself on your systems but not having a root > > > password. > > > > 1. I'm the only active, warm blooded user 1000. There are of course > > other "users" but most of that is just sandboxing. > > > > And 2, debian has never been real fond of pw's for root. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > I'm with Gene on part 1 of this question: no root password for a > single user system. I don't see any real purpose in making oneself log > in as root to perform administrative tasks; it is enough to use sudo > or su, so long as the admin is the only user, and the password is very > secure. (If somebody wants to take 20 million years to brute-force my > password, go right ahead, as it isn't written down anywhere, and it is > really long, and has lots of messy characters. Oh, and I also > alternate among 4 different complex passwords.) Of course, quantum > computers will change all this, but maybe by then we'll also have some > kind of comparable quantum encryption. > > However, part 2: tdesu is very useful for getting things done; and it > never makes me log in as root. To do that, you have to set up your > system for root logins, so it seems to me that you must have done this > either on the original installation (one of the questions asked by the > installer), or maybe you did it under the Trinity Control Center: > > TCC / System Administration / Login Manager / Convenience / > Miscellaneous / Allow Root Login > > I never clicked that box, but maybe Gene did. > > Bill > Nope. I don't allow an ssh login anyplace on my home network as root. That makes moving stuff that needs root a 2 step process, but thats ok, mc can handle both steps, just takes two sessions to do it. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
