Re: SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> Due to the fact that this IIS server is exposed to the internet, we > obviously need to secure it as best we can. apt-cache show pound This is a tool built specifically for such purpose. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Strange bind error

2004-06-06 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
re might be some race condition there, because I've seen similiar errors during peek load. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: logging samba access

2004-06-06 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
r samba fileserver is not as easy as with ftp servers (this is party because of protocol nature, but not that much ). btw, I'd be very interested if someone knew solution to this that does not require modifying samba source and then maintaining your own packages... -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key f

Re: Secure rsync setup, bind-mount ro

2006-12-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> filesystems into the chroot you want to rsync. Since Linux does not > support read-only loopback mounts, this leaves them open not only for > reading but also for writing... It does support read-only bind mounts though. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8

Re: Secure rsync setup, bind-mount ro

2006-12-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
d mount extensions/bme' project here: http://www.13thfloor.at/patches/ and now they're part of vserver project, http://linux-vserver.org/ -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secure rsync setup, bind-mount ro

2006-12-19 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
9 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-vserver-686 Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 49716 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team Architecture: i386 > builds? After first packaging them as a Debian kernel patch package? I are you attacking me for not being annoying

Re: cluster on firewall?

2003-02-07 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Uh, i lost that mail, but: Re: vrrpd. there is another nice thing going for vrrpd -> it works not only on linux, I had a cluster set up between freebsd and linux. -- Dariush Pietrzak, "Who are we helping? - the girl. - Typical." Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 B

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
u can't, can you.. ) The task here is fairly simple, why do I need to set up so many different tools? If anyone decides to start writing monitoring tool, I'd be happy to join the team. -- Dariush Pietrzak, "Who are we helping? - the girl. - Typical." Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
project ( vide early days of big-brother/big-sister ) ) regards, -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
his data? Actually I believe rrd is a wonderfull tool and a work of art, it's just it's not applicable to ANY situation and people seem to do that. Goes like this: what is some tool and plot graphs... Why it's mrtg/rrdtool. It's great. But there is no alternative. And th

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-19 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
thread? only usefull thing I see is addedd check for 'is_dumpable' in ptrace_check_attach, and is_dumpable macro that checks tsk and also tsk->mm for 'is_dumpable'. Is this ok? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
k magazine articles ) -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
l is to force cracker to search memory to find entry points. That's like hiding key to your door under your doormat. > Security-by-obscurity refers to securing things by relying on the > obscurity of the _processes and functionality_ behind the security system, that fits this descripti

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
hear about it. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: VPN: SSH or IPSec???

2003-04-16 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
re routers using ipsec, and ppp/ssh is more of a toy/temporary solution. regards, -- Dariush Pietrzak, She swore and she cursed, that she never would deceive me Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: SSL proxy server

2003-05-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
n the DMZ. Is that And then there is pound, which does exactly that. I've got it packaged and hope to upload soon. It's also fairly easy to write something like this in DIY manner, i'm currently using such solution written in perl. -- Dariush Pietrzak, She swore and she curs

Re: PHP4-package for using FTP-SSL?

2003-05-21 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> is there a package available (similar to the ftp-package which can be > found in the pear-lib) to use ftp with ssl? I'm not looking for SFTP > (SSH-filetransfer) but SSL with "AUTH SSL" at the beginning of the for server - proftpd, for client - for example lftp. -

Re: Keeping files away from users

2003-06-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
server that would provide password. It would go something like this - machines boots, ask your server about password, decrypts the data. This way unplugging machine brings no immediate results. But if someone takes control of the machine they can fool you into providing them with a password. --

Re: Keeping files away from users

2003-06-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> accesses the HD can do it as well. btw, what does SOL mean? So Out of Luck? -- Dariush Pietrzak, She swore and she cursed, that she never would deceive me Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: kernel-source 2.4.20 + grsecurity + freeswan

