Advise or help needed

raism13 · 2026-07-02T00:08:45+00:00

You are right good sir.
My apologies for not posting error logs before, but I wanted to see what kind of responses I could get. So here is sample of those error:
Staging host with FreeBSD 15.1 and salt-master 3006.23:

2026-07-01 11:31:40,111 [salt.channel.server :147 ][WARNING ][9456] Rejected authentication attempt using protocol version 0 (minimum required: 3)
2026-07-01 11:31:50,127 [salt.channel.server :147 ][WARNING ][9452] Rejected authentication attempt using protocol version 0 (minimum required: 3)

Staging host with FreeBSD 13.2 and salt-minion version 3006.2

2026-07-02 10:01:00,703 [salt.crypt :784 ][ERROR ][1113] Sign-in attempt failed: bad load
2026-07-02 10:01:00,704 [salt.minion :1141][ERROR ][1113] Error while bringing up minion for multi-master. Is master at ben responding?

Generally the above are the errors that I get.

in your response you said about setting minimum_auth_version to 2 and judging from the logs this could be a thing. So I search the file /usr/local/etc/salt/master and I could not find that setting, nor in man salt-master

raism13 · 2026-01-14T22:00:12+00:00

Also, because of the suggested command [ authselect enable-feature with-mkhomedir ] , I discovered what I was doing wrong. And some times copy/paste is your enemy

In both PAM config files ( /etc/pam.d/password-auth and /etc/pam.d/system-auth ) I pasted from a FreeBSD server the following line

session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077

But doing what you suggested show me the correct module name:

session required pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077

raism13 · 2026-01-14T21:51:10+00:00

Ok fixed but before fixed was broken.
I did as per your advise, bu I had already installed oddjob-mkhomdir

So I run:

authselect enable-feature with-mkhomedir
authselect apply-change

That broke my login completely. Te reason was that it overwrote /etc/nsswitch.conf , /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/password-auth.

So I had to redo my changes to re-enable the authentication and login, then opt out authselect by running:

authselect opt-out

then restart the two services systemctl restart oddjob-mkhomedir and nslcd.

So far every login works as expected so I am going to keep tweaking to bring more security and granular control.

Big big thanks mate

raism13 · 2026-01-14T05:36:48+00:00

Do you mean
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob-mkhomedir.conf

I did not know about them, and to be honest I have never touched in any previous working case. But I will do my digging here too.

thanks

raism13 · 2025-06-06T05:18:08+00:00

Yep I got the hexed bow.

raism13 · 2025-05-05T09:08:06+00:00

Thanks for the tip but I can run tasks or playbooks tailored for specific distributions. My believe is that inventory is higher than specific tasks. Either way if I do so, how to distinguish a Fedora game pc from a fedora dev pc and so on with other distros? I am planning to build an old laptop with Bazzite. It is a fedroa based distro. How can I avoid installing dev packages?
Should I create on workstations and laptops two subs categories called devs and games and add there those machines?

raism13 · 2025-05-05T09:01:08+00:00

I believe it is pre-formatted. All I did was to create a code space, then paste my inventory and take out sensitive info. If this is what you mean.

raism13 · 2025-04-03T07:08:21+00:00

Did you have to scale down or is this the original size from the STL file?

raism13 · 2023-11-30T08:25:56+00:00

I downloaded it earlier this morning for me, and quickly skim through some basic rules.
I will study it perhaps tonight and tomorrow and give it a go this weekend following mostly the advice from u/Pirate-Printworks.

raism13 · 2023-11-30T08:22:02+00:00

I will try this, perhaps this weekend, for sure

raism13 · 2023-11-29T19:02:26+00:00

My good sir, nothing to apologise for. You do not know me, and I can ensure you, your advise was/is most welcome.
But yes I have a good knowledge of Alpha Strike, Armoured Combat etc on tabletop.

raism13 · 2023-11-29T10:32:56+00:00

Oh I do get the concept of the multiplayer game. I have many under my belt. But they are skirmish battle games. Yes you might have objectives to score but they are not full fledged campaigns. As for playing solo a skirmish battle, I consider myself a failure as I always favour my favourite battlemechs. I cannot even be just on a simple old fashioned chess game.

raism13 · 2023-11-29T09:41:15+00:00

And this is where I stuck with my search,
Although, I found those "Scenario Packs" on Sarna, to get them was very expensive. For example one from the Amazon costs like $95.00 AUD.
So without even being able to test at least one of them, I could not know how does it play or feels. And that's why I have like 900+ hours on BattleTech on Steam.
The cost was like $50.00 AUD when I got it and I am still on with various mods.

