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Re: nano copy/paste dead



On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 06:50:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 02 September 2019 03:10:08 Felix Miata wrote:
> > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:55 (UTC-0400):
> > > That half a screen height jump is a huge distraction.
> >
> > It would if it happened here, but what half a screen jump? An up or
> > down arrow is three lines here, would be one, like it used to be, if I
> > could find a way to undo the intentional regression.
> 
> The scroll jump has always been ten or more lines here, very distracting 
> when the terminal is fill screen and 10 point type. Takes my eyes a good 
> half second to find the cursor again.  There are much better editors, 
> like geany, but x won't let geany run as root over an ssh connection. 
> Thats BS.
> 
> Since wheezy, the security paranoia knows no limits and does not care how 
> inconvenient they make it for the user.  I am the ONLY user here, get 
> this #@$%&^ crap out of my way!!! I used to be able to reboot a remote 
> machine and could continue working via ssh 30 seconds later even if it 
> took a root session to proceed.
> 
> But no, someone has decreed that ssh isn't to be started until someone 
> has gone to that machines own keyboard and logged in now. Then they 
> decided ssh wasn't allowed to use x facilities as root.
> 
> So if I'm working on a machine out in the shed on the hill, writing 
> g-code to make an armstrong bolt out of a piece of 1" square bar stock, 
> I have to get dressed including shoes for snow in the winter, climb the 
> hill and log back in on that machines own keyboard before I can access 
> that machine over an ssh connection from a warm and comfortable office 
> chair here in the house. I'd like to make the person who thought that 
> was a good idea, do that a few dozen times.
> 
> Sorry Felix, something pulled my trigger.

I don't understand all this (apart from the first bit,
commented on separately). ssh comes up without any fuss at all.
It always has done.

Just to show you, I did the following: closed down agog, booted it up
again (waking it through the wired ethernet interface), unlocked the
encrypted /home partition, and logged in again as myself; all done
without getting out of my armchair.

(The first login is to a pseudo-user whose home directory and
.bash_profile is in /var/local/home/unlock/.bash_profile, and
which unlocks and mounts /home, and logs out, all automatically.)

Here's what I see on my screen as it all takes place:

agog!david 10:55:24 ~ $ 
agog!david 10:55:39 ~ $ sudo /root/shutdown
Connection to agog closed by remote host.
Connection to agog closed.
255 wren!david 10:55:57 ~ $ 
255 wren!david 10:56:05 ~ $ agog-wake 
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with 00:13:72:83:33:2a
wren!david 10:56:15 ~ $ agog-unlock 
Mon Sep  2 10:56:40 CDT 2019
ssh: connect to host agog port 22: No route to host
255 wren!david 10:56:58 ~ $ 
255 wren!david 10:57:28 ~ $ agog-unlock 
Mon Sep  2 10:57:33 CDT 2019
Linux agog 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-5+deb10u2 (2019-08-08) x86_64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Mon Sep  2 10:42:44 2019 from 192.168.1.17
(This is /var/local/home/unlock/.bash_profile 2019 February 19)
Passphrase: 
Unlocked /dev/sda6 as /dev/dm-0.
/home is now mounted
Connection to agog closed.
wren!david 10:57:51 ~ $ agog
Mon Sep  2 10:57:55 CDT 2019
Linux agog 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-5+deb10u2 (2019-08-08) x86_64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
You have new mail.
Last login: Mon Sep  2 10:43:05 2019 from 192.168.1.17
(This is /home/david/.bash_profile 2019 August 23)
(This is /home/david/.bashrc 2019 August 23 on /dev/sdb5)
(This is /home/david/.bash-1-agog 2019 January 26 on buster)
(This is /home/david/.bash-u-usbs 2019 July 28)
(This is /home/david/.bash-t-transfers 2019 June 17 enp2s0)
(This is /home/david/.bash-w-web 2019 August 15)
(This is /home/david/.bash-9-agog 2019 May 02)
agog!david 10:57:57 ~ $ uptime
 10:58:01 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.22, 0.93, 0.34
agog!david 10:58:01 ~ $ 

Cheers,
David.


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