Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread smj
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:08:14PM +, Sam Morris wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > >Generaly there is no reason to remove 2.4.18. > >But I think, there is a need to a note about Servers like > > where they can get newer Kernels. > > Well it seems sensible to remove

Re: possible samba security problem

2005-01-30 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:50:03 +0100, Ruben van der Leij wrote: >+++ Nick Boyce [29/01/05 02:56 +]: > >> I think it >> should be okay to simply change the permissions on >> /var/run/samba/locking.tdb so only root can access it. There's no >> real need for ordinary users to use smbstatus anyway.

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2005 22:46 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > * Jan Lühr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050130 22:13]: > > Don't take it down personal. Jugding about DSA's I've seen, there is > > currently _no_ security-support for 2.4.18. > > I didn't made any statement about security support o

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Paul Hink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050130 21:57]: > >> They told, there are too much kernels to maintain and droped > >> 2.4.(18-22) They sugested to use one of the Backports. > > And of course this is nothing to inform the ordinary users about, is > > it? > Just to make sure that there are no

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Jan Lühr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050130 22:13]: > Don't take it down personal. Jugding about DSA's I've seen, there is > currently > _no_ security-support for 2.4.18. I didn't made any statement about security support of 2.4.18. All I said was, that MK can't proof her own statement, that I can'

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 22:13:08, schrieb Jan Lühr: > Greetings, > Don't take it down personal. Jugding about DSA's I've seen, there is > currently > _no_ security-support for 2.4.18. For reasons I don't know, for thinks, I > don't understand, important patches seem to be missing. > If you have informati

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Paul Hink
Paul Hink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Am 2005-01-29 22:56:39, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>> Where is it posted that the dropped support for 2.4.18? >> >> It was on and > > Both of which are lists mainly intended for "developers and > experie

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2005 21:14 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > Hi! > > * Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050130 20:29]: > > > how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are > > > requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite > > > complet

Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Michelle Konzack wrote: > There will be no new version of 2.4.XX Wrong. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050130 20:29]: > > how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are > > requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite > > completly unrelated URLs or you don't answer at all? > Why not go to

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 19:43:49, schrieb Jan Minar: > Because, darling, we already have done that, with no satisfactory > results, and a member of the DST just have said something which is quite I am not police (DST) :-) but military. > contradictory to Your claims. > > Yours, Greetings Michelle --

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-01-30 19:17:25, schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > > > how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are > > requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite > > completly unrelated URLs or y

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 19:17:25, schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are > requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite > completly unrelated URLs or you don't answer at all? Why not go to and search

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050130 17:45]: > > Michelle, can You cite the Message-Id's and/or URLs to the archive, > > please? > Unfortunatly not (my postgresql is curently down) > but I think, it was between April and June last year. > Maybe after the last BUGfix in 2.4.18 Michelle,

Re: {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Morris
Michelle Konzack wrote: Generaly there is no reason to remove 2.4.18. But I think, there is a need to a note about Servers like where they can get newer Kernels. Well it seems sensible to remove such unmaintained packages from the archive. It will prevent people from in

Re: [Fwd: security]

2005-01-30 Thread Rich Puhek
Luis M wrote: (snip) 6. use the AllowUsers option in sshd_config and put a comma separated list of users that are allowed to login remotely. All other users will simply be denied access. 7. Use tcp_wrappers to allow only a handful of IPs to login remotely to your box. If you don't have a static IP

Re: {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 16:02:23, schrieb Sam Morris: > Sam Morris wrote: > >Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-* packages be > ^ > should be 2.4.18, sorry :) :-) Generaly there is no reason t

Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 15:32:25, schrieb Sam Morris: > Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-* packages be > removed from the archive, since they are unsupported, and *very* > dangerous to use? Sorry, that I ask, but where ist 2.4.28 ? The Kernel-Maintainer-Team has stoped adapting 2.4

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-30 13:37:13, schrieb Jan Minar: > Michelle, can You cite the Message-Id's and/or URLs to the archive, > please? Unfortunatly not (my postgresql is curently down) but I think, it was between April and June last year. Maybe after the last BUGfix in 2.4.18 > Thanks. > > Now Debian rocks

Fwd: Re: Have you dropped support for 2.4.18? [Was: woody kernel image]

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Minar
I hope linguists amongst you will enjoy the creative usage of the word ``a bit''. I would still like to see the alleged drop-statements. - Forwarded message from Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:06:56 +0100 From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jan Mi

{Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Morris
Sam Morris wrote: Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-* packages be ^ should be 2.4.18, sorry :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 Fingerprint 3412 EA18 1277 354B

{Spam?} Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Morris
Michelle Konzack wrote: Where is it posted that the dropped support for 2.4.18? It was on and They told, there are too much kernels to maintain and droped 2.4.(18-22) They sugested to use one of the Backports. Wow, I missed that! Should not the kernel-image-2.4.28-* packages be removed from the

Re: [Fwd: security]

2005-01-30 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
This requires the ipt_recent IPtables module, among others, and it is in 2.4.22+ and 2.6 kernels. Both in testing. And requires upgrading libc6, so use at your own risk. Jeffrey Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A possible improvement: > > http://www.soloport.com/iptables.html >

Re: [Fwd: security]

2005-01-30 Thread Luis M
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:48:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:05:35PM +, michael wrote: > > On debian-user it was suggested I also post this here, thanks, Michael > > Forwarded Message > > From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip]

Re: [Fwd: security]

2005-01-30 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:49:54AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There are a lot of SSH brute force attacking scripts out there right > > now. I see them here at home and I see them try to get into the work > > machines all of the tim

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:02:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Where is it posted that the dropped support for 2.4.18? > > It was on and Michelle, can You cite the Message-Id's and/or URLs to the archive, please? Thanks. Now Debian rocks, doesn't it? Kudos to the DST, as usually... --

Re: [Fwd: security]

2005-01-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are a lot of SSH brute force attacking scripts out there right > now. I see them here at home and I see them try to get into the work > machines all of the time. A firewall will help you, but you will want > to ensure that SSH is secured as we

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Paul Hink
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2005-01-29 22:56:39, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> This should be posted somewhere easy to find so that folks know. Definitely it should be! IMO debian-announce or debian-security-announce would be appropriate. >> Where is it posted that the drop

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-29 22:56:39, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:12:21PM -0800, peace bwitchu wrote: > > This has been bothering me as well. They dropped > > support for kernel 2.4.18 when Herbert Xu left but I > > don't remember seeing any notification of this. I > > roll my own b