Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht

Benoît Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
 (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible.  Or would this
 confuse cvs on the other server?  Would I have direct write access to
 'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs?  Hints welcome.

 (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can
 import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:
 you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
 file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
 executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And
 you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
 server).

From what one hears about current changs in SF politics it is
questionable if nowadays one should not prefer savannah anyway.

See for example:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html

Let me cite one line from there:
'Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed.'
I don't like this!

Thank you for your answer.

Robert Epprecht

 Benoît Sibaud


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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Ted Cabeen

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Beno=EEt Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can=

 import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:=

 you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
 file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
 executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And=

 you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
 server).

From what one hears about current changs in SF politics it is
questionable if nowadays one should not prefer savannah anyway.

See for example:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html

Let me cite one line from there:
'Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed.'
I don't like this!

This is getting pretty off-topic, but FYI, you can download a nightly sna=
pshot
of your complete CVS repository from sourceforge at the following URL:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/projectname-cvsroot.tar.gz

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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Uriah Welcome

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:54:49PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
 Benoît Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
  (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible.  Or would this
  confuse cvs on the other server?  Would I have direct write access to
  'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs?  Hints welcome.
 
  (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can
  import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:
  you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
  file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
  executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And
  you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
  server).
 
 From what one hears about current changs in SF politics it is
 questionable if nowadays one should not prefer savannah anyway.
 
 See for example:
 http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html
 
 Let me cite one line from there:
 'Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed.'
 I don't like this!
 

Sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply.. I'm the Sr. Systems
Administrator for SourceForge.net.  We still allow users to download their
nightly CVS tarball and they can easily download their web directories.. hell
they can mirror their file releases via rsync also.. the thing they are
talking about is the ability to export 'tracker' (aka bug tracking, etc..)
information off the website.. 

We used to have a data export tools for this, but we made a major backend
changes (mysql - postgresql) and some of the data types changed.  We
honestly forgot they were there.  We had exactly 3 requests in the 6-8
months since we made this change of people asking for this feature back. 
It just wasn't a priority. 

The code is OpenSource.. submit a patch.. I'm sure we'll take it..
-- 
- U

Any setuid root program that does an exec() somewhere is just a less 
user friendly version of su.   -- Olaf Kirch on bugtraq 2000-08-07
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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht

Uriah Welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply..

I'm glad you did. The blame to become so OT is on me, please excuse.

 I'm the Sr. Systems Administrator for SourceForge.net.  We still allow
 users to download their nightly CVS tarball and they can easily download
 their web directories.. hell they can mirror their file releases via rsync
 also.. the thing they are talking about is the ability to export 'tracker'
 (aka bug tracking, etc..) information off the website.. 

 We used to have a data export tools for this, but we made a major backend
 changes (mysql - postgresql) and some of the data types changed.  We
 honestly forgot they were there.  We had exactly 3 requests in the 6-8
 months since we made this change of people asking for this feature back. 
 It just wasn't a priority. 

 The code is OpenSource.. submit a patch.. I'm sure we'll take it..

Thank you for your reply,
Robert

PS: I'll stop now, it is very interesting but probably too much OT.


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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht
Benoît Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
 (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible.  Or would this
 confuse cvs on the other server?  Would I have direct write access to
 'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs?  Hints welcome.

 (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can
 import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:
 you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
 file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
 executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And
 you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
 server).

From what one hears about current changs in SF politics it is
questionable if nowadays one should not prefer savannah anyway.

See for example:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html

Let me cite one line from there:
'Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed.'
I don't like this!

Thank you for your answer.

Robert Epprecht

 Benoît Sibaud



Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Ted Cabeen
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Epprecht writes:
Beno=EEt Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can=

 import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:=

 you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
 file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
 executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And=

 you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
 server).

From what one hears about current changs in SF politics it is
questionable if nowadays one should not prefer savannah anyway.

See for example:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html

Let me cite one line from there:
'Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed.'
I don't like this!

This is getting pretty off-topic, but FYI, you can download a nightly sna=
pshot
of your complete CVS repository from sourceforge at the following URL:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/projectname-cvsroot.tar.gz

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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Uriah Welcome
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:54:49PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
 Benoît Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
  (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible.  Or would this
  confuse cvs on the other server?  Would I have direct write access to
  'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs?  Hints welcome.
 
  (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can
  import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:
  you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
  file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
  executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And
  you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
  server).
 
