Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Thanx for the input everybody, I think that from now on I will at least recommend to my clients about using ldap instead. Bye -- Haim

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread I.R. van Dongen
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:21:42 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:45:48PM +0100, Janus N. T?ndering wrote: > > This should be more than enough. I have been running a mailserver on a > > Pentium 133MHz 96 RAM + SCSI for a few years. It can handle quite a lot > > mail --- ne

looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and hemidal. looking in my aptitude list I saw a lot of packages with different versions of kerbe

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:31:12AM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: > I hope that machine has scsi disks like my gateway (120MB & 1GB) since with > that low on ram your machine is always swapping. That's usually no problem, > but IDE disks tend to wear out fast when used 24/7. With more RAM (32-40M)

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Haim Ashkenazi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was > convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the > ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and > hemidal. looking in my aptitude list I saw a lo

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Victor Calzado Mayo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 06:26, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > been trying to get the following to work for sometime input is most > appreciated > > > internet <=25= firewall iptablerule =port#x=> internalSMTPhost > > how can the firewall be told to: >

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:26:10PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > been trying to get the following to work for sometime input is most > appreciated > > > internet <=25= firewall iptablerule =port#x=> internalSMTPhost > > how can the firewall be told to: > take all incoming tcp port 25

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Peter Parkkali
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Victor Calzado Mayo wrote: > > internet <=25= firewall iptablerule =port#x=> internalSMTPhost > > > > how can the firewall be told to: > > take all incoming tcp port 25 traffic and send it to > > smtp host on port X > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 25 -

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting I.R. van Dongen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:21:42 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:45:48PM +0100, Janus N. T?ndering wrote: > > > This should be more than enough. I have been running a mailserver on a > > > Pentium 133MHz 96 RAM + SCS

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:53:07PM +0100, Rolf Kutz wrote: > How is that, since IDE and SCSI-Disks are having > the same mechanics? For one, the old IDE's tended to be more cheaply made. He is right in that: for customer machines in that era I always insisted on SCSI hard drives for speed and rel

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Jones" == Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jones> I am planning to replace a (dead) Windows 2000 computer Jones> that was used as a web server and email server with a Jones> Debian Linux solution. This machine is connected to the Jones> net via DSL and would run apache an

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 23:01, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > What I find astonishing: Let's say you are running a webserver, maybe > mailserver and a DNS on a server. What rules do you want to apply to > the packets etc.? I guess plain iptables should be enough for single PC or SOHO network - you can d

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:18:23PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was > convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the > ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and > hemidal. looking in my aptit

[qq@kuku.eu.org: linux kmod/ptrace bug - details]

2003-03-20 Thread Alexander Neumann
FYI, temprorary fix is to set /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to something bogus. -- "Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public FTP-server and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds --- Begin Message --- Hello There are many discussions (on slashdot for example) on the recen

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
what package can i research for a store/foward server? I thought the secure way was not to run anything like that on a firewall? That is why I am moving this group's exim off the firewall. Lars Ellenberg wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:26:10PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: been trying to get

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 01:07 pm, Ian Garrison wrote: >Imo iptables is a reasonably good stateful firewall and is fine in most > cases. However, a very wise person once said that the ideal setup is to > layer more than one implementation of packet filter and firewall between > the wild and

Public Alert

2003-03-20 Thread ronkor
Title: This is a one This is a one-time email from Ron Korkut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to inform you about the following LEGAL SCAM perpetrated under the supervision of the Attorney General of British Columbia. For further information please visit www.integriti.org and subscribe to the Integri

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Ian Garrison
Definately true, and worth mentioning. There is also the point that several of the punier devices that one might thrust into the horde of angry packets might have crummy stacks or be vulnerable to the silliest of things (especially in the case of consumer grade equipment). If the hardware is a

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030320 09:55 PST]: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: > >but to me it seems more appropriate to use a simple store and forward > >smtp deamon on the firewall. > what package can i research for a store/foward server? > > I thought the secu

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030320 06:39 PST]: > Set it up to block everything and then selectively open ports until > everything works as desired. Depending on the applications it may be a > good idea to REJECT auth (identd) packets

Fwd: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Didier Caamano
I will like to add, as a paranoid person that I am, that I wouldn't just only relay with a router. I will setup the router to be my first line of defense, as well to do some NAT or masqarading, and then after the router setup iptables as my second line of defense. But the first posting was see

[cert@cert.org: Re: CORE-2003-03-04-02: Vulnerability in Mutt Mail User Agent [VU#104193]]

2003-03-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
-- ciao, Marco --- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, Ivan Arce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The attached file is a security advisory detailing > a vulnerability in the Mutt Mail User Agent. ... > We would like to obtain a CVE candidate number for > this vulnerabilit

howcome there's no DSA for the latest Linux ptrace hole?

