i took a look at some article and manpages for securing my system and i
want to do 2 things to secure my system,i already disalowed telnet access
but there's 2 place i need to secure thing up,it's in the file securetty,i
want to remove login as root (i'll only need to use su when i need root
access
i took a look at some article and manpages for securing my system and i
want to do 2 things to secure my system,i already disalowed telnet access
but there's 2 place i need to secure thing up,it's in the file securetty,i
want to remove login as root (i'll only need to use su when i need
> You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
> all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the
> encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
> passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root.
>
> Ben
does there is
does there is a a reference for this package (say a web
page,manual,etc...)it's because i'm a bit nervous to try an unknown (by
me) package and removing any root access (which i can do anyway using the
/etc/login.access,take a look at man 5 login.access for information on
that topic)
> You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
> all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the
> encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
> passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root.
>
> Ben
this is a no
this is a no go,i dont want to install this package because i dont want to
give root access to my brother:
Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root
privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to
give
as few privileges as possible
> But you don't have to give root access to your brother. Sudo lets you
> set up access by username, in the /etc/sudoers file. i.e., on my
> system:
>
> # User privilege specification
> root ALL=(ALL) ALL
> blp ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> So no one but root, blp can take advantage of
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> > You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
> > all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the
> > encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
> > passwords, I hope) and thus it become
> You can increase the difficulty by setting the bios to only boot from HDD
> and then locking the bios
already done.
>- but if he's smart enough that you have to
> worry about the root password, he's going to know how to reset the bios.
i dont think he'll be able to do that because he dont kno
Chris wrote:
> > > You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
> > > all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the
> > > encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
> > > passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:19:02PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 05:12:39PM +1000, Chris wrote:
> [...]
> > With all the discussion of pine v's mutt, etc, etc, I thought I'd take a
> > look a mutt and see what people where on about.
> >
>
[...]
> Mutt users mailing list: ( "
> > > You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
> > > all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the
> > > encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
> > > passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as r
> On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
> > My new computer has the 440LX chipset, and it seems that there
> > are alot of pci devices that are unknown to Debian 1.3.1 and 1.3.1.r6
> > I can begin to load linux by booting the CD, and everything
> > works fine, eve
I have now my Zyxel Omni.net plus ISDN modem up and running. The
crucial informaton seemed to have comed from the Serial-programing
HOWTO and involves IRQ priorities. Enabling `irqtune' in
/etc/rc.boot/hwtools seems to have done the trick.
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To follow up on my previous message I have found the solution to
the first problem. The message "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount
root fs on 01:00" was in fact caused by a memory detection problem. I
h
Hi! I'd just like to know if the 1.3.1 R6 release of Debian has all the
Debian packages. Should I buy the 1.3.1 release before buying the 1.3.1
R6 release?
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I was moving a file and intended to type " mv thefile.tar.gz ~/ " so
that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I typed
" mv thefile.tar.gz /~ ". Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I
tried to "mv ~ normalfilename" and this does create a normal file, but
Nuno Carvalho wrote:
> Now that I had installed, finally, my ISDN card (PCBIT) on Linux I want
>to make a connection
>to my ISP but I don't know what program to use!
You need the isdnutils package.
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Most of these silly character files (and we have ALL done it) can be
dealt w/ using "./". This causes it to not be looked at. so rm ./~
says look in . and remove the file ~. No expansion performed. I used
this technique to test this e-mail. Try `touch ./~`, then `rm ./~`.
Works like a champ.
About 3 weeks ago I managed to get dual booting WinNT4 and Debian 1.3.1 (I
doubt it's R6) but faced the following problems, so I think they may be of
use to you seeing as I used the same mini-HOWTO.
I don't think that the HOWTO made clear that you have to run lilo (by simply
typing in 'lilo') befo
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote:
> " mv thefile.tar.gz /~ ". Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I
> tried to "mv ~ normalfilename" and this does create a normal file, but
> the ~ file still exists. If I try to "rm ~ " the system thinks I want
> to delete my home director
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote:
> > " mv thefile.tar.gz /~ ". Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I
> > tried to "mv ~ normalfilename" and this does create a normal file, but
> > the ~ file still exists. If I try to "rm
while installing stuff (in X) i pressed on the home key in dselect,i
pressed the home key several time to get back to the upper section of the
menu but my keyboard was not fully set so i got this as result:
*== Req base adduser 3.6 3.6 Add users and
groups to t
*== Req b
i tried to run mosaic (i've just installed it) and it gave me this
error,does anyone know what it mean ??
~$ Mosaic
Couldn't open display: (NULL)
Error: Can't open display:
thanks a lot.
Alain
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
: i tried to run mosaic (i've just installed it) and it gave me this
: error,does anyone know what it mean ??
