One of the motives to go deeper into the keyrings (see the What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus post) was the fact that Chromium, surprise-surprise, keep passwords unencrypted if a Linux system has no keyring and/or Secret Service enabled. So, let’s try to find how and where Chromium store passwords, and the… Read More »
It’s a really long-read post and I wast sure if it’s better to split it into three parts or put them together. On the one side, there are keyrings, from another – D-Bus, and finally, there is a Secret Service. Eventually, I decided to keep them here together as I googled all it in the… Read More »
During keyring configuration for the Nextcloud client (see the Linux: the Nextcloud client, qtkeychain and the “The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files” error post) – I decided to clean up the mess in my SSH keys, as I have a lot of them and sometimes authentication became just pain. In general… Read More »
After installing Nextcloud (see the Nextcloud: running in Docker Compose on Debian with Let’s Encrypt SSL post), on the next day its client ton my Arch Linux asked for authentication. But after I entered my credentials, it returned me the following error: Reading from keychain failed with error: ‘The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by… Read More »
A couple of days ago I got an additional laptop to take it on meetings. As it will be used rarely and not as my main laptop – I decided to install Manjaro Linux there instead of usual Arch Linux – to take a look at the Manjaro itself and because don’t want to spend… Read More »
had to create a short demonstration video for Okta’s support, googled a tiny, quick and simple application – Kazam. On Arch Linux can be install from AUR: [simterm] $ yaourt -S kazam [/simterm] Run it: [simterm] $ kazam [/simterm] I set the Automatic save by default (to the ~/Videos): Now, chose an area to record… Read More »
We have an AWS EC2 which suddenly rebooted. The issue is that its /var/log/messages incomplete and the latest record is about rsyslog service killed – but nothing about who killed it and why. Then I went to the journald but surprise – it stores logs only for the current boot so there was no way… Read More »
Currently configuring Redis server as our backend caching service and during that wrote this post with some things to pay attention at in Redis config file. Shortly enough but with links to other posts or documentation. Let’s begin with the redis-benchmark utility. Will be installed alongside with Redis service, so can be used right after… Read More »
Currently, I’m configuring a Redis as a caching service for our application and during that, I faced with the question: do I need to set vm.overcommit_memory to the value 1, i.e. disable it – or not? The question is quite old for me, see The story, but only now I found time to get to… Read More »
The issue happened on a fresh Arch Linux installation but the solution here can be used on any systemd-based distributive. So, during restarts system hangs for 1.5 minutes with a message like: A stop job is running for Session c1 of user setevoy (1min 30s) To check which process(es) exactly caused this you can use… Read More »