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It was analgous to the “Blue Screen of Death” that Windows gives for critical errors, Phoronix wrote. To enable error messages for things like a kernel panic, Linux 6.10 introduced a new panic handler infrastructure for “Direct Rendering Manager” (or D… Continue reading New Linux ‘Screen of Death’ Options: Black – or a Monochrome Tux Logo
I’m planning to use the pass to store passwords for a web service. My service will need to store passwords for many database servers. So my idea is store these passwords with the Linux pass command. I created a class in typescript that inv… Continue reading Passing password through terminal when using pass + gpg
In this article, we analyze XZ backdoor behavior inside OpenSSH, after it has achieved RSA-related function hook. Continue reading XZ backdoor: Hook analysis
Slashdot reader unixbhaskar shared this report from Phoronix:
Larry Finger who has contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005 and has seen more than 1,500 kernel patches upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel has sadly passed away. His wife shared… Continue reading Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away. RIP Larry Finger
“A good portion of my home directory got deleted,” complained a bug report for systemd filed last week. It requested an update to a flag for the systemd-tmpfiles tool which cleans up files and directories: “a huge warning next to –purge. This option i… Continue reading Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That ‘systemd-tmpfiles’ Could Unexpectedly Delete Your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/home Directory
I did something recently I haven’t done in a long time: I recompiled the Linux kernel. There was a time when this was a common occurrence. You might want a …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Kernel Modules Have Privileges
Since Android uses Linux, you’d think it would be easier to run Linux apps on your Android phone or tablet. There are some solutions out there, but the experience is …read more Continue reading Lindroid Promises True Linux on Android
Its a tale as old as full-disk encryption. Another victim of complicated passwords succumbs to LUKS on the Linux system.
I recently changed my LUKS encrypted drive password on a laptop, but my laptop shut down accidentally before I could c… Continue reading Recovering LUKS Encrypted Data
In 2016, Phoronix remembered how the early days of Linux kernel mode-setting (KMS) had brought hopes for improved error messages. And one long-awaited feature was errors messages for “Direct Rendering Manager” (or DRM) drivers — something analgou… Continue reading ‘Blue Screen of Death’ Comes To Linux
I’m reading Linux All-in-One for Dummies and it recommends verifying that the permissions on /etc/shadow are set to 400 (p. 456). Elsewhere on this site, I see that some distros set this to 600 instead, allowing write in addition to read. … Continue reading Practical difference between 600 and 400 permissions for /etc/shadow