Re: BF kernels (was: [DSA 479-2] New Linux 2.4.18 packages fix local root exploit (i386))

2004-04-18 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:00:23AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:19:24PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > >In other words, people are ready to pounce, and that short gap of time > >after server installation and before installing patched code cannot be > >considered "safe"

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 733-1] New crip packages fix insecure temporary files

2005-07-01 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:13:40AM +0200, Christophe Mailhebuau wrote: > Sir, > > I use Woody and i upgrade to Sarge a new stable version. Can you tell > me, what must i do to configurate a new source in /etc/apt/source.list. This ist a question for debian-user. If you have one with lines readin

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-08 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:33:29AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 at 01:58:40AM -0400, Martin Schulze wrote: > > The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias > > woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, > > codenamed etc

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-07-31 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:29:46PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Requiring users to install an important component (which Mozilla is) from > other sources is a bad idea in this context. I think it should not be the > way how Debian solves it's problems. in thecase of mozilla this is not

Re: policy change is needed to keep debian secure

2005-08-21 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:15:57PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > --- i'd like to see various providers of apps ( *.deb ) and upgrades > be listed on a single page http://updates.debian.org/Updates instead > of hunting for it in yahoo/google you know apt-get.org? Whoever wants to maintain a lis

Re: Abwesenheit

2005-09-16 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 05:38:00PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:19:37 +0200 > Peer Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Isn't sending such mails a security risk? > > Not only this. It's also quite annoying for the ML readers... I don't > like this vacancy announcers. >

Re: RFS: libpam-abl - PAM module to blacklist hosts/users with many login failures

2005-10-11 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:44:13PM +0200, Nicolai Ehemann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello! > > I just (err, over the last 4 or 5 days) created a (hopefully > standards-compliant) package for the pam_abl PAM module. > > The pam_abl module provides a fully config

Re: EAC - Armored Car and SUV Specialist - Incentives for Referral

2005-11-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:53:45PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alexandr Rappoport wrote: > > Hi > > I have a client in Moscow who's looking to purchase two armored vehicles: > > > > Merceds G500 > > and > > Mercedes S500 or S600 > > Ple

Re: encrpyt harddrive without passphrase/userinput

2006-02-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:11:44PM +0100, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello security list! > > I would like to secure the harddrive/partitions of linux box. > > The whole setup must fulfill the following requirements: > > a) it must be able to boot (remotely) without userinput/passphrase > b) the im

Re: encrpyt harddrive without passphrase/userinput

2006-02-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:17:56PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Horst Pflugstaedt: > > > I just ask myself why you bother encrypting a filesystem that will be > > accessible to anyone having access to the machine since it boots without > > password? > > Yo

Re: first A record of security.debian.org extremely slow

2006-03-02 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:36:16PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Geoff Crompton: > > > I'm also wondering if security.debian.org has enough resources for every > > > single debian box on the planet checking it every X minutes. > >

Re: problem downloading secrity updates.

2006-03-30 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:03:59PM +0300, Cataract wrote: > Hello there. > i have a problem with the security packages. i can not download them > from debian.org. > i use synaptic and after the reload some packages says me fail to > download them. > what can i do about it? What does your sources.l

Re: [OT] Re: email notifications when users login

2006-09-23 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:37:56PM -0400, Morgan Walker wrote: > > Thanks Michelle that worked perfect. Is there an easy variable I could > throw in there that you know off hand which would include the time > (MM/DD/) as well? Apart from the suggestions to use ${ date }, does the date of the

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-16 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:46:25PM +0100, Thomas Horsten wrote: > Are you thick or what? > the last days it seems to me that those unsubscribe-messages more and more become a security-problem (health-risk) to the remaining members of this list... calm down, please. need some valium? :-) Greeti

Re: I'm searching for a network wide system update tool

2003-01-19 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Ivo Marino wrote: > Hello debian-security folks, > > I'll post my question on this mailing list in the hope to find some > interesting pointers and I'm quite sure someone in here has or has > allready solved my same problems. > > Well, I admin different D

Re: Invalid Archive Signatures

2003-01-23 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:49:17PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > eterm and feh, on sarge, are reporting invalid archive signatures of > their dependancies. > > I have tried the US and Japan mirrors. As Jan Niehusman stated about two days ago: "I assume this is because the 2002 Archive Signing Ke

