Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.
This is possibly a stupid question, but http://www.drsolomons.com/home/vbslove.htm talks about this: -- This worm also has another trick up it's sleeve in that it tries to download and install an executable file called WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE from the Internet. This exe file is a password stealing program that will email any cached passwords to the mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Is that "win- bugfix" thing as new as the virus or has it been around for a while? Did a couple searches and came up empty-handed. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] warm/fuzzy alternatives to outlook?
> And if you can not disable, why do you use a mail system which is a > security problem ??? There are many Shareware and Commercialware > products which are Better as Outlook. actually, convincing our users to stop using outlook is an Ongoing Project at the office, and if you have suggestions for alternatives that will make average everyday users happy (they love the calendar), i would be thrilled...it would save me some time, aggravation and searching. I'm an old-fashioned gal...i love my pine (done the lotus ntoes/netscape/outlook thing too) and am pretty oblivious to what else is out there, but try telling that to half the people in the office...they look like you're offering them cod liver oil. btw, i tried the mailer inside star office 5.1 and gave up trying to configure it after about 10 minutes of fruitless circular clicking. if i got annoyed, users will be hopeless. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] DHCP vs. Static security
> Not necessarily. We have our DHCP server set to hold the IP addresses for > seven days. That way, when someone logs back in, they get the same IP > address. Our DHCP server is on Windows NT, and I have no idea if other > platform DHCP servers can be configured that way. My last job used static > IP addresses, which are a royal pain to maintain. Yep, we have a dhcp server on a linux box and in dhcpd.conf there are lines to specify default, max, and min lease times...in seconds i think. i think the wins server is on linux too. ;) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] blank screen at boot
eh, one time that happened to meI had fried the motherboard. =( oh wait, i can't remember if my hd was spinning though... On Mon, 8 May 2000, Marie Fischer wrote: > this is not a linux-specigic question, but maybe somebody can help: after > putting together my new box (aopen ax67c m/b, celeron 333, 64 mb sdram, > ati rage graphics, atx case) and turning it on, it does nothing - the > screen stays black, keyboard LEDs don't react. However, the cpu fan works > and the hdd seems to go round, too. Any ideas? > > -- > marie > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] re: Send Mail or just Mail in General
I have some notes on how to do this with sendmail although the last time i actually added something on was a little while ago... in your sendmail dir (/etc/mail on my system) edit either the "deny" or "access" files. the access file we have here has entries, for users and domains, that go like [EMAIL PROTECTED] REJECT @domain.comREJECT after you edit the file, you do makemap hash access < access and bam. you can do the same with the deny file. On Thu, 11 May 2000, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 07:45:50AM -0700 or thereabouts, Allen Heinecke wrote: > > I have question on mail. > > > > How do I block or autodelete all mail from a specific domain or email > > address? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thank you in advance :) > > > > -Lone > > For MTAs: > > If you are using exim, it's dead easy (which was wonderful when I > suddenly had to learn this immediately to stop a barrage of > unwanted email shooting down my modem..): > > sender_net_reject_recipients = IP address or range. > sender_host_reject_recipients = FQDN. > > You can glob the latter: I have *.somesiteIhate.com in mine :) > Once you've changed that in /etc/exim/configure or whereever, > restart exim. Those will stop the machine even accepting email > from that site. > > If you are using sendmail, postfix or something, I have no idea but > I expect there's a way. > > Or you can use procmail, I expect: a friend uses a .procmailrc for > his personal email that drops anything from a range of addresses, > anything containing a Word file, anything from a list of known spam > relays... I only know how to use procmail for individual user accounts, > though. I don't know how you make it run for all mail arriving for > any user. > > The rules would be something like (from said friend's _copious_ > examples): > > :0: > * ^From: .*@aol\.com > /dev/null > > :0 B: > * ^Content-Type: text/x-vcard > /dev/null > > :0 B: > * [Ww][Ii][Nn][Mm][Aa][Ii][Ll]\.[Dd][Aa][Tt] > /dev/null > > The disadvantage with this one is that you still accept the email, > and if the problem is massive amounts of unwanted mail clogging > your system, you probably want to mess with the MTA itself. As I > said, I was delighted to find how simple it was with exim. I haven't > dared look with sendmail! > > Telsa > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] [OT] an intro
