Re: sshd port config and security

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
h a non-standard port are probably less likely to set up anything stupid with port forwarding than the average semi-clued user who only barely knows how to use ssh. Don't know if that has anything to do with the decision... -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROT

Re: port 111.

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
less you're providing public NFS service, or some other RPC thing, then no, there's no good reason whatsoever. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound

Re: ip spoofing (httpd)

2001-04-10 Thread Peter Cordes
ve a TCP connection coming from any FTP server you could bounce from. Or, you could make a few votes using your own IP and your ISP's web proxy (assuming they run one). -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
ackage that pipe into less on a console, so you can search and go back, but I just use *.*/dev/tty10 -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:10:17AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > What's /dev/xconsole though? It's where console log messages get redirected if you run xconsole. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who firs

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:55:58AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:10:17AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > > What's /dev/xconsole though? > > It's where console log messages get redirected if you run xconsole. I said that wrong. It's a pipe

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:45:43AM +0200, Janto Trappe wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:13:36AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > debugging. There's a package that pipe into less on a console, so you can > Do you know the name of this package? I think its very useful. It&#

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
that lets you easily search for stuff that isn't immediately available for install on the machine you're using. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too,

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
eb to have a tag in its control info saying whether it was supposed to be stable or what. If anyone ever decides to add control info, they should add something like that along with signatures, and other stuff I haven't thought of right now :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
ust wait a bit and testing will catch up with where unstable was, and apt should just upgrade to the newest testing version. Well, I guess it's a pretty handy feature that works well most of the time :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) &qu

Re: Followup: Syslog

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Cordes
ed > to /mnt/floppy ;) Other arguments about the utility of append-only aside, why not use ext2 floppies? There's not too much space overhead. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distingui

Re: MD5 sums of induvidual files?

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Cordes
ng with an md5sum binary and a kernel. (you'd have to gzip them, but they would fit if you did.) You can also use debsums to generate md5sums for packages that are missing them. This would be a good idea before making a floppy. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
t you install both at once. That's not so bad. You can tell apt to download source, build the package, and install it for you if you don't have the lib versions it was compiled against. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods conf

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:24:03PM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: > On Friday, 2001-04-20 at 14:14:13 -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:12:42AM -0600, Tim Uckun wrote: > > > Shared libraries may have been a good idea but somehow the implementation > &g

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
sions of packages that were linked against different libs. It would get ugly, especially when package maintainers got behind and didn't keep up with new libraries coming out.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: strange files being created

2001-04-25 Thread Peter Cordes
nterpreted by the kernel, so different shells will not do it differently. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut a

**security warning** cp -au backups are insecure with GNU cp

2001-04-27 Thread Peter Cordes
4526718, 0x4}, 1000, 0, 0x3e8) = 0 chmod("/boot/backup/home/peter/hackfile", 0100664) = 0 /backup/home/peter/hackfile is safely unlinked before it is opened for writing. However, if the user has write permission in the destination directory, there is still a race condition. If they rec

Re: SSH-1.5-OpenSSH-1.2.3 of debian 2.2 is secure?

2001-05-04 Thread Peter Cordes
##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: Unable to gain access to secure sites.

2001-05-15 Thread Peter Cordes
a > kernel thing? I am using Kernel 2.4. It's not a kernel thing. All you need is a web browser that does encryption. I'm not sure how to do this with Netsape or Mozilla from the debian packages, but lynx-ssl for one works fine. konqueror + kdebase-crypto also works fine. -- #def

Re: strange log entry

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Cordes
can by e.g. nmap. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: strange log entry

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Cordes
cept for something Sun cooked up with DES. I don't know the details. Besides that, ssh has _way_ different uses than RPC. (of course, you could write a remote shell kind of program using rpc, but why bother? No such thing exists now, but ssh kicks ass.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter

Re: detecting portscanning

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Cordes
r fancy. Just be careful about suggesting potentially dangerous stuff. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hac

Re: security in general

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Cordes
ystem by installing tripwire. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: 'locate' does not check permissions

2001-06-07 Thread Peter Cordes
se (/var/lib/locate/locatedb), so that > people can't use the old locate. > > slocate will automatically make a symlink from locate to its own binary, > so you can still use the "locate" command. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns

Re: checking memory

2001-06-07 Thread Peter Cordes
ppies, especially if you are using the boot-menu feature. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: Security in a shell that starts ssh

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
e server, and have them go in the clear between the server and the X terminal. How secure is MIT-MAGIC-COOKE-1, anyway? -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, t

Re: Security in a shell that starts ssh

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
r/terminals, but you could use a laptop or two with a serial port for each direction of the connection to capture everything even at high speed.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish t

