Re: rm files owned by root?

2004-12-29 Thread Richard Atterer
file and no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute. Is something similar also available for other filing systems? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer |

Re: [OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:56:53PM +0200, Marcel Weber wrote: > Richard Atterer wrote: > >This strikes me as a weird solution. What's wrong with setting the > >cookie lifetime higher, so that people only need to log in e.g. once a > >day? Hmm, presumably the web applicat

Re: [OT] Is calculating an MD5 hash of a Rjindael encrypted block and it's key insecure?

2004-08-12 Thread Richard Atterer
er via ARP poisoning, persuading them to try logging on on my machine, or just bribing them. :) But with my nitpicking-security-paranoia hat on, the solution is not ideal. > This is important because $s and $c get stored in the cookie. Why $s? Surely you'll only store $c in the cookie

Re: Advice needed, trying to find the vulnerable code on Debian webserver.

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Atterer
You could also try installing snoopy, which logs all commands executed by users to auth.log. Then look for unusual commands executed by user "www-data" if you suspect insecure PHP scripts etc. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: |

Re: Advice needed, trying to find the vulnerable code on Debian webserver.

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Atterer
You could also try installing snoopy, which logs all commands executed by users to auth.log. Then look for unusual commands executed by user "www-data" if you suspect insecure PHP scripts etc. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: |

Re: Spam fights

2004-06-10 Thread Richard Atterer
dress in the From field. If I confirm, the person sending me the confirmation message will be delivered the spam. If more people did this, confirmation senders would notice that the system doesn't work. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http:

Re: Spam fights

2004-06-10 Thread Richard Atterer
dress in the From field. If I confirm, the person sending me the confirmation message will be delivered the spam. If more people did this, confirmation senders would notice that the system doesn't work. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http:

Re: Non-existent user able to log in??? hacked????

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Atterer
stall from scratch. Maybe also consider using a different ftpd... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Non-existent user able to log in??? hacked????

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Atterer
stall from scratch. Maybe also consider using a different ftpd... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secure temporary fifo creation

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Atterer
code from the GNOME guidelines mentioned there, and just create your fifo instead of doing the open(). Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Secure temporary fifo creation

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Atterer
om the GNOME guidelines mentioned there, and just create your fifo instead of doing the open(). Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: i want to hide return path...

2004-05-04 Thread Richard Atterer
l in PHP and pass an "-f" switch to the sendmail invocation. That way, you can specify any sender address you like. HTH, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: i want to hide return path...

2004-05-04 Thread Richard Atterer
l in PHP and pass an "-f" switch to the sendmail invocation. That way, you can specify any sender address you like. HTH, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: name based virtual host and apache-ssl

2004-03-24 Thread Richard Atterer
x27;s even support for it in Apache 2... but do today's browsers support it? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: name based virtual host and apache-ssl

2004-03-24 Thread Richard Atterer
x27;s even support for it in Apache 2... but do today's browsers support it? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla - the forgotten package?

2004-03-10 Thread Richard Atterer
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Re: mozilla - the forgotten package?

2004-03-10 Thread Richard Atterer
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Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Atterer
rmance are a problem for you. Each of the 100 LANs would just route all 10.0.0.0/16 addresses to the central node, and only the central node would be trusted, so you don't have to mess with CAs etc... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Atterer
//www.strongsec.com/freeswan/>, sections 3.1 and 3.2. HTH, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Atterer
rmance are a problem for you. Each of the 100 LANs would just route all 10.0.0.0/16 addresses to the central node, and only the central node would be trusted, so you don't have to mess with CAs etc... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key:

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Atterer
//www.strongsec.com/freeswan/>, sections 3.1 and 3.2. HTH, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Atterer
big network, if I will > >choice freeswan (or other) without OE ? 100 VPN connections isn't /that/ much, I think FreeS/WAN or the 2.6.0 IPSec should be able to handle it. (Maybe ask the developers to ensure it does.) > >PS: Sorry, for my poor english, I'm not a native speaker. > me neither :) Ditto. :-) ü, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Atterer
big network, if I will > >choice freeswan (or other) without OE ? 100 VPN connections isn't /that/ much, I think FreeS/WAN or the 2.6.0 IPSec should be able to handle it. (Maybe ask the developers to ensure it does.) > >PS: Sorry, for my poor english, I'm not a native speaker. > me neither :) Ditto. :-) ü, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Atterer
Also see this page for a useful comparison between AIDE and tripwire: http://www.fbunet.de/aide.shtml Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Atterer
Also see this page for a useful comparison between AIDE and tripwire: http://www.fbunet.de/aide.shtml Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: arpwatch and arp packets ...urgent

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Atterer
d that one host in your LAN is configured to the address 1.2.3.4. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Atterer
files. umask *is* the right solution (together with a sticky-bit dir). Set up a default umask which allows global read access and *let* users defeat it! If they know how to change their umask to something more restrictive, they're bound to know what they're doing! Cheers, Ri

Re: arpwatch and arp packets ...urgent

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Atterer
d that one host in your LAN is configured to the address 1.2.3.4. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Atterer
files. umask *is* the right solution (together with a sticky-bit dir). Set up a default umask which allows global read access and *let* users defeat it! If they know how to change their umask to something more restrictive, they're bound to know what they're doing! Cheers, Ri

Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:38:40AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > No, with REJECT they would show up as "closed". DROP produces "filtered". FWIW, you also need "--reject-with tcp-reset" to fool nmap. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer

Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:38:40AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > No, with REJECT they would show up as "closed". DROP produces "filtered". FWIW, you also need "--reject-with tcp-reset" to fool nmap. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer

Re: Need recomendations for https proxy that serves as a firewall proxy

2003-12-31 Thread Richard Atterer
hat case, squid is indeed the wrong solution. Maybe have a look at sslwrap+redir, or stunnel, which can run on any machine in your DMZ and forward incoming connections to the internal machine, adding SSL encryption to make it more secure. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atter

Re: Need recomendations for https proxy that serves as a firewall proxy

2003-12-31 Thread Richard Atterer
hat case, squid is indeed the wrong solution. Maybe have a look at sslwrap+redir, or stunnel, which can run on any machine in your DMZ and forward incoming connections to the internal machine, adding SSL encryption to make it more secure. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atter