Re: what is the maximum length of username?

2006-01-03 Thread Zoong PHAM
On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 12:41:29 -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: Is it advisable to change the definition to increase the maximum length? No. I strongly advise you against that. I won't attempt to do that. Thanks, Zoong

Re: 256 ip: bridge or router

2006-01-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:37:29PM +0100, Pailloncy Jean-Gerard wrote: And also wrote: The two cables came from two routers of my provider. The two ips (a.b.c.1 and a.b.c.2) are in the same vlan on the two different routers. Broadcast should work. So on outside, a CARP should be the simple

NFS-Question (nfs-server timeouts..?)

2006-01-03 Thread Sebastian Rother
Hi everybody, I've a question related to NFS. I#ve 2 PCs at home. One is a Server (NFS) running 3.8 and the other is my workstation running current. Server provides a NFS-Share. Let's call it /nfs Workstation mounts the NFS-Share into /mnt/nfs If the Workstation calculates something and I

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:24:22AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: My dad (68 years old) has finally succeeded in destroying/infecteding his MS-Windows NT4 box, in spite of my best efforts to secure the darn thing (e.g. No MSIE, No Microsoft Networking, stripped of just about everything MS-ish

Re: 256 ip: bridge or router

2006-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:37:29PM +0100, Pailloncy Jean-Gerard wrote: And also wrote: The two cables came from two routers of my provider. The two ips (a.b.c.1 and a.b.c.2) are in the same vlan on the two different routers. Broadcast should work. So on outside, a CARP should be the

Possible bridge bug

2006-01-03 Thread Bert Koelewijn
Hello all, Could someone explain this behaviour? When an IP address is assigned to a bridge member interface, an arp broadcast request to this interface bypasses bridge filter rules. But, an arp unicast request is blocked as it should. Setup: 192.168.1.1(00:aa:bb:01:02:03)

Re: Possible bridge bug

2006-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
Could someone explain this behaviour? When an IP address is assigned to a bridge member interface, an arp broadcast request to this interface bypasses bridge filter rules. But, an arp unicast request is blocked as it should. If you can, it might be helpful to confirm this somewhere other

Postfix, fatal: Cross-device link

2006-01-03 Thread Craig Skinner
Hi there, I think I know the answer to this, just wanted to double check before I re-partioned. As postfix runs chrooted in /var/spool/postfix, is it therfore impractable to have this arrangement: $ fgrep postfix /etc/fstab /dev/wd0m /var/spool/postfixffs

Re: Postfix, fatal: Cross-device link

2006-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
I think I know the answer to this, just wanted to double check before I re-partioned. As postfix runs chrooted in /var/spool/postfix, is it therfore impractable to have this arrangement: chroot isn't involved. Have you thought about what you're asking it to do when it has to move a mail item

Re: Possible bridge bug

2006-01-03 Thread Bert Koelewijn
Stuart Henderson wrote: Could someone explain this behaviour? When an IP address is assigned to a bridge member interface, an arp broadcast request to this interface bypasses bridge filter rules. But, an arp unicast request is blocked as it should. If you can, it might be helpful to confirm

Re: 256 ip: bridge or router

2006-01-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:42:56PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:37:29PM +0100, Pailloncy Jean-Gerard wrote: And also wrote: The two cables came from two routers of my provider. The two ips (a.b.c.1 and a.b.c.2) are in the same vlan on the two different

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Terry
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Joachim Schipper wrote: Basically, all mail clients suck. And the one that sucks less is not very newbie-friendly. Joachim Hehehe, I agree. However, I have used a few graphical clients that weren't too bad. Evolution, Thunderbird, and Sylpheed-Claws. A few

APIC

2006-01-03 Thread martin
Hello. Does OpenBSD 3.8 use the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) ? Some cards, e,g telephony and framegrabbers have issues with the limited standard XT 16 IRQ's. APIC motherboards give you 24 or more (I've seen as many as 101) interrupts. Besides doing a dmesg | grep irq, is

Re: Postfix, fatal: Cross-device link

2006-01-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:36:51PM +, Craig Skinner wrote: Hi there, I think I know the answer to this, just wanted to double check before I re-partioned. As postfix runs chrooted in /var/spool/postfix, is it therfore impractable to have this arrangement: $ fgrep postfix /etc/fstab

Re: NFS-Question (nfs-server timeouts..?)

