Random Passwords Anyone ?

[bitsnpcs]

Hello [member=7114]ian_r_h[/member] ,

thank you for the answer about KeypassX 

Are you using the Linux Bible with RHEL, Fedora, or Ubuntu Gnome, as its wrote for these, or another distro ?
I didn't get far with it, Chapter 2 Gnome Extensions, it kept asking for the root password and wouldn't accept it, unsure what mistake I made, so I have removed it from VirtualBox and have not gotten around to putting it back to try again yet.

Update -
I have reinstalled Fedora27 workstation, in VirtualBox on Linux Lite this morning, and have found where I went wrong on the install.
So have managed to get the browser and install working on Fedora and the Gnome extensions is working, and I've added some menus, top and bottom panel, and changed the workspace switcher, as in the book.
Not in the book also done 1366 updates, including the kernel and headers.
The book sort of misses out all of this, and skips to using the Gnome extensions.

Cannot get the run script to work for the guest additions, as it says it needs to be installed in Fedora guest not on the host machine, so its next one to work on. This is also not covered in the book.
It means I have managed to get .......... 2 pages further in Chapter 2 of the book now , not much but I'm still happy for the movement, I am where it says to jump to Chapter 10 for installing some stuff. :o
(Maybe guest additions is covered there)

Update 2 -
have got the guest additions installed now.
done the clone, and some installs. Moving forward a tiny bit quicker now.

[bitsnpcs]

Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)
Copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -

Code:

strings /dev/urandom | grep -o '[[:alnum:]]' | head -n 30 | tr -d '\n'; echo

An example

[bitsnpcs]

Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)
Copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -

Code:

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=32 2>/dev/null | base64 -w 0 | rev | cut -b 2- | rev

An example

[ian_r_h]

I'm just working through the book without working through the examples, at the moment.  That's kind of how I learn - an initial read and a break, so my mind consolidates things.

LL is my only distro at this time.  I guess I'm still at the "getting a feel for" stage with Linux.  But so far I really like Linux!

BTW, what's the @username thing in the forum??

[bitsnpcs]

Hello ian_r_h,

with learning it is always best to do what works well for you, being settled/comfortable seems to me to be  a very big part of learning

LL is the only distro I use every day, I no longer use Windows, which is just since January, but it was a big step to take for me, it has taken me 3 years to get to take that step lol.

The @username thing , if a member has email notifications set up in their profile, it sends them an email saying they were "mentioned in a post"
Also in your forum profile, you can click a menu on the left side, that is named "Mentions", to find any posts where you were mentioned this way.
It's useful because the forum is a very busy place.

[ian_r_h]

Thank you.

I'm pretty much now all-Linux Lite, as I haven't dared update my Windows 7 desktop for over a year (if it goes wrong, it's pretty much a 40 mile taxi round-trip to the local shop); and Windows 10 is getting more and more of a Prima Donna over updates.  And this forced updates thing is a complete nuisance - especially since the "Pro" version doesn't defer them properly on mine any more.

LL is just so much more flexible.  Plus already I can usually either fix any issues without help; or with the friendly help here! 

[bitsnpcs]

Hello ian_r_h,

you are Welcome