2003-06-12 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> do you happen to have XFS patched onto that kernel? :) and what was the > order of the patching? I used to use wolk patchset, it contains both grsec and xfs. Unfortunatelly wolk no longer comes with patchset so you must accept it with all the bugs and non-server-grade code. -- D

Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
y around and compile special shell... there is no scp-shell in woody, there is one in sid. Is it safe enough? Who knows ). With ftp users need no shell, need no nothing. I create unlimited number of users and worry not -- Dariush Pietrzak, I ain't the sharpest tool in a shed. Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-21 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
W site via FTP, DAV or HTTP(GNOME > version) > libwww-ssl-dev - The W3C WWW library - development files (SSL support) > libwww-ssl0 - The W3C-WWW library (SSL support) > libssl09 - SSL shared libraries (old version) > libssl095a - SSL shared libraries (old version) > lynx-ssl - Tex

Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!

2003-09-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
really, really have to. Well, I use ftp all day long... OpenBSD uses ftp all year long... Why do you think there's anything wrong with ftp? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!

2003-09-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
your system for every person who wants to transfer files, specification is clean and simple. There ARE scenarios where scp/sftp would fit better - for example you want authentication based on private/public key. Support for that is very stable with ssh, with ftp you would be pressed hard to find server tha

Re: ProFTPD ASCII File Remote Compromise Vulnerability

2003-09-24 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:13:02PM -0500, Jeff Bender wrote: > Thanks. Do you happen to have a link where this might be posted? Well.. Advisory talks about version higher then the one in woody. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!

2003-09-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I found ftp protocol trivial to implement for programmer. Show me transfer method that easier to implement. greetings, -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: MS BS + Sorting out the virii

2003-09-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
t. Data from apt-get.org suggests that www.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS would be the best source, is that correct? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Need advise aobut allowing only sftp on woody

2003-10-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
stem administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the mostly trusted suite of ssh applications. installed-size: 80 -- Dariush Pietrz

Re: Need advise aobut allowing only sftp on woody

2003-10-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Yogesh Sharma wrote: > Can't SSH run in chroot ? not easily with priviliege separation turned on? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Need advise aobut allowing only sftp on woody

2003-10-15 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
commend proftpd with tls, but it does not fullfill your certificate-only login ( at least the version from woody does not, there are quite many options there that you could check.. but you'd probably end up having to recompile it ), you could use some web-based system, that would be trivial to

Re: Why do system users have valid shells

2003-10-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
#x27;t work, you'll need to use sudo or suid bit, and that's a bit messy. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Why do system users have valid shells

2003-10-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> 'su -s /bin/bash -c "cmd" user ' > > sounds like a very bs argument Do you understand the term 'breakage' ? How about the idea that changing something in the system may force to you to rewrite parts of code? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 4

Re: Why do system users have valid shells

2003-10-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:41:33PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:27, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > > 'su -s /bin/bash -c "cmd" user ' > > > > > > sounds like a very bs argument > > > >  Do you understand the ter

Re: Transparent bridge firewall with bridge-nf

2003-10-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
27;t get it, what do you accomplish by hiding real IP address of something? Incoming-blocking firewalling is just a byproduct of NAT, wouldn't you prefer the real thing? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Debian servers "hacked"?

2003-11-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
now the answers. So I think this is a perfect time for post-mortem. > To speculate is to do a disservice. Trust the debian security team; > they do their job well and you should know that security is never guranteed. Well, latest events seem to suggest that debian still lacks paranoia.

Re: getting started with SELinux

2003-11-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
it can't replace debian. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: creating password for a shadow file

2003-12-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> file with a command line tool? You could use PAM for that - create pam setting with alternative location for files, and point your passwd to that pam ( /etc/pam.d/passwd ). But in general, I'd like to hear the answer to that question. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB

Re: strange sftp behaviour... man-in-the-middle?

2004-01-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> operations (that includes even checking the password at login) either > complete with a great delay, or time out with connection reset by peer. It looks like someone is shaping traffic ( sftp packets run with 'Bulk Transfer' bit enabled, ssh go with 'Low Latency Requir

Re: strange sftp behaviour... man-in-the-middle?