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:43:22PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: Hi everybody, snip nfs server server:/nfs: not responding The workstation will not hang but the shell where I did e.g. ls /mnt/nfs hangs and can't get killed anyway. Even a sudo umount -f /mnt/nfs stoped working and

Re: APIC

2006-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
Does OpenBSD 3.8 use the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) ? yes, but only with the bsd.mp kernel.

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-03 Thread martin
--- martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just ordered both the Mikrotik Routerboard 44 ($89) and the Soekris lan1641 ($95). Both 4-port NIC boards. I'll let you know how the perform. I'm also puzzled by the claims of performance issues and saturating the bus PCI bus previously mentioned as

Re: Postfix, fatal: Cross-device link

2006-01-03 Thread Craig Skinner
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:59:18PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: Yes. What you want to do is not theoretically impossible, but it is highly impractical. Postfix manages its spool by moving files about; move is quick within a filesystem, but no faster than copy across filesystems. (And

Re: APIC

2006-01-03 Thread Andy Hayward
On 1/3/06, martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides doing a dmesg | grep irq, is there another way at seeing the assigned interrupts. # vmstat -i -- ach

Re: NFS-Question (nfs-server timeouts..?)

2006-01-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Sebastian Rother wrote: Hi everybody, I've a question related to NFS. I#ve 2 PCs at home. One is a Server (NFS) running 3.8 and the other is my workstation running current. Server provides a NFS-Share. Let's call it /nfs Workstation mounts the NFS-Share into

Re: APIC

2006-01-03 Thread Martin Reindl
martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides doing a dmesg | grep irq, is there another way at seeing the assigned interrupts. e.g. For Linux cat /proc/interrupts reveals:- vmstat(8) vmstat -zi

Re: NFS-Question (nfs-server timeouts..?)

2006-01-03 Thread Sebastian Rother
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:27:27 +0100 (CET) Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Sebastian Rother wrote: Hi everybody, I've a question related to NFS. I#ve 2 PCs at home. One is a Server (NFS) running 3.8 and the other is my workstation running current.

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-03 Thread Peter Philipp
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:31:13PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: OK, then the cpio man page in -current is in error. That's my mistake, I asked jmc@ to change it to 64GB where it is actually 8GB, cpio doesn't add a space or null termination on the 12th digit so it should be ok, only tar and ustar

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-03 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:03:16PM +0100, Peter Philipp wrote: Index: cpio.1 === RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/pax/cpio.1,v retrieving revision 1.22 diff -u -r1.22 cpio.1 --- cpio.1 15 Nov 2005 00:00:28 - 1.22 +++

Re: Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-03 Thread Justin H Haynes
Chris Zakelj wrote: Justin H Haynes wrote: Thanks Nick Holmes and misc for http://www.openbsdsupport.org/GalleryInChroot.html. It was very helpful in getting Gallery working in OpenBSD in the chrooted Apache environment for me. However, I need to use an external smtp server to handle

Re: Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:34:48AM -0600, Justin H Haynes wrote: Chris Zakelj wrote: Good Idea. Actually, since everyone may not even need this little hack, I've just changed it to create in /var/www/etc/: resolv.conf.local resolv.conf.OpenNIC Then users can copy one if they need it. here

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:45:46PM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: On 1/3/06, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since /etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole runs with root permission on every user logout to prevent /dev/console sniffing I modified it to perform the shutdown if the flag file is

OpenBGPd filters

2006-01-03 Thread Sylvain Coutant
Hi and happy new year to all, I try to apply a nexthop blackhole filter without success on OpenBSD 3.8. I receive the bogon list from cymru and try to force blackholing of the routes without success. Here is my configuration : group BGPBogon { remote-as 65333 announce

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:04:36PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:45:46PM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: Add dad to the operator group which can run /sbin/shutdown without sudo. That's not a very good idea. $ ls -la /dev/wd* brw-r- 1 root operator0,

vnconfig strange behaviour (or my mistake?)

