Re: shared root account

2001-07-06 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
admittedly, i am not very familiar with sudo because i have never seen the practical advantages of making su'ing more of a hassle by having to manage another set of conf files and keeping track of who's a sudoer and, therefore, have chosen not to use it. what's to stop a person, once they've sudo'

Re: shared root account

2001-07-06 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
admittedly, i am not very familiar with sudo because i have never seen the practical advantages of making su'ing more of a hassle by having to manage another set of conf files and keeping track of who's a sudoer and, therefore, have chosen not to use it. what's to stop a person, once they've sudo

clarifying use of snort [was - Re: security in general]

2001-05-30 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
> >Sounds like you've almost everything covered. About the only things I > >could recommend would be to run nessus against yourself and install > >snort in IDS mode. > I could try that, I'd have to look up some info on the program. I assume > nessus checks for known vulnerabilities? Sounds ok, neve

clarifying use of snort [was - Re: security in general]

2001-05-30 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
> >Sounds like you've almost everything covered. About the only things I > >could recommend would be to run nessus against yourself and install > >snort in IDS mode. > I could try that, I'd have to look up some info on the program. I assume > nessus checks for known vulnerabilities? Sounds ok, nev

Re: proftpd exploit??

2001-05-24 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
Zak Kipling wrote: > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andres Herrera wrote: > > > I've tried to exploit it by login and sending: > > ls ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../ > > and suddenly it began eating memory and getting slow all the system. > ... > > Any solution?? > > Resource limit

Re: proftpd exploit??

2001-05-24 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
Zak Kipling wrote: > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andres Herrera wrote: > > > I've tried to exploit it by login and sending: > > ls ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../ > > and suddenly it began eating memory and getting slow all the system. > ... > > Any solution?? > > Resource limi

Re: Mac most secure servers?

2001-02-22 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
well, considering that mac has cornered .0001% of the network operating system market, there may be some truth to that statement. after all, the most secure os is one that no one uses, right? some one else, replied stating that a systems level of security is generally at the knowledge/ski

Re: Mac most secure servers?

2001-02-22 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
well, considering that mac has cornered .0001% of the network operating system market, there may be some truth to that statement. after all, the most secure os is one that no one uses, right? some one else, replied stating that a systems level of security is generally at the knowledge/sk