2004-02-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
tive sessions ). -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: 2.2 Kernel Fix

2004-02-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> 2.2 series of kernels, sincee they're apparently vulnerable too? You can find the patch on bugtraq/isec/etc, attached is a peek at it -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 --- linux/mm/mremap.c.security Sun Mar 25 20:31:03 2001 +++

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
integrit it's very convienient - and convenience comes with a price - in default mode of operation it updates your md5sums, so you can run it and get incremental notifies about what changes in your system. That might not be want you want. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 99

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> samhain (in unstable, should be easy to backport) which has some > interesting features. And those interesting features should make you cautious before you deploy samhain in production environment. I find it rather intrusive. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 732

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-24 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
y ignore additional load, but one should always be carefull with 'extra features'. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
an based network and want to upgrade to 2.4.25 you're out of luck with free s/wan - they migrated to 2.x with never kernel, and it means you need to upgrade your userland tools, and probably tune configuration a bit. Openswan works nicely with upgrades ). -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> FreeS/WAN is "orphaned" upstream. OpenSWAN is based on FreeS/WAN and as > such it does not work with 2.6. That is untrue. 1.x branch works with 2.4.x kernels, 2.x branch works with 2.6.x -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> What is Racoon like in terms of configuration ease? I've used FreeSWAN and > wilst it's not the easiest to set up, once you've got your head around it, > it does make sense. Racoon makes sense from the start;) -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7

Re: end of Freeswan

2004-03-03 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> It's a pity. It's not a pity. I, for one, welcome our new openswan overlords. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: VPN Firewall Kernel

2004-04-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
with having competent maintainer on top. I wouldn't recommend 2.4.x wolk since it's not very well tested and is non-free in spirit. Go with 2.6.x though. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

ecartis?

2004-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
depressing )...? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: VPN Firewall Kernel

2004-04-11 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
, gentoo or redhat(especially for databases), or you decide to roll you own. Middle-ground does not exist, the best you can do is go some route that makes rolling you own easier ( like picking patches from some greater patchset, or carefully chosing features you need(to avoid conflicting featuer) )

Re: cluster on firewall?

2003-02-07 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Uh, i lost that mail, but: Re: vrrpd. there is another nice thing going for vrrpd -> it works not only on linux, I had a cluster set up between freebsd and linux. -- Dariush Pietrzak, "Who are we helping? - the girl. - Typical." Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 B

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
u can't, can you.. ) The task here is fairly simple, why do I need to set up so many different tools? If anyone decides to start writing monitoring tool, I'd be happy to join the team. -- Dariush Pietrzak, "Who are we helping? - the girl. - Typical." Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
project ( vide early days of big-brother/big-sister ) ) regards, -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
his data? Actually I believe rrd is a wonderfull tool and a work of art, it's just it's not applicable to ANY situation and people seem to do that. Goes like this: what is some tool and plot graphs... Why it's mrtg/rrdtool. It's great. But there is no alternative. And th

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-19 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
thread? only usefull thing I see is addedd check for 'is_dumpable' in ptrace_check_attach, and is_dumpable macro that checks tsk and also tsk->mm for 'is_dumpable'. Is this ok? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- T

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
k magazine articles ) -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
l is to force cracker to search memory to find entry points. That's like hiding key to your door under your doormat. > Security-by-obscurity refers to securing things by relying on the > obscurity of the _processes and functionality_ behind the security system, that fits this descripti

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
hear about it. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keeping files away from users

2003-06-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
that would provide password. It would go something like this - machines boots, ask your server about password, decrypts the data. This way unplugging machine brings no immediate results. But if someone takes control of the machine they can fool you into providing them with a password. -- Dar

Re: Keeping files away from users

2003-06-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> accesses the HD can do it as well. btw, what does SOL mean? So Out of Luck? -- Dariush Pietrzak, She swore and she cursed, that she never would deceive me Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: kernel-source 2.4.20 + grsecurity + freeswan

