Re: about bash and Debian Lenny

2014-10-01 Thread Izak Burger
I made lenny packages for my machines. I could share them if you want? On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Nikolay Hristov ge...@stemo.bg wrote: Hello there, I know that this is outdated debian release and it is in the archives but I still have 6 servers running Lenny and I don't want to upgrade

Re: about bash and Debian Lenny

2014-10-01 Thread Izak Burger
Still, when someone offers their help there really is no need to play a smart ass as you did. The only thing you might achieve doing that is a) direct rebuttals (my e-mail) and b) mild propositions to build patched packages yourself. Admittedly I didn't read the email as properly as I

Re: Long Exim break-in analysis

2010-12-22 Thread Izak Burger
This is a me too email. I found one overlooked machine that was compromised on 16th of December. The usual process related things replaced: free pgrep pmap skillsnice tload uptime w kill pkill psslabtop sysctl topvmstat watch All of these were chattr +ai, as if that was

Re: Long Exim break-in analysis

2010-12-22 Thread Izak Burger
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org wrote: This looks like the rootkit I found somewhere in the internet: | 137a3bbda16034d34307a9d686e6fdb45b3c8683  procps/free | 5db25350dd15d3f1e63a4ff44fa85b72c21df72d  procps/kill | eeab165a2cf06feb327fa996f35271c076e992bc  

Re: Long Exim break-in analysis

2010-12-22 Thread Izak Burger
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/en650/details_of_the_root_kit_that_go With the exception of replacing /etc/exim4/exim.conf, its pretty much exactly what happened to me :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: exim4 router problems since 2 days / sucpicous process zinit is pstree

2010-12-18 Thread Izak Burger
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Oh and HP's iLO might need an advanced license for virtual media to work, not sure about that yet.  I picked up a nice DL380 G4 with the advanced iLO license already installed. Yup, I've also

Re: exim4 router problems since 2 days / sucpicous process zinit is pstree

2010-12-17 Thread Izak Burger
No question, reinstall. I agree, this is a root exploit, and once you have root you can pretty much hide anything you want. On a side note, the patch even applies cleanly on older versions of exim (such as 4.63), so if you're stuck with an older exim for whatever reason (like I am), its easy

Re: exim4 router problems since 2 days / sucpicous process zinit is pstree

2010-12-17 Thread Izak Burger
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Thorsten Göllner t...@ovm-group.com wrote: Your are (both) right. I will reinstall. What would be really nice though, is if you could do some kind of post-mortem. I am always curious to know the techniques of the black-hats, makes for nice war-stories around the

Re: accent sur debian

2009-07-13 Thread Izak Burger
2009/7/11 Maurice Guerrier guelo...@yahoo.com: Je suis sur debian avec GNOME comme interface graphique, j'utilise un clavier US c'est a dire QWERTY comment dois-je faire pour avoir les caracteres accentues. I don't read french, but I know avec means with and I assume clavier means keyboard. It

Re: How secure is vserver?

2009-06-05 Thread Izak Burger
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, what is Your opinion on qemu guest - does it offer more protection/guarantee? The differences are in how much is virtualised. Vserver does very little virtualisation and focuses on isolation. There is no virtual cpu, virtual

Re: How secure is vserver?

2009-06-05 Thread Izak Burger
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Izak Burgerisbur...@gmail.com wrote: If you push me for an answer, I'll say qemu, virtualbox and/or vmware should be safer, but in practice I will likely choose vserver because there is way less complexity involved and much better performance. One more thing.

Re: Recommend good IDS? was Re: /dev/shm/r?

2009-06-03 Thread Izak Burger
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, john lists.j...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be interested to hear some recommendations for IDS to run on internet facing servers. Especially from the point of view of ease of installation, ease of maintenance, quality of the tool, and ability to have it deliver really

Re: /dev/shm/r?

2009-06-02 Thread Izak Burger
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Vladislav Kurz vladislav.k...@webstep.net wrote: Well, this really looks suspicious. Look for unexpected processes running, open ports, etc. Directory /dev/shm/ is world-writable like /tmp, so chances are that the attacker did not gain root yet. But he might

Re: /dev/shm/r?

2009-06-02 Thread Izak Burger
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Wade Richards w...@wabyn.net wrote: Don't obsess on root access.  Any unauthorized use is a problem. You are right of course. Right after I sent my message saying that perhaps the machine hasn't been exploited yet I realised how wrong such a view is. Someone

Re: 256-bit Camellia vs 256-bit AES - Which is better?

2009-02-15 Thread Izak Burger
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Chip Panarchy forumanar...@gmail.com wrote: Which 256-bit encryption is the best? Camellia or AES? From the wikipedia article it seems they are the same as far as strength goes, but Camellia is supposedly a little more efficient (ie less/smaller cpu and that sort

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-13 Thread Izak Burger
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Lupe Christoph l...@lupe-christoph.de wrote: Mode 600 will deny /etc to everybody except root while it will change nothing for root. If you have any services on your system that run under non-root UIDs, and that have config under /etc, you hose them with any

Re: Out of office replies

2009-01-16 Thread Izak Burger
Stephen Vaughan stephenvaug...@gmail.com wrote: When will people learn not to set auto replies Nothing wrong with a proper auto-reply (one that does some decent caching, only replies once a day, avoids mailing lists and things with precedence: bulk, etc etc). The problem IMHO is that that is

Re: Freeze SO Linux, it's possible?

2008-12-10 Thread Izak Burger
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Carlos Carrero Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i would like to freeze my linux in order to freeze the OS, then, when I reboot the computer all changes that i made in the computer dissapears and it returns to the previous OS freezed. Cross posting is bad

Re: Freeze SO Linux, it's possible?