Re: iptables forwarding to inside firewall

2003-03-29 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
> Working on running a SMTP server inside the firewall that takes incoming > SMTP traffic from outside the firewall. The below rules are not > working. The firewall refuses connections. Any input on what wrong? > > Thanks, > > internal mailserver = 192.168.1.2 > > > > #$PROG -t nat -A PRE

Re: Firewall Logs on Dialup Server

2003-04-18 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
Hi On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:14:32PM +0200, Kay-Michael Voit wrote: > Hi, > how do you suggest dealing with firewall logs from a computer which is > connected through a dialup connection? > For I receive a new IP every 24h hours, my logs are full of P2P > connection attempts. > > How can I log i

Re: Firewall Logs on Dialup Server

2003-04-18 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 03:19:34PM +0200, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:54:19PM +0200, Juerg Schneider wrote: > > On Freitag, 18. April 2003 11.16, Horst Pflugstaedt wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I tried my logging rules with '--log-pref

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-24 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:43:36PM +0200, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > Hi, > > what is the best way to remotely syslog? In > "RE: HELP, my Debian Server was hacked!" by James Duncan he wrote to > use "syslog to log locally AND remotely". This is a good idea. But I > wonder how to make it safe. Let's

Re: idea for improving security

2003-05-06 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:07:24PM -0500, Mark Edgington wrote: > Hi, > I'm not sure whether this idea has been considered or implemented > anywhere, but I have been thinking about it, and believe it would provide a > fairly high-level of security for systems which only run a few public > se

Re: port forwarding issues

2003-07-01 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:52:35PM +0200, Peter A. Felvegi wrote: > > hello! > > i'm about to set up port forwarding on a firewall to be able to reach > some hosts on the lan from the outside. i wish to use iptables prerouting > rules. my question is, is there a way to detect the port forwarding

Re: help with firewall

2003-07-03 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:38:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone help me with this firewall.I would like to change > INTNET="192.168.0.0/24" to more exacts ips like 192.168.0.1,192.168.0.22 and > so one. you will either have to rewrite every rule matching 192.168.0.0/24 to mat

Re: loggin with iptables, syslog problem

2003-08-31 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:58:58PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > But nothing gets logged to /var/log/iptabels... It does show in > dmesg... > How can I correctly redirect logs with level "debug" to the > /var/log/iptables file? perhaps it's not quite the answer you expected... I'm usin

Re: secure file permissions

2003-12-07 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:27:04AM +0100, mi wrote: > Hello, > > Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and > /etc/passwd ? %--(6)--$ ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r--1 root root 1276 17. Sep 22:57 /etc/passwd > > I restricted them to rw for root only, but s

Re: get error: /bin/sh: line1: myfilter: command in boot messages...

2004-01-21 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:11:39PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > #! /bin/sh [...] > which DOES work. I wonder why it's complaining about the line #! /bin/sh > during the boot messages. Note no such output is in dmesg. Hi, ever tried the line #!/bin/sh ? all my scripts seem to lack the space. h

Re: security of apt

2004-01-25 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:12:59PM +0100, Erik Hjelmås wrote: > Hi, > > I've spent a few hours searching, what Im looking for is a discussion > of different security aspects of apt, questions like > - What are the possible threats in terms of ip spoofing, dns cache > poisoning? (are there any solu

Re: Firewall: Need Advice

2004-02-07 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:38:51AM +0200, E&Erdem wrote: > Hi, > I've been using iptables (or i assuming that). But at boot time it gives > an error: "Aborting iptables load: unknown rulesets "active" ". I you should first try zo find out, what ruleset iptables tries to load on boot-time (go, find

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: > Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside > of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics > outside of Debian would be sufficient. I do strongly disagree with his personal thoughts, but I must grant him the right t

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:47:57PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: > I have never endorsed any particular political point of view while using > my debian.org address. I feel rather uncomfortable with the way the > thread has been going; could you clarify whether you meant that I > actually had done

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-16 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:46:25PM +0100, Thomas Horsten wrote: > Are you thick or what? > the last days it seems to me that those unsubscribe-messages more and more become a security-problem (health-risk) to the remaining members of this list... calm down, please. need some valium? :-) Greetin

Re: I'm searching for a network wide system update tool

2003-01-19 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Ivo Marino wrote: > Hello debian-security folks, > > I'll post my question on this mailing list in the hope to find some > interesting pointers and I'm quite sure someone in here has or has > allready solved my same problems. > > Well, I admin different D

