Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Reindl Harald [07/01/2012 08:37] : > > however - why do we spit the current running versions to everyone? In the case of openssh, it's to allow the client to work around known bugs in the server. In other cases, it's simply of case of not wanting to patch gratuitously packages. Emmanuel -- dev

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > no, one keys of security is to provide as less informations as > absolutely necessary, not only for sshd, for every single > service That's a key for a false sense of security. > in the best case no single foreign person has an idea > what software you are

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > but i also know that from "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.8" only "SSH-2.0" > is relevant for clients That's not actually true for SSH. The additional bits can be used to work around known problems with specific versions. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administr

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald said: > Am 07.01.2012 06:35, schrieb Digimer: > > If you have a "security expert" who can't grasp the concept of > > back-ported bug fixes, and is unwilling to test for specific > > vulnerabilities' existence, it's time to get a new expert. > > you are missing the

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.01.2012 08:02, schrieb Digimer: >> i know about the pros and cons for obscurity >> >> but i also know that from "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.8" only "SSH-2.0" >> is relevant for clients and having backports in mind this must >> be the truth because if the whole version would matter all >> LTS distrib

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Digimer
On 01/07/2012 01:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 07.01.2012 07:52, schrieb Digimer: >> On 01/07/2012 01:02 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 07.01.2012 06:35, schrieb Digimer: > if you have a big customer which hires a 3rd party auditor > you are NOT in the poisiton to give such argume

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.01.2012 07:52, schrieb Digimer: > On 01/07/2012 01:02 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 07.01.2012 06:35, schrieb Digimer: if you have a big customer which hires a 3rd party auditor you are NOT in the poisiton to give such arguments or you can give them but you can not change AN

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Digimer
On 01/07/2012 01:02 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 07.01.2012 06:35, schrieb Digimer: >>> if you have a big customer which hires a 3rd party auditor >>> you are NOT in the poisiton to give such arguments or >>> you can give them but you can not change ANYTHING in >>> the fact that finally "fix it or

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Ed Marshall
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > you are missing the point A BIG CUSTOMER has a security-expert And you, as a trusted vendor, have an opportunity to educate your customer about their security expert, and about how the Fedora project works. Fedora's stance is consistent wit

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6 January 2012 22:31, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 07.01.2012 06:13, schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: >> On 6 January 2012 21:46, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Reindl Harald wrote: would it not be a good idea to NOT disclosure service versions? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=71813

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.01.2012 06:35, schrieb Digimer: >> if you have a big customer which hires a 3rd party auditor >> you are NOT in the poisiton to give such arguments or >> you can give them but you can not change ANYTHING in >> the fact that finally "fix it or shutdown the service" >> is what you have to do >

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Digimer
On 01/07/2012 12:31 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 07.01.2012 06:13, schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: >> On 6 January 2012 21:46, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Reindl Harald wrote: would it not be a good idea to NOT disclosure service versions? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718133

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.01.2012 06:13, schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: > On 6 January 2012 21:46, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Reindl Harald wrote: >>> would it not be a good idea to NOT disclosure service versions? >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718133 >>> >>> you will more and more have the "problem" of

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6 January 2012 21:46, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> would it not be a good idea to NOT disclosure service versions? >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718133 >> >> you will more and more have the "problem" of 3rd party >> security scans to your servers and currently

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Digimer
On 01/06/2012 11:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > would it not be a good idea to NOT disclosure service versions? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718133 > > you will more and more have the "problem" of 3rd party > security scans to your servers and currently in the case > of openssh the

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: > would it not be a good idea to NOT disclosure service versions? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718133 > > you will more and more have the "problem" of 3rd party > security scans to your servers and currently in the case > of openssh the only solution is to tka

Re: service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:09:42 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > however - why do we spit the current running versions to everyone? It can help when trouble shooting problems. The current version isn't really that helpful to attackers anyway. It's about as easy to just to try an exploit as it

service version disclosure

2012-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
would it not be a good idea to NOT disclosure service versions? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718133 you will more and more have the "problem" of 3rd party security scans to your servers and currently in the case of openssh the only solution is to tkae the F16-src-rpm and rebuild it

[Test-Announce] 2011-12-26 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting CANCELLED

