I'm not sure if this is going to make it to the list.. anyways..
One of the biggest reasons I stick with debian is it's social contract.. watching
companies like Redhat charge for thier autoupdates, SUSE not making an installable iso
image available, and what have you.. I like not having to wor
icewm-taskbar for use with gnome or
kde or just superlite wm...
eep.. being summoned.. just my choice.. fun fun fun,
Curious
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:48:30AM -0400, coldfire wrote:
> i was just curious what the window manager of choice is on this list :) ..
> i'm a die hard windowma
linux specific:
(short list to get you started)
Resources:
books:
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/puis/
links:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/index.html
http://www.securityportal.com/lasg/
http://www.linuxsecurity.c
e I can touch a painting
at an art gallery I own it.. there is more to accessing a system then getting your
hands on it..
random,
curious
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 06:25:27PM -0500, Samuel Tesla wrote:
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since we are talking about rescue systems.. just thought I'd through some stuff out
that I've found TRULY useful:
The coroner's toolkit (qsome forensic and file recovery tools):
http://www.fish.com/tct/
Linuxcare's bootable business card:
http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/BBC/download.epl
Tom
ps(keeping additional switches from being used in lilo):
- add password= to lilo
add restricted keyword if you only want to use the password to send additional options
for the truly parinoid I would recommend researching crypto file systems..
Finnaly,
Think physical security if possible,
Curio
aught to be faught for.. interms of people intractions with words like
faggot, lame, etc.. should be the meaning of words.. not how they should be used...
In amercia at least your not going to beable to stop people from using words that
offend/hurd/etc.. but you can certainly help control their
Actualy as soon as I get a chance to.. I plan to write a "debian caveats" that covers
things like ease of use /install.. various diffrences that might confuse users of
other distributions, speed of stable releases.. and so forth
With the release of Debian 2.2 the installation has become MU
out
(http://www.progeny.com/develop/now/)
BTW: if your curious you can see a partial history of my primary desktop system at
home (http://www.curious.org/sources.list)
{kind of out of date {NOTE: do NOT mix helixcode's debs with debian unstable!}) i. I
never personaly did a fresh install of progeny..
> > trying to get the aforementioned peripherals (USB mouse and SB Live) to
> > work. I finally just gave up on it and decided to use Mandrake as a
> > desktop.
>
> I stripped a mandrake system down (as far as I could) to bare bones
> and began to tailor it to what I needed.. When the next relea
h I haven't used it myself..
Freshmeat has many listings:
http://freshmeat.net/browse/707/
Hope this helps,
Curious
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Whee.. I wrote an essay on why I use debian...
feel free to email comments about my first draft:
http://www.curious.org/whydebian.html
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Actualy "No downloading" (though probably more vauge then most policies I've read..
since the very act of viewing a webpage is downloading) is a fairly common policy with
large companies.. maintaining systems can be quite a difficult task.. adding random
applications to a system can add lots of
here is a good quicky guide to get started in your investigation:
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/root_compromise.html
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I remeber someone here was looking for a realy good apt/dpkg guide...
I ran across this one while keeping up with www.debianplanet.org
http://www.egroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html
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I have just recently purchased one from www.xcomputing.com
the 1Us start at under 1k the one I baught is 1.3k haven't seen it or
tested it yet.. so I can't say much more then that..
Chris
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re: debian books..
actualy looking at the ones in english:
(they are all avail online except for sams)
newriders:
http://www.newriders.com/debian/html/frames/
linuxpress:
http://www.linuxpress.com/books.html
oreilly:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html
oreilly is the only on
I've had good experinces with a generic bttv card...
(don't remeber which one it was.. I just opened the box and looked at the
chip before I baught it :) )
http://www.metzlerbros.de/bttv.html
some other useful links:
other supported cards:
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
linuxtv
To expand a bit on this.. openbsd has a MUCH smaller driver base.. before
jumping openbsd make sure your network cards and scsi cards are supported
(if any).
