Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hello, actually the most secure pop3 server we've tried at work was qpoper. The only problem is it's too slow for a massive use (hosting service) and we had to write our own one. But it's still quite good, and I'd advice you to use it fred On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:13, Moe Harley wrote: > Though

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
> I've you are using vim use: > > set textwidth=72 > > in your .vimrc to wrap te lines to a max of 72 char. Probably better not to do it that way, unless you're okay with Vim wrapping ALL documents you edit with it at 72 characters. I've got a line in my .muttrc that goes something like this:

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 06:10:29PM +1000, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > > I've you are using vim use: > > > > set textwidth=72 > > > > in your .vimrc to wrap te lines to a max of 72 char. > > Probably better not to do it that way, unless you're okay with Vim > wrapping ALL documents you edi

Pop3 proxy

2001-07-30 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
Hi, I need a pop3 proxy to protect a bad pop3server (Exc...ge). I founded: popular pop3proxy perdition Is there anyone who used some of them. What is the best from a security view (I will not have a lot of connections on it). Thanks. PGP signature

Re: Pop3 proxy

2001-07-30 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > Is there anyone who used some of them. What is the best from a security view (I will >not have a lot of connections on it). www.balabit.hu/products/Zorp/ -- [-] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Pop3 proxy

2001-07-30 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jul 30, Tamas TEVESZ scribbled: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > > > Is there anyone who used some of them. What is the best from a security view (I >will not have a lot of connections on it). > > www.balabit.hu/products/Zorp/ http://www.balabit.hu/en/products/Zorp/ - that

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-07-30 Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > > I've you are using vim use: > > set textwidth=72 > > in your .vimrc to wrap te lines to a max of 72 char. > Probably better not to do it that way, unless you're okay with Vim > wrapping ALL documents you edit with it at 72 characters. I've got a l

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Moe Harley
Thank you everyone, I value all the comments ive been receiving on the subject. :) However when I was referring to secure, i meant more along the lines of "stable". I understand the pop3 protocol and know its limitations as far as plaintext passwords are concerned, and I fully intend to take ap

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Jim Breton
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:47:46PM -0600, Moe Harley wrote: > I'm more worried about people seeing > my pop3 service as a potential door into my network. See my first reply to you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: read-write to stdin-stdout or to a file?

2001-07-30 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:32:04PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Pedro Zorzenon Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:42:13PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > Do you mean this package? > > > > > > "Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrolers that uses PC parallel port > >

snort 's logs go to /var/log/auth.log for some reason?

2001-07-30 Thread Dmitriy
Hello, I've just installed snort package, and for some reason it sends alerts to me into /var/log/auth.log . I don't really like alerts going there, beacuse when I look there I expect to see auth and login information, not alerts about portscans, etc How can I change this? Thank you. P.

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Rafal Kupka
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:44:57PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: Hello, [cut - about secure pop3 daemon] > > I currently have fetchmail opening up a SSH tunnel, and get my mail > via popa3d. I'll attach relavent scripts... > > /home/user/.fetchmailrc: > --- > poll cogit8.org via

Re: snort 's logs go to /var/log/auth.log for some reason?

2001-07-30 Thread Jamie Heilman
Dmitriy wrote: > How can I change this? man snort, note -s option man syslog.conf -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "...thats the metaphorical equivalent of flopping your wedding tackle into a lion's mouth and flicking his lovespuds with a wet towel, pur

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen Hassard
I was just playing around securing one of my Exchange boxes, and found that coupling Stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) with your favourite mail server works really well (not that Exchange is my pick for a secure mail server) ... later, Steve - Original Message - From: "Rafal Kupka" <[EMA

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Adam Olsen
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:44:01PM +0200, Rafal Kupka wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:44:57PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > Hello, > > [cut - about secure pop3 daemon] > > > > I currently have fetchmail opening up a SSH tunnel, and get my mail > > via popa3d. I'll attach relavent scripts... >

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Rob Hudson
In my case, I'm the only local user on this box so I'm not worried too much. In the same case, I should store my password in my .fetchmailrc file, but I'd rather do that than type in my password every time fetchmail kicks up. I would like to know how to make it more secure, however. But at leas

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Jim Breton
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:54:03PM -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote: > I was just playing around securing one of my Exchange boxes, and found that > coupling Stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) with your favourite mail server > works really well (not that Exchange is my pick for a secure mail server) I

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Scott Bigham
On Jul 30, 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > An easier way would be to use the autocmd feature of vim. I use it for > example this way: > > |autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPost reportbug*,mutt-* set textwidth=72 Actually, since vim 5.4 or so, this is even easier: autocmd FileType mail set textwidth

inetd questions

2001-07-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All. Recently some members of my LUG were cracked on their dial-up machines. With that in mind, I've taken it upon myself to tighten things up and understand what the system is doing. A recuring mystery to me is some of the services enabled/disabled in /etc/inetd.conf. In particular, how cri

Re: inetd questions

2001-07-30 Thread Stewart James
Simple rule for tightening a machine, if you don't know what it does, disable..as for all the things you mentioned, you will be able to disable them without a problem. The command lsof can help with finding out what process is accessing what ports. Also running ps -ef and looking at all the proc

Re: inetd questions

2001-07-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate... to find out what is using your applications... # fuser -muv /proc where foo (/proc) is something that shows as running in df etc... # lsof :port where :port is from netstat -nr there shouldnt be anything running that you dont know about

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Wouter van Gils
[On 30 Jul, 2001, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote in " Re: pop3 "] > > PS. Please wrap your lines at 72-ish characters. Hmm. I've seen a lot > > of mutt users with un-wrapped lines. I would've expected that from a > > GUI mail reader like Mozilla, but not from a proper mailreader like > > mutt.

