Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-09-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 06:17:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >> By setting the "GSSAPICleanupCredentials" option in sshd_config, the > >> credentials cache is destroyed upon logou

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-09-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Peter Palfrader | - install sendfile/saft on all machines so you can do | sendfile foo.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Unfortunately sendfile doesn't use crypto, so who knows what happens | to the stuff you send. And it's yet another network facing server - I | don't know if anybody e

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> By setting the "GSSAPICleanupCredentials" option in sshd_config, the >> credentials cache is destroyed upon logout (this can also be done >> through the session component of libpam_krb5

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > This education could be done in two steps: first, create a policy and > link to it from debian-devel-announce; second, make this required > reading for the NM procedure (similar to the 'DMUP' and 'SC/DFSG' > questions that NMs

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-09-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > By setting the "GSSAPICleanupCredentials" option in sshd_config, the > credentials cache is destroyed upon logout (this can also be done > through the session component of libpam_krb5.so). ... but pam_krb5.so shouldn't be used for

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-09-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:19:45AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Well, the underlying premise here is, of course, that certain routinely > > useful capabilities need to be taken out of the hands of the users because > > they won't use them responsibl

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would say as Russ. Plus the fact that apparently, it currently doesn't > work (see bug #496933). I'm not sure what's wrong in that bug, but Kerberos authentication in Iceweasel (3.0.1-1) is working fine for me. I'd notice immediately if it stopped work

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most Debian Machines run no stable kernels, thus we would run into that > problem. Also many machines running with static kernels. Would that be a > problem for OpenAFS? OpenAFS is fine with static kernels as long as dynamic modules are not disable

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:19:45AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: >On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Having your inter-host file transfers sandboxed, such that you have to log >> in to the host on each end in order to get the files copied to the place you >> want them, would be a serio

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-31 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Aug 30 16:43, Steve Langasek wrote: > This is obviously an *incredibly* bad idea for anyone to do if they actually > care about the security of the Debian systems. But we're already talking > about hard policy changes to stop users from doing things they shouldn't do > in the first place (=

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:19:32PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, having your browser spontaneously authenticate you to any system > keyed in your local realm or in a realm with which you have cross-realm > trust is something of a leak of personal information. This may change in the future. Th

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:54:59PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 01:16:32AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Negotiate auth does not provide confidentiality or integrity protection > > different to the normal use of kerberos. > Well, ok, but you're negotiating *authenticatio

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > Well, the underlying premise here is, of course, that certain routinely > useful capabilities need to be taken out of the hands of the users because > they won't use them responsibly[1]. > But we're alrea

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:48:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > + once we have a krb realm we could maybe also use it for other > > > stuff like all those web services that require logins. How > > >

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 18:17:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > A bigger problem at the kernel level is that the kernel APIs change > constantly and have not infrequently had various GPL-only tags added that > force OpenAFS into annoying workarounds (it is released under the IBM > Public License

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 01:16:32AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:48:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > (for some infathomable reason, the firefox developers consider Negotiate > > authentication to be unsafe with untrusted and/or non-SSL hosts. Dunno > > why that is,

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (for some infathomable reason, the firefox developers consider Negotiate > authentication to be unsafe with untrusted and/or non-SSL hosts. Dunno > why that is, and never saw a compelling argument...) Well, having your browser spontaneously authentica

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: >> - AFS suffers from the not-a-filesystem syndrome: file access >> control is not unix-like and will confuse users. > > Also other parts are not really POSIX-like. Hardli

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 05:46:16PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > What other options did we forget? > > - Setup Kerberos, allow it as an additional ssh login variant > Circumvents the entire idea behind this exercise: Assuming an attacker > already has control over one host we want to make

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:48:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > (for some infathomable reason, the firefox developers consider Negotiate > authentication to be unsafe with untrusted and/or non-SSL hosts. Dunno > why that is, and never saw a compelling argument...) Negotiate auth does not provid

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:48:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > + once we have a krb realm we could maybe also use it for other > > stuff like all those web services that require logins. How > > good is krb support in browsers these days? > Pretty good. Konqueror

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Peter Palfrader: > What other options did we forget? Modern NFS over IPsec to a central file server. However, less than stellar bandwidth at the Debian servers requires really, really modern NFS with persistent caching. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > - setup afs > > Using AFS would allow us to use a shared /afs/debian.org tree on all > our systems. AFS does all the magic crypto stuff so you don't have to > worry about Eve sniffing or Mallory tampering with packets. > >

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Or you use only resolvers that you have a trusted (i.e. ipsec) > > connection to and those need to have a complete axfr'ed zone. > > Then we can drop the whole ud-ldap thing and use centralized > authentication. Um. I don't see why that follows. I

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 05:46:16PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > The crypto stuff could be alleviated by using ipsec between all our > > > servers. But that works even less we

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
[Trimming lists] On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > - install sendfile/saft on all machines so you can do > > sendfile foo.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > The crypto stuff could be alleviated by using ipsec betw

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 03:16:01PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: + once we have a krb realm we could maybe also use it for other stuff like all those web services that require logins. How good is krb supp

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > - install sendfile/saft on all machines so you can do > sendfile foo.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The crypto stuff could be alleviated by using ipsec between all our > servers. But that works even less well than you'd expe