Re: INVALID state and no known connection.

2013-04-09 Thread Rolf Kutz
Hi Daniel, On 09/04/13 21:05 +0200, Daniel Curtis wrote: Hi andika. Another INVALID packet description. I read a lot of information and I don't know what is the truth. Frankly, the first time I see a description, which concerns RAM memory. So, I have a 1 GB of RAM memory. Just for example;

Re: Grave apache dos possible through byterange requests

2011-08-25 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 24/08/11 08:53 +0200, Dirk Hartmann wrote: it is possible to dos a actual squeeze-apache2 with easy to forge rage-requests: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-August/082299.html Apache-devs are working on a solution:

Re: Bind security announce

2010-12-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 02/12/10 14:09 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: https://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2010-3613 https://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2010-3614 This is the first I've heard of these issues. You can submit a bug report against bind9 to encourage the maintainer to start

Re: squirrelmail package in lenny

2010-02-21 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 21/02/10 16:19 +, Benjamin Vetter wrote: Furthermore, there is no security support for etch anymore, so it would result in using a rather old php4 package without security support? It's recommended to check your system with deborphan after upgrading to a new release. regards Rolf --

Re: suspicious text alteration

2009-02-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 03/02/09 14:42 -0500, Allan Wind wrote: Prank? Root kits usually wants to stay undetected to steal passwords, or use your box as spam relay. There used to be a worm in the 1990ies that would make letters from a terminal fall down. regards, Rolf -- ... But, conscience asks the question,

Re: Encrypt file while you are using it

2008-11-24 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 24/11/08 22:40 +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote: On Monday, 2008-11-24 at 16:12:56 +0100, Manuel Gomez wrote: Hi, i would like to maintain encrypt an archive in all moment, so i would like to know what software can be this. Now i am using Truecrypt, but when i mount the encrypted directory

Re: secure execution of drivers

2008-11-24 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 21/11/08 09:29 +0100, Dani wrote: when the driver fault, I was in the midst of rebuilding the system and had multiple virtual machines running. The result was that reiserfs Did those VMs have reiserfs-partitions, too? Reisefs has problems recovering when there are reiserfs-images inside

Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

2008-04-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 23/04/08 07:00 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: needs to be scoped. There is no benefit whatsoever to defining *anything bad that happens* as a computer security issue. (Oops, I acidentally deleted my own file--no, you screwed up, Oops, the building burned down--bigger problem than computer

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 23/01/08 18:48 +0200, Riku Valli wrote: Debian haven't any open services by default, except portmapper and behind portmapper aren't any services. So no need for host firewall. Ack. I didn't want to argue pro a default firewall. regards, Rolf -- ...about the greatest democrazy in the

Re: When are security updates effective?

2006-09-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Mikko Rapeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:56:17PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 12:28:17AM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: - can a process running vulnerable code be exploited to not show the shared libraries and other non-shared libraries and

Re: When are security updates effective?

2006-08-31 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Mikko Rapeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:54:45PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Mikko Rapeli wrote: Could Debian security advisories help a bit, since the people making the packaging changes propably know how to make the changes effective on a running

Re: Request for comments: iptables script for use on laptops.

2006-05-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Uwe Hermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT -s 127.0.0.1 # local host iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -d 127.0.0.1 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this would also allow incoming traffic from 127.0.0.1 to the eth0 interface. So somebody spoofing his

Re: Request for comments: iptables script for use on laptops.

2006-05-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting LeVA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT But if one can spoof 127.0.0.1, then one can spoof anything else, so creating any rule with an ip address matching is useless. No? If I set up my firewall to accept only my local

Re: Request for comments: iptables script for use on laptops.