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hello, actually the most secure pop3 server we've tried at work was qpoper. The only problem is it's too slow for a massive use (hosting service) and we had to write our own one. But it's still quite good, and I'd advice you to use it fred On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:13, Moe Harley wrote: > Thought

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
> I've you are using vim use: > > set textwidth=72 > > in your .vimrc to wrap te lines to a max of 72 char. Probably better not to do it that way, unless you're okay with Vim wrapping ALL documents you edit with it at 72 characters. I've got a line in my .muttrc that goes something like this:

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 06:10:29PM +1000, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > > I've you are using vim use: > > > > set textwidth=72 > > > > in your .vimrc to wrap te lines to a max of 72 char. > > Probably better not to do it that way, unless you're okay with Vim > wrapping ALL documents you edit

Pop3 proxy

2001-07-30 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
Hi, I need a pop3 proxy to protect a bad pop3server (Exc...ge). I founded: popular pop3proxy perdition Is there anyone who used some of them. What is the best from a security view (I will not have a lot of connections on it). Thanks. pgp0iDprHXzWh.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: Pop3 proxy

2001-07-30 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > Is there anyone who used some of them. What is the best from a security view > (I will not have a lot of connections on it). www.balabit.hu/products/Zorp/ -- [-]

Re: Pop3 proxy

2001-07-30 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jul 30, Tamas TEVESZ scribbled: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > > > Is there anyone who used some of them. What is the best from a security > view (I will not have a lot of connections on it). > > www.balabit.hu/products/Zorp/ http://www.balabit.hu/en/products/Zorp/ - that

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-07-30 Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > > I've you are using vim use: > > set textwidth=72 > > in your .vimrc to wrap te lines to a max of 72 char. > Probably better not to do it that way, unless you're okay with Vim > wrapping ALL documents you edit with it at 72 characters. I've got a li

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Moe Harley
Thank you everyone, I value all the comments ive been receiving on the subject. :) However when I was referring to secure, i meant more along the lines of "stable". I understand the pop3 protocol and know its limitations as far as plaintext passwords are concerned, and I fully intend to take app

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Jim Breton
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:47:46PM -0600, Moe Harley wrote: > I'm more worried about people seeing > my pop3 service as a potential door into my network. See my first reply to you

Re: read-write to stdin-stdout or to a file?

2001-07-30 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:32:04PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Pedro Zorzenon Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:42:13PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > Do you mean this package? > > > > > > "Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrolers that uses PC parallel port > > >

snort 's logs go to /var/log/auth.log for some reason?

2001-07-30 Thread Dmitriy
Hello, I've just installed snort package, and for some reason it sends alerts to me into /var/log/auth.log . I don't really like alerts going there, beacuse when I look there I expect to see auth and login information, not alerts about portscans, etc How can I change this? Thank you. P.S

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Rafal Kupka
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:44:57PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: Hello, [cut - about secure pop3 daemon] > > I currently have fetchmail opening up a SSH tunnel, and get my mail > via popa3d. I'll attach relavent scripts... > > /home/user/.fetchmailrc: > --- > poll cogit8.org via

Re: snort 's logs go to /var/log/auth.log for some reason?

2001-07-30 Thread Jamie Heilman
Dmitriy wrote: > How can I change this? man snort, note -s option man syslog.conf -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "...thats the metaphorical equivalent of flopping your wedding tackle into a lion's mouth and flicking his lovespuds with a wet towel, pure

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen Hassard
I was just playing around securing one of my Exchange boxes, and found that coupling Stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) with your favourite mail server works really well (not that Exchange is my pick for a secure mail server) ... later, Steve - Original Message - From: "Rafal Kupka" <[EMAI

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Adam Olsen
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:44:01PM +0200, Rafal Kupka wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:44:57PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > Hello, > > [cut - about secure pop3 daemon] > > > > I currently have fetchmail opening up a SSH tunnel, and get my mail > > via popa3d. I'll attach relavent scripts... > >

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Rob Hudson
In my case, I'm the only local user on this box so I'm not worried too much. In the same case, I should store my password in my .fetchmailrc file, but I'd rather do that than type in my password every time fetchmail kicks up. I would like to know how to make it more secure, however. But at least

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Jim Breton
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:54:03PM -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote: > I was just playing around securing one of my Exchange boxes, and found that > coupling Stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) with your favourite mail server > works really well (not that Exchange is my pick for a secure mail server) In

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Scott Bigham
On Jul 30, 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > An easier way would be to use the autocmd feature of vim. I use it for > example this way: > > |autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPost reportbug*,mutt-* set textwidth=72 Actually, since vim 5.4 or so, this is even easier: autocmd FileType mail set textwidth=

inetd questions

2001-07-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All. Recently some members of my LUG were cracked on their dial-up machines. With that in mind, I've taken it upon myself to tighten things up and understand what the system is doing. A recuring mystery to me is some of the services enabled/disabled in /etc/inetd.conf. In particular, how crit

Re: inetd questions

2001-07-30 Thread Stewart James
Simple rule for tightening a machine, if you don't know what it does, disable..as for all the things you mentioned, you will be able to disable them without a problem. The command lsof can help with finding out what process is accessing what ports. Also running ps -ef and looking at all the proce

Re: inetd questions

2001-07-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate... to find out what is using your applications... # fuser -muv /proc where foo (/proc) is something that shows as running in df etc... # lsof :port where :port is from netstat -nr there shouldnt be anything running that you dont know about t