RE: IPSec questions...

2002-01-09 Thread Jussi Tawaststjerna
You're absolutely correct. Pardon for my short-sightnedness, this is a painless way of doing this between, for example, two linux boxes. If you're considering IPSec with a Windows machine or any devices mentioned below, I'd go with FreeS/WAN. On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, VERBEEK, FRANCOIS wrote: Well

Re: IPSec questions...

2002-01-09 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:16:51AM +0200, Jussi Tawaststjerna wrote: Howdy, If you don't want to play with FreeS/WAN or CIPE or such, you could just rig an ssh connection and run PPP through it. This way you don't have to worry about patching kernels etc. (or at most, just compile PPP

RE: IPSec questions...

2002-01-09 Thread Ivan Brezina
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, VERBEEK, FRANCOIS wrote: Well what you propose here is not exactly IPSec. It's an encrypted way to communicate but not IPSec. Don't expect it to work with a Cisco router/VPN concentrator or a Win2K machine. FreeSwan is quite a good product, quite inter-operable with all

How can I change my domainname on my server

2002-01-09 Thread Stian Kristoffersen
Hi! I Have a trouble with my e-mail server. I have to change it to my domain name and not .local ... I need mailserver.domainname.no Please help me I have debian 2.2r4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I change my domainname on my server

2002-01-09 Thread Patrick Mackey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Edit '/etc/hostname' to reflect the change. Then run: hostname -F /etc/hostname That should do it. Best Regards, - -- Patrick Mackey, System Administrator Deep House Music Organisation http://www.deephousemusic.org On Wed, 9 Jan 2002,

Re: RE: IPTABLES

2002-01-09 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
I'll flame you now because you were wrong (As you requested). IPCHAINS works with 2.2, IPTABLES works with 2.4... touches Curtis on the shoulder yes you are sizzling now G -Original Message- From: Howland, Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian-Security [EMAIL

Re: Secure Finger Daemon

2002-01-09 Thread Hans-Joachim Picht
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:09:01PM +0100, eim wrote: I'm planing to install a secure finger daemon on one of the public boxes I admin. Which Finger daemon is *really* secure ? Shouldn't I install this service at all ? Any experiences about compromised systems ?

Re: How can I change my domainname on my server

2002-01-09 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:02:00 +1300 (NZDT) Patrick Mackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit '/etc/hostname' to reflect the change. Then run: hostname -F /etc/hostname That should do it. You might also want to edit /etc/mailname --

How to find process causing periodic DEST_UNREACH replies?

2002-01-09 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Recently I've installed some IP logging packages like ippl. A few days ago a lot of ICMP - destination unreachable - bad port messages started showing up comming from my DSL router. Unfortunatly the log shows only that they come from the router and nothing more. Now obviously these are

poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
alright, my users don't know how to do shell, and they can't change passwords. now, i just upgraded to squirrelmail (upgraded because i had IMP before, barf!), which has a plugin to change the password. it's TLS encrypted, so not too much of a problem, but in testing out poppassd, the underlying

Re: How to find process causing periodic DEST_UNREACH replies?

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Balazs Javor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.09.2130 +0100]: Recently I've installed some IP logging packages like ippl. A few days ago a lot of ICMP - destination unreachable - bad port messages started showing up comming from my DSL router. are you behind a firewall? what's the exact

Re: How to find process causing periodic DEST_UNREACH replies?

2002-01-09 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Thanks for the tip about tcpdump. It seems the ntp service is the responsible. I'll check the list of the ntp servers to see if some of them is obsolete. Anyway just in case I misinterpreted something... I live in Switzerland, and I have a ZyXEL Prestige 642R DSL router connected to the

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread Micah Anderson
Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into the security updates? A bug filed? Micah On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Steve Mickeler wrote: I'm using

Re: RE: IPTABLES - ipchain

2002-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: I'll flame you now because you were wrong (As you requested). IPCHAINS works with 2.2, IPTABLES works with 2.4... and if you're really desperate you can run ipchains with the 2.4 kernels by insmod'ing ipchains and start your ipchains

Re: How can I change my domainname on my server

2002-01-09 Thread Paul Haesler
You'll want to edit /etc/resolv.conf too. On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:02:00 +1300 (NZDT) Patrick Mackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit '/etc/hostname' to reflect the change. Then run: hostname -F /etc/hostname That should do it. You might also want to edit /etc/mailname --

Re: IPSec questions...

2002-01-09 Thread Jussi Tawaststjerna
Howdy, If you don't want to play with FreeS/WAN or CIPE or such, you could just rig an ssh connection and run PPP through it. This way you don't have to worry about patching kernels etc. (or at most, just compile PPP support in, as modules if you care about your uptime ;)

IPTABLES

2002-01-09 Thread Craigsc
Hi Fellows I am having a problem with getting iptables working with kernel 2.4.12. Getting the following error message: Can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.4: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps I'm missing a module ? Any help

RE: IPTABLES

2002-01-09 Thread Jussi Tawaststjerna
Just the other way around, 2.2.x == ipchains, 2.4.x == iptables. Craig, just look at your kernel, and make sure every netfilter/iptables module is compiled/listed, and then look at your /lib/modules/2.4.12/ and make sure everything modprobes or insmods (if they haven't already) .. On Wed, 9 Jan

RE: IPTABLES

2002-01-09 Thread Howland, Curtis
Oh bloody hell, I thought it might be. Trouble is, every time I look for it I can't find it one way or the other. This time I'm going to write it down. Curt- -Original Message- From: Jussi Tawaststjerna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 16:16 To:

RE: IPSec questions...