2003-06-12 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> do you happen to have XFS patched onto that kernel? :) and what was the > order of the patching? I used to use wolk patchset, it contains both grsec and xfs. Unfortunatelly wolk no longer comes with patchset so you must accept it with all the bugs and non-server-grade code. -- D

Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
y around and compile special shell... there is no scp-shell in woody, there is one in sid. Is it safe enough? Who knows ). With ftp users need no shell, need no nothing. I create unlimited number of users and worry not -- Dariush Pietrzak, I ain't the sharpest tool in a shed. Key finger

Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-21 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
ite via FTP, DAV or HTTP(GNOME version) > libwww-ssl-dev - The W3C WWW library - development files (SSL support) > libwww-ssl0 - The W3C-WWW library (SSL support) > libssl09 - SSL shared libraries (old version) > libssl095a - SSL shared libraries (old version) > lynx-ssl - Text-m

Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!

2003-09-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
really, really have to. Well, I use ftp all day long... OpenBSD uses ftp all year long... Why do you think there's anything wrong with ftp? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!

2003-09-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
your system for every person who wants to transfer files, specification is clean and simple. There ARE scenarios where scp/sftp would fit better - for example you want authentication based on private/public key. Support for that is very stable with ssh, with ftp you would be pressed hard to find server tha

Re: ProFTPD ASCII File Remote Compromise Vulnerability

2003-09-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:13:02PM -0500, Jeff Bender wrote: > Thanks. Do you happen to have a link where this might be posted? Well.. Advisory talks about version higher then the one in woody. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 --

Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!

2003-09-24 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I found ftp protocol trivial to implement for programmer. Show me transfer method that easier to implement. greetings, -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS BS + Sorting out the virii

2003-09-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
t. Data from apt-get.org suggests that www.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS would be the best source, is that correct? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Need advise aobut allowing only sftp on woody

2003-10-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
stem administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the mostly trusted suite of ssh applications. installed-size: 80 -- Dariush Pietrz

Re: Need advise aobut allowing only sftp on woody

2003-10-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Yogesh Sharma wrote: > Can't SSH run in chroot ? not easily with priviliege separation turned on? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Need advise aobut allowing only sftp on woody

2003-10-14 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
commend proftpd with tls, but it does not fullfill your certificate-only login ( at least the version from woody does not, there are quite many options there that you could check.. but you'd probably end up having to recompile it ), you could use some web-based system, that would be trivial to

Re: Why do system users have valid shells

2003-10-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
#x27;t work, you'll need to use sudo or suid bit, and that's a bit messy. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do system users have valid shells

2003-10-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> 'su -s /bin/bash -c "cmd" user ' > > sounds like a very bs argument Do you understand the term 'breakage' ? How about the idea that changing something in the system may force to you to rewrite parts of code? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 4

Re: Why do system users have valid shells

2003-10-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:41:33PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:27, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > > 'su -s /bin/bash -c "cmd" user ' > > > > > > sounds like a very bs argument > > > >  Do you understand the ter

Re: Transparent bridge firewall with bridge-nf

2003-10-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
27;t get it, what do you accomplish by hiding real IP address of something? Incoming-blocking firewalling is just a byproduct of NAT, wouldn't you prefer the real thing? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Debian servers "hacked"?

2003-11-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
now the answers. So I think this is a perfect time for post-mortem. > To speculate is to do a disservice. Trust the debian security team; > they do their job well and you should know that security is never guranteed. Well, latest events seem to suggest that debian still lacks paranoia.

Re: getting started with SELinux

2003-11-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
it can't replace debian. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: creating password for a shadow file

2003-12-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> file with a command line tool? You could use PAM for that - create pam setting with alternative location for files, and point your passwd to that pam ( /etc/pam.d/passwd ). But in general, I'd like to hear the answer to that question. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB

Re: strange sftp behaviour... man-in-the-middle?