 From what one hears about current changs in SF politics it is
 questionable if nowadays one should not prefer savannah anyway.
 
 See for example:
 http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html
 
 Let me cite one line from there:
 'Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed.'
 I don't like this!
 

Sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply.. I'm the Sr. Systems
Administrator for SourceForge.net.  We still allow users to download their
nightly CVS tarball and they can easily download their web directories.. hell
they can mirror their file releases via rsync also.. the thing they are
talking about is the ability to export 'tracker' (aka bug tracking, etc..)
information off the website.. 

We used to have a data export tools for this, but we made a major backend
changes (mysql - postgresql) and some of the data types changed.  We
honestly forgot they were there.  We had exactly 3 requests in the 6-8
months since we made this change of people asking for this feature back. 
It just wasn't a priority. 

The code is OpenSource.. submit a patch.. I'm sure we'll take it..
-- 
- U

Any setuid root program that does an exec() somewhere is just a less 
user friendly version of su.   -- Olaf Kirch on bugtraq 2000-08-07
 1024D/6388D686   7928 83A9 16CD 52FD F77F  11ED FC04 B683 6388 D686



Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht
Uriah Welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply..

I'm glad you did. The blame to become so OT is on me, please excuse.

 I'm the Sr. Systems Administrator for SourceForge.net.  We still allow
 users to download their nightly CVS tarball and they can easily download
 their web directories.. hell they can mirror their file releases via rsync
 also.. the thing they are talking about is the ability to export 'tracker'
 (aka bug tracking, etc..) information off the website.. 

 We used to have a data export tools for this, but we made a major backend
 changes (mysql - postgresql) and some of the data types changed.  We
 honestly forgot they were there.  We had exactly 3 requests in the 6-8
 months since we made this change of people asking for this feature back. 
 It just wasn't a priority. 

 The code is OpenSource.. submit a patch.. I'm sure we'll take it..

Thank you for your reply,
Robert

PS: I'll stop now, it is very interesting but probably too much OT.



Re: ssh and root

2001-12-12 Thread Benoît Sibaud

Hi,

 BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
 (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible.  Or would this
 confuse cvs on the other server?  Would I have direct write access to
 'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs?  Hints welcome.
(I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can
import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:
you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And
you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
server).

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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-12 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi,

 BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
 (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible.  Or would this
 confuse cvs on the other server?  Would I have direct write access to
 'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs?  Hints welcome.
(I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can
import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:
you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And
you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
server).

-- 
Benoît Sibaud



Re: ssh and root

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Epprecht

Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]:
 I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
 below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
 ssh-keygen as root.

 Rather than root, add your user account to group staff. This gives
 you access to /usr/local.

I'll do that, thank you for good advice (including your warnings).

 So, when doing this, only do it to accounts you trust very well and that
 are very well-guarded. It's best to only give group staff to (the person(s)
 who is/are root)'s user account(s).

This is a 'multi user single person' machine ;-)

 It is one step better than using root directly, though (IMO).

 good times,

Same to you!  Robert


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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Epprecht
Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]:
 I need ssh to access some cvs servers. [ ... ]

 I'm not sure I completely understand your situation, [ ... ]

nor do I ;-)   That's why I ask...

Actually I want to do *two* different things (my question was about #1):
1) I want to access a (foreign) cvs server and store the files locally
under /usr/local.  From the answers I've got here I think the way to do
this is to set up a user to do the cvs down-loads and add him to group
staff.

2) I am writing a program with a local cvsroot but am planing to upload
the cvs tree to a server like savannah or sf.  AFAIK this is done over
ssh, which I'm not familiar with.  I try to have my setup right, not to
bother the people there with my beginners questions.

BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
(rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible.  Or would this
confuse cvs on the other server?  Would I have direct write access to
'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs?  Hints welcome.

 Again, I don't understand exactly what you're trying to do, so forgive
 me if some of these clues are irrelevant.

I have found your explanations very interesting, including the parts that
do not really map to my current situation.

 If you're trying to access something for which you need root on the
 remote machine,

no.

[ interesting stuff snipped ]

 Just ask if you need more help setting it up.

Thank you.  I fear I *will* have some more questions...

Robert Epprecht



Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Vineet Kumar

* Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]:
 I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
 below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
 ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
 Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
 question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
 security level.  Comments welcome.

