Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Gal t writes: >That still works? I thought mail-abuse.org was going subscription... Yeah, they went subscription, but they provide that as a service to the net. It checks the machine you telnet from, so it's not really subject to much abuse. >>You can telnet

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Gal t writes: >That still works? I thought mail-abuse.org was going subscription... Yeah, they went subscription, but they provide that as a service to the net. It checks the machine you telnet from, so it's not really subject to much abuse. >>You can telne

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread John Galt
That still works? I thought mail-abuse.org was going subscription... On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Alain Tesio wrote: >You can telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org to check >if your machine relays mails. > >Alain > > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decision

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread John Galt
That still works? I thought mail-abuse.org was going subscription... On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Alain Tesio wrote: >You can telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org to check >if your machine relays mails. > >Alain > > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisio

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread alexis bory
> > When nessus gives a report and says > > "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that > > it allows spammers to use your mail server to send their mails to > > the world, thus wasting your network bandwidth. I ran this test at the same time on one of my servers wich exim was ne

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Alain Tesio
You can telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org to check if your machine relays mails. Alain

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Will Aoki
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Laurent Luyckx wrote: > En réponse à Nemesis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello everybuddy: > > > > One question, please. > > > > When nessus gives a report and says > > > > "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that > > it allows spamm

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread alexis bory
> > When nessus gives a report and says > > "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that > > it allows spammers to use your mail server to send their mails to > > the world, thus wasting your network bandwidth. I ran this test at the same time on one of my servers wich exim was n

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Laurent Luyckx
En réponse à Nemesis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello everybuddy: > > One question, please. > > When nessus gives a report and says > > "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that > it allows spammers to use your mail server to send their mails to > the world, thus wasting your ne

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Alain Tesio
You can telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org to check if your machine relays mails. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Will Aoki
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Laurent Luyckx wrote: > En réponse à Nemesis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello everybuddy: > > > > One question, please. > > > > When nessus gives a report and says > > > > "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that > > it allows spam

Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Nemesis
Hello everybuddy: One question, please. When nessus gives a report and says "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that it allows spammers to use your mail server to send their mails to the world, thus wasting your network bandwidth. Solution: configure your SMTP server so tha

Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

2002-02-01 Thread Gergely Trifonov
well, most of the modifications i've done affect the path declarations only to fit the debian conventions (eg. named.conf in $CHROOT/etc/bind/ and so on). debian uses start-stop-daemon to control daemon startup/shutdown, thus i used an original debianized bind startup script instead of the one that

Re: Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Laurent Luyckx
En réponse à Nemesis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello everybuddy: > > One question, please. > > When nessus gives a report and says > > "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that > it allows spammers to use your mail server to send their mails to > the world, thus wasting your n

Exim Relay

2002-02-01 Thread Nemesis
Hello everybuddy: One question, please. When nessus gives a report and says "The remote SMTP server allows the relaying. This means that it allows spammers to use your mail server to send their mails to the world, thus wasting your network bandwidth. Solution: configure your SMTP server so th

Re: /etc/passwd accounts

2002-02-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:03:08AM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: > > Take a look at the Debian Policy Manual, they might discribe system accounts > in there. AFAIK it does, and so does the "Debian Security HOWTO" (see www.debian.org/doc/ddp). This is, a matter of fact in the FAQ section.

Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

2002-02-01 Thread Gergely Trifonov
well, most of the modifications i've done affect the path declarations only to fit the debian conventions (eg. named.conf in $CHROOT/etc/bind/ and so on). debian uses start-stop-daemon to control daemon startup/shutdown, thus i used an original debianized bind startup script instead of the one tha

Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

2002-02-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:00:13PM +0100, Gergely Trifonov wrote: (...) > is your friend: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Chroot-BIND8-HOWTO.html > > this document is really good, but some additional work needs to be done > to get the thing work on debian. > Could you elaborate a little bi

Re: logging facility

2002-02-01 Thread Jarkko Niemi
> anyone know of any good howtos on setting up a "log capture" box though > a serial cable or other means from a server? Sound like the thing I just read from Securing Debian HOWTO. Place of debian specific documentation: http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp And here is perhaps answer for your specific

Re: /etc/passwd accounts

2002-02-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:03:08AM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: > > Take a look at the Debian Policy Manual, they might discribe system accounts > in there. AFAIK it does, and so does the "Debian Security HOWTO" (see www.debian.org/doc/ddp). This is, a matter of fact in the FAQ section.

Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

2002-02-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:00:13PM +0100, Gergely Trifonov wrote: (...) > is your friend: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Chroot-BIND8-HOWTO.html > > this document is really good, but some additional work needs to be done > to get the thing work on debian. > Could you elaborate a little b

Re: logging facility

2002-02-01 Thread Jarkko Niemi
> anyone know of any good howtos on setting up a "log capture" box though > a serial cable or other means from a server? Sound like the thing I just read from Securing Debian HOWTO. Place of debian specific documentation: http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp And here is perhaps answer for your specifi