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12:19 AM

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Q: CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE and other permisions

Who can see the content of my directory other than root. What is CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE? can sys admin give this privilege tom my content to some user? my understanding is someone who has CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE privilege can enter and see the content of any directory even if the permission in set to chmod 60...

Seth

3:37 AM

If anyone wants some webdev horror: devrant.com/rants/1026714

You're welcome.

Videonauth

hahahaha nice troll lol

@seth can you have alook at this post flag i put up for mod attention askubuntu.com/questions/958987/…

Seth

3:59 AM

sure, I can take a minute.

Videonauth

god, if i have to see ths Q&A popping up one more time I'm most certainly going to cry :(

Seth

hm

Videonauth

i se the tab with active questions showing a (1) and think oh cool maybe a new question, and then again the same sh** and that already for days

i can understand the need and want to refine something but then refine it once in editor untill satisfied and not edit it x times a day life

Videonauth

8:52 AM

good morning :)

dessert

@Videonauth hi!

half past nine in germany… ;)

Videonauth

idc :P

I'm awake since 4 am

anyone here who uses 17.10?

Eliah Kagan

I have a Lubuntu 17.10 VM...

Videonauth

--> askubuntu.com/q/979743/522934

Eliah Kagan

It can't easily answer that using my VM, because Lubuntu doesn't use GDM by default.

Videonauth

9:05 AM

yep all i found was a lightdm.comf file but no lightdm at all

and a greeter.dconf-defaults in /etc/gdm3

Eliah Kagan

Is help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/… relevant to their question?

Videonauth

no lightdm installed in my custom instalation of ubuntu, and neither in my pure 17.10 VM

dessert

Did I get this right you guys actually don't use Ubuntu but just have some VMs to test your answers? :D

Eliah Kagan

I don't use 17.10. Except in a VM.

Videonauth

thats it

let me quick test this

Eliah Kagan

9:08 AM

I have a physical machine with 16.04 LTS that I use heavily, and also one with 14.04 LTS that I use significantly, though mostly as a file server.

Videonauth

nope does not bring me anywhere

system does not even boot up

or better to say does boot up but no greeter comes up

Eliah Kagan

Can't you just check what packages are installed?

Videonauth

Eliah Kagan

And for gdm? Or maybe it's called gdm3.

Videonauth

it is gdm3 ;)

Eliah Kagan

9:21 AM

Also, you're looking for what display manager is being used, right? As far as I am aware, the term "greeter" is specific to LightDM, where it refers to any of a number of separate interfaces that LightDM can use for its graphical login screen.

Videonauth

i tried actually the solution on the page you just posted here but that does not seem to work

Eliah Kagan

Hmm. I'm not sure what to do then.

You rebooted or restarted GDM after making the change?

Videonauth

reboot

and all i see then is a purple screen :)

i think it is due to canonical changed the paths for certain things

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:16 AM

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Q: Install multiple linux distro in parallel

I am having Ubuntu and I want to install opensuse in parallel, is it good to keep both bootloader in MBR, or I should keep opensuse bootloader in other partition which I allocated to it during installation. In which case I will see options to login into ubuntu/opensuse.

linux ubuntu partition dual-boot boot-loader

dessert

11:03 AM

@Videonauth Do you mind testing whether Super+D is the default shortcut to minimize all windows in 17.10?

Videonauth

@dessert seems it is

dessert

@Videonauth thanks!

Videonauth

@dessert askubuntu.com/a/979773/522934 this was a hard one to figure out

thanks to canonical who again brewed their own soup

all i could see was it didnt start up when i edited the line in dconf or in /etc/gdm3

till i went to launchpad and checked the bugs

dessert

@Videonauth I can tell – nicely done!

Videonauth

weird thing is changing the line in dconf did not had any effect at all and i think thats another bug

but changing the line in theconfig file had the effect that the system would not boot up at all :D

dessert

11:09 AM

one can never file enough bugs ;)

Videonauth

yeah later today, im going to figure out which packet to file the other one on

i guess its dconf-editor

im in for a break now

already done two answers today

ah no almost 4 answers already today

one is 13 hours old i did this before heading to bed

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:46 AM

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Q: Include proxy settings into system connections files

I have following connection that my system connects to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections$ ls connection1 connection2 connection3 one which I have to use proxy settings, let say connection1. Is there a way to set proxy settings inside connection1 file so I need not to enable/disable proxy ...

ubuntu network-interface proxy

Thijser

12:00 PM

hey people

dessert

@Thijser hi!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:10 PM

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Q: IPSEC INTERNAL_IP4_DNS attribute failed on Ubuntu 16.04

I am trying to set up an IKEv2 connection on Ubuntu 16.04 using strongswan.The connection succeeds but I am receiving some DNS errors. adding DNS server failed adding DNS server failed handling INTERNAL_IP4_DNS attribute failed adding DNS server failed handling INTERNAL_IP4_DNS attribute failed ...

ubuntu vpn

guntbert

5:57 PM

News from the review audits. I tried to comment on a question and got

Nathan Osman

I hope my American friends had a good Thanksgiving.