2006-01-03 Thread Vladas Urbonas
Hi all, sorry for bothering. My problem is as follows: 0. 3.8 GENERIC 1. I am creating 1.5Gb all-zeroes file with dd 2. vnconfig -ck /dev/svnd0c file.img 3. fdisk -e /dev/rsvnd0c 4. dislabel -E /dev/rsvnd0c 5. newfs /dev/rsvnd0c 6. mount /dev/svnd0c /mnt 7. copying in files into /mnt And after

Re: vnconfig strange behaviour (or my mistake?)

2006-01-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Vladas Urbonas wrote: Hi all, sorry for bothering. My problem is as follows: 0. 3.8 GENERIC 1. I am creating 1.5Gb all-zeroes file with dd 2. vnconfig -ck /dev/svnd0c file.img 3. fdisk -e /dev/rsvnd0c use fdisk -i svnd0, much easier. 4. dislabel -E /dev/rsvnd0c

upgrading packages with pkg_add -u and pkg_add -r

2006-01-03 Thread Justin H Haynes
I really appreciate this work. Until it is complete, here are a few quick and dirty things I do to make the upgrade process a little easier. Probably common sense to many, but I'll share it all the same: https://justinhaynes.com/weblog/package-updates-in-openbsd-38/ -Justin

OT: software testing envinronment

2006-01-03 Thread Gustavo Rios
Hello folks, sorry for being OT, but i have written some code and would like to test it on 64 bit little/big endian box and have none to try. Would it be the case some here kind enough to provide me with shell access? I am seeking not only OBSD environments. Thanks a lot for your time and

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On 12/31/05, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nazis thought their Enigma machine was perfect. Do you know why Enigma was broken? Primarily because the operators didn't follow procedure and made a series of other mistakes (This doesn't seem too important). As is typical, the problem

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread patrick ~
The first thing I did was add a flag file to my dad's home directory and made sure he cant modify or delete it. # touch /home/dad/.xshutdown # chown root:wheel /home/dad/.xshutdown # chmod 400 /home/dad/.xshutdown login: dad password: dadsbox $ ls -l .xshutdown -r

Re: Time on amd64

2006-01-03 Thread Ted Unangst
are you running ntpd? are you running ntpd with the kernel adjtime patch i posted to tech a few days ago? On 1/1/06, Cyrus Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine with a sempron64 and it seems that time is a tad bit too fast. Every minute it skips ahead about 15-20 seconds. After about

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread Will H. Backman
Ted Unangst wrote: On 12/31/05, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nazis thought their Enigma machine was perfect. Do you know why Enigma was broken? Primarily because the operators didn't follow procedure and made a series of other mistakes (This doesn't seem too important). As is

Re: spamd and spews1

2006-01-03 Thread Bob Beck
Spews seems to be having some issues. www.spews.org refuses connections from here. The spews list will be updated once their site is again reachable from www.openbsd.org -Bob * Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-12-30 10:49]: Recently the spews1 file that gets

Re: Time on amd64

2006-01-03 Thread marrandy
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 15:16, Ted Unangst wrote: are you running ntpd? are you running ntpd with the kernel adjtime patch i posted to tech a few days ago? On 1/1/06, Cyrus Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine with a sempron64 and it seems that time is a tad bit too fast.

Re: APIC

2006-01-03 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Tuesday, January 3, martin wrote: Does OpenBSD 3.8 use the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) ? In bsd.mp, yes. Some cards, e,g telephony and framegrabbers have issues with the limited standard XT 16 IRQ's. How so? APIC motherboards give you 24 or more (I've seen as

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:24:44PM +0200, Juha Erkkila wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:04:36PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:45:46PM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: Add dad to the operator group which can run /sbin/shutdown without sudo. That's not a very

stupid sata raid question

2006-01-03 Thread Bryan Irvine
Is there a good/cheap SATA RAID card that doesn't use that retarded soft RAID? In other words, will this card present itself to OBSD at install as a single disk? http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/sata_150_4.html --Bryan

