Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R. Ward
Gerfried Fuchs writes: >* William R. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-12-04 11:56]: >> Because the thread originated there. > > I haven't seen it before here. Do you really mean ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and not ? >Those are two totally different things Maybe

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R. Ward
Gerfried Fuchs writes: >* William R. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-12-04 11:56]: >> Because the thread originated there. > > I haven't seen it before here. Do you really mean ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and not <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? >Those are two totally di

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R. Ward
Gerfried Fuchs writes: >* William R Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-12-03 00:50]: >> Right; but assuming one takes care of this kind of issue, is there >> anything inherently unsafe about running shell scripts through sudo? > > shell scripts usually call other program

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R Ward
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * William R. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.29 18:00:40-0800]: > > Question: Is it generally considered secure enough to sudo a bash > > script like your sucpaliases? Or should a C equivalent be written > > ins

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R. Ward
Gerfried Fuchs writes: >* William R Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-12-03 00:50]: >> Right; but assuming one takes care of this kind of issue, is there >> anything inherently unsafe about running shell scripts through sudo? > > shell scripts usually call other program

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R Ward
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * William R. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.29 18:00:40-0800]: > > Question: Is it generally considered secure enough to sudo a bash > > script like your sucpaliases? Or should a C equivalent be written > > ins

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-11-29 Thread William R. Ward
>-- in either case... you have to trust your users that run the > scripts/apps to replace /etc/aliases w/o giving um root access Of course, the idea is to give certain permissions to certain users without giving away the farm. That's what sudo's all about. --Bill. --

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-11-29 Thread William R. Ward
>-- in either case... you have to trust your users that run the > scripts/apps to replace /etc/aliases w/o giving um root access Of course, the idea is to give certain permissions to certain users without giving away the farm. That's what sudo's all about. --Bill. --

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-11-29 Thread William R. Ward
onsidered secure enough to sudo a bash script like your sucpaliases? Or should a C equivalent be written instead? --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ - If you&#x

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO?

2001-11-29 Thread William R Ward
William R Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any kind of wrapper that can be used to allow sudo to grant > editing access to only one file? I am thinking of something similar > to vipw or visudo, but with security in mind; following this basic > algorithm: > >

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-11-29 Thread William R. Ward
onsidered secure enough to sudo a bash script like your sucpaliases? Or should a C equivalent be written instead? --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ - I

VI wrapper for SUDO?

2001-11-29 Thread William R Ward
leges, copy the temp file to the final location. Does such a beast exist? If not, I think it should. It should probably obey the /etc/alternatives preferences for editors, too. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO?

2001-11-29 Thread William R Ward
William R Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any kind of wrapper that can be used to allow sudo to grant > editing access to only one file? I am thinking of something similar > to vipw or visudo, but with security in mind; following this basic > algorithm: > >

VI wrapper for SUDO?

2001-11-29 Thread William R Ward
leges, copy the temp file to the final location. Does such a beast exist? If not, I think it should. It should probably obey the /etc/alternatives preferences for editors, too. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: shutdown user and accountability

2001-11-27 Thread William R Ward
s you could confirm it that way. It's not perfect, but given the policies you have to live with, it may be the only type of solution you can come up with. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards

Re: shutdown user and accountability

2001-11-27 Thread William R Ward
s you could confirm it that way. It's not perfect, but given the policies you have to live with, it may be the only type of solution you can come up with. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards

Re: apache log entry

2001-10-08 Thread William R. Ward
" code suggests that they succeeded. Add something like this to your httpd.conf to block these. (Delete the "allow" part if you don't want proxying at all; if you do, change the IP addresses to whatever is appropriate for your system.) order deny,allow deny fr

Re: apache log entry

2001-10-08 Thread William R. Ward
ot; code suggests that they succeeded. Add something like this to your httpd.conf to block these. (Delete the "allow" part if you don't want proxying at all; if you do, change the IP addresses to whatever is appropriate for your system.) order deny,allow deny from

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-19 Thread William R. Ward
en :) The trouble is, unstable packages tend to rely on a new version of things like libc6 and other important shared libraries that I don't want to upgrade because it would destabilize the whole system. What I'd like to see is some kind of "snapshot" status where it was linked agai

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-19 Thread William R. Ward
en :) The trouble is, unstable packages tend to rely on a new version of things like libc6 and other important shared libraries that I don't want to upgrade because it would destabilize the whole system. What I'd like to see is some kind of "snapshot" status where it was linked agai

Re: MD5 sums of individual files?

2001-03-29 Thread William R. Ward
Olaf Meeuwissen writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: > >> One way to test if you have been hacked is to run an MD5 checksum of >> key binaries and look to see if it's been replaced by the intruder. >> Is there any place where the MD5 sums of individual

Re: MD5 sums of individual files?

2001-03-28 Thread William R. Ward
Olaf Meeuwissen writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: > >> One way to test if you have been hacked is to run an MD5 checksum of >> key binaries and look to see if it's been replaced by the intruder. >> Is there any place where the MD5 sums of individual

MD5 sums of individual files?

2001-03-28 Thread William R. Ward
ained? --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ - "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx

MD5 sums of individual files?

2001-03-28 Thread William R. Ward
ained? --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ - "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Strange output from "last" command

2001-03-21 Thread William R. Ward
Mike Dresser writes: >"William R. Ward" wrote: > >> I've replaced the legit usernames and IP's with "xxx" but left them in >> for context. I'm worried that the "date" entries are a consequence of >> some hacker activity, but

Strange output from "last" command

2001-03-21 Thread William R. Ward
of Debian, with a 2.2.17 kernel. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ - "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx

Re: Strange output from "last" command

2001-03-21 Thread William R. Ward
Mike Dresser writes: >"William R. Ward" wrote: > >> I've replaced the legit usernames and IP's with "xxx" but left them in >> for context. I'm worried that the "date" entries are a consequence of >> some hacker activity, but

Strange output from "last" command

2001-03-21 Thread William R. Ward
of Debian, with a 2.2.17 kernel. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ - "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx -- To

Re: News server ?

2001-03-14 Thread William R. Ward
;s not really common, but it's not unusual for sites that have a lot of mailing lists to run a news server in this way, and I'm sure some of the software for it is already part of Debian. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ - "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx

Re: News server ?

2001-03-14 Thread William R. Ward
mon, but it's not unusual for sites that have a lot of mailing lists to run a news server in this way, and I'm sure some of the software for it is already part of Debian. --Bill. -- William R Ward[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ --

Re: SSH with potato, not very secure?

2001-03-02 Thread William R. Ward
nch, and as long as I periodically ran dselect and [U]pdated and [I]nstalled the updates, I'd be covered. Since this appears to not be the case, is there something that can be done to make this fact more readily apparent to users? --Bill.

Re: SSH with potato, not very secure?

2001-03-02 Thread William R. Ward
quot; branch, and as long as I periodically ran dselect and [U]pdated and [I]nstalled the updates, I'd be covered. Since this appears to not be the case, is there something that can be done to make this fact more readily apparent to users? --Bill.