Checking behind the wall

2001-06-01 Thread Mike Moran
Although it is good to have a properly setup firewall, I was wondering what else I could do to check that the machines behind it haven't been compromised (by an email trojan or the like)? I was thinking of setting up a scanner (strobe/nmap/...?) to automatically do a scan from a cron and mail

Checking behind the wall

2001-06-01 Thread Mike Moran
Although it is good to have a properly setup firewall, I was wondering what else I could do to check that the machines behind it haven't been compromised (by an email trojan or the like)? I was thinking of setting up a scanner (strobe/nmap/...?) to automatically do a scan from a cron and mail

Re: Allow FTP in, but not shell login

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Moran
Kenneth Pronovici wrote: you can change user's shell to /dev/null Well... it doesn't look like I can log in via telnet or FTP without a valid login shell. I tried that with various entries other than /dev/null ... If all that is needed is web page upload access, you could try

Re: SSH and RSA

2001-02-19 Thread Mike Moran
Duane Powers wrote: Hi all, [ ... ] I have found that he did not need to transmit the local password over the tunnel, but rather used RSA to verify his identity, but I can't find documentation on how to do it. man ssh, man ssh-agent, man ssh-add, Practical UNIX Internet Security does

Re: SSH and RSA

2001-02-19 Thread Mike Moran
Duane Powers wrote: Hi all, [ ... ] I have found that he did not need to transmit the local password over the tunnel, but rather used RSA to verify his identity, but I can't find documentation on how to do it. man ssh, man ssh-agent, man ssh-add, Practical UNIX Internet Security does

Re: security.debian.org in woody

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Moran
Niklas Hglund (ETX) wrote: Hi! I'm running woody, should have "deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates ..." in my sources.list, as there is no "deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates ..." ? I'd also like to know this, as I am running "testing" right now. -- [EMAIL

Re: security.debian.org in woody

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Moran
Niklas Höglund (ETX) wrote: Hi! I'm running woody, should have deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates ... in my sources.list, as there is no deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates ... ? I'd also like to know this, as I am running testing right now. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is debian OpenBSD ftpd secure?

2001-01-30 Thread Mike Moran
Hi. I ran SAINT over my system today, and it highlighted a possible vulnerability in the "ftpd" package[1]. I believe this relates to "anonymous" access. Now, access to the "anonymous" account is disabled in the /etc/ftpusers file, which I understand leads to this: ... Name

Re: Is debian OpenBSD ftpd secure?

2001-01-30 Thread Mike Moran
Berend De Schouwer wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:45:50 Mike Moran wrote: [ ... ] | However, SAINT still seems to pick this up as a vulnerability. Is this | just because the SAINT detection routines get fooled by the | almost-successful login, or is there actually a real vulnerability

Is debian OpenBSD ftpd secure?

2001-01-30 Thread Mike Moran
Hi. I ran SAINT over my system today, and it highlighted a possible vulnerability in the ftpd package[1]. I believe this relates to anonymous access. Now, access to the anonymous account is disabled in the /etc/ftpusers file, which I understand leads to this: ... Name (ftp.houseofmoran.com:mm):

Re: Is debian OpenBSD ftpd secure?

2001-01-30 Thread Mike Moran
Berend De Schouwer wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:45:50 Mike Moran wrote: [ ... ] | However, SAINT still seems to pick this up as a vulnerability. Is this | just because the SAINT detection routines get fooled by the | almost-successful login, or is there actually a real vulnerability