Running nessus on freebsd...

2006-02-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I'm trying to get nessus setup for doing some internal security checking. I installed the ports for nessus and nessus-plugins, and everything worked as expected. I then registered for the full feed of plugins, which got me up to over 10,000 plugins. I restarted nessus, and it didn't work at all.

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:45 PM -0400 5/24/06, Allen wrote: > > It really depends on how many machines you have, on how > many different tasks they have and on which archictures > you're running. > The answer is: build host + jails for a testing environment... This'll reduce your actual downtime. Did you j

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:28 AM +0100 5/25/06, Yann Golanski wrote: Quoth Garance A Drosihn on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 15:40:23 -0400 >> The answer is: build host + jails for a testing environment... > >> This'll reduce your actual downtime. > > > > Did you just tell him to get ano

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:42 AM -0700 10/11/06, Jason Stone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Though I admit RELENG_4 is getting dusty, it is not rusty. I believe it is still used in many places because of its stability and performance. [...] Is it envisageable to extend the RELENG_4's and RELEN

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:42 AM +0200 10/12/06, Dan Lukes wrote: As I'm not commiter, I'm allowed to submit PR and speak. I'm trying both. This letter is "speak" part. Understood. But this has been announced for awhile. If the people who actually depend on 4.x can find the resources to support it, I am

Re: Permission denied by op

2007-01-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:57 PM -1000 1/12/07, Randy Bush wrote: i am invoking op from a python proggy which does an op.system() of op chmod 640 /usr/local/etc/tac_plus.conf i get "Permission denied by op" % ls -l /usr/local/etc/op.access -r 1 root wheel 149 Jan 13 07:41 /usr/local/etc/op.access Tr

Re: Protecting against kernel NULL-pointer derefs

2009-09-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:13 AM +0900 9/19/09, Hideki EIRAKU wrote: From: Pieter de Boer Subject: Protecting against kernel NULL-pointer derefs Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:03:48 +0200 - Are there unwanted side-effects of raising VM_MIN_ADDRESS? Mapping at address 0x0 is needed by some softwares using vm86 mode.

Re: PHK's MD5 might not be slow enough anymore

2010-01-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:09 PM -0800 1/28/10, Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2010/01/28 12:18, Chris Palmer wrote: For backwards compatibility, which do people prefer: Creating a new $N$ prefix every time we re-tune the algorithm, or using a new notation to say how many times thi

Re: PHK's MD5 might not be slow enough anymore

2010-01-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:56 PM -0500 1/28/10, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 1:09 PM -0800 1/28/10, Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2010/01/28 12:18, Chris Palmer wrote: For backwards compatibility, which do people prefer: Creating a new $N$ prefix every time we re-tune the

Re: PHK's MD5 might not be slow enough anymore

2010-01-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:13 PM -0800 1/28/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Might want to make it something like $1.nnn.bbb$, so the admin can specify the number of bits as well as the number of rounds. And then pick some algorithm where those two val