Re: really drop SSLv2

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Peters
Like Scott said make it die! But I guarantee it's going to break something, what that something is the question. Cheers, Eric On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:34:47PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Le Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:12:15

Re: Directory Server on Ubuntu?

2010-07-01 Thread Eric Peters
Easy way right off the top of my head would be to use openbox, based on Ubuntu LTS versions. And to my knowledge they are close to release for 10.4. Cheers, Eric Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Oliver Brakmann wrote: > Hello Devs, > > I'd like to ask about the current state of

Re: high iowait

2010-06-29 Thread Eric Peters
That's all dependant on numerous things, be it hardware, software, applications running etc... And to answer your question yes it can. Or you can setup tomcat and other tools to track performance. Really you should read up on tomcat and see what options are available to you. I'm sorry for the gener

Re: VPN help suggestions

2010-06-28 Thread Eric Peters
*SOLVED* Ok it was something stupid in the pptpd config, and thanks to Spacelee who pointed me in the right direction making sure Cleartext was enabled " require-pap " thanks all who replied =) Cheers, Eric On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Eric Peters wrote: > > Thanks Se

Re: VPN help suggestions

2010-06-25 Thread Eric Peters
ter < se...@vanginderachter.be> wrote: On 26 June 2010 00:39, Eric Peters wrote: > Anybody have any other suggestions I can try? I have set up OpenVPN with password athentication to Active Directory. I'll paste you my notes on this setup. See also # http://www.matthardy.info/20

VPN help suggestions

2010-06-25 Thread Eric Peters
Hey all, I thought I would never ask for help on here, it's more the other way around I'm the one helping out. Anyway here is what I have run into. I'm trying to get a simple VPN connection up and authenticate to a separate Radius server. Being that most of the clients are going to Winblows a

Re: OCS Inventory Agent

2010-06-19 Thread Eric Peters
It's because your pointing your agent to local which will not resove. If you use localhost or 127.0.0.1 it will work just fine if that's were your OCS server is located. Another solution if your hell bent on using local as the hostname, is to edit your /etc/hosts file and add local to point to 127

Re: block p2p traffic

2010-06-08 Thread Eric Peters
I agree, proactively monitoring your network, makes for good practice, and also peace of mind. Security through obscurity, and passive reactionary monitoring is just asking for your network to be abused. Here are just some tools that I use on a daily basis which would easily detect p2p traffic and

General question or experiences about Landscape/Ubuntu Cloud /Cluster functionality.

2010-05-26 Thread Eric Peters
Hey all, My lead developer has been thinking about putting our SAAS application (java / postgresql) in a cluster/cloud. He has used ROCKS cluster in the past, and touts it's advantage of deploying thousands of machines in the same amount of time to as it takes to deploy two. More info about R

Re: how to monitor,or be notified of email blacklisting ?

2010-03-12 Thread Eric Peters
Now that I have had some coffee Script would be the best way, but fear not you don't have to re-invent the wheel. rbl look up script, you may have to tweak it. http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/misc/host-20070128.tar.gz:a/host-20070128/rblookup.sh Cheers, Eric On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:28 AM,

Re: how to monitor,or be notified of email blacklisting ?

2010-03-12 Thread Eric Peters
One tool I find useful for that type of stuff is MX toolbox http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ might be of some help, don't think it does auto notifications though. On a side note: If your customers are getting blacklisted why not run all mail through a SMTP transparent proxy filtering out the spam? Someth

Re: PHP 5.3 for Lucid

2010-02-10 Thread Eric Peters
The only thing that resembles a release schedule that I have ever found is on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Release_history from that info 5.2.0 and bellow are no longer supported and upstream has not yet set a date for PHP 6.0 Cheers, E On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Adam Conrad w

Re: PHP 5.3 for Lucid

2010-02-09 Thread Eric Peters
I couldn't of said it better Adam ;) 5.3 has my vote Also PHP 5.3 is not in Debian test yet! http://packages.debian.org/testing/php/ But it's in experimental, and call for testing is still going on, it might be a bit before we see it in "test" http://osdir.com/ml/php-general/2009-07/msg00040.htm

Re: Mail Server

2010-02-03 Thread Eric Peters
Hey guys, I have experience running a mailscanner back in 2004 on a Gentoo box. And as far as my knowledge; that thing kept running hands off till the company sold last year. It's a nice sold platform, once it gets trained a bit. And I agree with Scott about Mailscanner and Postdoc playing in

Re: Mail Server

2010-01-29 Thread Eric Peters
however, I've long been a huge fan of > dbmail. It's probably the easiest mail store to set up and maintain. > Plus it's very fast, and pretty easy > to scale (just need to know how to scale a db server). > > Anyway, just my 2 cents :) Everyone keeps chipping in the

Re: Mail Server

2010-01-29 Thread Eric Peters
In my humble opinion webmin shouldn't be used in a production environment (or any environment for that matter). Remember a web-server running Webmin must be run 'setuid root', an improperly configured Webmin can pose a huge security threat to the system running it. Having such a powerful tool in th

RSA SecureID Information

2010-01-13 Thread Eric Peters
Hello to whom ever is reading this, I'm looking for any information relating to Ubuntu Server 9.10 and RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 and Agent, setup and configuration. I'm pretty new to RSA and want to avoid installing the authentication manager on winblows. At the same time was wondering if any

Re: Secure FTP (sftp)

2007-10-23 Thread Eric Peters
Well yes and no, >From the sounds of it the user is trusted and if it is a public box any admin would have other counter measures in On 10/22/07, Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:46 -0500, Bill Asher wrote: > > Anyone have a good HOWTO link for setting up a

Re: Secure FTP (sftp)

2007-10-22 Thread Eric Peters
Andreas, Try this howto should be what your looking for http://www.howtoforge.com/chroot_ssh_sftp_debian_etch Cheers, Eric On 10/22/07, Andreas Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 22 October 2007 23:46:34 Bill Asher wrote: > > Anyone have a good HOWTO link for setting up a chroot