https://wiki.bromilow.uk/ 2026-05-06T12:47:35+00:00 https://wiki.bromilow.uk/ https://wiki.bromilow.uk/_media/logo.png text/html 2023-03-22T17:05:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.bromilow.uk/linux/home/fprint?rev=1679504739&do=diff FPrint shenanigans Show a "Fingerprint authentication successful" message Replace in the required /etc/pam.d file auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so by auth [success=ok new_authtok_reqd=ok default=2] pam_fprintd.so auth optional pam_echo.so file=/usr/share/pam/fingerprint_success_message.txt auth sufficient pam_permit.so text/html 2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.bromilow.uk/linux/home/meddling_with_x_displays_over_ssh?rev=1662581106&do=diff Meddling with X displays over SSH Since I use SDDM, the Xauthority file is located in a randomly-named file in /var/run/sddm. To meddle with local displays, you can simply: $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ export XAUTHORITY=/var/run/sddm/... Now you can do stuff like text/html 2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.bromilow.uk/linux/home/one-liners?rev=1662581106&do=diff One-liners Fairly self-explanatory. Find nodatacow files on btrfs $ find [directory] ! -type l -exec lsattr -d {} + | sed -n 's/^[^ ]*C[^ ]* //p' text/html 2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.bromilow.uk/linux/home/renaming_lxd_storage_pool?rev=1662581106&do=diff Renaming an LXD storage pool * lxd sql global “UPDATE storage_pools SET name='new_name' WHERE name='old_name';” * lxd sql global “UPDATE profiles_devices_config SET value='new_name' WHERE value='old_name' AND key='pool';” * mv /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/old_name/ /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/new_name/ text/html 2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.bromilow.uk/linux/home/shutting_up_pam_in_syslogs?rev=1662581106&do=diff Shutting Up PAM in Syslogs In a Debian-like system, the easiest way is to use pam-auth-update to manage PAM. To silence specific services, make a file like the following: /usr/share/pam-configs/shutup # Don't log "session opened" and "session closed" messages for... # Cron, Samba # See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PAMConfigFrameworkSpec # https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/libpam-modules/pam_succeed_if.8.en.html Name: disable annoying services session logging Default: yes Priority: 300 Sessi… text/html 2022-09-07T20:15:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.bromilow.uk/linux/home/start?rev=1662581716&do=diff Desktop/home use Mostly stuff relevant to using linux as an end user, on a desktop/laptop. Pages * FPrint shenanigans * Meddling with X displays over SSH * One-liners * Renaming an LXD storage pool * Shutting Up PAM in Syslogs * Web services to native programs text/html 2022-09-07T20:05:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.bromilow.uk/linux/home/web_to_native?rev=1662581106&do=diff Web services to native programs (FB Messenger, WhatsApp Web, etc) This can be achieved using nativefier. Installation is simply $ npm install nativefier -g. Suggestions Messenger $ nativefier “messenger.com” --tray WhatsApp $ nativefier “web.whatsapp.com