Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-05 Thread Robert Magier
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: > Nothing, it's a runtime argument. When invoking syslogd, use the -f > argument to specify an alternative configuration file. This is documented in > the man page. > > Regards, Yotam Rubin > Yes, I know it is an runtime argument,but if you don't set

Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-05 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:00:57AM +0100, Robert Magier wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: > > > Nothing, it's a runtime argument. When invoking syslogd, use the -f > > argument to specify an alternative configuration file. This is documented in > > the man page. > > > > Regards,

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-05 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:44:34PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > You have a misinformation/misinterpretation there. It's not disabled, > it's simply not possible in the way scripts are run. They are passed to > the program that is given in it's first line, after the #! - or to the > current sh

Re: Netscape running as root

2001-12-05 Thread Vegard Engen
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:56:19PM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > Why is running Netscape as root considered to be a security > problem? I just tried installing vmware on my system and it needs root to > install, and it searched for Netscape. The installer, fortunately, was an > intelligent

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
Thanks for all the response, comments and suggestions. Moving portmapper from /etc/init.d solved my issue. As for commenting our services in /etc/services, I am surprised that this isn't supposed to work and that it is not the proper way to disable services. I have a restricted services file and

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Rolf Kutz
J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a restricted services file and a default (open) services file. Some > services are disabled, i.e. > 9/tcp opendiscard > 13/tcp opendaytime > 109/tcpopenpop-2 > 987/tcpopenunknown > by c

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread basilisk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Rolf Kutz wrote: > J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have a restricted services file and a default (open) services file. Some > > services are disabled, i.e. > > 9/tcp opendiscard > > 13/tc

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Rolf Kutz
basilisk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you do edit the init.d scripts don't forget to end the processes too. ACK. > Also don't just use a port scanner like nmap. have a look at lsof too > > lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp > > It's quite useful. Right, but it doesn't help with hosts.[allow|deny] en

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
- Original Message - From: "Rolf Kutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have a restricted services file and a default (open) services file. Some > > services are disabled, i.e. > > 9/tcp opendiscard > > 13/tcp open

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Rolf Kutz
J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Commenting out things in /etc/services doesn't > > disable anything. > > It seems to. The above ports were closed just by commenting them out of > /etc/services and then rebooting. How did you verify? > > No, I just changed /etc/services

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Ralf Dreibrodt
Hi, "J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz" wrote: > > > Commenting out things in /etc/services doesn't > > disable anything. > > It seems to. The above ports were closed just by commenting them out of > /etc/services and then rebooting. well, there are daemons which don't know on which port they should r

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Vegard Engen
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:24:54PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Rolf Kutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Commenting out things in /etc/services doesn't > > disable anything. > > It seems to. The above ports were closed just by commenting them out of > /

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
> How did you verify? I'm using nmap & netstat. J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz http://www.america.prv.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fw: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
> Did you even read all things said in this thread? Of course I did (er, am reading) read it. All these comments are very insightful and I am saying that I am surprised, because commenting out services in /etc/services has been working for me for the most part. Not to add that the ports I posted

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
> You're not going to become a good Linux-administrator before you realize > that you should UNDERSTAND what you do instead of just guessing and be > happy because it worked. Becoming a good administrator is making it work and keeping it working. It seems there is an official way of closing the p

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Vegard Engen
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:04:32PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: > > You're not going to become a good Linux-administrator before you realize > > that you should UNDERSTAND what you do instead of just guessing and be > > happy because it worked. > > Becoming a good administrator is makin

Re: apache - bots

2001-12-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Johann Botha wrote: > > I am also interested in this. I experience frequent visits from a web > > robot on our ftp-site (with a web front). Going to the home page of > > this robot at www.inktomi.com there was a remark that the robot respects > > robot.t

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-090-1] xtel symlink vulnerabilities

2001-12-05 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, Is OpenSSH Version: 1:2.9p2-6 also vulernable? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-090-1] xtel symlink vulnerabilities

2001-12-05 Thread Patrick Hsieh
sorry. This is my mistake. I intended to ask the openssh problem but replied to another thread. :-( -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

howto enable MD5 passwords after installation on woody

2001-12-05 Thread alexis bory
hi, I would like to enable MD5 passwords on a remote woody server. I wonder if it could create trouble with user accounts already configured and with the ssh package. Also, I don't know how to do it :) thanks for help, Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

ssh: Packet integrity error

2001-12-05 Thread Igor Mozetic
Has anybody seen syslog msg like this: sshd[30847]: Accepted password for XY from x.x.x.x port 1034 sshd[30847]: Packet integrity error (58 != 62) at sshd.c:1953 sshd[30847]: Disconnecting: Packet integrity error. (34) Is this client side protocol incompatibility or net errors or ? I'm running p

Re: snorting bridges? [ Was: Re: iptables with a linux bridge ]

2001-12-05 Thread wes schreiner
martin f krafft wrote: > > * Rens Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.03 13:02:50+0100]: > > Anyways, I've been following this thread and wondering: Is there any > > reason why snort would or would not work with a bridge? > > snort is a tool that primarily assesses ip, tcp, and application level

Unidentified subject!

