Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'ld prefer keeping 755 as a default.
I prefer 755 too. Peeking in others configuration files has been one
of my best way of learning new programs at uni.
I prefer a singel 'users' group for users as standard too, but lets
not change the default sett
Hi Ethan!
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:25:09AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > >
> > > my home directory is mode 710 and ssh works fine, on other systems my
> > > home is mode 755 and ssh still works fine (all with RSA auth and
> > > StrictModes yes)
> >
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> While we are at it. Kurt critizes that adduser creates home
> directories readable for all users by default. The woody version has
> an option in /etc/adduser.conf to change it to any value you
> want. Shall we make something like 700 default?
I
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:06:16AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > 751 seems more reasonable IMO.
> >
> > This sounds also reasonable for me. And because of the x-bit UserDirs,
> > etc. should work. Does anyone objects if I change this with the next
> > upload of adduser? Consider that this is
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:25:09AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> >
> > my home directory is mode 710 and ssh works fine, on other systems my
> > home is mode 755 and ssh still works fine (all with RSA auth and
> > StrictModes yes)
>
> Actually, sshd only cares about ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh/authorized_ke
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:03:10PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:06:20PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> >
> > Anything less than 700 breaks RSA authentication for ssh. A point to
> > consider though I'll gladly concede that anyone using RSA keys ought
> > to know wha
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:06:20PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
>
> Anything less than 700 breaks RSA authentication for ssh. A point to
> consider though I'll gladly concede that anyone using RSA keys ought
> to know what permissions they want on their home directory and how to
> change them
Hi Roland!
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:21:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > 751 seems more reasonable IMO.
>
> This sounds also reasonable for me. And because of the x-bit UserDirs,
> etc. should work. Does anyone objects if I change this with
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:21:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> 751 seems more reasonable IMO.
This sounds also reasonable for me. And because of the x-bit UserDirs,
etc. should work. Does anyone objects if I change this with the next
upload of adduser? Consider that this is only the default beha
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:40:15PM -0500, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
:On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:57:20PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
:> Kurt Seifried
:
:While we are at it. Kurt critizes that adduser creates home
:directories readable for all users by default. The woody version has
:an option
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:40:15PM -0500, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> Shall we make something like 700 default?
No. Resist the urge to dumb things down. Better to insist on intelligent,
responsible users who have been educated, and have educated themselves,
about the realities of computer securi
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:07:04AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > want. Shall we make something like 700 default? It would break some
> > things like "UserDir public_html" in Apache, etc. In my school server
>
> You could make it 711.
751 seems more reasonable IMO.
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Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> want. Shall we make something like 700 default? It would break some
> things like "UserDir public_html" in Apache, etc. In my school server
You could make it 711.
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:57:20PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> Kurt Seifried
While we are at it. Kurt critizes that adduser creates home
directories readable for all users by default. The woody version has
an option in /etc/adduser.conf to change it to any value you
want. Shall we make some
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Yup, this question is senseless. If you happen to have encrypted passwords
> > in the passwd file, the shadow file is not looked at for these
> > accounts. So having shadow passwords will not break NIS.
> The question is about the default setting.
Maybe,
Simon Richter wrote:
> Yup, this question is senseless. If you happen to have encrypted passwords
> in the passwd file, the shadow file is not looked at for these
> accounts. So having shadow passwords will not break NIS.
The question is about the default setting.
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Shadow passwords make your system more secure because nobody is able to
> view even encrypted passwords. Passwords are stored in a separate file
> that can only be read by special programs. We recommend the use of shadow
> passwords. If you're going to u
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I know that joeyh has been working on a much nicer-looking slang frontend
> which doesn't suffer from this problem; maybe we can just ditch dialog
> eventually and use that?
That is the plan; dialog is very limiting.
However there is a trivial fix for dialog/whiptail to
Peter Makholm wrote:
> I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment
> about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is
> active? It is badly marked which button you are about the press.
Yes well there are already bugs filed on this, but it is going to change
a lot
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:03:04AM -0400, Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Peter Makholm writes:
>
> > I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment
> > about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is
> > active? It is badly marked which butt
> Peter Makholm writes:
> > I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment
> > about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is
> > active? It is badly marked which button you are about the press.
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Decklin Foster wrote:
> You know, that *has* been
Peter Makholm writes:
> I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment
> about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is
> active? It is badly marked which button you are about the press.
You know, that *has* been bugging me... However you can use the cursor
to fig
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So there's a warning? At least MD5 *can* be implemented at install-time. Why
> doesn't he mention that Caldera for one doesn't even offer MD5 as an _option_
> at install-time? Next:
What Caldera do doesn't matter at all. Neither does it matter what
anyo
Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you guys and girls seen this? What do you think about it?
>
> http://www.securityportal.com/closet/
I demur from the generally benign flavor of the reactions I've seen so far. I
think this was a hatchet job by a guy who appears completely disi
Robert van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't like crossposting to mailinglists, so i post this to debian-devel,
>as well as a Cc to the original author.
Maybe you should have *really* Cc'd the original author :) (Read the
article again; he isn't Juhapekka, that's for sure ...)
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Hi,
I don't like crossposting to mailinglists, so i post this to debian-devel,
as well as a Cc to the original author.
Quoting Juhapekka Tolvanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Have you guys and girls seen this? What do you think about it?
>
> http://www.securityportal.com/closet/
>
> Before you flame
I don't subscribe to these lists, but I am smart enough to use archives
of these mailing-lists in www. And you can Cc: to me, if you want.
* * *
Have you guys and girls seen this? What do you think about it?
http://www.securityportal.com/closet/
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