Replacement for common services (was Re: Is ident secure?)

2001-09-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:57:55PM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > It sounds like we have a similar problem. I read all this stuff, "If > you don't know what it is, you don't need it." and "If you don't need > it, shut it down." One of the things I read said to shut off lpd. I > know there hav

Re: What about doing security updates automatically?

2001-09-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:38:43AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > I (or I'd be sure my fellow sysadmin) would appreciate a bit more > automation. Maybe really the best thing would be to prepare > everything needed for an upgrade (i.e. receive the security > announcement, parse it, see if it co

Replacement for common services (was Re: Is ident secure?)

2001-09-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:57:55PM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > It sounds like we have a similar problem. I read all this stuff, "If > you don't know what it is, you don't need it." and "If you don't need > it, shut it down." One of the things I read said to shut off lpd. I > know there ha

Re: What about doing security updates automatically?

2001-09-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:38:43AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > I (or I'd be sure my fellow sysadmin) would appreciate a bit more > automation. Maybe really the best thing would be to prepare > everything needed for an upgrade (i.e. receive the security > announcement, parse it, see if it c

Re: FW: a filter for tcp socket

2001-09-06 Thread Steven James
Greetings, iptables has the capability to pass matching packets to userspace to be re-written. G'day, sjames Quoting Samu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:26:58AM +0600, Antropov Anton wrote: > > > > Hello! > > Did you hear about netfilter/iptables/ipchains etc? > > This is

Re: FW: a filter for tcp socket

2001-09-06 Thread Steven James
Greetings, iptables has the capability to pass matching packets to userspace to be re-written. G'day, sjames Quoting Samu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:26:58AM +0600, Antropov Anton wrote: > > > > Hello! > > Did you hear about netfilter/iptables/ipchains etc? > > This is