2001-12-05 Thread antonis
unsubsribe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packet integrity error

2001-12-05 Thread Udo Rietschel
> From: Igor Mozetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2001 18:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ssh: Packet integrity errorI saw the same > > Has anybody seen syslog msg like this: > > sshd[30847]: Accepted password for XY from x.x.x.x port 1034 > sshd[30847]: Packe

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You're not going to become a good Linux-administrator before you realize > > that you should UNDERSTAND what you do instead of just guessing and be > > happy because it worked. > > Becoming a good administrator is making it work and keep

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ralf Dreibrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, there are daemons which don't know on which port they should > run. they look in /etc/services for a special name and want to run > on the specific port. if they don't find the special name in > /etc/services they abort with an error message.

Re: Fw: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
The only thing you can accomplish by commenting stuff in /etc/services is that netstat and other programs will show the ports by number instead of by name ( you commented the translation entry ) :) The ports are still open. On Wednesday 05 December 2001 07:59 am, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote:

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
After reading the whole thread, I think I finally understand what is going on. /etc/services really is only for mapping names to port numbers, but at least one daemon on your system uses service names instead of numbers. The daemon is inetd and it is that daemon that handles services such as ch

get in the action

2001-12-05 Thread get some
Title: Untitled Document

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Alexander Clouter
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > [snip stuff which is correct] > > can point out that portmap, https, https, mysql etc cannot be stopped this > way. As for the inetd managed services you should comment stuff out of > inetd.conf or better disable inetd altogether. > I my opin

Re: per IP billing

2001-12-05 Thread Marcel Welschbillig
I have ip tables running and i did a test with the -c flag but i get the following response. proxy:/home# iptables -A INPUT -s 10.10.1.31 -i eth0 -c ACCEPT iptables v1.2.4: -c requires packet and byte counter What am i missing ? where do i get a packet and byte counter ?? Marcel Antropov Anto

Netscape running as root

2001-12-05 Thread Jor-el
Hi, Why is running Netscape as root considered to be a security problem? I just tried installing vmware on my system and it needs root to install, and it searched for Netscape. The installer, fortunately, was an intelligent one and proceeded with the install after I cancelled its search fo

Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-05 Thread Robert Magier
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: > Nothing, it's a runtime argument. When invoking syslogd, use the -f > argument to specify an alternative configuration file. This is documented in > the man page. > > Regards, Yotam Rubin > Yes, I know it is an runtime argument,but if you don't set t

Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-05 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:00:57AM +0100, Robert Magier wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: > > > Nothing, it's a runtime argument. When invoking syslogd, use the -f > > argument to specify an alternative configuration file. This is documented in > > the man page. > > > > Regards,

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-05 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:44:34PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > You have a misinformation/misinterpretation there. It's not disabled, > it's simply not possible in the way scripts are run. They are passed to > the program that is given in it's first line, after the #! - or to the > current she

Re: Netscape running as root

2001-12-05 Thread Vegard Engen
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:56:19PM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > Why is running Netscape as root considered to be a security > problem? I just tried installing vmware on my system and it needs root to > install, and it searched for Netscape. The installer, fortunately, was an > intelligent

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
Thanks for all the response, comments and suggestions. Moving portmapper from /etc/init.d solved my issue. As for commenting our services in /etc/services, I am surprised that this isn't supposed to work and that it is not the proper way to disable services. I have a restricted services file and a

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Rolf Kutz
J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a restricted services file and a default (open) services file. Some > services are disabled, i.e. > 9/tcp opendiscard > 13/tcp opendaytime > 109/tcpopenpop-2 > 987/tcpopenunknown > by co

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread basilisk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Rolf Kutz wrote: > J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have a restricted services file and a default (open) services file. Some > > services are disabled, i.e. > > 9/tcp opendiscard > > 13/tcp

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Rolf Kutz
basilisk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you do edit the init.d scripts don't forget to end the processes too. ACK. > Also don't just use a port scanner like nmap. have a look at lsof too > > lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp > > It's quite useful. Right, but it doesn't help with hosts.[allow|deny] ent

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
- Original Message - From: "Rolf Kutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have a restricted services file and a default (open) services file. Some > > services are disabled, i.e. > > 9/tcp opendiscard > > 13/tcp opend

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Rolf Kutz
J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Commenting out things in /etc/services doesn't > > disable anything. > > It seems to. The above ports were closed just by commenting them out of > /etc/services and then rebooting. How did you verify? > > No, I just changed /etc/services

