Securing/encrypting a remote server

I'm interested in encrypting/securing a server that I'm only going to have remote access to. Since somebody else will be setting it up the best I have been able to come up with is to have it setup with a normal LVM scheme, then add an encrypted tmp home and swap which I would mount/activate manuall

Re: wi-fi security?

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > wicd has been flawless for me since i started using it. After playing with wicd for a week or three I went back to network-manager. I cannot remember what my problem with wicd was, but it was just ea

Re: Safe-upgrade of "dash" fails

On 2009-08-06 00:11 +0200, Jack Knowlton wrote: > Coming back from a month-long trip, I decided to safe-upgrade my debian > unstable desktop. Among the hundreds of new packages, apt seemed eager to > install (or upgrade, I'm not sure) dash. This is intended. > Unfortunately, something seems to h

Re: wi-fi security?

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:37:30PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-08-05_14:27:26, Johann Spies wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > > > Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never > > > used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of t

Re: qemu slowness

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > VirtualBox-OSE is an application that you can install like qemu and run > windows inside, and it is very easy to set up and use.  It has very good > hardware support, so audio probably wouldn't be a problem, it runs fast, and > whatever guest OS

Re: wi-fi security?

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > 2) How do I make my laptop more secure so others on wifi network can't > steal or sniff my packets? > If you're using Gmail over wifi you should be logging in with https:gmail.com. Using https encrypts not just the login but the ent

Re: wi-fi security?

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:04:13 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > > I find myself with a very puzzling problem. I want to look at wicd, > but I can't. When I tried to install it with aptitude, I could not > find it using / search. Check your sources.list. wicd comes from the wicd repository rather tha

Re: wi-fi security?

Hi Paul, Sorry, made an error. You should use or course: > # aptitude install -t lenny-backports wicd Greetings, Manon. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at: > http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd

Re: wi-fi security?

Hi Paul, I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at: http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd You should add the next line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (ie: if you're too using Lenny) deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free run 'aptitude upd

Re: wi-fi security?

On 2009-08-05_15:28:21, Preston Boyington wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is > > installed on my Acer Aspire one... > > Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second > thing I uninstall on my De

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Brian Marshall wrote: > Why not use the flashplugin-nonfree package? It has Flash 10 without > nspluginwrapper on amd64. > > -- > Brian email composing failure... for some reason or another that package could not be found even with adding to the source list -- T

Re: Using a package from unstable if stable has a bug?

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:49:39 -0700 Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > Let's say the package "watchdog" in Lenny has a bug which probably > got fixed in the later upstream versions of watchdog in Debian Sid. > > So I pulled in the sources for watchdog package from Debian Sid on my > Lenny system and compi

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:28:58PM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > [...] > [Edit: i did a re-install and now it works. just download and extract > the package, make folder named "plugins" to .mozilla (in home folder) > and move file libflashplayer.so there.] > [...] Why not use the flashplugin-nonfr

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 19:54:50 line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > I tried configuring fstab to use the UUID from blkid, but I had the same > problem. Could the problem be that the SCSI drives are not coming up until > cryptsetup has loaded? This could happen if the new kernel's initramfs doe

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

>> When I run nspluginwrapper -i >> /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashflashplayer.so the response is >> >> *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object >> file: No such file or directory. >> >> I found a copy of libnss3.so in /usr/lib and added a soft link to it >> from /usr/

compiled kernel and NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet

Hi all! I am having a problem booting with a kernel compiled using the Debian way. In my particular case I am having this problem on Ubuntu, but I don't believe that the problem is something specific of this distribution and that is the reason for which I am consulting it here. The idea is to ins

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

The easiest way to fix this is install the ia32-libs with nsplugin-wrapper, apt-get install nspluginwrapper (should handle the ia32-libs) now all I had to do was download the libpixman deb for squeeze, open and you will get a controll and data. Now open the data and you should get user/lib, tak

Re: cups undocumented deprecation

Apparently cups doesn't consider root part of lpadmin group. On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:26:38AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: The command line tools in cups current debian version are deprecated and that deprecation is undocumented. I proved this a few m

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:54:50PM -0500, line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > I tried configuring fstab to use the UUID from blkid, but I had the same > problem. Could the problem be that the SCSI drives are not coming up until > cryptsetup has loaded? hmmm not sure, you could try turning of quiet

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

I tried configuring fstab to use the UUID from blkid, but I had the same problem. Could the problem be that the SCSI drives are not coming up until cryptsetup has loaded? Here is some info on my configuration: t...@magnesium:/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d$ cat resume RESUME=/dev/mapper/magnesium

Using a package from unstable if stable has a bug?

