I have a large set of scripts which interact with Active Directory in a corporate/enterprise environment. Rather than have to type in my AD password on each run, I built a gnomekeyring store and lookup into each script.
Now that I've upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04, all of these scripts are failing because it looks like python-gnomekeyring has been deprecated and deleted from the archives.
What replaced it? How do I securely store a password via a python script?
I have a few launchers in Unity that I might want to run as sudo once or twice, but I have no idea what to type into the terminal.
At the moment, crazily, I have to run the app, then search for likely candidates in System Monitor! I don't think the Unity Design team intend, ever, to give us a right-click action on the Dash, or a "Details" option if I right-click on a Launcher, so... how do I figure out what's actually being executed when I run a Launcher?
(for the curious, what I'm struggling with is Desura - it's not in the system path, so I can't just whereis desura, assuming desura is what's actually being run - I'd be guessing)
[EDIT : using the method I marked as the answer, I can see that Desura installs in my home directory and as it's a non-root install, it doesn't update the system path.]
Related to this question. But my concern is that over the past year, most of my more interesting (or used) applications are from PPAs, and just backing up my sources list won't add the associated launchpad keys the way that add-apt-repository does.
So I'm looking for a way to list all the PPA urls (like ppa:chromium-daily/stable) so that I can easily script a series of add-apt-repository commands to add them into a new installation gracefully.
Short of dumping my bash history of course. Which might be feasible, depending on how far back that file goes back?
I notice that many of the user privileges in "Users and Groups" are not ticked on my user, but I still have access to the items they specify. For example, I'm constantly using VirtualBox for virtualisation, I can connect to wireless and wired networks and I can plug in and use any audio device.
When are these privileges honoured? How useful are they?
I know that some define permissions on the file system (such as www-data). But I don't understand why this question was answered successfully by adding a user to the "Video" group.
So the question is mainly what do all the pre-built groups do in Ubuntu? More reasonably, since there are so many, what "special" groups exist and how or when should they be used?
I have a Dell Vostro V13, which Canonical claim is "Certified" for Ubuntu. So it surprises me that the synaptics trackpad isn't recognised as such and defaults to psmouse emulation. This means no multitouch, no gestures, and more importantly, no mousewheel scrolling.
Because it's not loading the synaptic driver, running gpointing-device-settings doesn't help.
I've found this bug which suggests a fix has been committed, but I can't see a way of getting this loaded on my Maverick build. I've tried backports and proposed repos in synaptic, but no joy.
Any ideas?
When you connect to a new SSID network via the network manager applet, the key for that network is stored in gnome-keyring under the "login" keychain.
But when you then change (edit) that network to be "Available to all users", the password moves somewhere else. I'd like to know where, because if it's a PEAP network, that's effectively your Active Directory password.
Background I tick most WIFI networks as "available to all users" not to actually make them available (it's a single-user laptop anyway), but rather to prevent anyone from seeing my password for that network in clear text simply by right clicking on the network, clicking on security tab and ticking "show password". This is because when you make a network "available to all users", the act of editing that network triggers a system prompt via policykit.
This is the same reason I instantly un-install Seahorse after a fresh install. Crazy security risk allowing this.
When I right click on the nm-applet and choose to disable wireless, it turns wireless off. Fair enough, but when I reboot, wireless is magically back on again.
That's just an example, but more generally, in a system with multiple cards, can network manager be made to remember their status? (Like the way Windows will allow you enable/disable a NIC).
I believe that you can disable a NIC permanently by editing files, but I'm hoping for a more ad-hoc situation - if it would just remember my choice, that would be grand.
I'd like to set a single directory inside Dropbox in which files are encrypted on a file-by-file basis.
At the moment, I use a 2Mb Truecrypt container inside my Dropbox which I then have to mount manually, access/change the files within, then unmount manually. At that point, the entire 2Mb uploads to Dropbox. This is a pain for a number of reasons :
I was wondering if I can somehow use LUKS to implement file-by-file encryption to get round the "container" issues.
In the world of Ubuntu, it seems you either always run an FTP server or you never do. Perhaps I'm the first network analyst who's needed to flash a Cisco, Checkpoint or Nokia image using Ubuntu... I need an FTP server for maybe 5 minutes, no more than that.
I'm looking for a bare-bones, user-initiated FTP server. I understand that it would likely have to run with sudo. That's fine - but I want to start/stop it like a normal program.
On the Windows platform, such tools are a dime a dozen - I've used 3CDaemon for years and recently found CoreFTP. Both are excellent. You configure a user, point it at a directory, then hit the "Start" button. A couple of minutes later, you're generally done and you hit the "Stop" button. Job done.
Such tools don't seem to exist on Ubuntu. I found a Google Code project that creates a TFTP instance reasonably nicely (assuming it still runs - I haven't used it in about a year and python has moved on), but how about FTP? Anything out there?