:
: ~$ Mosaic
: Couldn't open display: (NULL)
: Error: Can't open display:
:
: thanks a lot.
: Alain
Your DISPLAY variable isn't s
>> Hello to the list
>>
>> I must stand by the Pine package maintainer on this issue. The
>> maintainer should not be expected to put himself in a bad legal position
>> for anyone just so they can have a convenient installation package.
>>
>> Not being a package maintainer, I have not read the P
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Michael Balcos wrote:
> Hi! I'd just like to know if the 1.3.1 R6 release of Debian has all the
> Debian packages.
Yes [*].
> Should I buy the 1.3.1 release before buying the 1.3.1
> R6 release?
No need.
[*] There were some packages (zip
Alain Toussaint wrote:
>i tried to run mosaic (i've just installed it) and it gave me this
>error,does anyone know what it mean ??
>
>~$ Mosaic
>Couldn't open display: (NULL)
>Error: Can't open display:
>
mosaic runs under X and your DISPLAY environment variable (which tells X
which
This is not a question of the mainstream debian distribution, but it involves
a MCA debian boot disk, so perhaps this is the best place to go. It's a good
one, anyway.
I have just tested a debian boot disk off the MCA linux web site. It works on
this machine---an IBM MOdel 65SX donated to our
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote:
> I was moving a file and intended to type " mv thefile.tar.gz ~/ " so
> that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I typed
> " mv thefile.tar.gz /~ ". Now I have a 800k file named
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have tried to install both xisp from the stable and the unstable
> tree. Both seem to have dependency problems which I was unable to
> solve. Could anyone suggests how to het (any one) xisp up and running?
Use xisp and xforms from ftp://134.95.
I tried to install a couple of the infocom-type games from hamm
without luck. The packages in question are xzip, gsn-jigsaw, and
weather.
Dpkg gives me error messages that there is no "old pre-removal
script" and that the new package (there's been an update since I first
installed them) doe
Hi,
I'm trying to connect to my ISP with my ISDN card - PCBIT.
I'm using KISDN and I still couldn't connect correctly.
My /var/log/messages is "saying" the following:
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Apr 26 16:06:06 paradise syslog: Found 1 devices: /dev/ippp1,
Apr 26 16:06:09
This is a followup to my note of the other day, the essence of which was:
My Debian 1.3 box has been running with no major problems for many
months. Suddenly, a few days ago, the cron job that runs find every morning
starting sending root a report saying that many directories did not
exist
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francois Gouget writ
es:
>
> Hi,
> For the partitionning now. I still only see two partitions. So,
>to tell you more about my disk, it' a Quantum SCSI VIKING II 9.1WLS.
>According to Linux fdisk the geometry is C=1110 H=255 S=63 so I get a
>warning tha
Hi all,
I'm trying to switch from sendmail to exim, and I'm facing some problems.
I have a small net and a dialup connection to internet. Since only some accounts
on one machine are enabled to internet mail usage, I'd like to rewrite headers
to supply correct reply-to and From field (and maybe some
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My /var/log/messages is "saying" the following:
>
> --
> Apr 26 16:06:06 paradise syslog: Found 1 devices: /dev/ippp1,
> Apr 26 16:06:09 paradise kernel: ippp1: dialing 0 0800200558...
> Apr 26 16:06:13 parad
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not
> > try to expand anything directly after a backslash.
> This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things
> that e
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not
> > > try to expand anything directly after a backslash.
> > This is the best
Luka Pravica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >From the installation error-file (from dpkg) obviosly some files are
> missing, like texmf.cnf, language.dat...
> I tried searching for those files but they are not on my hard drive.
> Perhaps all those files get installed with some other package, but
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I am currently fetching mail over an established uucp link. It
> works great! I would like to send file over this link as well. Afer
> reading the uucp man page it appeared simple but something is not right.
>
> uucp local_file remote_uucp_n
This is probably a FAQ:
I have two machines with a NIC in each, cabled together with thin Ethernet
cable.
1. Machine one [alpha] is currently configured as galactic.demon.co.uk
with a static IP of 158.158.63.??? [numbers changed to protect the innocent!]
NIC is currently more or less unconfigur
I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian
yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB.
freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first
16MB.
I've heard about this before, but only w/ 128MB syste
I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian
yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/
32MB.
freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the
first
16MB.
First, there is no command `freemem' AFAIK. `
Oh! Sorry! My mistake.
I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that
again.
Which as I understand would be okay for a 16MB system, since the kernel takes
about 1MB, but implies that about 16MB is not being found since it is a 32MB
system.
On 26-Apr-98 Ben Pfaff wrote:
Hi. I read somewhere that the reported memory doesn't include
the memory used by the kernel and loaded modules. I forgot
where I read this, may have been some other list.
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I should read these listings a little more carefully.
Obviously, the kernel shouldn't take up 17 megabytes.
