A quick settings question on Debian 2.x
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I need to find and turn off sleep mode and also disable the password requirement for login on a recently-acquired Debian 2.x desktop, but I haven't the foggiest where to find those settings. Does anyone here know?
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OMG, how old is that? LOL. I've never seen Debian 2, unfortunately.
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Debian 2.0 was 1998
Debian 2.1 was 1999
Debian 2.2 was 2000Those were the only Debian 2 family releases. So best case scenario, seventeen years old.
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Password requirement you want completely gone? Like they type in their username and it just lets them in?
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sudo visudoFind this line:
%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALLChange the line:
%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL -
Wow debian 2.... I wonder what the reasoning there was for not upgrading......
Like what could have occurred there....
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@DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol
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@wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
sudo visudoFind this line:
%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALLChange the line:
%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALLThat's for sudo permissions and does not affect logins.
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@wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol
Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!
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@DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
Wow debian 2.... I wonder what the reasoning there was for not upgrading......
Like what could have occurred there....
They forgot that the machine was there? No idea. That's up to 19 years old!!
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@DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol
Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!
17+ don't forget!
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@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol
Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!
17+ don't forget!
No, this is a new build, maybe 4 months ago? I did a uname -a and got:
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect.
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@art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol
Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!
17+ don't forget!
No, this is a new build, maybe 4 months ago? I did a uname -a and got:
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect.
That just makes this topic insane.... why use something so old. . . .
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@DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@DustinB3403 It's likely that nothing occurred and they never ran into a problem so never felt theneed to upgrade. lol
Talk about stability.... 17 years of no issues at all. Way to rock it Debian!
17+ don't forget!
No, this is a new build, maybe 4 months ago? I did a uname -a and got:
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect.
That just makes this topic insane.... why use something so old. . . .
It's a machine dedicated to a wide-format printer. Nothing else. It's what their RIP software supports.
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@scottalanmiller would it be:
sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.confautologin-user=YOURUSERNAME
autologin-user-timeout=0To just automatically log in?
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@art_of_shred I know I shouldn't ask.... but the software doesn't operate on a modern OS?
There is probably some debian 2 documentation somewhere but that is really stretching the envelope.
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@wirestyle22 that file doesn't exist. I just ran the sudo command and it opened a blank file.
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What desktop environment is this machine using?
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@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
What desktop environment is this machine using?
I don't understand the question
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@art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:
What desktop environment is this machine using?
I don't understand the question
Gnome, Unity, etc