Re: Security in a shell that starts ssh

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
urther, so I'll shut up now, and hope nobody replies to the list about this. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a su

Re: Creating a logfile for Netfilter

2001-06-17 Thread Peter Cordes
> Not much else gets logged at level alert so it should be OK and not > > > upset other logging. > > Isn't there a problem? Logs at level notice (5) and below are sent to > the console. If host activity is too high, console will become unusable > (kind of DoS). U

Re: rxvt exploit

2001-06-17 Thread Peter Cordes
nd you could potentially exploit other programs through utmp. This is especially important if these other programs are being run by root. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! C

Re: A question about Knark and modules

2001-06-17 Thread Peter Cordes
figuration info, would do the job for X11. (BTW, AGP acts like another PCI bus). Limiting things to only PCI-reported memory spaces would stop access from user space to ISA memory, but who would want to do that anyway... I like this idea. It would kick ass, so we should do it. -- #define X(x,y)

Re: A question about Knark and modules

2001-06-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:42:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:38:16AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > I like the package signing idea. That would be cool. That way, you > > could still load and unload modules. I like being able to do that. > >

Re: gnupg problem

2001-06-18 Thread Peter Cordes
s it. If not, then the updated packages that the new security-fix package depends on must become part of potato somehow. IMHO, security fixes should still go into security.d.o ASAP, without waiting for packages that depend on them to be updated, but those packages _do_ need to be updated. --

Re: rlinetd security

2001-06-18 Thread Peter Cordes
will break if you turn it off, turn it off and see if something breaks. If nothing breaks, leave it off. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this pl

Re: A question about Knark and modules

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
code, you lose. (That's another reason why the module signing + user-space memory access stuff would be good.) Of course, unless the password is very long and strong, the brute for attack will be much cheaper than breaking MD5 usually is. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X

Re: Basic question about ipchains being useful

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
something about it to keep your machine safe, or at least check that it already is safe. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a su

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Cordes
nk this was due to an an honest mistake on your part, since most people spend their time getting other stuff done, instead of learning about crypto. (If I screwed up any facts in the above, somebody please correct me. If I didn't, then I don't think there is anything more to flame anyo

Re: port-scanning. advise?

2001-01-14 Thread Peter Cordes
or the resulting DoS. > > But I should not be responsible if I scan someone who's system is so flaky > that it can't take the scan. I think the only time you can ever be in the wrong when port scanning is when you are actively trying to cause damage, by DoS or otherwise. If you

Re: port-scanning. advise?

2001-01-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:22:48AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:25:00PM -0600, Jordan Bettis wrote: > > [snippage] > > > revisions of MacOS 9. The moral of the story? Be careful who you scan, they > > > may care, and be careful what OS yo

Re: port-scanning. advise?

2001-01-14 Thread Peter Cordes
mba listen on 0.0.0.0, instead of just the internal IPs.) I'm not too concerned about attacks, since I'm not running anything very complicated. I check on my log messages every now and then, though :) BTW, I did think twice before admitting the above on a public list, but I'll ta

Re: Clear screan question

2001-01-27 Thread Peter Cordes
- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: connecting to my box

2001-01-28 Thread Peter Cordes
d to do it by hand. Also, the default config files for almost all packages have been set up so that they work well with the rest of the Debian system, instead of just leaving them as they were in the source tarball (which usually means you need to change them to get them to work, or to get them

Re: portsentry dangerous? hardly; RTFM. (was Re: checking security logs)

2001-01-29 Thread Peter Cordes
om ever reaching the spoofed host. However, another way to accomplish the blocking is to DoS the spoofed host. I don't remember where I read this, either in an RFC, or in the book "Practical Unix and Internet Security". -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: portsentry dangerous? hardly

2001-01-29 Thread Peter Cordes
il address?) The best practice is to notify a human of the situation, so they can do something intelligent :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in

Re: ISPs offering ssl-encrypted e-mail?

2001-02-04 Thread Peter Cordes
A news story that said, "... your email is insecure ... run this to make it better http://debian.org/ :)", might get some people using non-outlook, esp if the URI was for a decent windoze email client instead of a whole new OS :) (I've never checked email from 'doze in my lif

Re: Quick update ?

2001-02-13 Thread Peter Cordes
ate packages, e.g. xntp -> ntpdate, ntp or the netkit split. dist-upgrade will do everything it can to upgrade as much as possible, but it does make sure nothing has broken dependencies once it's all done.) BTW, before the upgrade would be a good time to backup the whole system :) -- #defi

Re: snort problem

2001-02-20 Thread Peter Cordes
27;t have to do anything. If you build it into the kernel proper, you still don't have to do anything :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in th

Re: Mac most secure servers?