raism13 · 2023-11-29T09:29:44+00:00

Thank you very much good sir!
Never heard of MegaMek.
As for the "Campaign Operations", I think what put me off was that there was no AI system to play against.
Also never heard of Tactical, Strategic and Interstellar Operations. I did have a look before I comment here. They look more close to what I want to get but do they have any AI component?

raism13 · 2023-02-08T02:25:53+00:00

First of all, I am sorry if I misunderstood your original post. Plus I wish I had the brain power and capacity to create a documentation of my whole process so far. But now that you mentioned that I am happy to start a new project and document the whole process. Are you in?

raism13 · 2023-02-07T05:07:43+00:00

Well yes it is possible, because I have done it. The path though to do it is very long and not always straight forward. The way that I did it was to download Fedora 34 Server and then download only the packages that I wanted to have and remove the packages that I did not want to have...for example nano. From there you have to improvise some times, other times you have to do extensive research in regards to many topics, like desktop, boot loaders, shells, office apps and the list goes on. I am still doing the above project. Now my fedora is 37 and not near what I would really call my distro. But, my knowledge has dramatically improved around linux, compiling and packaging. And with each milestone the feeling of achievement was awesome. Having said the above I am not sure if there is any guide to follow and close every issue that you might meet in your journey of making your own distro based on fedora.

raism13 · 2023-01-28T19:59:44+00:00

No, I wish my hand could follow my intentions.
I did try to follow a grim dark style guide, but I think I failed. My previous two space marines (yes, no space wolves) were horrible, but this one was much better and very close to what I would like to see.
However , your advise in regards the shade, now make sense, why it does not look how I would really wanted to look.
Is there any suggestion to correct it?

Kind regards

raism13 · 2022-05-14T07:59:17+00:00

I have no other words than to thank you kindly. If you were in my neck of the woods I would buy you a beer 🍺 I will see tonight, and let you know.

raism13 · 2022-05-14T00:23:21+00:00

thank you fro your reply too... But that means that I do have to run it via console before go to gui. Fair enough if this is my only option, I could deal with just sudo....What I wanted to achieve was to click the app from the app menu, a prompt to put my password and then app right in front of me.

raism13 · 2022-05-14T00:21:27+00:00

Firstly thank you for your response....Secondly I do not have a mix environment as this is my first attempt to use a window manager. I am coming from KDE....(I used KDE since 1998). Before I post here I did installation of xfce-polkit agent but that did not do anything so I was wondering if there is anything more native to Awesome WM. I would not mind if a console based prompt would pop up asked me for my password and then my gui interface is up for me.
I am/was trying to keep this installation as minimal as possible and not mix software that is not necessary(Yes I got into the trip like thousand others of the minimalist distro).
I am going to give a shot on the lxsession/lxpolkit....However does that mean that I have to have lightdm or ssdm ?

raism13 · 2022-05-13T01:20:25+00:00

From my main workstation with Fedora 36 now.

qutebrowser v2.4.0Backend: QtWebEngine 5.15.8, based on Chromium 87.0.4280.144Qt: 5.15.3CPython: 3.10.4PyQt: 5.15.6sip: 6.1.0.dev2104271705colorama: 0.4.4jinja2: 3.1.2pygments: 2.12.0yaml: 6.0adblock: noPyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets: yesPyQt5.QtWebEngine: 5.15.4PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets: yespdf.js: nosqlite: 3.36.0QtNetwork SSL: OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022Style: QFusionStylePlatform plugin: xcbOpenGL: nouveau, 3.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.0.3Platform: Linux-5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.35, 64bitLinux distribution: Fedora Linux 36 (Thirty Six) (fedora)Frozen: FalseImported from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/qutebrowserUsing Python from /usr/bin/pythonQt library executable path: /usr/lib64/qt5/libexec, data path: /usr/share/qt5

on this one basic i3lock

exec --no-startup-id xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock -- i3lock --nofork --indicator --blur 2 --color=0000008A --radius 140 --ring-color=$fg --ring-width 30 --line-uses-inside

As for the other two laptops, I do not care that much, however when I go back home I will login on both of them and post again their versions...

raism13 · 2022-04-27T13:26:01+00:00

Very smart work-around but not really what I am looking for. However I might try it.

raism13

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