Hans Petter Selasky writes:
> Hi,
>
> Why should LISTs only be forward traversable? The following piece of
> code make lists backward traversable:
No objection to the concept.
But...
> /sys/sys/queue.h:
>
> +#define LIST_PREV(head,elm,field) \
> + (((elm) == LIST_FIRST(head)) ? ((__typeof(elm
> >What is needed to make this support a more sensible number of IRQs?
>
> Mainly changing the ioctl and its clients (rndcontrol only?) to supply
> more bits.
I am currently rewriting /dev/random (and rndcontrol).
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waiting for it to be more compatible with MITK5.
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Quoth "Keith Stevenson":
> (Mark Murray: jump in here if I get this wrong)
>
> The way I understand it, a PAM module (pam_unix?) would need to be able to
> look at the password hash and figure out which of the crypt functions to
> call. Ideally, the PAM configuration
> When you say rewriting, do you mean syncing with the version of the code
> in Linux (1.04, instead of our 0.95) or actually rewriting? If the latter,
> I'm curious as to what your aims are.
I want to implement Bruce Schneier's Yarrow.
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> So I propose a new file wintendo, for all gaming file formats used on
> the MS Windows platform.
"Wintendo" is a bad name for anything official. Try to find MS's
official name for the format(s).
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> > "Wintendo" is a bad name for anything official. Try to find MS's
> > official name for the format(s).
>
> You're hoping for a standard name for file formats of games used on
> Mi
use it anyway, and its usefulness
for DHCP and rarpd is too compelling.
Perhaps the comments in the GENERIC file could be updated.
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e international DES library (for
> other encryption algorithms, pick a freely available implmenetation such
> as the one from openssl).
This makes the most sense. Thrash it out as a port, and if that works,
we can bring it into both repositories.
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> How about the following patch. It adds an OPTIONAL_MANPATH directive,
> which is equivalent to the MANDATORY_MANPATH, except an absence of the
> directory is not considered an error.
Cool! Do it, I say!
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Er - I do't think that will happen. Not for a while.
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> Who were the parties that were heading up the Kerberos 5 integration?
>
> I have questions.
Me.
I will be bringiong in Heimdal (when it interoperates with MIT-K5).
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FTPD should be
PAMmable, likewise the r.*d's. The userland ftp and telnets can
have both (Isuspect), and the r-utils also.
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> What is holding back the work in the userland stuff then? Time?
No; the lack thereof ;-)
The current rush of things crypto has piqued my interest, so I am
hammering away quite hard these days.
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> > hammering away quite hard these days.
>
> Well, would it be useful for me to commit the KERBEROS -> KERBEROS4
> changes?
Er, no; please submit them to me as patches. :-)
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> "enabled" messages with "disabled" counterparts?
I strongly _request_ such a log message.
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Shift a bit until it becomes greater than (or less than) the number
in question.
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superuser before attempting locks.
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e) be well tested with a make world with
NFS mounted disks, possibly using another FreeBSD box as
a router for extra stress.
Is this what you are looking for?
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A regression test to make sure that the OS is not broken before you
inflict it on your colleagues/engineers?
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serious problems.
Inflicting it on "standard idiots" to check for install problems is a
human-engineering aproach you could also take? Impossible to automate,
though.
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contrib, but contains code that may
get Americans into trouble if they export it, so I maintain a copy
in South Africa (on internat.freebsd.org).
I'll be very happy to work with you on this one.
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Perhaps something similar could be invented for src/crypto? We'd need
to make the distibution machinery understand that, but I don't see
too much a problem there.
I have no strong feelings about src/crypto/sys or src/sys/crypto.
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> src/sys/crypto/des/sk.h
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e the IPSec stuff is around. I expect to
be able to tweak it so that this his is not too heavy, and customisable.
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device #1
IO: 0x0200 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x
IRQ 0 0
DMA 4 4
IO range check 0x00 activate 0x01
Logical device #2
IO: 0x0620 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x
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I'll commit if nobody else can/wants to...
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In 3 years of running this at an ISP, I have never seen it used in anger.
Under normal circumstances (${BIGNUM} Wintendo boxes running IRC
clients), the info given is completely useless.
