Security Securing and protecting Linux® systems against vulnerabilities and threats. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:07:11 +0000 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:07:11 +0000 Linux.Chat Support Forums https://linux.forum/ A reasonable guide to make your system reasonably secure Sun, 20 Aug 2023 20:24:59 +0000 https://linux.forum/threads/a-reasonable-guide-to-make-your-system-reasonably-secure.30/ 30 [email protected] (rdxdt) rdxdt Hello fellow forum mates, how about we talk about some concepts and good practices to have on your desktop, and have a healthy debate on its efficacy?
0x00 - Disclaimers
I'm not a certified expert, these are just some stuff that i gathered with my ~20 years of fooling around, and i'm writing this on good faith and i hope that it will be helpful to someone.
Of course that i expect a good chunk of people here


0x01 - Security x Privacy​


While those are two different concepts, they...

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]]> 1 CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agent Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:16:52 +0000 https://linux.forum/threads/cve-2023-38408-remote-code-execution-in-opensshs-forwarded-ssh-agent.57/ 57 [email protected] (nkukard) nkukard Read more here https://www.qualys.com/2023/07/19/cve-2023-38408/rce-openssh-forwarded-ssh-agent.txt]]> 0 Fingerprint setup on KDE Plasma Sun, 18 Jun 2023 10:37:38 +0000 https://linux.forum/threads/fingerprint-setup-on-kde-plasma.26/ 26 [email protected] (Grumpy) Grumpy well this would be nice if it actually worked ( worked like 20% ) i get finger print scanner working and setup fingerprints even using KDE user GUI, but then comes the issues it tells me on guides to edit /etc/pam.d/sddm and add 2 lines there, but issue is there is no files to edit and second part is to create kde file and add there again 2 difrent lines to enable logins but after i did all these and created both it locks me out no password accepted or fingerprint accepted well it still cant...

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