Re: About GPG-signing the public RSA keys of Debian machines

2006-10-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10802 March 1977, Florent Rougon wrote: > 1. There is also: > * Entry created: /00/00 00:00:00 UTC > * Entry modified: /00/00 00:00:00 UTC Those fields could be removed and not shown, that would "fix" this. Its just that in the past we had those filled in, now we d

Re: About GPG-signing the public RSA keys of Debian machines

2006-10-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10803 March 1977, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I assume you've used https and that you verified the certificate? > And saw that it was issued by SPI? And then you looked up SPI's > certificate? And you found that there is a text file with the SHA1 and > MD5 sum signed by Wichert Akkerman? > For those

Re: About GPG-signing the public RSA keys of Debian machines

2006-10-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10803 March 1977, Florent Rougon wrote: > but unfortunately: > % md5sum /etc/ssl/certs/spi-ca.pem > 33922a1660820e44812e7ddc392878cb /etc/ssl/certs/spi-ca.pem > And reading /etc/ssl/certs/spi-ca.pem is not very enlightening: > It would be nice to have the whole procedure for verifying the

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1222-1] New proftpd packages fix several vulnerabilities

2006-12-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10855 March 1977, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > I've just saw the DSA and I cannot find amd64 on it, furthermore, when I > tried to update a sarge amd64 machine it cannot find the update is ut > delayed or has amd64 been forgotten? There has been a mail problem on klecker.debian.org. While

Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?

2008-03-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11320 March 1977, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > This statement is in a security announcement. Martin Schulze confirmed that > he > wrote the statement. Does the security team think that oldstable security > support duration is something to be proud of? Yes, it is, and people visiting the Debian

Re: ia32-lib plans and security support for same

2008-04-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11369 March 1977, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > FTP-master asked me on irc to get permission from you (debian-security) > for splitting up ia32-libs into multiple source packages before going > any further. I asked to get the opinion from the security team about the new package scheme, as they

Re: Find installed contrib and non-free packages

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11414 March 1977, Martin Bartenberger wrote: > Now I want to find out which contrib and non-free packages are installed > on my servers. Is there any special command or script for this or do I > have to write one? vrms -- bye, Joerg Some NM: graphviz: ouch, that license is hard to read, damn

Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating

2016-12-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14527 March 1977, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Well, this creates trust for the path until (but excluding) that > particular mirror only. Can I trust the mirror? And even if, there's no > guarantee the mirror got the data through a trusted path. And why the heck would you ever trust any mirror? If

Re: bug #428770 (sic!) in sudo

2022-07-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16550 March 1977, Marc Haber wrote: I just wanted to reach out to the security team whether you're ok with me closing #428770. Of course, you're also free to write to 428770-done@b.d.o yourself. This is *not* the security teams contact. Try t...@security.debian.org if you want them. -- by

Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism

2023-12-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 17077 March 1977, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: How can Debian deal with this? Should Debian intervene to prevent the worst? We, as Debian, look and wait what comes out. And then *MAY* at some point decide to add (or switch to) a new thing, if that appears better. Also, it will be a high bar f

Re: Upcoming stable point release (12.6)

2024-03-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 17184 March 1977, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: Due to recent events, the point release has been postponed. A new date will be announced when possible. Given the centrality of xz, and standing that AFAIK the intricacies of the attack are not yet fully understood, should we expect a complete re

Re: Upcoming changes in advisory format

2011-01-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> The side-effect of that is that you are now listing only the source >> package name, and not anymore the binary package names. But to do the >> upgrade, the administrator of the machine has to select the binary >> packages for upgrade, or, to check if the testing/sid version the >> machine has

Re: Zope2 packaging

2011-06-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> In addition, several Zope applications, like Plone, require a specific >> Zope version. Therefore, we also would like to be able to offer, at the >> same time, several major versions of Zope (2.12 and 2.13 for example), >> like we once did for Zope 2.9 and 2.10, and like we do for versio

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2360-1] Two month advance notification for upcoming end-of-life for Debian oldstable

2011-12-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12686 March 1977, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Previously announced security updates for the old release will continue > to be available on security.debian.org. You might want to qualify this statement. We will NOT have them there unlimited. A few weeks or something after the last Lenny point

Re: Mail-server config

2001-11-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sami Juvonen) writes: > Also note that the Debian packages for Cyrus are old, from a > branch that is not being developed any more. I think your > best bet is to download the source and compile your own. That's > what I'm doing for a family-and-friends mailserver. I might > co

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Culd someone explain why is there a root shell prompt for the > Linux kernel: > "Press ENTER to obtain a shell" (waits 5 seconds) > 1.- an explanation on why this is shipped by default (to add it to the > "Securing Debian Manual"

Re: Mail-server config

2001-11-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sami Juvonen) writes: > Also note that the Debian packages for Cyrus are old, from a > branch that is not being developed any more. I think your > best bet is to download the source and compile your own. That's > what I'm doing for a family-and-friends mailserver. I might > com

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linux kernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Culd someone explain why is there a root shell prompt for the > Linux kernel: > "Press ENTER to obtain a shell" (waits 5 seconds) > 1.- an explanation on why this is shipped by default (to add it to the > "Securing Debian Manual"

Re: static sshd

2002-08-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For one, I've never seen the requirement for /var/empty > pop up before, which makes me think debian has things > built differently than I. apt-get source ssh and look into debian/rules to see what the Maintainer does?! -- begin OjE-ist-scheisse.txt bye,