Re: Invalid Archive Signatures

2003-01-23 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:49:17PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > eterm and feh, on sarge, are reporting invalid archive signatures of > their dependancies. > > I have tried the US and Japan mirrors. As Jan Niehusman stated about two days ago: "I assume this is because the 2002 Archive Signing Ke

Re: iptables forwarding to inside firewall

2003-03-29 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
> Working on running a SMTP server inside the firewall that takes incoming > SMTP traffic from outside the firewall. The below rules are not > working. The firewall refuses connections. Any input on what wrong? > > Thanks, > > internal mailserver = 192.168.1.2 > > > > #$PROG -t nat -A PRE

Re: port forwarding issues

2003-07-01 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:52:35PM +0200, Peter A. Felvegi wrote: > > hello! > > i'm about to set up port forwarding on a firewall to be able to reach > some hosts on the lan from the outside. i wish to use iptables prerouting > rules. my question is, is there a way to detect the port forwarding

Re: help with firewall

2003-07-03 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:38:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone help me with this firewall.I would like to change > INTNET="192.168.0.0/24" to more exacts ips like 192.168.0.1,192.168.0.22 and > so one. you will either have to rewrite every rule matching 192.168.0.0/24 to mat

Re: loggin with iptables, syslog problem

2003-08-31 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:58:58PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > But nothing gets logged to /var/log/iptabels... It does show in > dmesg... > How can I correctly redirect logs with level "debug" to the > /var/log/iptables file? perhaps it's not quite the answer you expected... I'm usin

Re: secure file permissions

2003-12-07 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:27:04AM +0100, mi wrote: > Hello, > > Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and > /etc/passwd ? %--(6)--$ ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r--1 root root 1276 17. Sep 22:57 /etc/passwd > > I restricted them to rw for root only, but s

Re: get error: /bin/sh: line1: myfilter: command in boot messages...

2004-01-21 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:11:39PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > #! /bin/sh [...] > which DOES work. I wonder why it's complaining about the line #! /bin/sh > during the boot messages. Note no such output is in dmesg. Hi, ever tried the line #!/bin/sh ? all my scripts seem to lack the space. h

Re: security of apt

2004-01-25 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:12:59PM +0100, Erik Hjelmås wrote: > Hi, > > I've spent a few hours searching, what Im looking for is a discussion > of different security aspects of apt, questions like > - What are the possible threats in terms of ip spoofing, dns cache > poisoning? (are there any solu

Re: Firewall: Need Advice

2004-02-07 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:38:51AM +0200, E&Erdem wrote: > Hi, > I've been using iptables (or i assuming that). But at boot time it gives > an error: "Aborting iptables load: unknown rulesets "active" ". I you should first try zo find out, what ruleset iptables tries to load on boot-time (go, find

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: > Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside > of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics > outside of Debian would be sufficient. I do strongly disagree with his personal thoughts, but I must grant him the right t

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:47:57PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: > I have never endorsed any particular political point of view while using > my debian.org address. I feel rather uncomfortable with the way the > thread has been going; could you clarify whether you meant that I > actually had done

Re: BF kernels (was: [DSA 479-2] New Linux 2.4.18 packages fix local root exploit (i386))

2004-04-18 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:00:23AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:19:24PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > >In other words, people are ready to pounce, and that short gap of time > >after server installation and before installing patched code cannot be > >considered "safe"

Re: full disclosure, or not?

2004-06-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:39:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > anything from its users. If a root exploit is out there, users want > to know about it. Keeping it a secret is childish. what would be the alternative? The security team would have to annonce "there's a possible security flaw in pa

Re: full disclosure, or not?

2004-06-27 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:43:45PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Horst Pflugstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.26.2155 +0200]: > > what would be the alternative? > > The security team would have to annonce "there's a possible security > > flaw i

Re: A question about : [Fwd: JULY 6th Lead Training 3 tips for working leads]

2004-07-08 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:39:50AM +0200, Mezig wrote: > Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > >You should start by updating any Bayesian filters you have on your > >machine and then deleting the message. After you have done this you I always keep my spam archived in a separate mailbox; it's good for train

Re: safety of encrypted filesystems

2005-06-17 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:03:57AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.17.0848 +0200]: > > These are *cipher* blocks, and they are chained only within > > a *block device* block. > > Who guarantees that? If Cipherblock CB_x depends on CB_(x-1), t