2006-05-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:06:45AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote: The script under scrutiny was intended for a laptop. A router or firewall setup is something different and should not route traffic with spoofed addresses. rp_filter should catch

Re: first A record of security.debian.org extremely slow

2006-03-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:09:28PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: I typically use an Exim .forward file which invokes a special script using pipe. The script creates a file, and a cron job which runs periodically checks for the existence of that

Re: first A record of security.debian.org extremely slow

2006-02-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Michal Sabala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): For the past month or so security updates have been very slow for us (~5KB/sec). It appears that the first A record for the security.debian.org is the problem. host -t a security.debian.org security.debian.org has address 82.94.249.158 -

Re: CVE-2006-0019

2006-01-21 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Jan Luehr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, as I'm using KDE daily I'm concerned about CVE-2006-0019 [1]. Will Sarge be patched next week? (Otherwise I'll patch build KDE by myself) Sarge has been patched yesterday, see DSA 948-1. Keep smiling Whipe that smirk off your face :) Rolf

Re: closing unwanted ports - and what is 1720/tcp filtered H.323/Q.931

2005-12-15 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting kevin bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi, these ports seem to be open by default on a standard sarge setup PORT STATESERVICE 21/tcp open ftp This is not part of the default install. 25/tcp open smtp This is only open to localhost. 80/tcp open http

Re: What is a security bug?

2005-11-30 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Am 2005-11-28 15:17:03, schrieb Rolf Kutz: s/Mozilla/links/ :-) Unfurtunatly there is a Java-Script problem with (e)links. That's a feature. Other browsers have security problems with java-script :) - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: What is a security bug?

2005-11-28 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Am 2005-11-25 14:34:24, schrieb Rolf Kutz: It is possible, either as different users or with If you allow to run apps as different user on the same desktop, you pick security holes in your system. Yes, but it would also solve some

Re: What is a security bug?

2005-11-25 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Unfortunatly it is not possibel to open two instances of mozilla. ( Which may crash seperatly :-/ ) It is possible, either as different users or with different profiles (mozilla profile manager). You could also use Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox

Re: What is a security bug?

2005-11-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Jasper Filon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, obviously it is not a _security_ bug, since it has nothing to do with security. However, it is a bug, maybe even a critical one. As long as the bug does not compromise the security of the system (enables unauthorised execution of code, access

Re: any DSA for CAN-2004-0930

2004-11-17 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It has been fixed for unstable at least. How about CAN-2004-0600 and CAN-2004-0686 for samba in stable? There is no Samba3 in stable. - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-10-15 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Bas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If you do not run Portsentry you have a problem.. I disagree. There could be another process listening at that. - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD5 collisions found - alternative?

2004-08-25 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:11:34PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:39:57AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote: This depends on how the attack really works. If you just need to flip a few bits in a document it might just look like

Re: MD5 collisions found - alternative?

2004-08-24 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Almut Behrens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:18:46PM +0200, Danny De Cock wrote: a cryptographic hash function, such as md5, sha1, ripemd-160, to name the most commonly used cryptographic hash functions are constructed to have at least the following

Re: HTTP Browser Authentification Bug and some more bugs

2004-04-01 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Konstantin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): further information are here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt great idea until this is fixed(not mine): Stop all http and https servers and don't visit sites which works with the from design related unsecure http protocol! HEY, don't blame

Re: HTTP Browser Authentification Bug and some more bugs

2004-04-01 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Konstantin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): further information are here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt great idea until this is fixed(not mine): Stop all http and https servers and don't visit sites which works with the from design related unsecure http protocol! HEY, don't blame

Re: Checking what running program are using old libraries

2004-03-18 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Ronny Adsetts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I remember someone posting a method for locating programs that are running with old libraries, but don't recall where and I can't seem to find the right words whilst invoking google... lsof +L1 - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Checking what running program are using old libraries

2004-03-18 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Ronny Adsetts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I remember someone posting a method for locating programs that are running with old libraries, but don't recall where and I can't seem to find the right words whilst invoking google... lsof +L1 - Rolf

Re: Firewall: Need Advice

2004-02-07 Thread Rolf Kutz
This question would be better off on debian-firewall. * Quoting EErdem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've been using iptables (or i assuming that). But at boot time it gives an error: Aborting iptables load: unknown rulesets active . I couldn't find the problem. I searched via google, and found

Re: Firewall: Need Advice

2004-02-07 Thread Rolf Kutz
This question would be better off on debian-firewall. * Quoting EErdem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've been using iptables (or i assuming that). But at boot time it gives an error: Aborting iptables load: unknown rulesets active . I couldn't find the problem. I searched via google, and found

Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting

2004-02-04 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Phillip Hofmeister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 at 06:11:34PM -0500, Rolf Kutz wrote: You would get a ICMP host-unreachable from the last router in that case. I don't believe this is always the case. True. It may be the RFC specification that an ICMP host

Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting

2004-02-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting François TOURDE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But I think DROP is the best way, 'cause it slow down NMAP or other sniffers. Sniffers must wait packet timeout, then retry, then wait, etc. Your fooling yourself. What prevents sniffers from sending multiple packets at once[0]. And you're

Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting

2004-02-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Phillip Hofmeister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): As mentioned before, it is a port-scanner. Anyhow, TCP-Reset cans turn Ack. a asymmetric DoS attack/flood (one-way) into an symmetric DoS/flood because now your host is generating traffic by replying to these otherwise useless packets.

Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting

2004-02-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting François TOURDE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But I think DROP is the best way, 'cause it slow down NMAP or other sniffers. Sniffers must wait packet timeout, then retry, then wait, etc. Your fooling yourself. What prevents sniffers from sending multiple packets at once[0]. And you're

Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting

2004-02-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Phillip Hofmeister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): As mentioned before, it is a port-scanner. Anyhow, TCP-Reset cans turn Ack. a asymmetric DoS attack/flood (one-way) into an symmetric DoS/flood because now your host is generating traffic by replying to these otherwise useless packets.

Re: http://security.debian.org - down?

2004-02-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Maria Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): That appears to be klecker.debian.org which isn't currently responding to pings, which in itself isn't scary, but it looks as though it may have been inaccessible for a few days now. Does anyone know what's going on?

Re: http://security.debian.org - down?

2004-02-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Maria Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): That appears to be klecker.debian.org which isn't currently responding to pings, which in itself isn't scary, but it looks as though it may have been inaccessible for a few days now. Does anyone know what's going on?

Re: aide, apt-get and remote management...

2003-12-11 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Douglas F. Calvert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This is the problem. I am having trouble implementing a solution to update the database after an upgrade and still maintain its validity. Run aide --update right after the upgrade and compare the output with dpkg -L of the package. The replace

Re: aide, apt-get and remote management...

2003-12-11 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Douglas F. Calvert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This is the problem. I am having trouble implementing a solution to update the database after an upgrade and still maintain its validity. Run aide --update right after the upgrade and compare the output with dpkg -L of the package. The replace

Re: Should I use Snort/PortSentry?

2003-05-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Kristof Goossens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:46:47PM -0400, Rob French wrote: So, are any network/port-related tools useful? In my personal opinion it is ALWAYS usefull to know what is going on on your system. No mather how little ports are open... You said

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Rudolph van Graan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I would have like to see was something like this: [Please think of this in terms of stable or testing] apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog entries from the debs before installing them, but has to download them first, so no

Re: Have I been hacked?

2003-05-07 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Ian Goodall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks everyone for your help. It must be his computer as all the computers I usually log in from are all fine. I am still quite new to all of this but we all have to start somewhere :) Check the Fingerprint against the one from your machine.

Re: Port forwarding wrong after days

2003-04-29 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Kay-Michael Voit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Then I stopped trying But now, without changing anything, it works. As anyone an explanation for this behavior? Did you flush the conntracktable? - rk

Re: VPN: SSH or IPSec???

2003-04-16 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Felipe Martínez Hermo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a 5-site network. Each with a Cable/DSL link. Currently I have a Netscreen box on each site. I want to substitute the NS box with Linux boxes so I can manage bandwith, set up a firewall and have a configuration which is

Re: VPN: SSH or IPSec???

