Flash Drive

[John Wright]

Ok,

Did not know that, thanks.


On 07/14/2017 01:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:00:33 -0500 David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing
>> Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent storage.
>> That is based on Debian Linux.  It worked, but it was somewhat clumsy.  The
>> nice thing is that all the data is completely encrypted and insulated from
>> intruders, "sandboxed" if you will.
> Tails is a "special case" -- it is specificly designed to live on a (possibly
> encrypted) flash drive as a "security" feature. "Normal" desktop Linux systems
> that have been installed properly on a PC or Laptop hard drive will not let
> you run random programs living on random removable media (thumb & optical
> drives).  The "default" mount options include "noexec"...  This prevents
> someone from breaking your system by offering a "trogan horse" program on such
> media or using a break-in program to attack your computer.
>
>> David C
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On this list you have to use Reply All to reply otherwise the message
>>>> just goes to the previous user (as this did). Forwarding this to the
>>>> list for information.  Also see reply below.
>>>>
>>>> On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Colin,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the confusion.  I what to just run gnucash from the flash
>>> drive.
>>>>> Fedora will be installed on the pc and gnucash as well as all the
>>> gnucash
>>>>> data will be on the flash drive.
>>>> To be pedantic you don't want to run gnucash from the flash drive, you
>>>> want to run gnucash from the HDD and write and read the accounts file
>>>> to the removable drive, which should be no problem. Gnucash does not
>>>> care where you save to and read from. If you want saved reports to be
>>>> on the drive there may be a little more work.
>>> Most (all?) sensibly setup and configured Linux systems will refuse to
>>> *run*
>>> programs on removable media, since that is a massive security risk.
>>>
>>> Also, gnucash is generally dynamicaly linked and depends on various
>>> [shared]
>>> libraries that would need to be installed in system places (eg
>>> /usr/lib[64]/)
>>> from various dependent packages. So it is unlikely that putting *just* the
>>> gnucash exe file on the flash drive will work. Gnucash itself expects to
>>> find
>>> stuff in /usr/share/gnucash, which won't be on the flash drive. And also
>>> has
>>> its own pile of .so files in /usr/lib[64]/ that it will need to access.
>>> And
>>> it is likely that gnucash built for, say Ubuntu, may not run *as is* under
>>> fedora, becase of different library versions (and whatnot).  You really
>>> need
>>> to just install the fedora build of gnucash on the fedora (there most
>>> likely
>>> is a gnucash-<mumble>.rpm out there somewhere, probably in the fedora
>>> repository, so a 'sudo yum install gnucash' will do everything needful.)
>>>
>>> But otherwise, having the *data* files on the thumb drive is a perfectly
>>> sensible thing to do.  And is possible fairly secure as well.
>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/14/2017 06:04 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>>> On 14 July 2017 at 03:12, ov10fac <ov10fac at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Does anyone know if gnucash can be run from a flash drive using
>>> fedora?
>>>>>> Do you mean you want the program on a flash drive or the data file? If
>>>>>> you want the data file on the flash drive with gnucash installed in
>>>>>> fedora on the PC then that is no problem. If you want to install the
>>>>>> program itself onto the flashdrive, with Fedora on the PC, then that
>>>>>> is more problematic. Or do you mean you want to run Fedora itself and
>>>>>> gnucash from the flash drive?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Colin
>>>>>
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