Comment on How do I determine what a mystery dongle does?

seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just swapped to mint (mate) so it’ll take me a minute to find out how to do that. Will update when I find out. Posted this as I headed out the door, not expecting answers to pop up anywhere near this quickly on a community with a post per month. I am endlessly surprised and delighted by lemmy

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  • azdle@news.idlestate.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The command you’re looking for is lsusb. There’s going to be a lot in there, but for a security token like that, you’re probably looking for something that says “yibikey”, “Fido”, or “u2f”.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you! I do have a question though. What does the “ls” in lsusb stand for? I’ve found several query commands that begin with ls and it might help me remember them a bit better if I understand what they mean

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      • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t know it’s proper name but “list” is an easy way to remember it. Want to see a list of what’s in a folder? ls.

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  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, you should find lots of tutorials on identifying unknown devices in mint. It probably is a yubikey like others have said; but it would be a good tutorial to teach yourself a useful linux skill if you want to learn it.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Found it! It was listed incredibly verbosely, fully spelling out yubikey and then their website. Thank you!

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