2003-04-16 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rolf Kutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use IPsec. It's a standard and it's supported by win2k natively. But Felipe still needs a VPN to run IPsec on. Of course, he could use GRE tunneling for that. 8-) Would he? Why not use IPsecs tunnel

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Daniel Husand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening your NAT servers to the world. Any software suggestions / tricks / ideas? You can use the ip_conntrack_h323 module

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Daniel Husand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening your NAT servers to the world. Any software suggestions / tricks / ideas? You can use the ip_conntrack_h323 module

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Marc Demlenne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): echo unexisting_binary /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe Can we trust this solution ? What's the effect ? You can't dynamically load and unload modules anymore. If you load all the modules you need before doing it, you're fine. It seems to work

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Marc Demlenne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): echo unexisting_binary /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe Can we trust this solution ? What's the effect ? You can't dynamically load and unload modules anymore. If you load all the modules you need before doing it, you're fine. It seems to work

Re: OPIE

2003-03-27 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Cyrus Dantes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've already installed opie-client and opie-server and already used opiepasswd to generate my OTP keys and such. I have verified my login is in /etc/opiekeys and other such needed items. Now i was wondering how i could make OpenSSH 3.5 accept

Re: OPIE

2003-03-27 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Cyrus Dantes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've already installed opie-client and opie-server and already used opiepasswd to generate my OTP keys and such. I have verified my login is in /etc/opiekeys and other such needed items. Now i was wondering how i could make OpenSSH 3.5 accept

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 + SCSI for a

Re: question about SSH / IPTABLES

2003-01-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Iñaki Martínez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): So i client can access the server via SSH, but s/he CAN NOT ssh to other servers from my server... How can i do this chmod o-x /usr/bin/ssh - rk -- What sort of person, said Salzella patiently, sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And

Re: question about SSH / IPTABLES

2003-01-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting DEFFONTAINES Vincent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 2. Mount /home, /tmp and any other place users might have write access on with the noexec switch, so they can only use binaries installed (and allowed to them) on the system. This does not prevent them from executing binaries. This has been

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Hubert Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Do the kerneli modules (officially) work with encrypted swap? I know It works for me. encryption, which may allocate new memory, ad infinitum. loop-AES takes care of that explicitly, by preallocating memory, but I don't think cryptoapi/cryptoloop

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Hubert Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Do the kerneli modules (officially) work with encrypted swap? I know It works for me. encryption, which may allocate new memory, ad infinitum. loop-AES takes care of that explicitly, by preallocating memory, but I don't think cryptoapi/cryptoloop

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier today. Do you have a good resource for this? http://www.kerneli.org/index.php - rk -- Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE! Yrs sincerely The Opera Ghost

Re: binding samba to specific interface...

2002-12-24 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Kaddik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is it possible to specify the interface that samba should listen on? I'm I missing something, or is package-dropping in iptables the only method? I'm using woody w 2.4.18 kernel.. 'bind interfaces only' in smb.conf But you should do source checking with

Re: firewall advice

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting andrew lattis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): #connections to lo $iptables -A OUTPUT -p ALL -o $lo_iface -s $lo_ip -j ACCEPT #allow the rest $iptables -A OUTPUT -p ALL -o $eth_iface -s $eth_ip -j ACCEPT #log the rest $iptables -A OUTPUT -m limit --limit $log_limit --limit-burst

Re: security updates for testing?

2002-11-21 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): in short: does Debian support security updates for testing? No. - rk -- These wheels are for inline skates only, unless you are stupid. Aggressive skating can be dangerous and hazardous to your health. If you get hurt, you are doing it wrong.

Re: Bypassing proxies

2002-11-19 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting DEFFONTAINES Vincent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wondering if some people know of some content-aware proxies/filters, to attempt to block [some of] those dangerous products (apart from maintaining a black-list...) Since the traffic is encrypted, content filtering will not trigger.

Re: Bypassing proxies

2002-11-19 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting DEFFONTAINES Vincent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Since the traffic is encrypted, content filtering will not trigger. Thats true for HTTPS, not HTTP. According their website, the tunnel is AES-encrypted. Why do you allow people to install software on the clients, if you don't

Re: Bypassing proxies

2002-11-19 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting DEFFONTAINES Vincent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wondering if some people know of some content-aware proxies/filters, to attempt to block [some of] those dangerous products (apart from maintaining a black-list...) Since the traffic is encrypted, content filtering will not trigger.

