Custom firewalls using Debian? (lol!)

2002-12-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I was just wondering. Has anyone built one of the 'Fran CISCO' firewalls? Read this and enjoy: (in Spanish) http://www.ofp-spain.com/franCISCO/ (english translation by Google) http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofp-spain.com%2FfranCISCO%2F&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=U

Re: Custom firewalls using Debian? (lol!)

2002-12-10 Thread Ing. Bernardo Lopez
JAJAJAA esta cool el proyecto, tambien deberian checar el de lirc.org, es de infrarojos, que onda pongan mas links de estos! ehehe this rulz,you also shoud check the lirc, is about a FREE irda device, i wish more links like this! Have a nice day;) El mar, 10-12-2002 a las 02:56, Javier Fernández

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Ariel Graneros
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:19:28 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. Can you help me. Who do I report the above to. I have 2 firewalls running > and tonight I was attacked from the same address 172 times in less than an > hour. These people want banning off the net. It is certainly a violation of > m

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Tim Haynes
Ariel Graneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:19:28 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi. Can you help me. Who do I report the above to. I have 2 firewalls >> running and tonight I was attacked from the same address 172 times in >> less than an hour. These people want banning

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 at 10:24:08AM -0300, Ariel Graneros wrote: > A good solution is portsentry: > > http://www.psionic.com/products/portsentry.html > > PortSentry is part of the TriSentry suite of security tools. It is a program > designed to detect and respond to port scans against a target ho

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Omen Wild
Quoting Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Dec 10 13:44: > > c) having to have no firewall, or extra holes in a firewall, in order to >detect a finite set of events seems daft when you could just be blocking >them already by default. So don't poke extra holes in the firewall, but inste

Fuera estrés ya !!!

2002-12-10 Thread Centro Relax
Estimado (a) , friend: Te invitamos a conocer nuestras terapias , y si no te gusta nuestro servicio NO PAGAS!! Promoción valida todo el mes de Diciembre. Al Sur. Centro Relax Av. Patriotismo 888-b Col. Insurgentes Mixcoac Tel. 8500-5000 Al Poniente Bosques Massage Av. Stim No. 101 Interior 2 C

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 14.44 schrieb Tim Haynes: > Ariel Graneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:19:28 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Hi. Can you help me. Who do I report the above to. I have 2 firewalls > >> running and tonight I was attacked from the same address 1

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Tim Haynes
Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >> I've just explained over on comp.os.linux.security why portsentry is a >> lousy idea, but to summarize: >> >> a) "dynamic" means nothing when the packets shouldn't have permeated to >> user-space at all; >> >> b) risk of auto-DoS if someone

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 17:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:55:02PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > This has been discussed before. The thing is, I think that if you're > > serious about using snort, you should not even consider using the one in > > Debian. snort.org d

Re: Stack-smashing protection

2002-12-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:29, Albert Cervera Areny wrote: > I've read in slashdot > (http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/2035207) that openbsd has > included stack-smashing protection using the ProPolice > (http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/) patch for GCC 3.2 > > I think

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:36:08PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > No, you can't rebuild snort version from unstable. Who can't? You can't? I just did, and it was not only possible, but easy. apt-get build-dep snort && apt-get source -b snort > And the snort updates? Yes, they are built from

Re: File system integrity checkers - comparison?

2002-12-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 00:44, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at this triade: > Tripwire > Aide > Fcheck > and was wondering as to what this group is prefering and why or whether there > are other more trusted alternatives. > My main argument ageinst tripwire is

more mail stuff

2002-12-10 Thread Ted Roby
I decided to go with popa3d, along with stunnel. Thanks to Tim van Erven for inspiring this. Now I have some security questions in regards to Exim. I see no reason to broadcast to the world exactly what version of exim I am running, or even that I am running exim for smtp services. I've already

Re: more mail stuff

2002-12-10 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Ted Roby wrote: > I decided to go with popa3d, along with stunnel. Thanks to Tim van > Erven for inspiring this. Now I have some security questions in regards > to Exim. I see no reason to broadcast to the world exactly what version > of exim I am running

Re: more mail stuff

2002-12-10 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Ted Roby wrote: > I see no reason to broadcast to the world exactly what version of > exim I am running, or even that I am running exim for smtp services. > I've already modified the received_header_text variable in exim.conf > to reflect the information I

init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hello, I am using shorewall as firewall for my system. It has got 2 ethernet cards one connected to internet and one for internal network. init.d/networking script is linked as S35networking and init.d/shorewall script is linked as S90shorewall. In my opinion shorewall must be started as soon as