Re: stupid sata raid question

2006-01-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Bryan Irvine wrote: Is there a good/cheap SATA RAID card that doesn't use that retarded soft RAID? In other words, will this card present itself to OBSD at install as a single disk? http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/sata_150_4.html yes, -Otto

Re: Two internet connections, carp and tun

2006-01-03 Thread Gilles LAMIRAL
Hello, You should consider getting more public IP addresses as you need three public addresses on each external connection, ideally. I can't. But I can put the two external interfaces on the same physical lan and add ip alias addresses. I can also plug other interfaces on the external lans

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:15:46AM -0800, patrick ~ wrote: The first thing I did was add a flag file to my dad's home directory and made sure he cant modify or delete it. # touch /home/dad/.xshutdown # chown root:wheel /home/dad/.xshutdown # chmod 400 /home/dad/.xshutdown

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread knitti
On 1/3/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/2/06, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've made it very clear that CGD won't be imported into OpenBSD, yet you've never explained why, or why you ported it in the first place. Care to let us in on why? I expect your reply will

VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Jason Dixon
I'm testing a new VPN tunnel using ipsecadm and manual keying. Everything looks ok, but packets aren't making it to enc0 and beyond on the remote side (either way). I can watch the packet count increment on the relevant pass rules (see below), so I know it's making it all the way up to

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:24:44 +0200, Juha Erkkila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:04:36PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:45:46PM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: Add dad to the operator group which can run /sbin/shutdown without sudo. That's not a

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:11, J.C. Roberts wrote: The rule of thumb for granting privileges is simple; avoid granting permissions whenever possible. Check the ownership/privileges on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 after you start kde or Xorg. Also check the ownership/privileges on the /dev/[pt]typ*

learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread Joe S
Hello list members. I'd like to direct this post to those that develop code for OpenBSD. I'd like a start developing software, and in turn, contribute to projects like OpenBSD and others. Right now, I'm working as a sysadmin/infosec person. I can write some simple perl and shell scripts, but

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread kami petersen
Ted Unangst wrote: On 1/2/06, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've made it very clear that CGD won't be imported into OpenBSD, yet you've never explained why, or why you ported it in the first place. Care to let us in on why? I expect your reply will be a short no just like a few of

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread Sebastian Rother
Ted Unangst wrote: On 12/31/05, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nazis thought their Enigma machine was perfect. Do you know why Enigma was broken? Primarily because the operators didn't follow procedure and made a series of other mistakes (This doesn't seem too important). As

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread Craig McCormick
I asked a similar question on here recently and had some good books recommended to me. This relates to C programming. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=113596339716980w=2 As a starting point, until my books arrive, I have been working from this online primer, which is getting me

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:03:31 +0100, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:24:22AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: My dad (68 years old) has finally succeeded in destroying/infecteding his MS-Windows NT4 box, in spite of my best efforts to secure the darn thing (e.g. No

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Tuesday, January 3, Joe S wrote: Do you have any recommendations on how I should get started? Any help or recommendations would be appreciated. Just get started. Learn C. Look at code. Read code. Understand. --Toby.

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:11, J.C. Roberts wrote: The rule of thumb for granting privileges is simple; avoid granting permissions whenever possible. Check the ownership/privileges on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 after you start kde or Xorg. Come on,

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 02:35 PM 1/3/2006 -0800, you wrote: Hello list members. I'd like to direct this post to those that develop code for OpenBSD. I'd like a start developing software, and in turn, contribute to projects like OpenBSD and others. Right now, I'm working as a sysadmin/infosec person. I can write

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:46:50 +0100, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:15:46AM -0800, patrick ~ wrote: The first thing I did was add a flag file to my dad's home directory and made sure he cant modify or delete it. # touch /home/dad/.xshutdown #

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:50, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:11, J.C. Roberts wrote: The rule of thumb for granting privileges is simple; avoid granting permissions whenever possible. Check the

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Damien Miller
Dave Feustel wrote: Check the ownership/privileges on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 after you start kde or Xorg. You can stop repeating this now, you have already demonstrated your ignorance.