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> > There is the question - what for? identd is of questionable use at best.
>
> I used to run a public shell machine, and one of my users cracked
> someone else's site. Identd made it much easier to figure out who the
nt, however, once a user gains root
> access, nothing on the machine should be considered trustworthy.
Right - but ident is an "after the fact" tool; one which at the time
you really need results is at its least trustworthy. I need that like
an extra hole in the head. :-)
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> Just because it's useless in some situations doesn't mean it's not useful
> in others. Yours is an argument against _misusing_ identd, not an argument
> against _using_ it.
No. It is an argument against trusting it. :-)
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nt would also be good.
As long as the documentation is _clear_ that this is not a front-line
security tool, but rather a thing to marginally augment logs with
user-supplied info, then I'll buy it.
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> On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:34:09 +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
>
> > As long as the documentation is _clear_ that this is not a front-line
> > security tool, but rather a thing to marginally augment logs with
> > user-supplied info, then I'll buy it.
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bly double-up as K4 ones, I'll fix this.
(I think we are really close, BTW).
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s build and install the krb5 programs/libraries, but ifdef'ing
> the support in other programs. How does that sounds?
Wonderful!
If you need repo-copying done, I'm your man!
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> I think Mark Murray is still sitting on the patch I did for this very
> thing. Check the -hackers mail archives. It was about 2-3 Months
> ago, so it may not even patch cleanly anymore against -CURRENT.
I committed this today!
Apologies for the delay.
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That would be me.
And it wouldn't be the first time a ball got dropped. I'll get to
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Did your _exact_ sample program fail on NetBSD in the same way that
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.ident line out of test.s looks like in each case?
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Bah.
Only three things use __COPYRIGHT; ftp(d?), routed and make. None of them
use \n's like you do.
> I've sent private mail to Peter, who introduced this implementation of
> __IDSTRING in rev 1.26 of cdefs.h.
Compatibility measure?
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> You should talk to Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] who has done alot of
> work with the current implementation of our random device.
I am currently rewriting FreeBSD's /dev/random device to use Schneier's
Yarrow algorithm. Some of it is in current, and
> If i do a perlcc test.pl i get the folllowing , in CURRENT ?
> Must i define something beforehand, or is it broken ?
I'll take a look...
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> > If i do a perlcc test.pl i get the folllowing , in CURRENT ?
> > Must i define something beforehand, or is it broken ?
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> I'll take a look...
Looks like perl brokenness. The missing boot_DynaLoader is in DynaLoader.a,
but there is no way of linking it in.
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(I just checked - it worked!)
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> It patches cleanly against -STABLE and -CURRENT, and only touches
> libcrypt. Take a look at it, feedback/patches are welcome, and if you
> like it, maybe someone can integrate it into -CURRENT. (I don't know
> whose dept. this would be -- Mark Murray perhap
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> /*
>* Even inspecting the state is privileged, since it gives a hint
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> Did I miss part of the OpenBSD delta? This looks too easy. :(
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>
> Can you get it ready for 4.2? I'd like to see us be able to
> run bind9 in the next release.
Sure. I'll see if I can do it in the next couple of hours.
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> > Anyone want to have a look at this? It's from the GNU awk maintainer.
>
> Without knowing which random.c it was, it's hard to judge :-) Also not
> knowing what the intended use is, it's hard to recommend something.
I'd guess src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.c
x27;s wrong. There was a time that we
were very lax about confirming the server public keys.
The last round of changes have all been confirmed by digital
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Works like a charm.
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Actually, you can make it a lot better:
If the lockfile exists, then kill -0 the PID to see if it is still live.
If not, blow away the lockfile. If still alive and older than N minutes,
blow away the PID and break the lock.
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ike to run TLS for SMTP and postfix. The mail volumes will benefit
> from hardware crypto. I really prefer to stay with Free, vs. Open.
Quite. :-)
Please don't ask anything more than your "quarterly query"; that way I won't
have to lie to you. :-)
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even with weird/theoretical architectures like 256-bit machines. Doesn't
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for default "if (sizeof(x) == 1) return x;" (ignore syntax) ?