2002-01-09 Thread VERBEEK, FRANCOIS
Well what you propose here is not exactly IPSec. It's an encrypted way to communicate but not IPSec. Don't expect it to work with a Cisco router/VPN concentrator or a Win2K machine. FreeSwan is quite a good product, quite inter-operable with all paltforms I tested it with. (It's been a while

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-09 Thread BenoƮt Sibaud
Hi, It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't checked). If In Woody too. Does anyone know if xscreensaver-demo on Potato have an option like that? No it hasn't. Disabling the feature on each box would be easier at install, but I respect the maintainer choice. Working in a RD

Re: IPSec questions...

2002-01-09 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:16:51AM +0200, Jussi Tawaststjerna wrote: Howdy, If you don't want to play with FreeS/WAN or CIPE or such, you could just rig an ssh connection and run PPP through it. This way you don't have to worry about patching kernels etc. (or at most, just compile PPP

RE: IPSec questions...

2002-01-09 Thread Ivan Brezina
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, VERBEEK, FRANCOIS wrote: Well what you propose here is not exactly IPSec. It's an encrypted way to communicate but not IPSec. Don't expect it to work with a Cisco router/VPN concentrator or a Win2K machine. FreeSwan is quite a good product, quite inter-operable with

How can I change my domainname on my server

2002-01-09 Thread Stian Kristoffersen
Hi! I Have a trouble with my e-mail server. I have to change it to my domain name and not .local ... I need mailserver.domainname.no Please help me I have debian 2.2r4

Re: How can I change my domainname on my server

2002-01-09 Thread Patrick Mackey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Edit '/etc/hostname' to reflect the change. Then run: hostname -F /etc/hostname That should do it. Best Regards, - -- Patrick Mackey, System Administrator Deep House Music Organisation http://www.deephousemusic.org On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Stian

Re: RE: IPTABLES

2002-01-09 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
I'll flame you now because you were wrong (As you requested). IPCHAINS works with 2.2, IPTABLES works with 2.4... touches Curtis on the shoulder yes you are sizzling now G -Original Message- From: Howland, Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian-Security

Re: Secure Finger Daemon

2002-01-09 Thread Hans-Joachim Picht
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:09:01PM +0100, eim wrote: I'm planing to install a secure finger daemon on one of the public boxes I admin. Which Finger daemon is *really* secure ? Shouldn't I install this service at all ? Any experiences about compromised systems ? http://www.fefe.de/ffingerd/

Re: How can I change my domainname on my server

2002-01-09 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:02:00 +1300 (NZDT) Patrick Mackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit '/etc/hostname' to reflect the change. Then run: hostname -F /etc/hostname That should do it. You might also want to edit /etc/mailname -- .--=-=-=-=--=---=-=-=.

How to find process causing periodic DEST_UNREACH replies?

2002-01-09 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Recently I've installed some IP logging packages like ippl. A few days ago a lot of ICMP - destination unreachable - bad port messages started showing up comming from my DSL router. Unfortunatly the log shows only that they come from the router and nothing more. Now obviously these are

poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
alright, my users don't know how to do shell, and they can't change passwords. now, i just upgraded to squirrelmail (upgraded because i had IMP before, barf!), which has a plugin to change the password. it's TLS encrypted, so not too much of a problem, but in testing out poppassd, the underlying

Re: How to find process causing periodic DEST_UNREACH replies?

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Balazs Javor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.09.2130 +0100]: Recently I've installed some IP logging packages like ippl. A few days ago a lot of ICMP - destination unreachable - bad port messages started showing up comming from my DSL router. are you behind a firewall? what's the exact

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Mickeler
I'm using poppassd v1.8-ceti from http://www.ceti.com.pl/~kravietz/prog.html It doesnt suffer from any of the problems you described below. 1) I cant use an old password, only the current password will work to change the password 2) It is PAM aware 3) It supports MD5 I also make sure that

Re: How to find process causing periodic DEST_UNREACH replies?

2002-01-09 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Thanks for the tip about tcpdump. It seems the ntp service is the responsible. I'll check the list of the ntp servers to see if some of them is obsolete. Anyway just in case I misinterpreted something... I live in Switzerland, and I have a ZyXEL Prestige 642R DSL router connected to the ADSL

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread Micah Anderson
Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into the security updates? A bug filed? Micah On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Steve Mickeler wrote: I'm using

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Micah Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.10.0127 +0100]: Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into the security updates? A bug

Re: How to find process causing periodic DEST_UNREACH replies?

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Balazs Javor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.09.2329 +0100]: Anyway just in case I misinterpreted something... I live in Switzerland, and I have a ZyXEL Prestige 642R DSL router connected to the ADSL line, which performs some NAT and firewalling. The I connect my PCs through an ethernet

Re: RE: IPTABLES - ipchain

2002-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: I'll flame you now because you were wrong (As you requested). IPCHAINS works with 2.2, IPTABLES works with 2.4... and if you're really desperate you can run ipchains with the 2.4 kernels by insmod'ing ipchains and start your ipchains