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I use recoll extensively, but not for email. Sorry. My IMAP email server has fantastic search capability (added by Yahoo!), so all searching happens on the server, never the client. It is...

/usr/local/lib has never been in the PATH. PATH is for executable programs.

/usr/local/lib would be used by shared libraries - .so files. Where to look for those is controlled by the...

Ah ... 2.4 Ghz and 5.8 Ghz wifi bands. <slaps forehead>! The 2.4 Ghz stuff is clearly 2.4 Ghz, but the 5.8 Ghz stuff ... seems to be from 5.18 GHz - 5.7 GHz. Confusing, at least to me.

Not that...

https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2775170


There is an example with both spaces and tabs used for indentation. It is important to make things complicated, whenever possible to increase...

"latest Ubuntu" isn't clear and usually, it isn't actually true. Today, non-experts shouldn't be running the "latest ubuntu", so please be exact.
lsb_release -a is the command.
or
inxi -b

WPS...

If the attacker isn't just a normal roommate, but some sort of highly motivated "state actor", then any bus connection can be used - PCI, PCIe, firewire, USB, Thunderbolt - any bus can be abused. I'd...

Stadia is great, until Google kills it like it does something else every few weeks.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/16/22286252/google-stadia-studios-shut-down-timing-good-progress-report

I'm...

If you cannot restrict physical access to the system, then there isn't anything that can be done. With physical access, anything is possible.
There is 1 way to fight that. Whole disk encryption...

The easiest way: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2460347&p=14030825#post14030825

Basically, use the 'cp' command and take advantage of "everything is a file" on Unix systems. Just be...

What was the ddrescue/dd/cp command used? Exactly which device file was the source?
Also, may want to specify the type of file system to be mounted. Don't make it guess.

If the image wasn't of...

Comcast doesn't care about your LAN security at all. They think everything outside their plant is dangerous. They have to think that way. I worked at an ISP with over 50M customer locations. We...

There are a number of different causes for the "login-loop" as this is called.
Change to a different TTY (press cntl-alt-F1), login on the console, then run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt...

Inner routers and systems will necessarily have access to outer routers/systems.
Sounds like you are on a business comcast setup. I've never heard of tenda network equipment. I use OPNSense which...

The root account is never, ever, allowed to use remote credentials.

If you run getent passwd pbarczi,. does that work?
What about sudo getent shadow pbarczi?

I've never used sssd to connect to...

I prefer to thank Bob, my imaginary friend. He's always right.
Rather than searching the internet for answers from people who often know know anymore than we do, best to read the manpages ALREADY on...

The YAML spec doesn't mandate either, just be consistent. I've never used tabs in a yaml file. There is a requirement that at least 2 spaces are needed for an indentation level, but as long as...

renderer:
is required as part of the netplan.io config file.

If NetworkManager is listed, then networkd won't be used and all the issues that NetworkManager has come to the system.
But a simple...

Not sure, but perhaps you missed the subtle aspect to Catkiller's suggestion. Read on a directory isn't always needed. Often, eXecute would be fine.
751 would likely work. Most programs don't scan...

There aren't any unpatched for supported releases. 21.04 isn't released. I'm still confused.
Actually, I'm more concerned about the network stack problems...

Perhaps I'm misreading, but I see a bunch of

Not vulnerable
Does not exist
Released (2:1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.2)

in the resolution column. Did I miss the point?

Normal X/Windows...

I can't see any reason why any setting other than 700 would be cause for issues. At other jobs, we ran that way by defaults. For end-users, we'd often run with 500, so they couldn't accidentally...

I don't know. I've never had to install anything special.

$ dpkg -l '*networkd*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|...

Software licenses matter. When I was just starting my career, I was a software developer and never considered what license that software should/would have. It wasn't like anyone any where else...

We're trying to figure out if this is really a sudo issue or a pkexec issue or an environment issue.
I never use the GUI for software updates and rarely use any menu, so I don't have any clue which...

Did you have her userid run:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME

BTW, whenever using sudo with any GUI program, please, please, please, use sudo -H so the HOME directory environment will be...