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I found a security issue with my router and I also found out it runs linux, so I can just ssh into it and fix the issue. Only problem is I have no idea how to change a user's password without passwd.
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Also, commands like vi, uname, file, etc are not there...
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See this is a respond that will something.
Checking on it in around half an hour, I think I just typed my password wrong when I created it, it's a long and annoying one so.. Yea I'll check on it!
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Okay so I managed to log in "behind the screen" with my normal user. Do I need to do this every time?
Also my notifications are a bit fucked too.
http://db.tt/VurIOHKj
What now?
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I just don't get it. I tried ubuntu for about 2 weeks and I can't stand it. I've had to research over and over again to do simple tasks and its obviously not for me. Yet reverting back to Windows is going to be impossible it seems. The drivers for my CD-drive can't be found anywhere, and my computer is incapable of booting from a USB. Am I stuck with this now?
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Did you get some CD's with your windows? If you did you probably have a disc with some sort of label as: "application & support", your drivers should be located on it. Just put it in, go to computer and open. A folder named driver or something and install everything, then reboot.
And it takes time to learn Ubuntu, you should really give it a shot<3
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I can also give you some guidelines from a PM to learn you to do simple task and get it to look good at set it up for work etc. just PM me if you want it!
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Thanks Moofy, I'm still trying but so many applications and what should be simple actions are taking me forever to learn, and then more often then not, not working!
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Settings -> Configure Current Profile -> General Tab -> Initial Directory.
It's blank for me, which defaults to ~ apparently.
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Correct me if im wrong but I believe Archbang is based on Archlinux. There is a simple way to resetting the password. The file named shadow inside /etc/ (/etc/shadow/) contains the passwords of accounts on the system. Simply removing the password from the file will allow you to login to that account.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Password_Recovery <-- This article will tell you what you need to know.
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My Ubuntu server claims that it's corrupted when I try to install it, I've tried multiple times. I just caved and installed standard Ubuntu...
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I've moved my backup system from full backups to an external hard drive, to incremental backups to an encrypted external hard drive.
It's kind of ironic considering I don't encrypt the source, so if anybody steals my computer they'll have a completely working system.
Now I have to worry about losing a backup key. I'm considering creating a GPG key and having a copy of the key encrypted, the storing that on on a flash drive.
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How do I get easy access to the AUR. What program should I use? I would like to have a way similar to pacman. So I could just do command <program I want>.
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Check out yaourt(my favorite) or packer.
They both follow the same syntax as pacman.
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And where can I find an XFCE theme that isn't butt ugly? I haven't seen any good ones so far, at least not on XFCE-look.org
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xfce-theme-bluebird with faenza-icon-theme
both available on AUR
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Wooh! Thank you!
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Fuck you Arch! I did it!
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I will drop you a PM in a couple of hours.
Just need a bath and some breakfast.
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Uh huh, my screen turns off after 1 minute idle. Power-saving shit is disabled in settings, but still - turns off. Ubuntu 12.04, KDE.
HALP.
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I'd like to remove power management shit at all, but I don't know what exactly to delete
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Maybe it's not your power management?
Pause screen possiblely?
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what is this
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A pause screen?
It's like when you don't use your PC for a chosen amount of time it will hypernate or something.
Maybe it's set to 1 minute by a mistake?
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So it turns out backing up hundreds of gigabytes to an encrypted hard drive isn't a great idea. Back to unencryptedness.
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Hm, I've got a problem with steam.
I installed steam to my wine drive, and symlinked steamapps. It's working fine on linux, but on windows it just shoots me the error "error: cannot load localization overlay".
I'd like to still be able to play games on windows because so far wine support hasn't been the greatest.
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Not if you've forgotten how to read from it, no
But why is it bad in your case?
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It was just too slow.
On topic though, let's say hypothetically on the one day you didn't have a system backup your main hard drive crashed and now you're on SystemRescueCD chrooted and backing up after fscking the partition. How would you test for disk errors?
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Hm, well, I'll look into it... or install arch
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Arch all the way.
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Hours of live CDs, chrooting, my BIOS telling me to 'backup and replace' my current hard drive, I'm back to my system with a full backup.
Jwz was right, "The universe tends toward maximum irony."
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Hooray, my wireless chipset works out of the box on arch!
Also, how do you move partitions around?
Reason is my partition layout is like so:
sdb1: swap
sdb2: opensuse
sdb3: 'data' partition (which is redundant since I have a file server at my house)
sdb4: arch
Now, I'd like to get rid of the data partition and move arch down to where it was so I can put an extended partition in sdb4 since I still have 500GB left on the hard drive, but I'm not sure how I can do that without fucking something up.
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Download and boot into this: http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads
It should be pretty self-explanatory once you've boot into it but if you still need help feel free to ask.
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you can try fdisk or parted, but depending on how you set up your OSes it might fuck them up a little bit
check and make sure that /etc/fstab in arch (im not sure about opensuse) references the disks by UUID or label, and not by the device
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I don't really care about opensuse, I'm going to replace it soon anyway.
Will set up labels for arch though now.
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I'd go with this. I always (ALWAYS) use PartedMagic for partition resizing, since it's small and easy, and works with WiFi and ethernet so I can surf while it's resizing and moving my shit around (that can easily take 1-2 hours or more)
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That is what I'm about to use, just need to wait for the ISO to finish downloading and go find a blank dvd.
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Oh woops problem.
I'm in partition magic, but the problem is I'm moving the partition that grub is installed to, so grub isn't going to work now.
I've installed it into the MBR, anyway to change where it looks for it's files from within this live cd?
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Huh, that's odd.
In partition magic it says my arch partition is still sdb4, even though I deleted sdb3.
How can I change that, I need to make an extended partition in that place. (Or can I make a extended in sdb3?)
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Well I installed backtrack but I forgot to deselect installing grub so now I have to install it again.
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Forgot my root password and I've been meaning to clean up my installation anyway, so I just decided to reinstall arch
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Pfsense has to be the hardest shit ever to install on this hacom router, thing won't accept a usb or a usb cd drive and it has no cd drive and it uses IDE. Curse you repurposed routers.
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I find myself reinstalling Arch frequently. If it isn't one problem, it's another. I'm getting the hang of it though. :)Forgot my root password and I've been meaning to clean up my installation anyway, so I just decided to reinstall arch
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I just get fed up with all of the extraneous packages I don't even remember installing. This time around I partitioned a separate /home so that I don't have to shuffle any of my files over onto a flashdrive before a reinstall (if god forbid I ever reinstall again). I honestly can't bring myself to install X on this one... but then again there are times when it's nice to be able to issue "startx" and then use a few graphical applications and then bail out back to my virtual console. I feel like I can just use the console if I force myself to, namely by not even installing X or any DE/WM at all.
Let's see how long this lasts
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speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a text-only web browser? I was using w3m but that's in the AUR if I remember and I also like to avoid yaourt or building myself.
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actually it's in extra, but I would really like some input if there are better options.
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so let's say your system backup failed as went to update it and the hard drive permanantly kicked the bucket midway through and rsync deleted your past 5 years of photography and now you're in bed kind of in a mix between running photorec and wanting to cry yourself to sleep. what would you do?
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Cut the losses and learn from my mistake.
Then make up for the 5 years of lost photos by running around for 5 minutes with a video camera.
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haha. i also lost all of my music, programming projects, passwords and pretty much anything important.
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