On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:18:43PM -0700, Kevin wrote:
I find my rather upset that by default slink only allows a password length
of 7 characters max. Unfortunately I am not sure how to change it, and
[clipped for sake of brevity]
Enable md5 in /etc/pam/passwd, and in /etc/login.defs
Curt
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:18:21PM -0600, Kama Lar wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:18:43PM -0700, Kevin wrote:
I find my rather upset that by default slink only allows a password length
of 7 characters max. Unfortunately I am not sure how to change it, and
[clipped for sake of brevity]
Ethan,
MD5 as an algorithm supports a theoretically infinitely sized password (or
other string), though of course it becomes less secure as the string's
size increases. That said, I think the maximum password length supported
by glibc (and, thus, PAM) is 128 bytes long.
Indeed, PAM is a potato
On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts
from various sites...
What (common) application needs this port?
P. S. V. P. U.
http://www.pobox.sk/
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nder Hvostov writes:
MD5 as an algorithm supports a theoretically infinitely sized password (or
other string), though of course it becomes less secure as the string's
size increases. That said, I think the maximum password length supported
by glibc (and, thus,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Ivan Ivanovic wrote:
On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts
from various sites...
What (common) application needs this port?
irc server make ident connections to clients.
squid can use ident for authorization.
sendmail sometimes uses
irc server make ident connections to clients.
squid can use ident for authorization.
sendmail sometimes uses ident.
maybe you want to read rfc1413.
i'd turn auth off for security reasons if your box has a direct
connection to internet.
Hmm, that's an easy approach, but from
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:45:50PM +0100, Ivan Ivanovic wrote:
On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts
from various sites...
What (common) application needs this port?
The auth port provides a facility for a remote machine to identify who's
on your end of
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:01:40PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:45:50PM +0100, Ivan Ivanovic wrote:
On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts
from various sites... What (common) application needs this port?
The auth port provides a
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Fredrik Liljegren wrote:
i'd turn auth off for security reasons if your box has a direct
connection to internet.
Many people misunderstand the usefulness of identd, and so disable it or
block all off site requests for it. identd is not there to help out remote
sites.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:39:05PM +, Tim Haynes wrote:
For most (home) purposes it's best to make it REJECT instead of DENY, if you
choose to block it, so that e.g. remote FTP sites don't have to wait for a
timeout before letting you in.
This isn't specific to identd, but I'm wondering
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:58:00PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
This isn't specific to identd, but I'm wondering why you would bother
filtering the port instead of just not running identd? (I assume you would
have/do turn off identd in /etc/inetd.conf as well as using doing port
filtering.)
Yes, the best policy is always to disable anything on your machine that
you're not using. Those you _are_ using, you then filter the crap out of.
Personally, my workstation-type machines only listen on port 6000 (X), 22
(ssh), and occasionally ftp and tftp if I need them for a specific
Peter Cordes wrote:
This isn't specific to identd, but I'm wondering why you would bother
filtering the port instead of just not running identd? (I assume you would
have/do turn off identd in /etc/inetd.conf as well as using doing port
filtering.) I've never really understood why people
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:07:37PM +, Tim Haynes wrote:
Alternatively, people might filter based on different incoming host, network
or interface[1]; if it's from a site I trust I might allow it for speed and/or
identity checking if required; if I'm not sure about them I might let them
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:19:53PM -0800, Brian Kimball wrote:
Peter Cordes wrote:
This isn't specific to identd, but I'm wondering why you would bother
filtering the port instead of just not running identd? (I assume you would
have/do turn off identd in /etc/inetd.conf as well as using
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