2001-02-22 Thread Peter Cordes
ut investing some of your time to learn the system and keep up with security announcements. (choosing a system which has good security announcements is obviously important, or you might not hear about problems until it's too late.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PR

Re: Woody ssh exploit

2001-02-22 Thread Peter Cordes
a woody machine? I installed ssh 2.3.0p1-1.11 from unstable on my woody machines at home. It works great. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in th

Re: publish a user & passwd: $1000 hack reward!

2001-02-23 Thread Peter Cordes
allow execution of arbitrary CGI programs, the CGI program could do anything, including start a shell listening on a TCP port, or even sshd, for someone to connect to. Allowing arbitrary CGI is equivalent to giving public shell access. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PRO

Re: publish a user & passwd: $1000 hack reward!

2001-02-23 Thread Peter Cordes
ntly installed CGI scripts. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!&q

Re: commandlogging

2001-03-05 Thread Peter Cordes
get everything. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -

Re: promiscuous eth0

2001-03-05 Thread Peter Cordes
s while you aren't doing anything with the network. See if your card is generating interrupts when there is network traffic that isn't to or from you (and isn't broadcast.) If it is, then the hardware is in promiscuous mode. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PRO

Re: i've been port scanned. now what

2001-03-05 Thread Peter Cordes
shouldn't be punished unless it causes a DoS or something. If you feel otherwise, you might want to show the logs you have to the scanner's ISP, with timestamp, so they can figure out who had that IP at that time. I think that would be going to more trouble than it's worth, thoug

Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Cordes
s/proc.txt, in the kernel source tree.) Read /etc/init.d/networking to see what gets set up when you config networking. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, w

Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Cordes
symmetric routing setups, where packets do come in on a different interface from the one replies will be sent on, so you have to do it manually with ipchains for that case. Otherwise, you don't even need to compile ipchains into the kernel for rp_filter to work.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y

Re: NTP security

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Cordes
n the code. You would have to write and tweak some code to work around TCP's retransmission algorithm, since retransmitted packets are useless to you because of the unknown extra delay. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who

Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:36:25PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:31:57PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > Doesn't rp_filter do this, or am I missing something? It should make the > > kernel drop packets coming in on interfaces they shouldn't be,

Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Cordes
27;t start a connection. exim is listening on *:25, (i.e. INADDR_ANY, not the interface addresses). nc 10.0.0.1 25 connects to exim normally. It's not so easy to check what happens if you send a packet with a destination in 127.0.0.0/8, but I'd be surprised if it was accepted. -- #d

Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
oot and arp -s it > to point to llama? Here's why: bigfoot:~# ifconfig lo down bigfoot:~# arp Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface llamaether 00:00:92:96:51:C0 C eth0 bigfoot:~# arp -s 127.0.0.1 00:00:92:96:51:C0 SIOCSARP: I

Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:14:07AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:14:17PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > I decided to check this out, > > For now I guess you wanted to check that Linux *does* filter on packet > *destinations* , but I can't fo

Re: anyone using telnet

2001-03-19 Thread Peter Cordes
(ssh won't let people talk to FTP or SMTP servers, though, unlike telnet. This is a good thing.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in

Re: anyone using telnet

2001-03-22 Thread Peter Cordes
s obsolete. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Pl

Re: Something Wicked happened! 001a.

2001-03-23 Thread Peter Cordes
t; > I'd say the malformed packet _is_ the wicked event. Right. See http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Cordes
-apt is pretty good. Also, aptitude is even more powerful than dselect (most of the time). -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up

Re: How to Get on the security update notification list?

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Cordes
unce mailing list, and I get updates from it. Is it not working or something? -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut an

Re: MD5 sums of individual files?

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Cordes
re it was doing a "real" check. You can't use a possibly-cracked machine to check itself, unless you are checking for breakins on non-root accounts. (e.g. web page defacement if they got in through httpd.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca)

Re: MD5 sums of individual files?

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Cordes
orlds computers and a lot of time.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 045-1] ntp remote root exploit fixed

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Cordes
,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBS

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 045-1] ntp remote root exploit fixed

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Cordes
#x27;s always funny when people leave their opinions in their software. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and ha

Re: sshd port config and security

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
as you said, you need to use the equiv. of -P. I fired up putty on my machine, and there doesn't look like an option to do that. I guess you'll have to download the source and recompile. All hail Free software :-) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: empty log files

2001-04-07 Thread Peter Cordes
e admin and put klogd back where it belongs :-) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wr

Re: sshd port config and security

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
h a non-standard port are probably less likely to set up anything stupid with port forwarding than the average semi-clued user who only barely knows how to use ssh. Don't know if that has anything to do with the decision... -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROT

Re: port 111.