Jumping from Debian to OpenBSD requires a little learning curve since
devices/default shells and lots of commands behave diffrently and use
The most famous one is probably:
(apparently last updated Oct 1999)
http://www.speakfreely.org/
supports:
confrence mode
answering machine
encrypted com
and icq interoperability on windows systems atleast
a peer to peer only one with encryption:
http://www.lila.com/nautilus/
here's one without e
Typicaly you can't go too wrong with dell or IBM (personaly I have an HP
which I won't recommend)
also check out tuxtops they have laptops with linux installed.. and also
sell debian and redhat distros that are specific to certian laptops:
http://www.tuxtops.com/software.html
you might notice that
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-10/lw-10-fwproducts1.html
has some good firewall info
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or the confusion,
JL
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Vinnie wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, curious wrote:
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>
> I tried searching the RFCs and decided there's way too many for me to want
> to read :)
Here are some good rfcs to start with:
gigabit and trends:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1216.html
Response to the above: slow networks:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1217.html
an early wireless network stan
I vaugly remeber some debate on some list that delt with dns/bind
using dotted decimal notation for MX records.. bind doesn't support
this.. there are other nameservers that will.. however unless such things
realy flood the internet space.. mail is going to point to domains
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The quick an easy method would be:
ipchains -A input -p tcp -y -l -j DENY
doing this will allow tcp connections ONLY initiated by you to communicate
with the box (Note: there are scans types that can sneak past this) but
general scans won't even be responded to (so you can with your
"stealth" toke
decss.tv anyone :)
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, alissa bader w
When installing staroffice I recommend installing it in some usual
area.. (like /usr/local/soffice or the like) then run setup as each user
that is going to use it and do a "run from the network" install or
whatever the selection is.. this will keep the binaries in a logical place
and put each us
Actualy at an install fest a couple of years ago.. there was someone with
SunIPX that we managed to install over the network without a floppy or
cdrom.. I think it was somthing like using bootp and nfs.. all I remeber
it there were these two guys.. that just somehow already knew how to do
this.. :
If your looking for debian with easy install.. go with storm2000
(NOTE: make sure the version you get comes with 2.2.16 kernel.. storm has
a version based on slink (old debain) and potato (current version) under
the same name.. my system didn't support storm's graphical install.. but
the textinsta
*WARNING* be sure to TEST your autoresponder BEFORE going away anywhere...
THINK mailing list.. THINK of whathappens when a responder REPLYS to a
mailing list message.. (it recives it's OWN REPLY which it then REPLYS
TO!)
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FIRST: Decide on an overal security policy for the company (who can do
what/ what is important/ what do we do when we want to make changes to our
paremiter {ie. add modems and stuff})
Second:what type of access do you want going in and going out of your
network? (ie. what is the firewall reason
You might consider putting up an Intrusion Detecion System
www.snort.org is probably the best free one out there..
if you feel like tortureing yourself shadow is also nice (esp for
distributed sensors).. however shadow only looks at headers unless you
massivly alter the scripts..
http://www.nswc
ianly
suggest people try these out.. you might be very surprised how much you
like browsing/searching with them.. if you've only used lynx in the past
prepare to be blown away by w3m and links!
Curious
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> Hi,
> I am looking a bit at firewalls today. I am trying to find a firewall
> product) that
> - is easy to set up
For ease of setup I would look heavly into firewall appliances (though be
very careful.. alot of them are just linux boxes with ipchains and a web
gui selling for much more then thie
http://www.mosix.org/
I'm surprised this clustering method hasn't recived more attention.. it's
basicly a "fork and forget".. Mosix takes care of the clustinger for
applications no modifications of the applications nessary!