Rather than root, add your user account to group staff. This gives
you access to /usr/local. It should be noted, though, that this account
becomes stronger than you can possibly imagine. (Well, not really, but
it's easy for it to get root). One prime example of this is that
/usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin come first in root's path. One could
place a uid binary version of this there very easily:

/usr/local/sbin/ls:

cp /bin/bash ~h4x0r/r00t5h3ll
chmod u+s ~h4x0r/r00t5h3ll
rm /usr/local/sbin/bash
exec /bin/ls $ARGS

So, when doing this, only do it to accounts you trust very well and that
are very well-guarded. It's best to only give group staff to (the
person(s) who is/are root)'s user account(s). It is one step better than
using root directly, though (IMO).

This is also why you should specify full pathnames to anything you
invoke as root =)

good times,
Vineet

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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen

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Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]:
  I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
  below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
  ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
  Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
  question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
  security level.  Comments welcome.
 
 Rather than root, add your user account to group staff. This gives
 you access to /usr/local. 

That would indeed be a lot better than ssh'ing in as root.  I believe
the default setup doesn't even let you (or was that a configuration
question?).

 It should be noted, though, that this account
 becomes stronger than you can possibly imagine. (Well, not really, but
 it's easy for it to get root). One prime example of this is that
 /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin come first in root's path.

On my machine these come last by default(!) when I su

  user@frodo:~$ su 
  Password: 
  frodo:/home/user# echo $PATH
  /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
  frodo:/home/user# 

and they are not even there when logging in as root

  frodo login: root
  Password:
  [...]
  Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
  permitted by applicable law.
  frodo:~# echo $PATH
  /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
  frodo:~#

Besides, when r00t you use full pathnames, not?
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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]:
 I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
 below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
 ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
 Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
 question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
 security level.  Comments welcome.

Rather than root, add your user account to group staff. This gives
you access to /usr/local. It should be noted, though, that this account
becomes stronger than you can possibly imagine. (Well, not really, but
it's easy for it to get root). One prime example of this is that
/usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin come first in root's path. One could
place a uid binary version of this there very easily:

/usr/local/sbin/ls:

cp /bin/bash ~h4x0r/r00t5h3ll
chmod u+s ~h4x0r/r00t5h3ll
rm /usr/local/sbin/bash
exec /bin/ls $ARGS

So, when doing this, only do it to accounts you trust very well and that
are very well-guarded. It's best to only give group staff to (the
person(s) who is/are root)'s user account(s). It is one step better than
using root directly, though (IMO).

This is also why you should specify full pathnames to anything you
invoke as root =)

good times,
Vineet

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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]:
  I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
  below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
  ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
  Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
  question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
  security level.  Comments welcome.
 
 Rather than root, add your user account to group staff. This gives
 you access to /usr/local. 

That would indeed be a lot better than ssh'ing in as root.  I believe
the default setup doesn't even let you (or was that a configuration
question?).

 It should be noted, though, that this account
 becomes stronger than you can possibly imagine. (Well, not really, but
 it's easy for it to get root). One prime example of this is that
 /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin come first in root's path.

On my machine these come last by default(!) when I su

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su 
  Password: 
  frodo:/home/user# echo $PATH
  /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
  frodo:/home/user# 

and they are not even there when logging in as root

  frodo login: root
  Password:
  [...]
  Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
  permitted by applicable law.
  frodo:~# echo $PATH
  /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
  frodo:~#

Besides, when r00t you use full pathnames, not?
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ssh and root

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Epprecht

I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
security level.  Comments welcome.

Robert Epprecht.


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Re: ssh and root

2001-12-08 Thread Stefan Hornburg (Racke)

Robert Epprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
 below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
 ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
 Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
 question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
 security level.  Comments welcome.

You may take a look at

http://www.linuxia.de/linux.en.html#CVS

further down there is a section about CVS over ssh.

Ciao
Racke

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ssh and root

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Epprecht
I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
security level.  Comments welcome.

Robert Epprecht.



Re: ssh and root

2001-12-08 Thread Stefan Hornburg Racke
Robert Epprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
 below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
 ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
 Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
 question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
 security level.  Comments welcome.

You may take a look at

http://www.linuxia.de/linux.en.html#CVS

further down there is a section about CVS over ssh.

Ciao
Racke

-- 
Die Erde bleibt keine Scheibe. --- The earth remains no disk.

For projects and other business stuff please refer to COBOLT NetServices
(URL: http://www.cobolt.net; Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Phone: 0041-1-3884400)