Re: Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Zakelj
Joachim Schipper wrote: I'm afraid this'll result in lots of questions on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I, for one, would be stumped as to why I'd want OpenNIC. No particular reason. I just needed someone for the sake of example, and they're the ones who sprang to mind. My use of them was in no way an

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread Damien Miller
Travers Buda wrote: Ted Unangst, Yes, I've looked at the archives. You've made it very clear that CGD won't be imported into OpenBSD, yet you've never explained why, or why you ported it in the first place. Care to let us in on why? I expect your reply will be a short no just like a

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:34:57 -0500, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:11, J.C. Roberts wrote: The rule of thumb for granting privileges is simple; avoid granting permissions whenever possible. Check the ownership/privileges on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 after you

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread neilv
We all have our favorite beginer, advanced and reference book(s) for C but I prefer: Begin: ISBN 0-393-96945-2 || C Programming: A Modern Aproach by K. N. King ( A real spoon feeder ) Middle: ISBN 0201433079 || Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment ( get some interesting things done )

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 18:20, J.C. Roberts wrote: I'm not really a KDE user. Heck, I even resist installing X11 whenever possible. I am getting ever closer to adopting your point of view re X11 and KDE. -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, lose the weight Loose, adj., not tight, let

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread knitti
On 1/3/06, Sebastian Rother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blowfish is secure but Twofish is faster and as secure as Blowfish. wrong. apples are as fast as tables. bluefish encrypts faster than twofish. don't know about rekeying etc. At least if there some quant. computers 128Bit will not save ya

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread nikns
http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6384 Inside NetBSD's CGD by Federico Biancuzzi 12/21/2005 OpenBSD didn't import CGD even if Ted Unangst wrote a port some time ago. Do you think OpenBSD's svnd is already offering the same features? RD: In a sense, OpenBSD's svnd appears to offer some of the same

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Joel Knight
--- Quoting Jason Dixon on 2006/01/03 at 17:08 -0500: I'm testing a new VPN tunnel using ipsecadm and manual keying. Everything looks ok, but packets aren't making it to enc0 and beyond on the remote side (either way). I can watch the packet count increment on the relevant pass rules

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Adrian Close
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Joel Knight wrote: Check the usual suspects? net.inet.ip.forwarding=1? Appropriate pass rules on the internal interface? Verify the return path doesn't have a problem? Also, make sure you're not blocking the ipencap packets. Check various places with tcpdump - see what's

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Jason Dixon
On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Joel Knight wrote: --- Quoting Jason Dixon on 2006/01/03 at 17:08 -0500: I'm testing a new VPN tunnel using ipsecadm and manual keying. Everything looks ok, but packets aren't making it to enc0 and beyond on the remote side (either way). I can watch the packet

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Jason Dixon
On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Adrian Close wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Joel Knight wrote: Check the usual suspects? net.inet.ip.forwarding=1? Appropriate pass rules on the internal interface? Verify the return path doesn't have a problem? Also, make sure you're not blocking the ipencap

Re: Time on amd64

2006-01-03 Thread Cyrus Lopez
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:16:17 -0600, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you running ntpd? are you running ntpd with the kernel adjtime patch i posted to tech a few days ago? On 1/1/06, Cyrus Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine with a sempron64 and it seems that time is a

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread Edd Barrett
One thing you will *NOT* find in any college courses are system-level coding principles practices. OS code is written in C, which is FAR different than 'application level' coding taught in the vast majority of courses. Im taking a university degree that teaches unix system programming in

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread Nick Holland
knitti wrote: On 1/3/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/2/06, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've made it very clear that CGD won't be imported into OpenBSD, yet you've never explained why, or why you ported it in the first place. Care to let us in on why? I expect

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Bartelt
Hi, knitti wrote: ... At least if there some quant. computers 128Bit will not save ya day anymore. quantum computers are the real big buzzword to scare people into irrational behaviour. nobody knows whether or when quantum computer will be able to brute force 128 bit keys. and whether twofish

Re: Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:18:47PM -0500, Chris Zakelj wrote: Joachim Schipper wrote: I'm afraid this'll result in lots of questions on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I, for one, would be stumped as to why I'd want OpenNIC. No particular reason. I just needed someone for the sake of example, and