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Btw since you mentioned sash I figured I'd mention some other "must haves"
in terms of rescue operations:
1.tomsrtbt:http://www.toms.net/rb/ (tom's rescue disk)
2.a dos boot disk with fdisk so you can /mbr when the master boot rec goes
foobar
3.http://www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd/index.epl (linux
http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/unix/mail/pine/gpg/
has full details
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I've seen alot of people suggest the "easyist" distro to people who are
new.. I used to aswell... until I came across OpenBSD's philosophy which
is:
secure by default
more specificly nothing is turned on unless the user chooses to do so...
meaning you can plug the box into the wire while installi
I'm not sure if there is an opensource AOL server however the jabber
project has come quite far:
www.jabber.com (has a free windows client and they produce a "commercial"
jabber server {ie. "redhat jabber" }
www.jabber.org (the original jabber site hosts the server/transport
development)
www.jab
netatalk works with both classical appletalk and appleshare IP...
and if I'm not mistaken appleshareIP is tcp/ip based (definatly ip)
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as blogs go I think slashdot is quite good.. it's forums are also good
places to find mirrors to sites/info/etc that has been slashdoted or
otherwhise has been taken down.. and to occasionaly find related links...
I had thought of writting a slashdot url leacher that would grab every
forum entry t
There is a workaround for NetBIOS authentication thru NAT..
I'm not sure if it was this list I already posted the link on..
here it is again if I have:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1159/
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Netbios has some "features" that make it difficult to NAT esp. if your
using windows Domains or WINS...
to properly utilize this "feature" to your advantage check out:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1159/
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The message about netstat reminded me of an issue I still haven't figured
out...
on some linux distributions if a machine can't look up it's own hostname
it fails to ping other systems and other such oddities... (redhat 6.1 is
one of them)
any clues?
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I belive it was this list that someone was looking for an AOL client for
linux... here are some links for you...
If I'm posting to the wrong list.. please spank me latter :)
there is supposedly a "stolen" copy of AOL's client for linux avail..
Slashdot's article:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?
BTW if any of you truly feel that QT isn't "free enough"...
the harmony project (last updated {unless there is another location I
don't know about} March 26,1999)
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The "free" or "lack of freeness" of KDE is a question you'll probably want
to come to your own conclusions on... however there is lots of guidance on
this matter...
Joseph Carter on why debian doesn't include KDE:
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/17/961300740.html
Eirik Eng (president and co-fo
if you having serious issues with lilo you might want to investigate using
loadlin w/ multi-config.sys
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Neat! there is a www.imap.org that has lots of stuff :)
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ (if your using carnegie mellon's)
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nt to consider using scp to transfer the files.. this
a: allows you to maintain your port policies
b: keeps passwords from going across the wire
c: is more secure then smb
pscp:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
is a good scp client..
hope this helps,
Cu
interms of free solutions I would look into
heartbeat:http://www.linux-ha.org/download/
(basicly it's fake (http://www.us.vergenet.net/linux/fake/) with nifty
monitoring features.. there is alot of good documentation out there that
explanes utilizing arpspoofing in HA environments... my first
reco
which reminds me of my debian peeve :) the delay between Official releases
is quite irks some (clearly nessary for debian to maintain it's
distribution quality)... I've been trying to find a "debian subscription"
so that I could have the latest debian-frozen on cd sent every so often so
I don't ha
High level over view of bsd vs. linux:
(this isn't a pro/con thing just an overview.. I belive every system has
it's place)
License
linux uses the GNU license the BSD uses BSD licence
this means that anyone can include bsd w/out including source in a
commercial package..
Development model:
In terms of major distributions I would divide them into a few
familyies(sic):
debian:
debian
corel
storm
redhat:
redhat
mandrake
other major distributions:
suse
turbo
caldera
everything else :)
members of the debian family are "
addenum:
for "http style" ftp proxy set ftp_proxy=http://proxy:port/
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actualy to get a dhcp address is as simple as typing dhcpcd as root
(you don't need to init the interface dhcpcd will do it for you)
you should already have a dhcpcd rc file ready to simlink into your run
level if you want it to init dhcpcd on bootup
since I work in so many diffrent environments
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