hehe, i can relate to this. =) i suppose i should introduce myself... hi. i'm stephanie, i joined aobut 2 weeks ago, after popping over to the linuxchix site a few times and loving what i found there. i think it's great that such a community exists, and i'm tickled pink about the variety of discussion, from techie to chatty, and at the elegance, classiness and brains of the people behind it (ackowledging and accepting more than 2 genders yay we really *are* in the 21st century, toto!), and the helpfulness and friendliness that i've seen on this list and the various archives. i havent' jjoined the issues or chitchat list, not because i don't want to, i jsut don't have the time. anecdote: aobut a year ago, I did a search for "unix system administrator"+"women" or something, on altavista i think, and i think i tried it on a few others. I got tons and tons of porn back. I took off "women" and got all computer/corporate mumbo jumbo. I was furious. but then a friend told me about linuxchix, and i am a very happy girl. =) I've been geekin' around for about 3 years, went to school for writing and got hooked on html in an electronic media class, and inconspicuoulsy slipped into the computer world after college. about 2 years ago i started consulting, as a very very junior unix admin, and was in a solaris shop for like almost a year and a half. now i'm in a mixed environment, heavy on the linux (we do mostly mandrake and i love it) and again, i'm a happy girl. i, too, am starting to feel like a legitimate geek, even though i have lots and lots to learn. i'm still kinda stupid, but i know a couple useful things that hopefully can make somebody else's life easier. glad to be here, sorry i put off introducing myself. oh also, i live in philadelphia and work in south jersey, and when i'm not banging on a keyboard or lying around being lazy, i'm a big music freak and I dj a little, future jazz kinda stuff, blah blah blah, write privately for details. I'll gladly babble for hours about music upon request. =) On Thu, 11 May 2000, Deepa Karnad wrote: > Hi > I have been in techtalk for a while now (not more that 15 days though). I just >discovered I was a big time lurker. Are such folks disliked from the gut or >something? I sure hope not cuz when I first joined techtalk I knew not much of linux. >Reading the questions and answers that fly across, I can now confidently say I'm >familiar with this OS. That is a roundabout way of saying that I've learned a lot >just by reading the mails here. > In fact, I'm turning every so steadily into a linux geek. It is growing on me if you >guys know what I mean. > So do I get license to continue lurking? =] > Deepa > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] [OT] an intro/sendmail minutia
um, not to give too much fuel to something off-topic...do a web search on transgender. Transpeople are acknowledged on the l.c. site under the section that explains that non-women are welcome on the lists. other questions --> private mail =) for on topic, just talked to my boss and he told me something i didn't know about sendmail... that there is A File, somewhere out there, a dns blacklist that's updated daily that you can work into sendmail to keep your anti-spamming efforts up to the minute. the sendmail book on my shelf is so big and intimidating, but increasingly inviting... On Thu, 11 May 2000, Glen Strom wrote: > At 11:15 AM 2000-05-11 -0400, Stephanie wrote: > > >...ackowledging and accepting more than 2 genders... > > More than 2 genders? Stephanie, do you know something the rest of us have > missed, or I am the only one who didn't get the memo? ;-> > > > Glen Strom > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Re: the Mail issue
> At this point I understand that there should be a file someplace in my etc > dir that controls access for sendmail, which is what I am currently using. > However, I don't see one. I am going to make one and place it in the > /etc/mail directory since that is where all of my other files are for > sendmail... we'll see if that works. yeah, that should do it. if you follow the right syntax and jsut put the file in there, it should work. we're running v8.9. i'm sorry, i should have been more specific. when i was looking at that i realized there was no deny file, so that could be created on the fly, so i should have said modify or create the file, instead of just modify. sorry for the confusion. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] really stupid flash question