2003-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
Hiya, Howcome I don't see a Debian security advisory about the recently-found ptrace hole in Linux? Is it not really a hole? Or something? I think there should be an announcement even if the Debian kernels are not vulnerable, to explain that they're not. Are the Debian kernels vulnerable to th

wted and deletion

2003-03-20 Thread Anton Bretterklieber
Dear list, chkrootkit-0.39a gave the following output: --snip-- Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Checking `rexedcs'... not found Checking `sniffer'... eth0 is not promisc ppp0 is not promisc Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between Thu Mar 20 18:56:20 2003 and Thu Mar 20 23:24:49 2003 nothing d

Re: howcome there's no DSA for the latest Linux ptrace hole?

2003-03-20 Thread Jon
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 14:50, Tom Goulet (UID0) wrote: > Are the Debian kernels vulnerable to this hole? > This post to BugTraq by Andrzej Szombierski (who found the problem) includes a sample exploit for x86. You can use it to see if you are vulnerable. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/

Is this an obsolete tiger file?

2003-03-20 Thread Dale Amon
chkrootkit finds this file: Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... /usr/lib/tiger/bin/.bintype which appears to be quite old. Is this just a leftover from a long ago tiger? It only contains "Linux 2.2.17 2001" and appears on several systems looking the same. It isn't in

Re: howcome there's no DSA for the latest Linux ptrace hole?

2003-03-20 Thread Guille -bisho-
>Howcome I don't see a Debian security advisory about the recently-found >ptrace hole in Linux? > >Is it not really a hole? Or something? > >I think there should be an announcement even if the Debian kernels are >not vulnerable, to explain that they're not. > >Are the Debian kernels vulnerable to

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos (thanx)

2003-03-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
that's a start. thanx Bye -- Haim

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Thanx for the input everybody, I think that from now on I will at least recommend to my clients about using ldap instead. Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread I.R. van Dongen
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:21:42 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:45:48PM +0100, Janus N. T?ndering wrote: > > This should be more than enough. I have been running a mailserver on a > > Pentium 133MHz 96 RAM + SCSI for a few years. It can handle quite a lot > > mail --- ne

looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and hemidal. looking in my aptitude list I saw a lot of packages with different versions of kerbe

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:31:12AM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: > I hope that machine has scsi disks like my gateway (120MB & 1GB) since with that low > on ram your machine is always swapping. That's usually no problem, but IDE disks > tend to wear out fast when used 24/7. With more RAM (32-40M)

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Haim Ashkenazi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was > convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the > ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and > hemidal. looking in my aptitude list I saw a lo

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Victor Calzado Mayo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 06:26, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > been trying to get the following to work for sometime input is most > appreciated > > > internet <=25= firewall iptablerule =port#x=> internalSMTPhost > > how can the firewall be told to: >

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:26:10PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > been trying to get the following to work for sometime input is most > appreciated > > > internet <=25= firewall iptablerule =port#x=> internalSMTPhost > > how can the firewall be told to: > take all incoming tcp port 25

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Peter Parkkali
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Victor Calzado Mayo wrote: > > internet <=25= firewall iptablerule =port#x=> internalSMTPhost > > > > how can the firewall be told to: > > take all incoming tcp port 25 traffic and send it to > > smtp host on port X > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 25 -

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting I.R. van Dongen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:21:42 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:45:48PM +0100, Janus N. T?ndering wrote: > > > This should be more than enough. I have been running a mailserver on a > > > Pentium 133MHz 96 RAM + SCS

Re: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:53:07PM +0100, Rolf Kutz wrote: > How is that, since IDE and SCSI-Disks are having > the same mechanics? For one, the old IDE's tended to be more cheaply made. He is right in that: for customer machines in that era I always insisted on SCSI hard drives for speed and rel

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Jones" == Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jones> I am planning to replace a (dead) Windows 2000 computer Jones> that was used as a web server and email server with a Jones> Debian Linux solution. This machine is connected to the Jones> net via DSL and would run apache an

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 23:01, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > What I find astonishing: Let's say you are running a webserver, maybe > mailserver and a DNS on a server. What rules do you want to apply to > the packets etc.? I guess plain iptables should be enough for single PC or SOHO network - you can d