Re: Bypassing proxies

2002-11-19 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting DEFFONTAINES Vincent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Since the traffic is encrypted, content filtering will not trigger. Thats true for HTTPS, not HTTP. According their website, the tunnel is AES-encrypted. Why do you allow people to install software on the clients, if you don't

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Erik Rossen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Imagine instead a car that is always unlocked and is used nightly by hooligans when they go joy-riding. That's why leaving a car unlocked is illegal in Germany. On the other hand, you still need the key to start it and a hooligan wouldn't mind braking

Re: Mail relay attempts

2002-08-29 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Jones, Steven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ive found port sentry really good for detecting port scans and then routeing the return packets to no where. That makes you open to DoS-Attacks. Someone could scan you with spoofed source-IP and disconnect your box. A tarpit is a much better aproach

Re: Mail relay attempts

2002-08-27 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): PS: actually, the only other thing you could do is set firewall rules blocking inbound tcp port 25. if your mail server is the primary MX for your domain then you would also need a secondary MX and open the firewall for just that machine.

Re: encrypting/decrypting partitions on the fly?

2002-08-08 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello! Anybody know of a tool like PGPDisk for Linux? cfs is in stable. - Rolf

Re: Portsentry issue/problem

2002-07-25 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Zelko Slamaj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I realized is: .) 'till now it is safe to leave it that way but .) those kiddies scan your computer and think that these ports _are_ indeed open, so you have more attack-tries, which results in longer log-files and longer ip-chains. Plus

Re: woody ssh update and PAM keyboard-interactive authentication won't work.

2002-07-07 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks for this info -- if you happen to come across the reference again, I'd appreciate it if you could pass it along. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=151203repeatmerged=yes - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: woody ssh update and PAM keyboard-interactive authentication won't work.

2002-07-06 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Chuck Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It doesn't appear as though this keyboard-interactive authentication is something we want or need, but I don't know what it means and I haven't found anything in the ssh or sshd man pages or the libpam-doc that explains what it means. Would

Re: woody ssh update and PAM keyboard-interactive authentication won't work.

2002-07-06 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): From: Rolf Kutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Time Passwords e.g. (libpam-opie). But could be any PAM challenge-response dialog. Does anyone know whether there's any chance this can/will get fixed in the future? I had been planning to use

Re: Good Day - spamassin

2002-07-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi ya a silly question ... if spamassassin caught the spam, i assume it still received the spam and dumped it into a rejected spam folder ??? i would rather see that the spam senders see a bounce email that fills up their boxes with returned

Re: will compression still work in this ssh release?

2002-06-27 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Robert Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but there did not seem to be a mention of whether compression works with this latest release of OpenSSH 3.4, particularly on the server side. I depend upon compression in various scripts and would like to

Re: Using GnuPG or S/MIME?

2002-05-31 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Patrick Hsieh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, We are condisering to use GnuPG or S/MIME to encrypt or sign the email in the company. Can someone give me any advice or suggestion? http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ combines both. - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using GnuPG or S/MIME?

2002-05-31 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Patrick Hsieh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, We are condisering to use GnuPG or S/MIME to encrypt or sign the email in the company. Can someone give me any advice or suggestion? http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ combines both. - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is this an attack on my sendmail?

2002-05-11 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting César Augusto Seronni Filho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi guys in my maillog I am receiving many strange message on sendmail like that: May 10 18:52:50 xserver sendmail[]: g4AIRfa02119: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=one of my user mail (638/45), delay=03:25:09, xdelay=00:00:00,

Re: is this an attack on my sendmail?

2002-05-11 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting César Augusto Seronni Filho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi guys in my maillog I am receiving many strange message on sendmail like that: May 10 18:52:50 xserver sendmail[]: g4AIRfa02119: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=one of my user mail (638/45), delay=03:25:09, xdelay=00:00:00,

Re: Iptables config

2002-04-18 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Mathias Palm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Sorry, I dont get that. The manpage says: ...ESTABLISHED meaning that the packet is associated with a connection which has seen packets in both directions...