2012-01-06 Thread Adam Williamson
Just for the historical record: the QA meeting for 2011-12-26 was cancelled, as with the two previous weeks, due to a lack of topics requiring discussion, and many group members being otherwise occupied over the holidays. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fe

[Test-Announce] 2012-01-09 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2012-01-06 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2012-01-09 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! Hope everyone had a good time over the holidays! Now RH staff are back at work, and Fedora 17 and FUD

Re: OCaml 3.12.1 (was 3.12.0) in Rawhide

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > ocaml-facile-1.1-14.fc15 * Rebuilt * Checked for new upstream version, none (since 2005… but hey, the current version works fine) * Cleaned up the packaging I also rebuilt kalzium which is statically linked against ocaml-facile (it's a C++ app embedding ocamlopt nati

Re: broken dependencies for fawkes-plugin-player

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Yeah, we should update that. > > See also: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/277 Uh, hasn't FESCo recently voted to allow submitters to karma up their own packages if they're doing it in response to feedback from other people coming through non-Bodhi channels?

Re: systemd: How to wait for a device before starting a service

2012-01-06 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 06.01.12 14:55, Richard Shaw (hobbes1...@gmail.com) wrote: > Ok, I didn't know how to make the subject any shorter, but there's a > big BUT in this, but (hehe) first a summary. > > I have a user of MythTV that has capture devices which require a > firmware be uploaded. As a consequence, t

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 13:13 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: > > > So I submitted a routine bodhi request for updating mysql, and was > > > astonished to find that it's marked as critpath. It was never that > > > bef

Re: Inactive package maintainers cleanup on 2012-01-10

2012-01-06 Thread Kurt Seifried
I had previously taken over the mediawiki-openid package from Axel Thimm in like early 2010. I'd also be willing to take over fail2ban (also Axil Thimm). So that's 2 down, 800 to go =). On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > Last year we asked everyone to change thei

Re: systemd: How to wait for a device before starting a service

2012-01-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:55:35PM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Ok, I didn't know how to make the subject any shorter, but there's a >> big BUT in this, but (hehe) first a summary. >> >> I have a user of MythTV that has capture devices w

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:25 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > kdepim is in critical path as part of 'critical-path-apps', which is > > essentially mail & web. The change that caused this to get added is that > > the script prior to early December wasn't actually iterating over

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 13:13 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: > > So I submitted a routine bodhi request for updating mysql, and was > > astonished to find that it's marked as critpath. It was never that > > before. Who decided this, > > The dependency solver. It'

Re: systemd: How to wait for a device before starting a service

2012-01-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:55:35PM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > Ok, I didn't know how to make the subject any shorter, but there's a > big BUT in this, but (hehe) first a summary. > > I have a user of MythTV that has capture devices which require a > firmware be uploaded. As a consequence, the /de

systemd: How to wait for a device before starting a service

2012-01-06 Thread Richard Shaw
Ok, I didn't know how to make the subject any shorter, but there's a big BUT in this, but (hehe) first a summary. I have a user of MythTV that has capture devices which require a firmware be uploaded. As a consequence, the /dev paths are not always created by the time mythbackend tries to start. A

Wireless Access at FUDCon Blacksburg

2012-01-06 Thread Robyn Bergeron
If you are attending FUDCon:Blacksburg next week (January 13-15), you need to request a guest internet access account in order to use the guest wireless access on the Virginia Tech campus. It is requested that you sign up for this account PRIOR to your arrival at FUDCon. Pretty please. Directi

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/06/2012 06:09 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 01/06/2012 05:03 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! 2011/12/15 Brendan Jones: I would like to swap reviews for the following. All are very tiny so feel free to swap 2 for one. Listed in descending priority: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/s

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Gregor Tätzner
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2012, 18:09:08 schrieb Brendan Jones: > On 01/06/2012 05:03 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > Hello All! > > > > 2011/12/15 Brendan Jones: > >> I would like to swap reviews for the following. All are very tiny so > >> feel free to swap 2 for one. Listed in descending priority: >

Re: Anyone interested in abi-compliance-checker?

