Re: Slapper worm does more than infect

2002-10-09 Thread Moses Moore
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:27, Xavier Santolaria wrote: > > I've been using a script to watch for slapper attempts and restart the > > webserver if it sees it (code below), but this is inefficient, costs > > CPU, and unless I run this every minute I will get some downtime. Is > > there a more effici

Slapper worm does more than infect

2002-10-09 Thread Moses Moore
I've patched my servers, a long time ago. I've noticed that slapper worm (or whatver is causing the "HTTP/1.1 request without hostname" and "GET_CLIENT_MASTER_KEY:key arg too long" lines in apache's error log) causes another problem: While it's attempting to infect my servers, it seizes all the

Re: Slapper worm does more than infect

2002-10-09 Thread Moses Moore
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:27, Xavier Santolaria wrote: > > I've been using a script to watch for slapper attempts and restart the > > webserver if it sees it (code below), but this is inefficient, costs > > CPU, and unless I run this every minute I will get some downtime. Is > > there a more effic

Slapper worm does more than infect

2002-10-09 Thread Moses Moore
I've patched my servers, a long time ago. I've noticed that slapper worm (or whatver is causing the "HTTP/1.1 request without hostname" and "GET_CLIENT_MASTER_KEY:key arg too long" lines in apache's error log) causes another problem: While it's attempting to infect my servers, it seizes all the

Re: hosts.{allow,deny} vs iptables.

2002-03-04 Thread Moses Moore
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > I want to know if my point of view is right, or if there is any > functionality that hosts.{allow,deny} scheme provides which iptables > can't. - You have daemon-by-daemon settings instead of port-by-port or protocol-by-protocol. - the aforementioned 'extra layer

Re: hosts.{allow,deny} vs iptables.

2002-03-04 Thread Moses Moore
Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > I want to know if my point of view is right, or if there is any > functionality that hosts.{allow,deny} scheme provides which iptables > can't. - You have daemon-by-daemon settings instead of port-by-port or protocol-by-protocol. - the aforementioned 'extra laye

Re: log analyze applications

2002-02-27 Thread Moses Moore
eim wrote: > * logcheck (System Log Analyzer) > * snort (Intrusion Detection System) > * ippl (IP protocols logger) The only application of those three I use is logcheck, and it does require tuning. Here's what I've done (using logcheck/testing): Mad

Re: log analyze applications

2002-02-27 Thread Moses Moore
eim wrote: > * logcheck (System Log Analyzer) > * snort (Intrusion Detection System) > * ippl (IP protocols logger) The only application of those three I use is logcheck, and it does require tuning. Here's what I've done (using logcheck/testing): Ma

ftpd-ssl woes

2002-02-22 Thread Moses Moore
Okay, let's try another tack. I've got a server behind a firewall that users want to transfer files to-from. scp isn't an option because ssh is being port-forwarded to a machine that isn't the fileserver. ftp would be nice, but ftp sends passwords in cleartext. ftpd-ssl seems to be the proper o

ftpd-ssl woes

2002-02-22 Thread Moses Moore
Okay, let's try another tack. I've got a server behind a firewall that users want to transfer files to-from. scp isn't an option because ssh is being port-forwarded to a machine that isn't the fileserver. ftp would be nice, but ftp sends passwords in cleartext. ftpd-ssl seems to be the proper

portsentry woes

2002-02-20 Thread Moses Moore
I installed portsentry lately, and I'm being constantly warned about UDP connect attempts that I can't otherwise detect, from a machine that (as far as I can tell) isn't trying to connect. I installed portsentry on the machine 'izzy' with "apt-get portsentry". Default settings. The machine 205.X

portsentry woes

2002-02-20 Thread Moses Moore
I installed portsentry lately, and I'm being constantly warned about UDP connect attempts that I can't otherwise detect, from a machine that (as far as I can tell) isn't trying to connect. I installed portsentry on the machine 'izzy' with "apt-get portsentry". Default settings. The machine 205.

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-18 Thread Moses Moore
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > Yes, I would like to do that. > Any good tools you folks would recommand? 'apt-cache search attack' and among the results are: nessus - Remote network security auditor, the client nessus-dev - Nessus development header files nessus-plugins - Nessus plugins nessu

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-18 Thread Moses Moore
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > Yes, I would like to do that. > Any good tools you folks would recommand? 'apt-cache search attack' and among the results are: nessus - Remote network security auditor, the client nessus-dev - Nessus development header files nessus-plugins - Nessus plugins ness

Re: OFFTOPIC: Linux in the Bundestag(german parliament) - Petition

2002-02-06 Thread Moses Moore
Johannes Weiss wrote: > Sorry, this is offtopic, but in my opignion important: > > Hi @all, > please go to http://www.bundestux.de and vote for Linux in the Bundestag > (german parliament), please... > > Weissi While I admire your desire for a Linux lobby group to improve your nation's governme

Re: OFFTOPIC: Linux in the Bundestag(german parliament) - Petition

2002-02-06 Thread Moses Moore
Johannes Weiss wrote: > Sorry, this is offtopic, but in my opignion important: > > Hi @all, > please go to http://www.bundestux.de and vote for Linux in the Bundestag > (german parliament), please... > > Weissi While I admire your desire for a Linux lobby group to improve your nation's governm

Re: OFFTOPIC: Linux in the Bundestag(german parliament) - Petition

2002-01-30 Thread Moses Moore
Johannes Weiss wrote: > Sorry, this is offtopic, but in my opignion important: > > Hi @all, > please go to http://www.bundestux.de and vote for Linux in the Bundestag > (german parliament), please... > > Weissi While I admire your desire for a Linux lobby group to improve your nation's governme

Re: OFFTOPIC: Linux in the Bundestag(german parliament) - Petition

2002-01-30 Thread Moses Moore
Johannes Weiss wrote: > Sorry, this is offtopic, but in my opignion important: > > Hi @all, > please go to http://www.bundestux.de and vote for Linux in the Bundestag > (german parliament), please... > > Weissi While I admire your desire for a Linux lobby group to improve your nation's governm

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Moses Moore
martin f krafft wrote: > that was me, and no, noone has mentioned any bad aspects yet, other than your > users having to type the old password twice. however, it's not the > solution i amlooking for, so i am implementing a highly secure way to do it > over and > SSL/TLS-encrypted webform with emph

Re: /bin/passwd as shell

2002-01-24 Thread Moses Moore
martin f krafft wrote: > that was me, and no, noone has mentioned any bad aspects yet, other than your > users having to type the old password twice. however, it's not the > solution i amlooking for, so i am implementing a highly secure way to do it over and > SSL/TLS-encrypted webform with emphas