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Ralf Dreibrodt
Hi, "J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz" wrote: > > > Commenting out things in /etc/services doesn't > > disable anything. > > It seems to. The above ports were closed just by commenting them out of > /etc/services and then rebooting. well, there are daemons which don't know on which port they should ru

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Vegard Engen
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:24:54PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Rolf Kutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Commenting out things in /etc/services doesn't > > disable anything. > > It seems to. The above ports were closed just by commenting them out of > /e

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
> How did you verify? I'm using nmap & netstat. J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz http://www.america.prv.pl

Fw: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
> Did you even read all things said in this thread? Of course I did (er, am reading) read it. All these comments are very insightful and I am saying that I am surprised, because commenting out services in /etc/services has been working for me for the most part. Not to add that the ports I posted

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
> You're not going to become a good Linux-administrator before you realize > that you should UNDERSTAND what you do instead of just guessing and be > happy because it worked. Becoming a good administrator is making it work and keeping it working. It seems there is an official way of closing the po

Re: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Vegard Engen
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:04:32PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: > > You're not going to become a good Linux-administrator before you realize > > that you should UNDERSTAND what you do instead of just guessing and be > > happy because it worked. > > Becoming a good administrator is making

Re: apache - bots

2001-12-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Johann Botha wrote: > > I am also interested in this. I experience frequent visits from a web > > robot on our ftp-site (with a web front). Going to the home page of > > this robot at www.inktomi.com there was a remark that the robot respects > > robot.tx

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-090-1] xtel symlink vulnerabilities

2001-12-05 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, Is OpenSSH Version: 1:2.9p2-6 also vulernable? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-090-1] xtel symlink vulnerabilities

2001-12-05 Thread Patrick Hsieh
sorry. This is my mistake. I intended to ask the openssh problem but replied to another thread. :-( -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

howto enable MD5 passwords after installation on woody

2001-12-05 Thread alexis bory
hi, I would like to enable MD5 passwords on a remote woody server. I wonder if it could create trouble with user accounts already configured and with the ssh package. Also, I don't know how to do it :) thanks for help, Alexis

ssh: Packet integrity error

2001-12-05 Thread Igor Mozetic
Has anybody seen syslog msg like this: sshd[30847]: Accepted password for XY from x.x.x.x port 1034 sshd[30847]: Packet integrity error (58 != 62) at sshd.c:1953 sshd[30847]: Disconnecting: Packet integrity error. (34) Is this client side protocol incompatibility or net errors or ? I'm running po

Re: snorting bridges? [ Was: Re: iptables with a linux bridge ]

2001-12-05 Thread wes schreiner
martin f krafft wrote: > > * Rens Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.03 13:02:50+0100]: > > Anyways, I've been following this thread and wondering: Is there any > > reason why snort would or would not work with a bridge? > > snort is a tool that primarily assesses ip, tcp, and application level

Unidentified subject!

2001-12-05 Thread antonis
unsubsribe

Re: Packet integrity error

2001-12-05 Thread Udo Rietschel
> From: Igor Mozetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2001 18:46 > To: debian-security@lists.debian.org > Subject: ssh: Packet integrity errorI saw the same > > Has anybody seen syslog msg like this: > > sshd[30847]: Accepted password for XY from x.x.x.x port 1034 > sshd[

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You're not going to become a good Linux-administrator before you realize > > that you should UNDERSTAND what you do instead of just guessing and be > > happy because it worked. > > Becoming a good administrator is making it work and keepi

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ralf Dreibrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, there are daemons which don't know on which port they should > run. they look in /etc/services for a special name and want to run > on the specific port. if they don't find the special name in > /etc/services they abort with an error message. Y

Re: Fw: Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
The only thing you can accomplish by commenting stuff in /etc/services is that netstat and other programs will show the ports by number instead of by name ( you commented the translation entry ) :) The ports are still open. On Wednesday 05 December 2001 07:59 am, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote:

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
After reading the whole thread, I think I finally understand what is going on. /etc/services really is only for mapping names to port numbers, but at least one daemon on your system uses service names instead of numbers. The daemon is inetd and it is that daemon that handles services such as cha

get in the action

2001-12-05 Thread get some
Title: Untitled Document

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-05 Thread Alexander Clouter
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip stuff which is correct] > > can point out that portmap, https, https, mysql etc cannot be stopped this > way. As for the inetd managed services you should comment stuff out of > inetd.conf or better disable inetd altogether. > I my opinion

Re: per IP billing

2001-12-05 Thread Marcel Welschbillig
I have ip tables running and i did a test with the -c flag but i get the following response. proxy:/home# iptables -A INPUT -s 10.10.1.31 -i eth0 -c ACCEPT iptables v1.2.4: -c requires packet and byte counter What am i missing ? where do i get a packet and byte counter ?? Marcel Antropov Anto