[00:55] <celio> oi
[05:00] <lj> hi
[05:41] <y0shiness> I need a teeny bit of help. My (fresh) installation of Ubuntu MATE 17.10 is stuck in what seems to be an infinite loop.
[05:43] <y0shiness> It's stuck in an infinite loop of booting up, that is.
[06:25] <alkisg> y0shiness: write the error messages or paste a screenshot. Tell more details. How/when did it happen.
[13:02] <ayhan> hi there
[14:47] <onio> has anybody experience issue with "System>>Administration/User and Group" feature. no matter what I do I can't seem to get ubuntu mate 16.04 to ask for password on login. I am thinking of have to re-install the Ubuntu which I think is an overkill.
[14:50] <onio> I made a change to my Ubuntu 16.04 mate to allow auto login as a work around of me being able to use a Logictech wireless keyboard for login
[14:51] <onio> is my  post visible on this channel?
[14:51] <diogenes_> onio, what is the dm for mate?
[14:51] <nemo> onio: check /etc/groups
[14:51] <onio> ahh
[14:52] <nemo> onio: I think Ubuntu calls the group nopasswdlogin
[14:52] <nemo> maybe the MATE dialog is broken due to anticipating some other method?
[14:52] <onio> I think I am using lightdm
[14:53] <nemo> I mean, they've used that for like a decade, why would they change it now
[14:53] <onio> I tried removing myself fro the nopasswdlogin but that did not help
[14:53] <diogenes_> onio, then look for: find / -type f 2>/dev/null | grep "lightdm.conf"
[14:54] <diogenes_> and there should be the option: ask for password or something like that
[14:54] <nemo> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159083/how-can-i-disable-lightdm-auto-login-from-the-command-line-when-isnt-possible-t
[14:54] <onio> I don't have that lightdm.conf file.
[14:54]  * diogenes_ has to go
[14:55] <nemo> onio: you don't have /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ?
[14:55] <onio> I have the following lightdm.conf.d            lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d
[14:55] <onio> lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf  users.conf
[14:55] <nemo> ah
[14:55] <nemo> they reorganised eh
[14:55] <nemo> users.conf sounds promising...
[14:56] <onio> nothing in there
[14:56] <nemo> onio: I gotta say tho, personally my exp w/ gentoo halts w/ 14.04 LTS - from now on I'm going to be on Devuan.  But I'm still hanging out here since I haven't gotten everything off 14.04 LTS yet ☺
[14:56] <onio> that relates to log in
[14:56] <onio> 1 [UserList]
[14:56] <onio>  12 minimum-uid=500
[14:56] <onio>  13 hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess
[14:56] <onio>  14 hidden-shells=/bin/false /usr/sbin/nologin
[14:56] <nemo> onio: how bout grep autologin in all the files ?
[14:57] <nemo> https://askubuntu.com/questions/106428/how-to-disable-automatic-login-in-lightdm
[14:57] <onio> okay I would try that nemo
[14:57] <nemo> hm.
[14:57] <nemo> skimming this askubuntu, so far the answers are nopasswdlogin group and the autologin lightdm conf param
[14:57] <nemo> you sure you are on lightdm?
[14:58] <nemo> looks like gdm has an autologin config too
[14:58] <nemo> wonder if lightdm reads gdm for backwards compatibility
[14:58] <onio> doing a search
[14:58] <nemo> ooooh /etc/gshadow
[14:58] <nemo> didn't know group had a shadow!  why???
[14:58] <nemo> Run sudo grep nopasswd /etc/*
[14:58] <nemo> This will display at least 2 lines:
[14:58] <nemo> /etc/group:nopasswdlogin:x:112:`<login name>`
[14:58] <nemo> /etc/gshadow:nopasswdlogin:!::`<login name>`
[14:58] <nemo> WTF. that's nutty
[14:59]  * nemo searches for info on *that*
[14:59] <onio> I didn't think this should be as complicated as it is
[14:59]  * nemo agrees
[14:59] <nemo> https://linux.die.net/man/5/gshadow
[15:00] <onio> search is on : sudo find / -type f -exec grep -H 'autologin' {} \;
[15:00] <nemo> oh interesting
[15:00] <nemo> I had no idea one could create groups with passwords. TIL
[15:00] <nemo> welp. gshadow makes sense then ☺
[15:00] <nemo> onio: ok. in that case. did you check gshadow for nopasswdlogin too ☺
[15:02] <onio> /etc/gshadow = > nopasswdlogin:!::
[15:02] <nemo> oh well
[15:03] <onio> so I remove this?
[15:03] <nemo> no
[15:03] <onio> okay
[15:03] <nemo> you're not a member of nopasswdlogin in /etc/groups or gshadow so np
[15:03] <onio> fair enough
[15:04] <nemo> that find could take a long time to run
[15:04] <nemo> onio: especially since you're calling -exec - so far less efficient than recursive grep ☺
[15:04] <nemo> maybe at least restrict it to /etc
[15:04] <onio> I thought it was more efficient
[15:05] <onio> okay
[15:05] <onio> nothing found in /etc
[15:05] <nemo> onio: well. every invocation of -exec is a new subshell
[15:06] <onio> ah
[15:06] <onio> I would remember that
[15:08] <nemo> find / -type f -iname "*lightdm*"  -exec grep -qi autologin "{}" \; -print 2>/dev/null     might be few enough files to not take a ridiculously long time.
[15:08] <nemo> I wonder about that gdm tho
[15:08] <nemo> onio: how long ago did you enable autologin?
