Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Ferguson
> Am 2008-01-23 09:19:01, schrieb William Twomey: > > It's my understanding (and experience) that a Debian system by default > > is vulnerable to SYN flooding (at least when running services) and other > > such mischeif. I was curious as to why tcp_syncookies (and similar > > things) are not enable

Re: strange output for command ps

2008-01-30 Thread Steve Suehring
This looks normal to me. I believe 'ps' cuts off the USER column after a certain number of characters. To test, I just added a user 'stevesuehring' to a local Debian etch box and then logged in as that user. The ps output shows 1002 in the USER column rather than the name. Steve On Wed, Ja

Re: strange output for command ps

2008-01-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Lindo Nepi said: > hi all. > on my debian box (debian 4.0 , kernel 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 > 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ) > when i do "ps aux" i obtain: > 121 29199 0.0 22.4 124280 116152 ? SN 17:18 0:00 > /usr/sbin/dansguardian > ^ > > l

strange output for command ps

2008-01-30 Thread Lindo Nepi
hi all. on my debian box (debian 4.0 , kernel 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ) when i do "ps aux" i obtain: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1948 648 ?Ss

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-23 09:19:01, schrieb William Twomey: > It's my understanding (and experience) that a Debian system by default > is vulnerable to SYN flooding (at least when running services) and other > such mischeif. I was curious as to why tcp_syncookies (and similar > things) are not enabled by de

Security review wanted

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! As a reply to an earlier mail to debian-devel it was suggested to write to this list as well... This mail is about my PHP/MySQL code running http://wnpp.debian.net/ . The current code can be found here [2]. Let me quote myself from that other mail: As I usually code C++ and not PHP/MyS