2012-01-06 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 01/06/2012 11:34 AM, Remi Collet wrote: Le 06/01/2012 19:00, Orion Poplawski a écrit : How do you generally make use of it? In the course of my build process I don't normally have two versions of the same library installed on one machine which seems to be what is needed to use it. I use i

Summary: Fedora Kernel Team Meeting 1-6-2012

2012-01-06 Thread Josh Boyer
== #fedora-meeting: Fedora kernel == Meeting started by jwb at 18:00:02 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-01-06/fedora_kernel.2012-01-06-18.00.log.html . Meeting summary -

[perl-MIME-Charset] fix typo in changelog date

2012-01-06 Thread Xavier Bachelot
commit 08e490532d0e52d8cdb44c6aadc3e24ec1a609a0 Author: Xavier Bachelot Date: Fri Jan 6 18:25:59 2012 +0100 fix typo in changelog date perl-MIME-Charset.spec |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) --- diff --git a/perl-MIME-Charset.spec b/perl-MIME-Charset.spec index

Re: Anyone interested in abi-compliance-checker?

2012-01-06 Thread Remi Collet
Le 06/01/2012 19:00, Orion Poplawski a écrit : > How do you generally make use of it? In the course of my build process > I don't normally have two versions of the same library installed on one > machine which seems to be what is needed to use it. I use it for some lib I maintain - generate the

Re: OCaml 3.12.1 (was 3.12.0) in Rawhide

2012-01-06 Thread Jerry James
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Below are the ones that I HAVEN'T done.  Feel free to jump in! > However please check the upstream for each package to see if there is > a new version, and if so, update to it. > > ocaml-apron-0.9.10-4.fc17 > ocaml-ocamlgraph-1.8.1-1.fc1

Re: OCaml 3.12.1 (was 3.12.0) in Rawhide

2012-01-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 12:47:39PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/release.en.html > > 3.12.1 is a simple bugfix update to the compiler. It probably would have been a good idea to link to the release notes ... http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.12/notes/C

Inactive package maintainers cleanup on 2012-01-10

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Greetings. Last year we asked everyone to change their fedora account system password and upload a new ssh public key. The deadline for this was 2011-11-30. Those who had not uploaded a new key or changed their password were marked 'inactive' in the fedora account system. Some subset of those i

Re: broken dependencies for fawkes-plugin-player

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:14:20 -0800 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 09:55 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:43:02 +0100, FD (Francesco) wrote: > > > > > >> fawkes-plugin-player.x86_64 require libgeos-3.3.0.so (64bit) but > > >> g

Re: Anyone interested in abi-compliance-checker?

2012-01-06 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 11/14/2011 12:46 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: I was looking for a way to check abi compatibility for a package I maintain that does not control API/ABI compatibility and found this: http://forge.ispras.ru/projects/abi-compliance-checker I already have it packaged for my own use so I thought I'd c

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Brendan Jones
On 01/06/2012 05:03 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! 2011/12/15 Brendan Jones: I would like to swap reviews for the following. All are very tiny so feel free to swap 2 for one. Listed in descending priority: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760270 lv2-ams-plugins - LV2 port of

GCC 4.7 build issues: error: no matching function for call...

2012-01-06 Thread Richard Shaw
openCOLLADA is failing to build with GCC 4.7 in rawhide and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for a solution. Below is the build log snippet. Thanks, Richard --- [ 2%] Building CXX object GeneratedSaxParser/CMakeFiles/GeneratedSaxParser_shared.dir/src/GeneratedSaxParserP

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! 2011/12/15 Brendan Jones : > I would like to swap reviews for the following. All are very tiny so feel > free to swap 2 for one. Listed in descending priority: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760270 > lv2-ams-plugins - LV2 port of the Alsa Modular Synth modules > > https:

Re: Exutils::MakeMaker dual-lives now

2012-01-06 Thread Petr Pisar
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 04:16:59PM +0100, Iain Arnell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Petr Pisar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just built CPAN variant of ExtUtils::MakeMaker in F17. I've been using > > the version for long time in my F17 virtual machine for doing package > > reviews, >

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Cronenworth writes: > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> PostgreSQL requires manual intervention at each upgrade (dump BEFORE you >> upgrade, restore afterwards) > As of PostgreSQL 9.0, there is an upgrade utility[1] that doesn't > require a dump/restore. But it does still require manual interventi

[perl-Moo] update to 0.009013

2012-01-06 Thread Iain Arnell
commit 21d666541be57b16d95d0241325283775a2570da Author: Iain Arnell Date: Fri Jan 6 16:31:42 2012 +0100 update to 0.009013 .gitignore|1 + perl-Moo.spec | 11 +++ sources |2 +- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.git

