On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 04:42:20PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> Hi,
Hi Martin,
> I am doing a rewrite of the equivs package, and have two questions.
>
> The package itself is GPLed, and I want to include some code from
> other GPLed packages (mainly the doc-base parser). Now I want to
I've followed the instructions of Debian New Maintainers Guide
(http://www.de.debian.org/doc/maint-guide) to create a new
package clean.
---debian/control begin---
Source: clean
Section: non-free/devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Stefan Karrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
P
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 11:48:59AM -0500, J. S. Connell wrote:
> On 18 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> > I heared on Solaris you have a daemon, which takes username/password
> > and tells you if the combination is OK.
>
> rpc.pwdauthd. Nice idea, but Linux doesn't have (as far as I am aw
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 10:36:35AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> What use would shadow passwords have, if a unprivileged user can query
> them?
Well...then the query is at your control - and if you make a single query take
a full second (or more) then it will take a very long time to brut
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:03:37PM +0900, Keita Maehara wrote:
> The debian-policy says that we shouldn't modify /etc/{passwd,services}
> and so on, and it should be managed by base-passwd or netbase.
Ummm, if you've got something you want added to /etc/services, please
file a wishlist bug against
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 09:27:47AM +0100, Stefan Karrmann wrote:
> I've followed the instructions of Debian New Maintainers Guide
> (http://www.de.debian.org/doc/maint-guide) to create a new
> package clean.
Nice to see someone is reading the manuals... :)
Also, if your version of the document is
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > After making my mh-book package, I got a lintian _warning_ that
> > scripts in /usr/doc were executable. I checked the upstream
> > tar.gz and the scripts were, in fact, set executable.
> >
> > So I changed my rules file to do
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > E: mh-book: executable-in-usr-doc
> > > usr/doc/mh-book/html/download/split/mh/bin/incs 0755
> > >
> > > So, can I let these example scripts be executable, or not?
> >
> > Examples should go in /usr/doc/exa
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Chris wrote:
> Well...then the query is at your control - and if you make a single
> query take a full second (or more) then it will take a very long time
> to brute force anything (and thats assuming there is no logging).
That doesn't solve the problem, merely slow it down.
hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Chris, Stardate 190199.1949:
> >
> > What use would shadow passwords have, if a unprivileged user can query
> > them?
>
> Well...then the query is at your control - and if you make a single query take
> a full second (or more) then it will take a very long time to brute force
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, tmancill wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > > E: mh-book: executable-in-usr-doc
> > > > usr/doc/mh-book/html/download/split/mh/bin/incs 0755
> > > >
> > > > So, can I let these example scripts be executable,
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Chris wrote:
> Can you explain what the problem with a auth daemon is? If there was a
> daemon listening on a system port then why couldn't local processes be
> sure that it is the real thing (since its the same machine anyway - if
> a skript kiddie can fake the daemon runnin
Hello,
I received the following bug report about fdutils a while ago, but haven't
had time to deal with it yet. Basically, the bug reporter is concerned that
the suid'ed fdmount could be insecure, because fdmount's manpage warns the
user not to rely on it being secure.
So far, my suid'ed fdmoun
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:29:44PM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote:
> As the Slink deep freeze and release are impending, I would like to ask your
> advice: Should I follow the suggestion given by the bug reporter Thomas
> Roessler? If so, should I fix this bug before Slink is out? I am kind of
> busy w
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