Re: Default valid shells and home dir permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > Poison Bit wrote: >> Why filter to those in /etc/shells ? I mean... the filter should be >> applied by the system :) > > Mainly because it's a convenient list of "real" shells, and some of the > remote

Re: Default valid shells and home dir permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > Davit Avsharyan wrote: >> 1/  I'm wondering why most of the system users have valid shells by >> default ? >> /cat /etc/passwd | grep -E '(sh|bash)' | wc -l >> *21*/ > > That's not necessarily sufficient to determine valid shells: the absenc

Re: Default valid shells and home dir permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Davit Avsharyan wrote: > I know how to change it :). I just wanted to understand why it comes with > 755 and not 700 ? > Few years ago, if I'm not mistaken, everything was 700. No less than 9 years. In 2003 I see the 755: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/add

Re: need help with openssh attack

2012-01-07 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, December 29, 2011 16:37, Nicolas Carusso wrote: >> >> How about creating a Referense list with all the suggestions that we are >> doing? >> If all of you agree, Let's start now. >> >> SECURITY LIST >> ** > > There's

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM, 4k3nd0 <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is a major issue about Debian anyway. > > A good reason why i choose Debian instead to other distribution is simply, > that the software is good tested and stable. That is what matters. System to > maintain getting even h

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-05 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:33:39AM +0200, Poison Bit wrote: >> In my experience: if a company does not perform operative system >> upgrades, the company does not have more than 5 years and does not >> understand ho

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-05 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Poison Bit wrote: > In my experience: if a company does not perform operative system > upgrades, the company does not have more than 5 years and does not > understand how open source, and in special linux kernel, works. Or has management issues, b

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-05 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:15:18PM +0100, Bart Swedrowski wrote: >> I have been "forced" to use switch from Debian to RedHat and clones >> in my last job specifically because usual life time of a server was >> 3.5 - 4 years. > > Same here. I

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-05 Thread Poison Bit
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:45 PM, wrote: > Yes. Are you considering Total Cost of Ownership, comparing to the option of > LTS? > > Best regards. So Debian should have rolling releases, LTS with that name, and network manager by default, and as there are no bugs to work on, and Debian as upstream