Byte Commander

and what about your other friends?

Nathan Osman

I hope they had a good Thursday?

Today is the day I start playing Christmas music.

Byte Commander

>_<

is it that time of the year again...

Nathan Osman

YES.

Byte Commander

6:08 PM

Family going to bed at 10 PM is so much worse than jet lag.

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dessert

@guntbert That's good news!

Videonauth

@guntbert yeah that one is odd, had that happen only once till now

guntbert

@Videonauth I see it more "good" (like @dessert said) than "odd" - it made me smile :-)

Videonauth

6:23 PM

@guntbert well then we can call it even :P

to be honset in 99.9% of all cases the audits are dead giveaways

Videonauth

7:08 PM

this question was actually pretty fun to answer :) askubuntu.com/a/979899/522934

TheWanderer

US peeps should sign petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/…

Nathan Osman

Bonus points if we somehow knew his IP address and could put it behind a paywall for him.

>:)

TheWanderer

kek

Seth

7:26 PM

@TheWanderer Unfortunately that was an Obama project. No petitions have received replies since Trump took office.

TheWanderer

hmm

Seth

I'm honestly surprised the site is still up. Normally most of whitehouse.gov gets removed when a new president takes office.

Fabby

@Videonauth :D I found this one particularly funny:

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A: How do you install Ubuntu on an Intel RST RAID-0?

Sometimes it's better to tell a user: Please don't do this! My machine came pre-installed with an Intel RST RAID-0 Windows 10 installation and the first thing I did was did was to remove the RAID-0 as no RAID is better then RAID-0!!! I followed the following steps to accomplish this: Take a ...

Videonauth

how was your week fabby?

Fabby

Meh... Don't ask: I'm still working...

(but shutting down the work machine now)

Some idiot in Latin America just mailed the entire business unit an email to send him the IPs for some stuff that isn't even in our data centers.

Tons of people will lose time on this.

Videonauth

7:37 PM

so bussiness as usual :)

Fabby

:d

shutdown /s /t 1

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting (null) inside a mounted nfs share

I set up fie nfs shares and I can mount all of them, anywhere I want but inside each other. If I try to do so, I see this error message: mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting (null) The host is Ubuntu 16.04, the client is Linux Mint 18.2 (VM). I can mount the shares in each other on ...

ubuntu linux-mint mount nfs

Nathan Osman

8:01 PM

This is a great way to welcome the Christmas season, IMHO.

dessert

8:57 PM

For me it's this:

Knorkator - Weihnachtsschimpfe

►

Nathan Osman

9:39 PM

I wrote another article: blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/11/24/…

:D

dessert

9:58 PM

Just two upvotes and we have one less unanswered question:

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Q: A command to list all apps that aren't installed via package managers or deb file?

Is there a command that can list all apps that aren't install via package managers or deb file? Packages installed using bins, shs, runs, tar.gzs, appimages etc. Bash or python script would do.

command-line 16.04

IMO a question beginning with “Is there” can very well be answered with a “No.” as long as it's explained.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:14 PM

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Q: What has happened?

I am trying to install a new installation of ubuntu but im having problems, I end up with this screen. I have never had any problems installing ubuntu before this, can someone explain what this screen means and how do I get my ubuntu working? thanks.

ubuntu

Byte Commander

I just updated Firefox to 57

it's unusable

at least together with NoScript, I get crashes and complete rendering failures all the time

Not to mention that it's really ugly

Byte Commander

10:32 PM

I also really miss Tab Mix Plus

dessert

@ByteCommander I just advised my father to just try it – what have I done?

Byte Commander

10:48 PM

Well, remove NoScript before upgrading at least.

It breaks everything for me.

Without that, it works at least.

Still ugly

I installed uMatrix now as a replacement for NoScript

Gonna take a while to get used to it, it's muuuch more flexible and complex.

TheWanderer

11:06 PM

Byte Commander

forwarding that to a specific friend

TheWanderer

11:25 PM

Sergiy?

Byte Commander

No, a RL friend. But Sergy could profit from that too.

Speaking of the devil:

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Q: How to make my Ubuntu lock up?

I need a way to make my Ubuntu become unresponsive. No running shutdown scripts, no recovery from hanging state. Just a quick and dirty way for the system to go into derp mode. Recovery should be only via powering off and on again. Assume two things: I am root Non-bash solution ( so no fork bo...

command-line

(Sergiy posted a question like 30 seconds ago)

Jeremy31

11:42 PM

askubuntu.com/questions/979808/… and ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2378542 seem to be the same user using kali linux in a vm

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