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Kuba Jakubik
Yogesh Sharma wrote: Hello, I am using shorewall as firewall for my system. It has got 2 ethernet cards one connected to internet and one for internal network. init.d/networking script is linked as S35networking and init.d/shorewall script is linked as S90shorewall. In my opinion shorewall must

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:39:35PM -0800, Yogesh Sharma wrote: > > In my opinion shorewall must be started as soon as network is up. > > What does list sugguests ? Is this a security problem ? Yes this is a security issue, if you take iptables, for example, it is run in S10. Any firewalling scri

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-10 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:52:06 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [re: installing the snort binary from unstable] >... And I prefer not to >install unstable glibc on my stable systems. Yeah - I thought there was a big problem with installing any unstable *binary* on a stable box, for exactly that reason

how to identify the superuser in C

2002-12-10 Thread Oohara Yuuma
I am working on adding a high score list to a game written in C. (It's already packaged.) The high score list will be 664 root:games and the game binary will be sgid games --- nothing special here. I want to dump and undump the list. Allowing everyone to undump the list will lead to cheating or e

unsubscribe

2002-12-10 Thread mike

Re: how to identify the superuser in C

2002-12-10 Thread Chris Shafer
Hello, Some documentation I found helpful when I was doing something similar in a little game I was making. http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_25.html#SEC429 Chris Shafer Live Slow. Sail Fast On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:07, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I am working on addi

Re: how to identify the superuser in C

2002-12-10 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:07:11AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > The problem is that there is fakeroot. getuid() == 0 or > geteuid() == 0 is not enough. PAM is an overkill. > I think seteuid(0) == 0 is the best approach. > Any opinion? i may be mistaken, but if you link statically against the libr

Custom firewalls using Debian? (lol!)

2002-12-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I was just wondering. Has anyone built one of the 'Fran CISCO' firewalls? Read this and enjoy: (in Spanish) http://www.ofp-spain.com/franCISCO/ (english translation by Google) http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofp-spain.com%2FfranCISCO%2F&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=U

Re: Custom firewalls using Debian? (lol!)

2002-12-10 Thread Ing. Bernardo Lopez
JAJAJAA esta cool el proyecto, tambien deberian checar el de lirc.org, es de infrarojos, que onda pongan mas links de estos! ehehe this rulz,you also shoud check the lirc, is about a FREE irda device, i wish more links like this! Have a nice day;) El mar, 10-12-2002 a las 02:56, Javier Fernández

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Ariel Graneros
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:19:28 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. Can you help me. Who do I report the above to. I have 2 firewalls running > and tonight I was attacked from the same address 172 times in less than an > hour. These people want banning off the net. It is certainly a violation of > m

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Tim Haynes
Ariel Graneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:19:28 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi. Can you help me. Who do I report the above to. I have 2 firewalls >> running and tonight I was attacked from the same address 172 times in >> less than an hour. These people want banning

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 at 10:24:08AM -0300, Ariel Graneros wrote: > A good solution is portsentry: > > http://www.psionic.com/products/portsentry.html > > PortSentry is part of the TriSentry suite of security tools. It is a program >designed to detect and respond to port scans against a target hos

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Omen Wild
Quoting Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Dec 10 13:44: > > c) having to have no firewall, or extra holes in a firewall, in order to >detect a finite set of events seems daft when you could just be blocking >them already by default. So don't poke extra holes in the firewall, but inste

Fuera estrés ya !!!

2002-12-10 Thread Centro Relax
Estimado (a) , friend: Te invitamos a conocer nuestras terapias , y si no te gusta nuestro servicio NO PAGAS!! Promoción valida todo el mes de Diciembre. Al Sur. Centro Relax Av. Patriotismo 888-b Col. Insurgentes Mixcoac Tel. 8500-5000 Al Poniente Bosques Massage Av. Stim No. 101 Interior 2 Co

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 14.44 schrieb Tim Haynes: > Ariel Graneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:19:28 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Hi. Can you help me. Who do I report the above to. I have 2 firewalls > >> running and tonight I was attacked from the same address 1