[15:09] <onio> I think I am have been on this off/on for the last 3 days. This is the first time I am able get help from an IRC channel
[15:12] <alkisg> onio: did you find the solution? it's in lightdm.conf
[15:12] <onio> yes
[15:12] <onio> I was find a way of showing result
[15:12] <onio> I can't remember the paste url
[15:12] <alkisg> paste.ubuntu.com
[15:12] <nemo> there are tons of pastebins out there
[15:13] <alkisg> or: command | nc termbin.com 9999
[15:13] <nemo> onio: hm. odd. I've been using IRC for support pretty successfully for like a couple of decades
[15:13] <onio> thanks alkisg
[15:13] <onio> one second nemo
[15:13] <alkisg> # grep -r autologin /etc/lightdm/
[15:13] <alkisg> /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:autologin-guest=false
[15:13] <alkisg> /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:autologin-user=administrator
[15:13] <alkisg> /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:autologin-user-timeout=0
[15:14] <alkisg> Those are the lines where autologin is set
[15:14] <onio> /var/lib/dpkg/info/lightdm.conffiles
[15:14] <onio> /var/lib/dpkg/info/lightdm.list
[15:14] <onio> /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblightdm-gobject-1-0:amd64.symbols
[15:14] <onio> /usr/sbin/lightdm-gtk-greeter
[15:14] <onio> /usr/sbin/lightdm
[15:14] <onio> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblightdm-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
[15:14] <onio> /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
[15:14] <alkisg> So you can just remove that file in order to disable autologin
[15:21] <nemo> alkisg: that sounds a little aggressive ☺
[15:21] <alkisg> nemo: nah, that's the purpose of that file, it doesn't exist if you don't select autologin
[15:22] <alkisg> So ubiquity creates it just for that
[15:22] <nemo> lightdm.conf? O_o
[15:22] <nemo> surely it configures other things too
[15:22] <alkisg> Nope
[15:22] <alkisg> There's a lightdm.d directory for that
[15:22] <nemo> alkisg: well anyway. he didn't have it
[15:22] <alkisg> Although the main configuration is in /usr, not in etc
[15:22] <nemo> nor did he have the nopasswdlogin group
[15:22] <alkisg> Really? That's how ubuntu setup does it
[15:23] <nemo> alkisg: yeah. thought that was odd. that's why I asked him if he was sure he was using lightdm
[15:23] <alkisg> nopasswdlogin group isn't used
[15:23] <nemo> alkisg: eh. could be configured to be used.
[15:23] <nemo> ubuntu used to use it
[15:23] <nemo> still get people reporting they have it set
[15:24] <alkisg> I mean, in the current 16.04.3 lts version
[15:24] <nemo> we lost onio anyway.  apparently he ignored pastebin suggestions
[15:25] <nemo> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM#Enabling_autologin  arch uses it still, it seems
[16:56] <onio> Hi nemo are you still in the room. Sorry I was banned from the chat room because of the paste I did :)
[16:57] <alkisg> onio: what's the output of this command? grep -ri autologin /etc/lightdm* | nc termbin.com 9999
[16:57] <alkisg> (copy paste the command, then copy/paste the output here)
[16:59] <onio> alkisg: I found a filename "60-lightdm-gtk-greeters.conf" that had autolog=myusername
[16:59] <onio> I removed that and now I get the login prompt
[16:59] <alkisg> Cool
[17:00] <onio> I didn't realise that people get banned from these IRC channels
[17:00] <alkisg> Only for flooding, because they think you're a bot
[17:00] <onio> I pasted the result of my "find" command and suddenly I was automatically logged out
[17:00] <alkisg> It's an automatic check
[17:01] <onio> I have infrequently used these channel so I was quite surprised. Learning every day
[17:02] <onio> I am glad that it is sorted because I was going to re-install ubuntu as it was taking too long
[17:03] <nemo> onio: it's funny because you'd asked about pastebins
[17:03] <nemo> alkisg gave 2 options ☺
[17:04] <onio> was it the use of the word that got me banned or because I did a paste that had multiple lines?
[17:04] <alkisg> pasting more than 3-4 lines
[17:04] <alkisg> that gets you banned for a while
[17:04] <onio> ah
[17:05] <onio> thanks its good to know for future reference
[17:07] <onio> The last time I was on one these channel I can't remember which one. But I recall someone saying that use pastebin is frown upon in the irc channels so I kind of avoided them. Is this correct or did the person wrongly advised me
[17:07] <nemo> O_o
[17:07] <nemo> no. pastebins are strongly encouraged
[17:07] <nemo> unless the text is short of course
[17:07] <onio> fair enough
[17:07] <nemo>  /msg is frowned on - some people like to /msg others privately and that defeats purpose of support channel
[17:08] <ayhan> hey does anyone use airvpn ?
[17:08] <onio> okay copied that
[17:08] <nemo> ayhan: can't be bothered personally.  sshuttle is enough for my simple needs
[17:08] <ayhan> any idea how to prevent dns leaks?
[17:09] <ayhan> what is sshuttle?
[17:10] <ayhan> aaaaahh a vpn over ssh
[17:10] <ayhan> i see
[17:10] <nemo> yep. convenient, simple
[17:10] <nemo> pretty good performance
[17:11] <ayhan> safe?
[17:11] <nemo> ayhan: safe in terms of...
[17:12] <ayhan> torrenting
[17:12] <nemo> oh. dunno
[17:12] <nemo> don't use it for that
[17:12] <nemo> I imagine one could route everything through it, why not
[17:12] <nemo> ayhan: it's just a simple overlay of linux firewall rules
[17:13] <nemo> and it supports DNS lookups
[17:13] <ayhan> i will try it out. But i would like to use my vpn.....
[17:13] <nemo> up to you
[22:17] <micka_> Hi ,-
[22:20] <micka_> there is someone here? ^^