On 02/26/2015 03:22 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote: Is it kuser you're looking for? I think you have to install it

> "Dave" == Dave Lers <lists(a)dalrun.com> writes:

Dan Youngquist wrote: > On 02/26/2015 03:22 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote: > However I opened the control center and I cannot find the user > administration tool and am familiar with. Is this included any new > package? > > Is it kuser you're looking for? I think you have to install it

System > User Manager (KUser), default r14 on Wheezy.

On Friday 27 February 2015 13:24:21 Uwe Brauer wrote: I think that that is basically an Ubuntu programme. Perhaps it uis in Synaptic, if it is no longet there by default.

On Friday 27 February 2015 09:01:53 Lisi Reisz wrote: Lisi; I ran into something else last night using that admin utility. I use sudo for all the root stuff and have never even set a root password. This is a more of less default wheezy install, and uses sudo for all that stuff.

The password for "admin", eg root, tasks does not accept the users sudo password, asking for the (root? it doesn't say) password in a forever loop. This is a bug. I suspect its TDE wide in effect. And should be filed.

I can generally hack around it with a sudo -i session of geany, (never gedit as it can trash, BTDT, several times, your whole system,) but find that it also does not work because the root acquired in that manner cannot run any graphical interfaces since the X session is the users. So an immortal root session to get several things done, is turned into an individual sudo name_of_command. That can be a right PITA, even for a user whose first linux install was Red Hat 5.0 in 1998. There was at one time a workaround which consisted of actually starting another X session for root, a bad practice IMO, and I've long since forgotten how to do it. 80 yo wet ram problems. Yeah, old coot at the wheel here.

Hi Gene! You are the same Gene from over at the linuxcnc mailing list? Did you install TDE on LinuxCNC? Nik

Ok, I had the same issue: Put this in your .bashrc: # LinuxCNC SIM alias linuxcnc="xrdb -all -query|sed -e 's#[A-Z_]*BACKGROUND# gray90#' -e 's#[A-Z_]*FOREGROUND# Black#' -e 's#[A-Z_]*HIGHLIGHT# White#' -e 's#[A-Z_]*LOWLIGHT# Black#'|xrdb -merge; linuxcnc" then run "linuxcnc"

Nik Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Friday 27 February 2015 11:27:08 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Hi Gene! > > > > You are the same Gene from over at the linuxcnc mailing list? > > Did you install TDE on LinuxCNC? > > > > Nik > > AaiiYup, thats me. And yes. I now have control over the fonts used in > kmail. > > And the simulated Linuxcnc I find, in the uspace version, runs well on a > non-prempt AMD64 kernel. Latency figures are of course astronomically > horrible so one could never ever run even a servo controlled machine with > it safely, but it serves to proof-read and execute cutting electronic > air, the gcode I write just fine. That was the point. :) However I > hadn't tried it since installing TDE, and it now fails: > > gene@coyote:~$ linuxcnc -l > LINUXCNC - 2.7.0-pre4 > Machine configuration directory is '/home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/sim.axis' > Machine configuration file is 'axis.ini' > Starting LinuxCNC... > Application initialization failed: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" > Error in startup script: invalid command name "." > while executing > ". configure -borderwidth 0 -highlightthickness 0" > (file "/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc/bin/popimage" line 35) > Found file:./core_sim.hal > Note: Using POSIX non-realtime > Found file:./sim_spindle_encoder.hal > Found file:./axis_manualtoolchange.hal > Found file:./simulated_home.hal > Found file:./check_constraints.hal > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/hal_manualtoolchange", line 62, in <module> > app = Tkinter.Tk(className="AxisToolChanger") > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1712, in __init__ > self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, > interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use) > _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/axis", line 121, in <module> > root_window = Tkinter.Tk(className="Axis") > File "/usr/bin/axis", line 44, in __init__ > OldTk.__init__(self, *args, **kw) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1712, in __init__ > self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, > interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use) > _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" > Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/axis-remote", line 78, in <module> > t = Tkinter.Tk(); t.wm_withdraw() > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1712, in __init__ > self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, > interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use) > _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" > Note: Using POSIX non-realtime > Application initialization failed: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" > LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the > log: /home/gene/linuxcnc_debug.txt > and > /home/gene/linuxcnc_print.txt > as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal > > So how do I fix this Unknown color problem? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett

It's something I haven't had to do in 4+ years, feels a bit retrograde,

and a different password will confound my usage on the other 4 machines here. Chuckle, I am a graduate, Summa Cum Laude, of the school that teaches how to do that.  I must have got stoned and missed it though, don't even remember taking the course, but I am very very good at that. What is the maximum length of a password in characters?

:-) I'll let someone else answer that. I use $ pwgen -sy 10 Many would consider that too short, and I'm thinking of lengthening it. But I'm a lousy typist. I'm afraid that I am a fatalist. If they are out to get me, they'll get me. I just like to make them work a little harder. ;-) Lisi

What is the maximum length of a password in characters?

uis in But how can I find it?