Johannes Meixner

https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-12-08-accepted-stands-fosdem-2023/ shows that there will be a DRLM stand (cf. https://drlm.org/) and a Bareos stand (cf. https://www.bareos.com/) both at "K level 1 (group B)" according to https://fosdem.org/2023/stands/

I will attend FOSDEM 2023 on Saturday (04. Feb.)

First and foremost `/dev/null` is not a regular file but a device node that discards all input, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_device Then (as far as I understand it) ``` lpadmin -p excelprt...

For Apple's CUPS see on https://www.cups.org/documentation.html in particular things like https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html and https://www.cups.org/doc/network.html When you use a current CUPS version on Linux the right place at GitHub is meanwhile https://github.com/OpenPrinting...

@rear/contributors A (rather artificial) example how ReaR would source user-controlled files by accident, cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3260#issuecomment-2219790045 and https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3260#issuecomment-2219801028 and https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3258#issuecomment-2180230626 ``` In particular I do not know what could be possible...

For comparison with my SourceTrustworthy implementation from https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3258 ``` johannes@localhost:~/rear.github.master> git checkout jsmeix-SourceTrustworthy ... Switched to a new branch 'jsmeix-SourceTrustworthy' johannes@localhost:~/rear.github.master> su Password: ... localhost:/home/johannes/rear.github.master # usr/sbin/rear mkrescue Refused 'SourceTrustworthy...

@schlomo !!! Please follow our instructions that we tell our users: http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/getting-started No excuses!

Possibly we have some kind of "all-clear" signal for ReaR: I think meanwhile I found sufficient evidence which shows that "all other software" behaves basically same as ReaR currently does....

@schlomo I would change that "quick start" guide to do all as 'root' and explicitly describe that the local "git clone" must be under root's control to avoid to cross...

Regarding https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3259#issuecomment-2220492231 It does not really matter if a security issue exists "for a first user to quickly see something happening" or in a "production deployment". Both "first user" environments...