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:40:26PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: Yes OpenBSD uses Blowfish and yes it si secure and YES it could be blf with 448Bit. But OpenBSD uses (as far as I know) just 128Bit. This is not true, vnconfig does read a maximum of 128 bytes (1024bit) and the key can not be

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread Benjamin Collins
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:06:02PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: One thing you will *NOT* find in any college courses are system-level coding principles practices. OS code is written in C, which is FAR different than 'application level' coding taught in the vast majority of courses. L.V. - the

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Joel Knight
--- Quoting Jason Dixon on 2006/01/03 at 19:39 -0500: Yes, although that's more of a part B problem when we're still discussing part A. The packets aren't even making it as far as enc0, so there certainly won't be anything to return yet. In your original email you say that [packets are]

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Bartelt
Andreas Bartelt wrote: ... Bruce Schneier recommends using 256 bit keys in order to achieve 128 bit overall strength for a symmetric cipher. You can read it in 'applied cryptography'. The reason for this recommendation is related to collision attacks. oops, typo. It's in the newer book

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Jason Dixon
On Jan 3, 2006, at 8:51 PM, Joel Knight wrote: --- Quoting Jason Dixon on 2006/01/03 at 19:39 -0500: Yes, although that's more of a part B problem when we're still discussing part A. The packets aren't even making it as far as enc0, so there certainly won't be anything to return yet. In

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Joel Knight
--- Quoting Jason Dixon on 2006/01/03 at 21:11 -0500: The original post says that packets aren't making it to enc0 and beyond on the remote side. Yes, I admit that I was a bit contradictory in the next sentence that says it's making it all the way up to remote enc0, but I was trying to

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread knitti
On 1/4/06, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: knitti wrote: cgd gives users some choice over how to build their encrypted partition. you're able to use different ciphers. More stuff to test to make sure it works perfectly... Knobs are not a selling feature for OpenBSD developers (in

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway

2006-01-03 Thread Jason Dixon
On Jan 3, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Joel Knight wrote: --- Quoting Jason Dixon on 2006/01/03 at 21:11 -0500: The original post says that packets aren't making it to enc0 and beyond on the remote side. Yes, I admit that I was a bit contradictory in the next sentence that says it's making it all the

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/3/06, knitti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cgd gives users some choice over how to build their encrypted partition. you're able to use different ciphers. in the unlikely case of a cipher getting broken, you have the possibility to switch instantly, using a tool you know with stable code an the

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/3/06, kami petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a related subject: what's keeping that diff you did to add salting to vnconfig from hitting the tree? (or something like it) nobody commented on it. the lifecycle of this entire conversation has gone something like: whiners demand cgd

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/3/06, veins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/3/06, kami petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a related subject: what's keeping that diff you did to add salting to vnconfig from hitting the tree? (or something like it) nobody commented on it.

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread veins
--- Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/3/06, kami petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a related subject: what's keeping that diff you did to add salting to vnconfig from hitting the tree? (or something like it) nobody commented on it. [...] I didn't see that diff :( Still need

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread veins
--- Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/3/06, knitti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cgd gives users some choice over how to build their encrypted partition. you're able to use different ciphers. in the unlikely case of a cipher getting broken, you have the possibility to switch

Re: VPN packets not passing remote gateway [RESOLVED... sorta]

2006-01-03 Thread Jason Dixon
After some gentle persuading by Adrian Close, I dropped ipsecadm and went back to automatic key exchange with isakmpd. A quick configuration based on the east/west and all is good. Same PF configuration, no changes there except for the addition of ISAKMP traffic. Don't know what the

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2006 09:45:02 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: On 1/3/06, kami petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a related subject: what's keeping that diff you did to add salting to vnconfig from hitting the tree? (or something like it) i don't believe that the people asking for cgd really even intend

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread veins
Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/03/2006 09:45:02 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: On 1/3/06, kami petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a related subject: what's keeping that diff you did to add salting to vnconfig from hitting the tree? (or something like it) i don't believe that the people asking for

Re: DadOS - sys shutdown with XDM

2006-01-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:50, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:11, J.C. Roberts wrote: The rule of thumb for granting privileges is simple; avoid granting permissions