(Can you build a kernel that big?)
re-reading before posting,
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I have Debian 1.3 running smoothely with the 2.0.33 kernl patched for
several months. Now I keep coming
across this wierd lines in my syslog entries. i want to know what the below
entires from my syslog means.
It looks like someone is excuting the pentium bug on my system I just
wanted to double
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>
> Oh! Sorry! My mistake.
> I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that
> again.
> when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/
> > 32MB.
> >freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the
> > first
>
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-> This is not a question of the mainstream debian distribution, but it
-> involves a MCA debian boot disk, so perhaps this is the best pla
Bob Hilliard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does it list 'Lotus', 'Lotus123', '123', 'WK?', or anything else
> that appear to be a Lotus file type?
>
Lotus 123 1.0 for dos
Lotus 123 1.0 for windows
and Lotus, as well as most any other major file system is supported.
The puppie has balls.
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I am a new user of Debian 1.3 . I don,t want to sound like a whiner, but
what info do I need to get ppp running . I have read the how-tos and I
am still having a problem. Specifically I am dialing my ISP with minicom
and can start the server, I close down minicom without killing the
connection. I t
Hello :))
I'm such anoyed with all the mail i received (not for the mail by
themselves but for their quantity..
I would like to know if someone have heard about a hypothetic filter
plug-in for NE..it is maybe just a dream :) (just like life (?):))
Well so ... bye :)
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Hm. Well. I have no idea what options the default kernel that comes
with the hamm install disks built with? Does anyone know where this is
documented?
But in any case, the default hamm kernel found my 64MB just fine. So I
doubt this is the problem.
Thanks,
Timothy Hospedales
> Th
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:44:55PM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not
> > > try to expand anything directly after a backslash.
> >
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:40:01PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:44:55PM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
> > > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > > > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the s
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# cat /dev/null > -i
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm -i
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
[...]
It took me some time to deal with it. There is a trick. I'll leave it as an
exercise to the reader. Hint: It is possible with rm. ;)
rm -- -i
int main()
{
unlink("-i");
}
This works for any filename which the kernel can recognize (that is,
any filename except one with a '/' in it. If you have one of THOSE,
good luck.
Carl
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That's why there's the blu
I would like to make my Debian box use shadow passwords since it is
allways on the 'Net. Firstly, how do I turn on shadow passwords in debian?
Secondly, will this affect my pppd, proftpd, telnetd, apache or other daemons?
Thanks,
Timothy Hospedales
BTW, I was reading the Shadow-HOWTO and i
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> If you think about it, an 8 character password encodes to 4096 * 13 character
> strings. So a dictionary of say 400,000 common words, names, passwords, and
> simple variations would easily fit on a
> 4GB hard drive. The attacker need only sort them, and then check for mat
Hallo.
I am searching for the latest versions of the QT libraries. (version 1.32
and version 1.33).
I have found only the .rpm packages.
Where can I find the .deb packages?
I need the qt libraries for Debian because I want install the KDE window
manager.
Thank you.
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On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 09:27:58PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:36:53PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > George Bonser writes:
> > > You should probably do doing something like:
> > > uucp remote_uucp_node!/full/path/to/file /path_to_local/destination
> >
> > No, he
Hi *
I just run into the same problem these days.
One way to solve the problem is by using "uucico -e -p TCP" (think TCP is
the default name in debian).
But thats not a very good thing I think, because you continously have uucico
running in the background.
As I read in the info doc, using -l, -p
I am trying to get my Linux box to connect to my Novell server and I am
having some trouble. I have all the things that need to loaded, loaded.
NCPFS is loaded and ipx support is there. The problems that I am having are
as follows:
if I type ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 I get a response back th
I often telnet to my Linux box from a win95 machine. Does anyone know of
a nice win95 telnet program that supports ssh and ANSI (preferably free)?
Thanks
-Paul
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> Since a 4GB hard drive can be had for under $1000.00,
You must not have shopped for drives lately. I bought a 7 gig
drive in January for $320, including sales tax, or about $46 a GB.
This week's paper was advertising drives at around $40 a gig.
Bob
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On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Carl Mummert wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > > > You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
> > > > all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the
> > > > encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
> > > > passwords,
This works for any filename which the kernel can recognize (that is,
any filename except one with a '/' in it. If you have one of THOSE,
good luck.
Hint: `debugfs'. (If you do have one with a /.)
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The log files could help you tracking the problem.
Perhaps sending the relevant parts to the list might also help.
> When connecting to the internet via pppd, my connection is
> VERY slow, i average 400bytes/sec, ping time to my isp is
> ...
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> Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
> wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
> If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
>
I don't know if it is legal have multiple partitions marked as active but if I
understand correctly what is
I hope this will help. I am using it with Debian 1.3.1 and it works fine.
I also took the appropriate xforms from that adress.
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