2008-12-10 Thread Izak Burger
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Sjors Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He doesn't mean a suspend to disk, which is what I thought too, first. He wants to make his installation frozen, i.e., changes aren't saved over reboots. I don't know how to do it, but maybe this clears up his original

Re: Einladung in mein XING-Netzwerk

2008-06-12 Thread Izak Burger
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Andreas Kretschmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sowas an eine Mailingliste? Das ist, sorry, asozial. Probably one of those features where you upload your address book (or give them your gmail username/password) and it automatically invites everyone. An honest mistake

Re: Thanks to Debian OpenSSL developers

2008-05-16 Thread Izak Burger
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Guido Hennecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Germany we say: Wer nichts macht, macht auch nichts verkehrt. Which means: he who does nothing makes no mistakes. (For those who don't understand German) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: secure installation

2007-08-20 Thread Izak Burger
On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Software failures *are* in the worst cases life threatening, and everyday non-safety-critical systems can easily be a very serious nuisiance to other users. I propose we stick a label on: This software is not meant to be run in life

Re: secure installation

2007-08-16 Thread Izak Burger
On 8/16/07, Ondrej Zajicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if there is no firewall (or other hand-crafted protective measures), then there is no need for rp_filter. So on common workstation there is no need for rp_filter too. I also don't see why you need rp_filter on a workstation. A

Re: secure installation

2007-08-16 Thread Izak Burger
On 8/16/07, Jack T Mudge III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My personal view is that there are plenty of simpler distributions out there, knoppix for first-time users, Ubuntu/Suse for novices, and RedHat for people who need hand-holding. Debian is primarily for advanced users, and for users who have

Re: Secure rsync setup

2006-12-17 Thread Izak Burger
On 12/17/06, Thorsten Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, this requires alpha having a ssh-key. Furthermore I'm not in charge with alpha's security, thus I've to make sure, that a attacker, who gained access to alpha's ssh-key is not able to compromis beta (well, he might be able to delete

Re: Remote Root In Nvidia xserver Driver

2006-10-18 Thread Izak Burger
On 10/18/06, Matvey Gladkikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop using blobs like nvidia videodriver in debian. Force them to go opensource! Can the opensource driver do proper acceleration yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: email notifications when users login

2006-09-19 Thread Izak Burger
On 9/18/06, Morgan Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if there was a package/script out there that could be used to notify the sys. admin every time a user logged into a debian system. The simplest two ways, as was already noted, is to add something to /etc/profile or some

Re: Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-28 Thread Izak Burger
On 8/26/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never had autoinstalled nfs-common and lpr... Those are definitly installed by default, at least in stable, or it was installed the last time I installed stable. IIRC so is nfs-kernel-server, although it is disabled by default since

Re: Why is portmap installed by default?

2006-08-21 Thread Izak Burger
On 8/20/06, kevin bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure it's been included in to the default setup for a reason - but I will be removing it on most servers. I always remove it after the installation (about the same time when I get rid of nvi and install vim). I see no point for it to be

Re: chkrootkit sniffers

2006-08-11 Thread Izak Burger
On 8/11/06, Christian Schuerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it strange that there is an DHCP client running on lo? I don't get the point of doing that. The pid is the same for all three (29184), so it is obviously a process that binds to 0.0.0.0, and as a result, ends up listening on lo as

Which kernels are vulnerable?

2006-07-17 Thread Izak Burger
Hi all, Had an argument over the weekend about which kernels are vulnerable to the exploit that was used to take gluck down. I maintained that only kernels = 2.6.13 and = 2.6.17.4 are vulnerable, but in the end I proved myself wrong when I took the exploit code, changed the line that says:

Re: Which kernels are vulnerable?

2006-07-17 Thread Izak Burger
On 7/17/06, Izak Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- snip --- and ran it on a sarge box running 2.6.8 (not sure exactly which version), and STILL got a root prompt back. --- snip --- Ok, I'm an idiot. I cannot for the life of me reproduce the problem now. I recall accidently running

Re: Password encrypting

2001-06-01 Thread Izak Burger
-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Izak Burger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/ Tel. +27 21 808 4863 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A big enough hammer can usually fix anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Password encrypting

2001-06-01 Thread Izak Burger
-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Izak Burger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/ Tel. +27 21 808 4863 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A big enough hammer can usually fix anything.

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-12 Thread Izak Burger
ed library that makes writes to the syslog go to stdout instead. You can then simply pipe it into multilog. regards, Izak -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Izak Burger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.linuxuser.co.za/ Tel. +27 8

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-12 Thread Izak Burger
that makes writes to the syslog go to stdout instead. You can then simply pipe it into multilog. regards, Izak -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Izak Burger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.linuxuser.co.za/ Tel. +27 83 274 9199

Re: commandlogging

2001-03-05 Thread Izak Burger
I think you're thinking about BSD process accounting. It provides a way to tell the kernel to write process information to a file. I have never worked with it before, but now you have a bit more to go on :) regards, Izak Burger On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Miguel ngel Var Giner wrote: Niklas Hglund

Re: commandlogging

2001-03-05 Thread Izak Burger
I think you're thinking about BSD process accounting. It provides a way to tell the kernel to write process information to a file. I have never worked with it before, but now you have a bit more to go on :) regards, Izak Burger On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Miguel Ángel Varó Giner wrote: Niklas

Re: secure install

2001-02-15 Thread Izak Burger
, it installs a whole lot of things I'm REALLY not interested in. These days I try to stick with apt-get. regards, Izak Burger -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Izak Burger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/ Tel. +27 21 808 4863