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:18:23PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was > convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the > ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and > hemidal. looking in my aptit

[qq@kuku.eu.org: linux kmod/ptrace bug - details]

2003-03-20 Thread Alexander Neumann
FYI, temprorary fix is to set /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to something bogus. -- "Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public FTP-server and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds --- Begin Message --- Hello There are many discussions (on slashdot for example) on the recen

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
what package can i research for a store/foward server? I thought the secure way was not to run anything like that on a firewall? That is why I am moving this group's exim off the firewall. Lars Ellenberg wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:26:10PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: been trying to get the

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 01:07 pm, Ian Garrison wrote: >Imo iptables is a reasonably good stateful firewall and is fine in most > cases. However, a very wise person once said that the ideal setup is to > layer more than one implementation of packet filter and firewall between > the wild and

Public Alert

2003-03-20 Thread ronkor
Title: This is a one This is a one-time email from Ron Korkut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to inform you about the following LEGAL SCAM perpetrated under the supervision of the Attorney General of British Columbia. For further information please visit www.integriti.org and subscribe to the Integri

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Ian Garrison
Definately true, and worth mentioning. There is also the point that several of the punier devices that one might thrust into the horde of angry packets might have crummy stacks or be vulnerable to the silliest of things (especially in the case of consumer grade equipment). If the hardware is a

Re: iptables help to forward ports please

2003-03-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030320 09:55 PST]: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: > >but to me it seems more appropriate to use a simple store and forward > >smtp deamon on the firewall. > what package can i research for a store/foward server? > > I thought the secu

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030320 06:39 PST]: > Set it up to block everything and then selectively open ports until > everything works as desired. Depending on the applications it may be a > good idea to REJECT auth (identd) packets

Fwd: Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Didier Caamano
I will like to add, as a paranoid person that I am, that I wouldn't just only relay with a router. I will setup the router to be my first line of defense, as well to do some NAT or masqarading, and then after the router setup iptables as my second line of defense. But the first posting was seek

[cert@cert.org: Re: CORE-2003-03-04-02: Vulnerability in Mutt Mail User Agent [VU#104193]]

2003-03-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
-- ciao, Marco --- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, Ivan Arce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The attached file is a security advisory detailing > a vulnerability in the Mutt Mail User Agent. ... > We would like to obtain a CVE candidate number for > this vulnerabilit

howcome there's no DSA for the latest Linux ptrace hole?

2003-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
Hiya, Howcome I don't see a Debian security advisory about the recently-found ptrace hole in Linux? Is it not really a hole? Or something? I think there should be an announcement even if the Debian kernels are not vulnerable, to explain that they're not. Are the Debian kernels vulnerable to th

wted and deletion

2003-03-20 Thread Anton Bretterklieber
Dear list, chkrootkit-0.39a gave the following output: --snip-- Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Checking `rexedcs'... not found Checking `sniffer'... eth0 is not promisc ppp0 is not promisc Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between Thu Mar 20 18:56:20 2003 and Thu Mar 20 23:24:49 2003 nothing d

Re: howcome there's no DSA for the latest Linux ptrace hole?

2003-03-20 Thread Jon
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 14:50, Tom Goulet (UID0) wrote: > Are the Debian kernels vulnerable to this hole? > This post to BugTraq by Andrzej Szombierski (who found the problem) includes a sample exploit for x86. You can use it to see if you are vulnerable. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/

Is this an obsolete tiger file?

2003-03-20 Thread Dale Amon
chkrootkit finds this file: Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... /usr/lib/tiger/bin/.bintype which appears to be quite old. Is this just a leftover from a long ago tiger? It only contains "Linux 2.2.17 2001" and appears on several systems looking the same. It isn't in

Re: howcome there's no DSA for the latest Linux ptrace hole?

2003-03-20 Thread Guille -bisho-
>Howcome I don't see a Debian security advisory about the recently-found >ptrace hole in Linux? > >Is it not really a hole? Or something? > >I think there should be an announcement even if the Debian kernels are >not vulnerable, to explain that they're not. > >Are the Debian kernels vulnerable to

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos(thanx)

2003-03-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
that's a start. thanx Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-20 Thread Josh Carroll
ss you by for an easier target. In general, I don't use -REJECT unless I'm worried about being polite. And in most circumstances, politeness isn't my goal ;) Josh --- Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder > <[EMAIL P