2004-01-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> operations (that includes even checking the password at login) either > complete with a great delay, or time out with connection reset by peer. It looks like someone is shaping traffic ( sftp packets run with 'Bulk Transfer' bit enabled, ssh go with 'Low Latency Requir

Re: strange sftp behaviour... man-in-the-middle?

2004-02-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
tive sessions ). -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.2 Kernel Fix

2004-02-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> 2.2 series of kernels, sincee they're apparently vulnerable too? You can find the patch on bugtraq/isec/etc, attached is a peek at it -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 --- linux/mm/mremap.c.security Sun Mar 25 20:31:03 2001 +++

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
integrit it's very convienient - and convenience comes with a price - in default mode of operation it updates your md5sums, so you can run it and get incremental notifies about what changes in your system. That might not be want you want. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 99

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> samhain (in unstable, should be easy to backport) which has some > interesting features. And those interesting features should make you cautious before you deploy samhain in production environment. I find it rather intrusive. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 732

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-24 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
y ignore additional load, but one should always be carefull with 'extra features'. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
an based network and want to upgrade to 2.4.25 you're out of luck with free s/wan - they migrated to 2.x with never kernel, and it means you need to upgrade your userland tools, and probably tune configuration a bit. Openswan works nicely with upgrades ). -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> FreeS/WAN is "orphaned" upstream. OpenSWAN is based on FreeS/WAN and as > such it does not work with 2.6. That is untrue. 1.x branch works with 2.4.x kernels, 2.x branch works with 2.6.x -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75

Re: Big VPN

2004-03-03 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> What is Racoon like in terms of configuration ease? I've used FreeSWAN and > wilst it's not the easiest to set up, once you've got your head around it, > it does make sense. Racoon makes sense from the start;) -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7

Re: end of Freeswan

2004-03-03 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> It's a pity. It's not a pity. I, for one, welcome our new openswan overlords. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VPN Firewall Kernel

2004-04-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
with having competent maintainer on top. I wouldn't recommend 2.4.x wolk since it's not very well tested and is non-free in spirit. Go with 2.6.x though. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

ecartis?

2004-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
depressing )...? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VPN Firewall Kernel

2004-04-11 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
, gentoo or redhat(especially for databases), or you decide to roll you own. Middle-ground does not exist, the best you can do is go some route that makes rolling you own easier ( like picking patches from some greater patchset, or carefully chosing features you need(to avoid conflicting featuer) )

Re: SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> Due to the fact that this IIS server is exposed to the internet, we > obviously need to secure it as best we can. apt-cache show pound This is a tool built specifically for such purpose. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: Strange bind error

2004-06-06 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
re might be some race condition there, because I've seen similiar errors during peek load. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: logging samba access

2004-06-06 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
r samba fileserver is not as easy as with ftp servers (this is party because of protocol nature, but not that much ). btw, I'd be very interested if someone knew solution to this that does not require modifying samba source and then maintaining your own packages... -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key f

Re: preventing /dev/kmem and /dev/mem writes?

2004-07-27 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> /dev/kmem unusable. That, he says, will break lilo (I can't use GRUB as > it doesn't support booting off RAID devices properly) Strange... I've been booting off raid with grub and it seems to work. What do you mean by 'properly' ? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fi

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-28 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
would suggest updating one's knowledge at least every ~5 years or so... (it's easy for me to say, because i'm still learning, maybe people with decades of IT experience find it more difficult to follow development of standards) -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 73

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-28 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
disagree with you on that point. But I think we've already driffted offtopic... -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-28 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I and this way check server's certificate. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: doing an ssh into a compromised host

2004-11-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
ding goes - AFAIK if you're setup is like you describe, then your ssh does not request X-forwarding, thus, there's no way for remote server to force this upon you. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: doing an ssh into a compromised host

2004-11-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> Nope. It is true. Copy the appropriate /tmp/ssh* directory, chown > it, set SSH_AUTH_SOCKET appropriately, and ssh away. hmm, but in /tmp/ssh* there's just a socket... so when agent is gone, what good is that file? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294

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