File Moo-0.009013.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by iarnell

2012-01-06 Thread Iain Arnell
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-Moo: 80ec444a3d274abe66b37ea4e5006ab9 Moo-0.009013.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Kevin Kofler wrote: PostgreSQL requires manual intervention at each upgrade (dump BEFORE you upgrade, restore afterwards) As of PostgreSQL 9.0, there is an upgrade utility[1] that doesn't require a dump/restore. I have used it to go from 8.4 to 9.0 and now 9.0 to 9.1 without an issue. [1] h

[Bug 771781] Numerous Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated messages

2012-01-06 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771781 --- Comment #2 from Miloslav Trmač 2012-01-06 09:32:48 EST --- Created attachment 551153 --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attac

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: > Then switch to using PostgreSQL as the database backend. > It's secure by default (e.g. only allows localhost connections) and > has better concurrency than MySQL. It's also Tom Lane's territory > and I like it better too. :-) PostgreSQL requires manual intervention at

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Brendan Jones
On 01/06/2012 12:33 PM, Gregor Tätzner wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 16:31:49 schrieb Brendan Jones: On 12/15/2011 07:14 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: I would like to swap reviews for the following. All are very tiny so feel free to swap 2 for one. Listed in descending priority: https://bug

[perl-Gtk3/f16] (2 commits) ...Add BR for ExtUtils::Install

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
Summary of changes: 16a9d13... Initial import after review (rhbz #754754) (*) d37899b... Add BR for ExtUtils::Install (*) (*) This commit already existed in another branch; no separate mail sent -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing li

OCaml 3.12.1 (was 3.12.0) in Rawhide

2012-01-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/release.en.html 3.12.1 is a simple bugfix update to the compiler. I'm expecting this may cause some broken dependencies. I intend to fix these as they come up over the next few days, and make sure that all OCaml packages are at the latest upstream versions at the same

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Brendan Jones
On 01/06/2012 10:15 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760270 lv2-ams-plugins - LV2 port of the Alsa Modular Synth modules Hans if you could take the lv2-ams-plugins that would be great! I will eagerly await yours ... As for the ladspa plugins, sure, happy t

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Gregor Tätzner
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 16:31:49 schrieb Brendan Jones: > On 12/15/2011 07:14 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: > > I would like to swap reviews for the following. All are very tiny so > > feel free to swap 2 for one. Listed in descending priority: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id

File Graph-Easy-0.71.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by iarnell

2012-01-06 Thread Iain Arnell
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-Graph-Easy: e0ff999694110fda648d8b19a2da53df Graph-Easy-0.71.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: using a macro in ExclusiveArch

2012-01-06 Thread Petr Pisar
On 2012-01-05, Björn Persson wrote: > The simplest solution seems to be to let SIG members co-maintain > redhat-rpm-config. Did you have some more elaborate solution in mind? > My idea is to let SIGs to maintain their specific standalone packages injecting files into /etc/rpm and to ask redhat-rpm

Re: qt accessibility, anyone interested?

2012-01-06 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
Rex, count with me, even I'm probably not the right person too but I think it's the must to have it and properly maintained. R. - Original Message - > Being the avid package monkey I am, I whipped up some initial > packaging for > http://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi/ in my space at > http://rd

Re: Review swaps

2012-01-06 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/05/2012 04:31 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 12/15/2011 07:14 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: I would like to swap reviews for the following. All are very tiny so feel free to swap 2 for one. Listed in descending priority: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760270 lv2-ams-plugins - LV

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
2012-01-05 20:20 keltezéssel, Kevin Kofler írta: > Rex Dieter wrote: >> I'm of a mind to revisit this (again). > NO, not again!!! > > Can we please stop this nonsense? > > Upstream defaults to MySQL for a reason, and strongly recommends NOT using > the SQLite backend by default. SQLite doesn't sup

Re: mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

2012-01-06 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:38:57 -0600 Rex Dieter wrote: > Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > Well it also took them two years to consider 'NFS mounted home' a > > valid use case, during which the whole 'you really need MySQL!!!' > > was broken for our site. > > It's easy to switch (maybe I should blog about