RE: debian-security-announce-$lang@lists?

2002-08-14 Thread Jens Hafner
>> I think as a system administrator, one is out of luck if one can't >> follow the English announcements anyway. [snip] >I dislike this attitude "No English, no IT". In many states school systems >aren't good enough or English is not taught >as first foreign language. As a side note: I personally

RE: debian-security-announce-$lang@lists?

2002-08-14 Thread Jens Hafner
I'm not really sure if this is the right place for the language discussion. I believe that everybody on this list at least understands English good enough to be able to get the message and understand the English announcements. Why would someone subscribe to a list she can't follow? And those who wi

RE: IPSec VPN

2002-08-13 Thread Jens Hafner
Thanks to all who took time to reply to my questions about the VPN network. After reading the articles you directed me at (including the "Freeswan page" and the "VPN Masquerade HOWTO", I find that it might be a better idea to not masquerade the VPN client on the WIN2K machine but to install an VPN

IPSec VPN

2002-08-11 Thread Jens Hafner
Hi, I'm trying to connect my Win2k professional Laptop to my company's VPN. I am using the "Nortel Extranet Access Client V02_62.33", which uses the IPSec protocol. Everything just works fine as long as the laptop is directly connected to the Internet (e.g. by a dialup connection). Things start to

RE: Updated Package List

2002-07-31 Thread Jens Hafner
Hi there, some of you suggested to remove portmap in order close some more port and thereby increase security. Since I never really understood what the pormapper was doing, I though I could do without it. However, once I tried to uninstall the package with dselect, I got a dependency issue saying

RE: Support for Potato

2002-07-25 Thread Jens Hafner
I couldn't agree more. Will there be an official announcement on this list about how long you will be supporting potato? -Original Message- From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:08 AM To: 'debian-security@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Support