Comment by Kamil Maciorowski on ssh permission denied with correct password...
"I can ssh into the server without issue from Termux on my phone" – (1) Do these successful tries also use root as the username? (2) In these tries, does the server also gives you its identity as...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on LUKS keyfile vs passphrase
(3) I know little about LUKS, but this is a generic idea. A strong secret used to encrypt and decrypt actual data is encrypted in many copies, independently: using a file, using a passphrase or...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Inode usage go from 1% to 100% on a single...
Please do not cross-post.
View ArticleAnswer by Kamil Maciorowski for Why is “less -R” not displaying colors in...
Some programs can detect if they write to a pipe or to a regular file, or to a terminal (tty); they produce colorful output only in this latter case.Example: ls does something like that with ls...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Why does inode usage go from 1% to 100% on a...
Just after fsck.ext4 exits with signal 9, does dmesgmention oom?
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Rube Goldberg Network issue
"Higher AWG means thinner cable" – And thinner is worse, thicker is better, right? So 23 or less; so at most 23; so "at least AWG 23" is misleading.
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Why am I unable to apply -R with rm on macOS...
"… it will expand to nothing" – It depends. The POSIX behavior is to leave the wildcard as is. There are options in various shells so you can get nothing or an error.
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on ssh file sharing on Linux LAN suddenly stops...
"The IP addresses are fixed" – Fixed in what way? Does each device takes its IP address without consulting DHCP? Or is the DHCP server configured to always give each the right addresses? Is there...
View ArticleAnswer by Kamil Maciorowski for How are ctags and etags actually defined in...
man ctags states:default is tags, or TAGS when running in etags modeAnd about the etags mode:[…] will create a tag file for use with the Emacs editor. […] if ctags is invoked by a name containing the...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on SOLVED - ssh file sharing on Linux LAN...
"The IP addresses are fixed" – Fixed in what way? Does each device takes its IP address without consulting DHCP? Or is the DHCP server configured to always give each the right addresses? Is there...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Are xarg + cp vulnerabler to race conditions?
TOCTOU. Probably two cps in about the same time see the directory does not exist and they both decide it needs to be created. One does create it, the other tries, fails and prints the message in...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Why does rsync send the incremental file list...
"to itself" – Are you sure? Arent' there separate processes? I can only guess why the design is what it is (and therefore this is not an answer). A reasonable guess: the same general design works via...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on scp: command not found while both sides have...
Seems like the point 6 from "History, SCP and SFTP" here. In shell startup scripts on the target server try to find a line similar to PATH='$PATH:/opt/python/3.9.2/bin:$HOME/.local/bin'. Is there such...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on SSH file sharing on Linux LAN suddenly stops...
"The IP addresses are fixed" – Fixed in what way? Does each device takes its IP address without consulting DHCP? Or is the DHCP server configured to always give each the right addresses? Is there...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on 'sudo -u' gives error "sorry, try again" for...
Please do not cross-post. For the record, another copy is on Unix & Linux SE.
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on MariaDB connection over SSH but using socket...
So... You're telling us you need local sudo mysql ... because the remote MariaDB server can tell what local user opens the local socket; do I get it right? What if you do this locally without sudo (and...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Why is ADB stopping phone from ejection in...
The solution should be posted as an answer (below). You can answer your own question. There is no need to litter the title with "solved"; accept the best answer to indicate the problem is solved.
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Hide Devices Section from KDE Dolphin
What is the real problem? Does the performance of Dolphin deteriorate because of many mountpoints or what? If you want each user to be unable to access other users' directories then hiding them in...
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on Run command recursively on directories only...
@jsotola It's probably "on directories only, on Ubuntu".
View ArticleComment by Kamil Maciorowski on How to verify that hard drive is filled with...
As grep 0x00 searches for literal0x00 string, you will probably get binary file matches from your grep -v …. It will only mean there was a "line" not containing literal 0x00. A leading null byte or two...
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