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paid, you may not get thanked, but you will have the satisfaction
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This is really questions@ material, but...
$ tar -y
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yes.
In current use
WANT_LINT= yes
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> pam_rootok: pam_sm_authenticate: Refused; not superuser
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> I think it should be sent to the debug output, not a terminal. It's
> quite annoying ...
Mergemaster.
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This has not been fixed. I could look at it (I am the author of that)
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Amen!
Can we get back on topic now, please? :-)
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He admitted to it.
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> 2. autoheader // got a bunch of warnings but no errors
> 3. ./configure --with-pam --with-s-key// PAM was configured, but S/Key
> wasn't.. dunno why yet
> 4. make sshd // below are the errors I got after a bunch of warnings
No.
That is NOT how its built.
Look at src/s
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> .xsession is being executed.
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> Combinations of using "sufficient" and "required" for pam_ssh and
> pam_unix do not seem to affect things.
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Please send me what you have.
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> up to speed on -CURRENT so that we can be ready to use it later this year.
Also - have you looked at STABLE's /dev/urandom?
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> just defined(), !, &&, ||, and brackets.
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> would be nice to get it committed eventually.
Ooooh! :-)
Yes please!
I'll look at this.
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On Current (5.0+) it is in src/sys/dev/null/ and is much cleaner. :-)
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> how I can fix it ?
The random device has not changed, but the OpenSSL code has. Maybe OpenSSL's
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> > > however I tried that, and now when I try to ssh or scp from a non root
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> > > inside the jail, I get:
> > >
> > > "Host key verification failed"
> > >
> > > Does anyone know why this ha
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I'm trying to see if /dev/random can be persuaded to give _any_
aoutput at all.
Maybe do it on a vty instead of in X.
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gt; > > command and got:
> > > > >
> > > > > $ dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/stdout bs=512 count=1 | hexdump -C
> > > > > 0+0 records in
> > > > > 0+0 records out
> > > > > 0 bytes transferred in 0.000
2, 4 Sep 3 21:46 /dev/urandom
> > > >
> > > >Also good.
> > > >
> > > > > > > So then, as root I ran: `chmod 0666 /dev/stdout` and then I ran
> >your
> > > > > >`dd`
> > > > > > > command and got:
&g
gt; > > >... etc. Looking good.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > $ ls -l /dev/*rand*
> > > > > > > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel2, 3 Sep 3 21:46 /dev/random
> > > > > > > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel2, 4 Sep
t=1 | hexdump
> >-C
> > > > > > > > > 1+0 records in
> > > > > > > > > 1+0 records out
> > > > > > > > > a0 69 1a 7c 8f 32 e5 21 ae 7a 33 14 68 0b 8e a6
> >
> Sorry, here is the rest:
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Here is the output of the `dd` command using urandom:
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
is looks like a bug in the linux-base port. I'll file a PR.
Indeed. Good move.
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default case, and it breaks Much(tm) if you don't
include it. The kernel-building individual would have had to have made
a decision to not include the RNG, and as such is assumed to know what
she is doing.
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manner.
In 3 years of running this at an ISP, I have never seen it used in anger.
Under normal circumstances (${BIGNUM} Wintendo boxes running IRC
clients), the info given is completely useless.
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> On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote:
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> > There is the question - what for? identd is of questionable use at best.
>
> I used to run a public shell machine, and one of my users cracked
> someone else's site. Identd made it much easier to figure out who the
ng point, however, once a user gains root
> access, nothing on the machine should be considered trustworthy.
Right - but ident is an "after the fact" tool; one which at the time
you really need results is at its least trustworthy. I need that like
an extra hole in the head. :-)
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by the time you need ident, it is most likely compromised.
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> Just because it's useless in some situations doesn't mean it's not useful
> in others. Yours is an argument against _misusing_ identd, not an argument
> against _using_ it.
No. It is an argument against trusting it. :-)
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ave protective circuitry
that co-operates with this?
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nt would also be good.
As long as the documentation is _clear_ that this is not a front-line
security tool, but rather a thing to marginally augment logs with
user-supplied info, then I'll buy it.
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