Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-04 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Daniel Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Security I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services are turned off for default install, including but not limited to, inetd daemon. It minimizes or prevents the chance any attacks such as Denial of service and buffer

Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-03 Thread Frederic Crozat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prana) writes: Okay, aside from these 2 requests, I just have a quick question: esd daemon by default in 7.1 has: -rwxr-xr--1 root audio30440 Jul 3 10:58 esd When new user is created with a medium security level, it is part of audio group. and other

Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-03 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Prana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services are turned off for default install, including but not limited to, inetd daemon. It minimizes or prevents the chance any attacks such as Denial of service and buffer overflow. Let's take a look at the

Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-03 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Prana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services are turned off for default install, including but not limited to, inetd daemon. It minimizes or prevents the chance any attacks such as Denial of service

Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-03 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Prana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 1) Security I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services are turned off for default install, including but not limited to, inetd daemon. It minimizes or prevents the chance any attacks such as Denial of service and buffer overflow. Let's

Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-03 Thread Tim McKenzie
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Prana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services are turned off for default install, including but not limited to, inetd daemon. It minimizes or prevents the chance any attacks such as Denial of service and buffer

Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel Woods
1) Security I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services are turned off for default install, including but not limited to, inetd daemon. It minimizes or prevents the chance any attacks such as Denial of service and buffer overflow. Let's take a look at the last big security

Re: [Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-03 Thread Prana
Setup a good default /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall (well commented) which blocks spoofing attempts, etc. Some users (eg: me) still use dial-up - that's why it's better not put it /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall (maybe I'm wrong though). I have a dial-up bastion firewall script in my homepage under "Tutorial"

[Cooker] My request (including security) for Mandrake 7.2final

2000-10-02 Thread Prana
Hello, I've been using Mandrake since version 6.0 (I switched from Redhat to Mandrake). I really like Mandrake Linux. I also contributed gnome-telnet-2.1 for Mandrake. I have some requests before Mandrake 7.2 is released: 1) Security I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services