Re: protection against buffer overflows

2002-01-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: it indeed sounds VERY interesting (not only to me) :-) although I never dealt with special kernel modifications. But I'll give it a go..can anyone recommend any other kernel security patch sites? ..would be great! I never tested it, but it looks

Re: ping problem

2001-12-12 Thread Rolf Kutz
Halil Demirezen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How can i solve the problem that after i ping my computer(server) with ping localhost for about 160 times, the system starts not to give response and the load average of the cpu raises to the %81. how can i solve this system problem.. You can

Re: ping problem

2001-12-12 Thread Rolf Kutz
Gergely Trifonov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: it's okay if you just remove the setuid bit from /bin/ping (chmod -s /bin/ping), so users won't be able to run it This doesn't help. Luser will be able to create a 100% load with any command, so this doesn't help and ping is a useful tool. Try

Re: ping problem

2001-12-12 Thread Rolf Kutz
Halil Demirezen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How can i solve the problem that after i ping my computer(server) with ping localhost for about 160 times, the system starts not to give response and the load average of the cpu raises to the %81. how can i solve this system problem.. You can

Re: ping problem

2001-12-12 Thread Rolf Kutz
Gergely Trifonov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: it's okay if you just remove the setuid bit from /bin/ping (chmod -s /bin/ping), so users won't be able to run it This doesn't help. Luser will be able to create a 100% load with any command, so this doesn't help and ping is a useful tool. Try

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

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 It's

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

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] entries,

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 It's

Re: Mail-server config

2001-11-21 Thread Rolf Kutz
Johannes Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi @all, I plan to install a mailserver for ca. 800 users, now I planned to make 800 users with shell /bin/bash, home /dev/nul,... So, I ask you ;)), if this is a good solution, to make 800 UNIX-users for a mailserver and if not what's the best

Re: Mail-server config

2001-11-21 Thread Rolf Kutz
Johannes Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi @all, I plan to install a mailserver for ca. 800 users, now I planned to make 800 users with shell /bin/bash, home /dev/nul,... So, I ask you ;)), if this is a good solution, to make 800 UNIX-users for a mailserver and if not what's the best

Re: Mutt tmp files -- Root is not my Enemy

2001-11-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
Florian Bantner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A fact about which I'm concerned even more than about a hack from outside via the internet etc. is real physical access to the box. Something hackers normaly don't pay enough attention is that just somebody steps - let's say 6 o'clock in the

Re: Mutt tmp files -- Root is not my Enemy

2001-11-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
Florian Bantner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Die, 20 Nov 2001, Rolf Kutz wrote: Use TMPFS. Encrypt your disk or do everything in RAM (maybe set up a diskless system booting from cd. See the bootcd-package). They might still be bugging your hardware. I don't know tmpfs. What I'm

Re: Mutt tmp files -- Root is not my Enemy

2001-11-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
Alexander Clouter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am the root guy of my own laptop and I can trust myself :) However a lot of countries (uk/us and probably others, lots in the eu I would imagine) have encryption laws, not preventing it but permiting them to throw you in jail unless you hand

Re: Mutt tmp files -- Root is not my Enemy

2001-11-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
Florian Bantner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A fact about which I'm concerned even more than about a hack from outside via the internet etc. is real physical access to the box. Something hackers normaly don't pay enough attention is that just somebody steps - let's say 6 o'clock in the morning

Re: Mutt tmp files -- Root is not my Enemy

2001-11-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
Florian Bantner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Die, 20 Nov 2001, Rolf Kutz wrote: Use TMPFS. Encrypt your disk or do everything in RAM (maybe set up a diskless system booting from cd. See the bootcd-package). They might still be bugging your hardware. I don't know tmpfs. What I'm

Re: Mutt tmp files -- Root is not my Enemy

2001-11-20 Thread Rolf Kutz
Alexander Clouter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am the root guy of my own laptop and I can trust myself :) However a lot of countries (uk/us and probably others, lots in the eu I would imagine) have encryption laws, not preventing it but permiting them to throw you in jail unless you hand

Re: Debconf and noexec on /tmp

2001-11-08 Thread Rolf Kutz
Emmanuel Lacour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What's the use of noexec flag??? If you mount partitions of a different OS or machine, whose programs can't or shouldn't be executed. - Rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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