Re: chat messages encryption

2009-07-06 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Mark (m...@freedomisnothingtofear.com): > Have a look at anything that uses OTR: > > [m...@resolve ~]% apt-cache search Off-The-Record > irssi-plugin-otr - Off-the-Record Messaging Plugin for Irssi > libotr2 - Off-the-Record Messaging library > libotr2-bin - toolkit for Off-the-Record Me

Re: cryptsetup on a loopback device with an offset fails

2009-07-06 Thread Sam Lowry
I subbmitted the question to the upstream developers and they say that --offset is not supported in luksFormat mode anyway. The correct way would be either to use kpartx losetup /dev/loop0 lenny.img kpartx -a /dev/loop0 cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/mapper/loop0p2 (for 2nd partition) or to se

Re: cryptsetup on a loopback device with an offset fails

2009-07-06 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:51:44AM +0200, Sam Lowry wrote: > losetup /dev/loop0 lenny.img > mkdir lenny > mount lenny.img lenny -t ext3 -o loop=/dev/loop0,offset=98703360 losetup offset is in bytes (see 'man losetup') > cryptsetup luksFormat --offset=98703360 /dev/loop0 > >Command faile

Re: OCS Inventory NG user experience

2009-07-06 Thread Pierre Chifflier
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:12:20PM +0200, Samy Ascha, Xel Media B.V. wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > I have been trying to get OCS Inventory NG running on Debian 5.0.2, > using Debian packages: > > ocsinventory-agent - Hardware and software inventory tool (client) > ocsinventory-reports - Hardw

Re: Handling personal/self(WebOfTrust) pgp/gpg private keys.

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Mestnik
Is there any suggestions as to where I could get reliable information related to this topic? For example what do Debian Developers do with there private keys? Well, I might as well try and take a stab at it. I'll rate my suggestions from 1 to 5 based on how well I understand the issue a 1 would

Re: Are these scan logs dangerous ?

2009-07-06 Thread Riku Valli
a dehqan wrote: In The Name Of God Thanks alot for your attentions ; Yes ,service is inetd .How can port 113 be closed ? You can example close all services with command update-inetd and when all services were disabled restart openbsd-inetd. Service isn't start if all services are diasbled. R

OCS Inventory NG user experience

2009-07-06 Thread Samy Ascha, Xel Media B.V.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Debian Users, I have been trying to get OCS Inventory NG running on Debian 5.0.2, using Debian packages: ocsinventory-agent - Hardware and software inventory tool (client) ocsinventory-reports - Hardware and software inventory tool (Admini

Re: Are these scan logs dangerous ?

2009-07-06 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God Thanks alot for your attentions ; Yes ,service is inetd .How can port 113 be closed ? #netstat -lnop|grep ":113" > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:113 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 3550/inetd off (0.00/0/0) > lsof -i :113 > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NO

cryptsetup on a loopback device with an offset fails

2009-07-06 Thread Sam Lowry
This is about a Lenny install with the stock kernel and modules. I am doing an exercise of encrypting an existing debian partition in a raw qemu image before doing that in production environment. I first identified the start of the partition (98703360) by doing sfdisk -l -uS lenny.img Then, I