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root logins are disabled by default. Do NOT enable this. It's been up for a couple of minutes and I'm pretty sure the malware bots have already been knocking on your door. Just add a regular user account and add that user to the wheel group. Or...

balanga On my VPS, you can access your server directly through their web site using your account.

Ok, cool. So you did the entire installation yourself? Including setting a password on the root account? Did you also add a regular user account? If not, you know you cannot login with root remotely, that's disabled. So you'll need to login on...

Is it possible to get to a command prompt? After cliicking around various screens I seem to have obtained access. It says Connected to QEMU (instance-00002235) Send CtrlAltDel on the top line. So it looks like I should be able to find...

I downloaded the 15.1-RELEASE boot iso and installed from that myself.

No, by default sshd will accept both passwords and ssh keys. No need to configure anything. Did your VPS have a ready-made FreeBSD image? Or did you do the install remotely yourself? If it's a pre-made VPS image from that provider it may have...

balanga On my VPS, you can access your server directly through their web site using your account.

You can easily share this with developers on the FreeBSD mailing list.

From what I have read I need to edit sshd_config but how can I do that if I can't login? Do I need to reinstall FreeBSD on the server?

After consulting ChatGPT and doing what was suggested, nothing helped, but then GROK suggested that if none of the suggested solutions worked and I was using tmux, to try running emacs outside of tmux, and that showed emacs to be working as...

Not a "linux" utility. https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

It seems like the more I know, my level of ignorance increases exponentially :(

Wait till You find out about SSH tunnels ... and SSH reverse tunnels ... and ssh-agent(1) ... and ProxyJump :)

I was really impressed by that back when it was first introduced. National put on a seminar in my town and I came back to work all excited about it. I'm wondering if I might still have the data sheets or book about it. EDIT: Now that I think...

My problem is that I tend to get overwhelmed when confronted with numerous options such as rsa, ecsda etc. none of which I understand.

After trying to ssh into my VPS I get:- Looks like I haven't configured it correctly. I think I just used the defaults.

It seems like the more I know, my level of ignorance increases exponentially :(

Wait till You find out about SSH tunnels ... and SSH reverse tunnels ... and ssh-agent(1) ... and ProxyJump :)

I have recently noticed that when I press the END key in Doom Emacs it shows <select> is undefined. I don't know how this happened or when it started but it looks like my keyboard mapping has changed. Anyone know how to redefine it so that the...

https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/public-key-authentication

SSH keys aren't, IMHO, that complicated. (Of course, most things are easy when you know how to do them). Anyway, here's a DigitalOcean guide that seems pretty straight forward...

Why do you think the video driver determines which window manager or desktop environment gets started?

This is overcomplicated. Just forget the sequence. Start X only. Run anything compatible on top of it, manually to find out what works... Not sure what happens if twm is already running. Does it conflict with a different window manager? You can...

SSH keys aren't, IMHO, that complicated. (Of course, most things are easy when you know how to do them). Anyway, here's a DigitalOcean guide that seems pretty straight forward...

I have my VPS now, and would like to know how to ssh into from my home without entering a password. Can anyone give me a clue? I've never understood SSH KEYs.

Hi, I use an old Zotac ZBox CI323 NANO N3150 with an Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3150 @ 1.60GHz with 16 GB of ram. Up to FreeBSD 15.0 it was working fine as a backup machine with the system on zfs and two other pools for backups on zfs, using...

Cool work. Thank you. But I just saw that we have misc/hermes-agent in ports. Why not just use that?

The successor of the 6502, the 65816 faired a bit better I believe. It was the CPU that powered the SNES and Apple IIgs.

A scientific project "for yourself" and collect CPU from others. Even if it is not power on always, you should be able to donate CPU.

Yes, now it is fast again root@kg-core2:~ # time pkg upgrade -n Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. All repositories...

You can get a short or long description of all or specific pkgbase FreeBSD-* packages with the pkg-search and pkg-rquery commands. Use package name for specific package description. Short description of all FreeBSD-* pkgbase packages: Long...

Thanks!!! Very useful.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. This year, I had the great privilege of receiving the FreeBSD Foundation travel grant to attend BSDCan. The conference informally kicked off with the traditional gathering at the Father & Sons...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The June 2026 FreeBSD DevSummit & BSDCan was again successfully recorded and streamed through longtime streaming sponsor ScaleEngine. The requested DevSummit 2 question microphone system kept...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I’m really grateful to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring my trip to BSDCan 2026 in Ottawa. The conference ran for four days — two days of DevSummit, then two days of the main conference...

See: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-14-4-pkg-is-slow-to-update-database.103342/ Fix is incoming as mentioned in that thread.

Ah. Thank you.

Pretty vanilla recent 15.1 install on a Thinkpad X220. pkg used to work until now. Today `pkg update` always aborts at 76% in "processing entries". Fully repeatable. % pkg update Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... Fetching...

Please wait a moment. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2026-July/002169.html Issue found should be back to normal soon, thanks for reporting. Best regards, Bapt

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XFCE for me

Which is fine, but,the question is about how do the transfer, not how to make this a project, and making it a project is more or less the opposite of what was asked. If we're going to do the whole bit about copying to the new disk, then at least...

I'm reposting SirDice link from above

Same. I use a static stripped profile directory including ublock and YT shorts blocker. It has no problems with this. Still, it's commercial garbage conditioned for advertising and tracking, preferably out of sight.

The question is do these have the ublock origin. I do not run Firefox for Firefox but because it can run a open source ad blocker.

So X.org works. What does Konsole? Is there a KDE start command? That should show if something goes wrong.

I have sometimes had issues with updating nvidia drivers. I also have a GT1030 and use the 580 drivers. Firstly if you have your system on ZFS you might be able to go to a former boot environment that works. Secondly, you can try first updating...

Hello. I have Nvidia GeForce GT1030. After the update, I stopped seeing KDE. No matter what drivers I installed, I only saw X Twm. I couldn't see KDE. I installed nvidia-driver{580,470,390}, but the result was the same: three ancient X windows.

I have Librewolf working in my USB-system but I didn't do something with it. It's not bad but how does it manage passwords without some account registration? It's a Firefox fork, btw.