i'm kind of embarassed to even ask this... i don't usualy put much energy into happy fun toy game sound stuff so i'm pretty clueless. I just downloaded flash 4 for linux, and it seems to play the sound at double speed. i saw this on another person's machine once and it doesn't seem to be limited to a particular site or anything. it might just be a bug because it also seems to incapaciatate my whole machine occasionally...no input from the keyboard, no mouse, but that damn flash movie is still playing. any suggestions or similar experiences? ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] New RH system...Cobalt
actually, over here we're using Cobalt servers (www.cobalt.com). the inital setup is really easy, just punch in an ip adress, netmask, and couple other things on the lcd display on the front of the thing, and the rest of the administration is done through a web interface. they are bright translucent blue, monitorless linux boxes designed to simplify web and email server setup by putting all major administration tools behind a fairly friendly passworded web interface, but you can still telnet/ssh to the command prompt and tool around in there. btw, they are really cute and a stack of the rack mounts looks very snazzy and hip in the server room. unfortunatley, I'm having trouble getting mail to work on one of them, although all the webservers have worked pretty much immediately. Oh, and we had one that wouldnt' boot, but that's the first hardware problem we've seen after ordering 7 of them, including one that is acting as a firewall for my boss's home cable modem setup. i'll let you know if there's some big secret to setting up the mail stuff (the goal is secure imap...but first we wanted to try secure pop and can't see a whole slew of services...have a call into cobalt) On Mon, 22 May 2000, A. Morner wrote: > Hi Folks.. > > Brief intro: Tech Coordinator of a small accounting firm in NH, some > experience in Linux, mostly user-end, but still learning as I go along.. > > Background: I've been asked to build a redhat box that will serve as our > email, web and ftp server (among various other little tasks).. We already > have one server up and running RH 6.2 with a BP6 motherboard by Abit, only > trouble being that the ATA/66 drives we put in, had to settle for 33. Tried > using Gentus, a highly plagarized version of Redhat put out by ABit, but > something wasn't stable and I'm not LinuxLiterate enough yet to figure out > what it was so we went back to RH. I'm not certain with regards to the > other components where to go from here.. > > My question: What would you folks recommend for an "ideal" server. My boss > wants me to use a dual-processor motherboard and it looks like that will > have to be the BP6. > > My goals: I want it fast, I want it stable, I want it easy to setup. I > want to put the system together and install with no glitches. My goal in > this is not to learn how to recompile a kernel (I'm sure many of you are > smirking saying "if you only knew how easy it was," but I've other things I > need to learn first. (That can come later ;) > > Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.. > TIA, > Angela > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] source vs. rpm?
> BTW: Be careful of rpms and make absolutely certain that they are BIND > 8.2.2P5 and not any other version before you use them. Compiling BIND from > source is -very- easy, taking a total of five steps to complete. hey, anyone have a minute to explain the differences/advantages disadvantages of source vs rpm? I've installed things both ways, but i really only know barely enough about them to be dangerous. whenever i "make" something and it doesn't work i just kinda sit there blinking stupidly, and when an rpm goes in ok i am happy and think about what lovely magic it is. I've done more installs with solaris than linux, and ithink an rpm is kind of like a package? oh, here's a funny story...i have a printout from a patch doc for solaris. The patch fixed a previous patch which had adverse effects on the system: it did an `rm -rf /`. Oops. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] DNS and Apache Server
> You can do this on all Unices and Linux distros. Whether your host > table or dns is looked at for resolution is specified in > /etc/host.conf. It could be one, or the other, or both in various > orders. hey, i didn't know that. well then what about nsswitch.conf? that has this line, which i thought did what you described above. hosts: files dns nis nisplus Does host.conf supercede it? is nsswitch.conf used for more complex situations and hosts.conf for simple ones? thanks! stephanie > > Example: order hosts, bind > This will look to your hosts file first, then to DNS. > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jenn V. wrote: > > > I circumvent the DNS for the critical lookup-hosts on my machines. > > I add them to /etc/hosts. > > > > This is probably not technically 'good' sysadminning, but it works > > for me. > > > > (note: I use Debian, in case this is relevent.) > > > > > > Jenn V. > > -- > > "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor. > >This is women's work!" > > Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ > > > > Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] easy password changing/vacation stuff for users?