Re: Intrusion Attempts

2002-12-10 Thread Tim Haynes
Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >> I've just explained over on comp.os.linux.security why portsentry is a >> lousy idea, but to summarize: >> >> a) "dynamic" means nothing when the packets shouldn't have permeated to >> user-space at all; >> >> b) risk of auto-DoS if someone

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 17:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:55:02PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > This has been discussed before. The thing is, I think that if you're > > serious about using snort, you should not even consider using the one in > > Debian. snort.org d

Re: Stack-smashing protection

2002-12-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:29, Albert Cervera Areny wrote: > I've read in slashdot > (http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/2035207) that openbsd has > included stack-smashing protection using the ProPolice > (http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/) patch for GCC 3.2 > > I think

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:36:08PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > No, you can't rebuild snort version from unstable. Who can't? You can't? I just did, and it was not only possible, but easy. apt-get build-dep snort && apt-get source -b snort > And the snort updates? Yes, they are built from

Re: File system integrity checkers - comparison?

2002-12-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 00:44, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at this triade: > Tripwire > Aide > Fcheck > and was wondering as to what this group is prefering and why or whether there are >other more trusted alternatives. > My main argument ageinst tripwire is

more mail stuff

2002-12-10 Thread Ted Roby
I decided to go with popa3d, along with stunnel. Thanks to Tim van Erven for inspiring this. Now I have some security questions in regards to Exim. I see no reason to broadcast to the world exactly what version of exim I am running, or even that I am running exim for smtp services. I've already

Re: more mail stuff

2002-12-10 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Ted Roby wrote: > I decided to go with popa3d, along with stunnel. Thanks to Tim van > Erven for inspiring this. Now I have some security questions in regards > to Exim. I see no reason to broadcast to the world exactly what version > of exim I am running

Re: more mail stuff

2002-12-10 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Ted Roby wrote: > I see no reason to broadcast to the world exactly what version of > exim I am running, or even that I am running exim for smtp services. > I've already modified the received_header_text variable in exim.conf > to reflect the information I

init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hello, I am using shorewall as firewall for my system. It has got 2 ethernet cards one connected to internet and one for internal network. init.d/networking script is linked as S35networking and init.d/shorewall script is linked as S90shorewall. In my opinion shorewall must be started as soon as

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Kuba Jakubik
Yogesh Sharma wrote: Hello, I am using shorewall as firewall for my system. It has got 2 ethernet cards one connected to internet and one for internal network. init.d/networking script is linked as S35networking and init.d/shorewall script is linked as S90shorewall. In my opinion shorewall must

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:39:35PM -0800, Yogesh Sharma wrote: > > In my opinion shorewall must be started as soon as network is up. > > What does list sugguests ? Is this a security problem ? Yes this is a security issue, if you take iptables, for example, it is run in S10. Any firewalling scri

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-10 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:52:06 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [re: installing the snort binary from unstable] >... And I prefer not to >install unstable glibc on my stable systems. Yeah - I thought there was a big problem with installing any unstable *binary* on a stable box, for exactly that reason

how to identify the superuser in C

2002-12-10 Thread Oohara Yuuma
I am working on adding a high score list to a game written in C. (It's already packaged.) The high score list will be 664 root:games and the game binary will be sgid games --- nothing special here. I want to dump and undump the list. Allowing everyone to undump the list will lead to cheating or e

unsubscribe

2002-12-10 Thread mike
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to identify the superuser in C

2002-12-10 Thread Chris Shafer
Hello, Some documentation I found helpful when I was doing something similar in a little game I was making. http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_25.html#SEC429 Chris Shafer Live Slow. Sail Fast On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:07, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I am working on addi

Re: how to identify the superuser in C

2002-12-10 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:07:11AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > The problem is that there is fakeroot. getuid() == 0 or > geteuid() == 0 is not enough. PAM is an overkill. > I think seteuid(0) == 0 is the best approach. > Any opinion? i may be mistaken, but if you link statically against the libr

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Yogesh Sharma
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 16:37, Kuba Jakubik wrote: > Yogesh Sharma wrote: > > In my opinion shorewall must be started as soon as network is up. > can't you just mv S90shorewall S35shorewall ? Yes, I can move this link but question is for security. In my opinion this should be fixed in package install

Pine and mail folder permissions.

2002-12-10 Thread Martin Fluch
Hello! I've recently compiled pine 4.5 on my woody system and when I use it, I get every time the notification: "Folder vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection" /var/spool/mail is a link to /var/mail, wich has the permissions: drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 1