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
tant. Unless you're providing public NFS service, or some other RPC thing, then no, there's no good reason whatsoever. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound

Re: ip spoofing (httpd)

2001-04-10 Thread Peter Cordes
ve a TCP connection coming from any FTP server you could bounce from. Or, you could make a few votes using your own IP and your ISP's web proxy (assuming they run one). -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
s a package that pipe into less on a console, so you can search and go back, but I just use *.*/dev/tty10 -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:10:17AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > What's /dev/xconsole though? It's where console log messages get redirected if you run xconsole. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who firs

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:55:58AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:10:17AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > > What's /dev/xconsole though? > > It's where console log messages get redirected if you run xconsole. I said that wrong. It's a pipe

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-13 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:45:43AM +0200, Janto Trappe wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:13:36AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > debugging. There's a package that pipe into less on a console, so you can > Do you know the name of this package? I think its very useful. It&#

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
that lets you easily search for stuff that isn't immediately available for install on the machine you're using. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too,

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
r the .deb to have a tag in its control info saying whether it was supposed to be stable or what. If anyone ever decides to add control info, they should add something like that along with signatures, and other stuff I haven't thought of right now :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
ust wait a bit and testing will catch up with where unstable was, and apt should just upgrade to the newest testing version. Well, I guess it's a pretty handy feature that works well most of the time :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) &qu

Re: Followup: Syslog

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Cordes
ed > to /mnt/floppy ;) Other arguments about the utility of append-only aside, why not use ext2 floppies? There's not too much space overhead. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distingui

Re: MD5 sums of induvidual files?

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Cordes
ng with an md5sum binary and a kernel. (you'd have to gzip them, but they would fit if you did.) You can also use debsums to generate md5sums for packages that are missing them. This would be a good idea before making a floppy. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
t you install both at once. That's not so bad. You can tell apt to download source, build the package, and install it for you if you don't have the lib versions it was compiled against. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods conf

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:24:03PM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: > On Friday, 2001-04-20 at 14:14:13 -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:12:42AM -0600, Tim Uckun wrote: > > > Shared libraries may have been a good idea but somehow the implementation > &g

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
ersions of packages that were linked against different libs. It would get ugly, especially when package maintainers got behind and didn't keep up with new libraries coming out.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man

Re: strange files being created

2001-04-25 Thread Peter Cordes
nterpreted by the kernel, so different shells will not do it differently. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut a

**security warning** cp -au backups are insecure with GNU cp

2001-04-27 Thread Peter Cordes
23296, {134526718, 0x4}, 1000, 0, 0x3e8) = 0 chmod("/boot/backup/home/peter/hackfile", 0100664) = 0 /backup/home/peter/hackfile is safely unlinked before it is opened for writing. However, if the user has write permission in the destination directory, there is still a race condition. If they

Re: SSH-1.5-OpenSSH-1.2.3 of debian 2.2 is secure?

2001-05-04 Thread Peter Cordes
##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Unable to gain access to secure sites.

2001-05-15 Thread Peter Cordes
a > kernel thing? I am using Kernel 2.4. It's not a kernel thing. All you need is a web browser that does encryption. I'm not sure how to do this with Netsape or Mozilla from the debian packages, but lynx-ssl for one works fine. konqueror + kdebase-crypto also works fine. -- #def

Re: strange log entry

2001-05-23 Thread Peter Cordes
scan by e.g. nmap. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!&q

Re: strange log entry

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Cordes
except for something Sun cooked up with DES. I don't know the details. Besides that, ssh has _way_ different uses than RPC. (of course, you could write a remote shell kind of program using rpc, but why bother? No such thing exists now, but ssh kicks ass.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter

Re: detecting portscanning

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Cordes
r fancy. Just be careful about suggesting potentially dangerous stuff. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hac

Re: security in general

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Cordes
ystem by installing tripwire. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small p

Re: checking memory

2001-06-06 Thread Peter Cordes
ppies, especially if you are using the boot-menu feature. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day

Re: 'locate' does not check permissions

2001-06-07 Thread Peter Cordes
se (/var/lib/locate/locatedb), so that > people can't use the old locate. > > slocate will automatically make a symlink from locate to its own binary, > so you can still use the "locate" command. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns

Re: Security in a shell that starts ssh

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
e server, and have them go in the clear between the server and the X terminal. How secure is MIT-MAGIC-COOKE-1, anyway? -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, t

Re: Security in a shell that starts ssh

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
nter/terminals, but you could use a laptop or two with a serial port for each direction of the connection to capture everything even at high speed.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish t

Re: Security in a shell that starts ssh

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
so I'll shut up now, and hope nobody replies to the list about this. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and

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