Hi. Every few weeks we hit another situation where users need to do something that lives on their mail server, but no one in the office knows how to telnet and is deathly afraid of the command line. The compnay's growing and it's not practical to expect people to learn some basic unix commands to do these simple things, unfortunately. The 2 things that are most pressing are password changing and vacation scripts. We've been doing vacation scripts throuth procmail and that would be easy enough to script out, but getting them to run a script isn't the hard part...getting them to even log in is a workout. So I was wondering if I could use something like a .netrc command, and maybe just give them a dos program to run from their desktops and connect them to the server and run a script. Maybe even a little vb script or something? has anyone done something like this or seen a toolkit that does it? I guess we could also do it with a cgi thanks in advance for any brilliant ideas/suggestions! ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Apache access.conf help
in httpd.conf, starting on line 369 in my vanilla, untouched file, there is a section that starts with and one of the things listed underneath is "AllowOverride None". I think that is the offending piece of lint that is keeping your passwording from working... ok, I found it: http://www.apache.org/docs-1.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride you can have no passwording directives recognized, all recognized, or a select few. > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone on here would be so kind as to help me out with > this problem I've been struggling with for the last two days. > > I need to configure apache so that the entire site that is password > protected. I have tried configuring access.conf and I put .htpasswd and > .htaccess in the directories and all, and it's still not working.I'm very > confused. I followed the directions outlined in the Apache book, and on > the apache page to no avail. What am I missing? > > I'll be glad to include my access.conf in an offline email to anyone who > thinks s/he can help. > > Thanks a lot!!! > > Lilly > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] mass useradd
i had a line in a script that went like echo "passwd for $pos: `/usr/bin/mkpasswd -l 8 -d 2 -c 2 -C 2 $pos`" >> $PASSWORDLIST you could put that in a for loop and have mkpasswd create and set the password at the same time, then spit the password out into a file so you know what mkapsswd decided on for each user. i'm not looking at this real carefully so write back personally if you need more context or clarity. if you already have the passwords that you need to use, i think that would be a job for expect, which i don't know. sowwy. > Hello all- > > Haven't been on the list in a while...hope everyone's doing well in their > endeavors. I have what I hope is a quick question. I would like to know if > there's a way (possible using perl/expect?) to add multiple users from a > text file list all simultaneously. I figure I could either put the > usernames and passwords in one file (deliminating them with commas, spaces, > tabs, , whatever), or put the username list in one file and the password > list in another. > > ex. > User-pass-file.txt > -- > Brian f8lhwlv > Jeff 3jfh0w0 > Tom 20jflwp > > OR > > User-file.txt > - > Brian > Jeff > Tom > > Password-file.txt > - > f8lhwlv > 3jfh0w0 > 20jflwp > > Is there a built-in linux command to do this, or does anyone know of a good > script? > > Thanks, > Brian > > PS-I'm just now about to check out the Crimson Lust site...we'll see how it > turns out...=) > > > > _______ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > -- Stephanie Alarcon Unix System Administrator work: (856) 793 4224 x 1049 cell: (856) 904 3390 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] adding mass amounts of users
lookie here! just found this perl script on cobalt's site... http://www.cobalt.com/support/kb/search.php3?ques=apop&qid=793&language=1 btw, for curious parties, although i was raving about cobalt before, it looks like imap on the cobalt raq3s is possibly a bit broken. ==== Stephanie Alarcon Unix System Administrator work: (856) 793 4224 x 1049 cell: (856) 904 3390 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] along the lines of "can I change my mind?"
> It's to use the command 'switchdesk' either at the command line > (apparently, although I didn't know that) or from within X. It gives > you a choice from the available options of X "environments" (GNOME, > KDE, and on RH there's AnotherStep or some such name), and when you > pick one, it sorts all the changes to make out for you and does it. yeah, this is the easiest way. what telsa is talking about is a pulldown menu that will show up on your login box after X comes up. It will let you choose from whatever window managers you installed, and it will remember which one you like, and default to that the next time you log in. If kde is the default, and you chose gnome last time you logged in, when you get that log in box it will say kde in there until you type your username and go tot he password field. then it will switch to gnome. =) also a question about that xdm thing...the person who mentioned the xdm line in inittab, i thought you were full of soup when I read that, because I could have sworn on all red hat/mandrake installs i've done (over the past year or so) the way you started X automatically was to put "startX" in a good place somewhere in /etc/rc.d/whatever. i thought that's what the install program did, too. but lo and behold, it ain't so and the xdm thing is in fact in /etc/inittab. was i dreaming, or is this different? I really have to read more... ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] X port
here's a neat X trick a smart person recently taught me for borrowing an x session from somewhere else and putting it on a second display on your own machine: setenv DISPLAY :1 for csh,tcsh,zcsh or export DISPLAY=:1 for bash/ksh then X -query machine.you're.borrowing.from :1 then as someone mentioned earlier, you can flip back and forth between the 2 displays with cntrl-f?. I use f6, f7, and f8 cuz that's how it came. > I want to bring up X-Windows windows from my Linux box at home from the various > workstations at work. I can't install SSH clients here, so I have to use telnet, > and exceed (an X-Server for windows). > > I've been told port 6000 is the key... > > "Jenn V." wrote: > > > > Do you mean 'to transmit an X-Windows session over TCP/IP'? > > Not sure. Be aware that it can be made to run under SSH, so > > you may want to poke holes there as well. > > > > Jenn V. > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > -- Stephanie Alarcon Unix System Administrator work: (856) 793 4224 x 1049 cell: (856) 904 3390 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