Let's say the package "watchdog" in Lenny has a bug which probably got fixed in the later upstream versions of watchdog in Debian Sid. So I pulled in the sources for watchdog package from Debian Sid on my Lenny system and compiled the watchdog package and it built without complaining about any

Re: qemu slowness

Klistvud wrote: Dne, 04. 08. 2009 07:48:50 je jeremy jozwik napisal(a): hello list. the wife wants to watch netflix "watch instantly" videos. it requires a program to be installed in order to watch the videos. said program is only supported under the w and mac os. so i figured this would be a n

Safe-upgrade of "dash" fails

Hi all. Coming back from a month-long trip, I decided to safe-upgrade my debian unstable desktop. Among the hundreds of new packages, apt seemed eager to install (or upgrade, I'm not sure) dash. Unfortunately, something seems to have gone terribly wrong and I would like to complete successfully the

Re: wi-fi security?

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:50:29 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Aug 2009, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > > > > > The easiest way is to use network-manager. If you click on the Icon > > > in your toolbar it should show you the detected networks. You can use > > > the "Create New Wireless Network

Re: wi-fi security?

* Zachary Uram [2009 Aug 05 07:04 -0500]: > Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never > used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops > that offer free wii but I need to know: > > 1) How do I setup wifi in Linux? Have a supported chipset (Atheros is

Re: Little OT : Software for Active Noise Cancelling or Reduction

M writes: > i was considering to buy headphones with Active Noise Cancelling / Reduction. > But before spend money, i'd like to know if there's a software that > could do the same job (for free). No. Not feasible. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: wi-fi security?

Paul E Condon wrote: > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is > installed on my Acer Aspire one... Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the update-manager because I

Little OT : Software for Active Noise Cancelling or Reduction

Hi all, i was considering to buy headphones with Active Noise Cancelling / Reduction. But before spend money, i'd like to know if there's a software that could do the same job (for free). Thanks in advance! Regards M

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

On Wed,05.Aug.09, 08:53:48, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks for posting this; I'll keep it in reserve. I was caught by the > same trap on a similar machine (Thinkpad Z61M) a couple of weeks ago and > was rescued by a knowledgeable poster on this list. I can now boot again > although I no longer

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

On Wed,05.Aug.09, 10:42:41, Johann Spies wrote: > > I'm on sid. Does your xserver-xorg depend on console-setup? > > I suspect not because I did not have console-setup installed. How do > I configure it to use console-setup? I don't think you should bother. Just set everything up via xorg.con

Re: How to add a printer via command line

2009/8/6 T o n g : > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:13:50 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >>> interesting, the command line tools can now probably be removed since >>> those apparently no longer work. >> >> All the command-line tools do work . . . > > How can I add a printer via command line? I have to go thro

Re: wi-fi security?

On 2009-08-05_14:27:26, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > > Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never > > used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops > > that offer free wii but I need to know: > >

How to add a printer via command line

On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:13:50 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> interesting, the command line tools can now probably be removed since >> those apparently no longer work. > > All the command-line tools do work . . . How can I add a printer via command line? I have to go through the lengthy process thr

Re: Where to download Debian Etch's last release ISO image?

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 17:30 +, Oscar Corte wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > I’ve been trying to find an ISO image of Debian’s last release for version > 4.0 (I think is r8). > > > > Could somebody tell me where to find it? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/oldstable/main/installer-i386/

Re: Where to download Debian Etch's last release ISO image?

In , Oscar Corte wrote: >I’ve been trying to find an ISO image of Debian’s last release for version > 4.0 (I think is r8). I'd use . But, you can start

Where to download Debian Etch's last release ISO image?

Hi all: I’ve been trying to find an ISO image of Debian’s last release for version 4.0 (I think is r8). Could somebody tell me where to find it? Thanks in advance for any hints _ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with

Re: wi-fi security?

In , Zachary Uram wrote: >2) How do I make my laptop more secure so others on wifi network can't >steal or sniff my packets? That depends on the security used by the network, which is not a choice you make when connecting to it, but rather a choice made by the entity that provides the network.

Re: Problems with HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer on lenny

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:24:11PM +0200, Eric Meijer wrote: > Hello, > Questions: > Does anyone use the HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer with a lenny system and > 1) also has a kernel hang, or not > 2) can scan with it, or not ? 2) yes. I'm running a somewhat out of data sid which is probably pre

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 18:10 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Kun Niu wrote: > > Somewhere on debian.org are pages on how to upgrade from Woody to Etch. So, > > I'd read them first and try it. > > What about sarge? IIRC, it was woody -> sarge -> etch -> lenny. > > You'd have to find a sarge

Re: Secure Server

Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: > I just wanted ask about the security of services like ssh, dns, etc, > what is the best way to secure this services?, perhaps /etc/hosts.allow > and /etc/hosts.deny?, or perhaps with a superserver inetd or xined?, > > what's the difference among those way to secu

Re: wi-fi security?

On 05 Aug 2009, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > > > The easiest way is to use network-manager. If you click on the Icon > > in your toolbar it should show you the detected networks. You can use > > the "Create New Wireless Network..." or "Connect to Hidden Wireless > > Network..." to set up connecti

Re: Problem installing nvidia driver after upgrading from etch to lenny...

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 02:27:26 +1000 Frank Gallacher wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just upgraded from "etch" to "lenny" on my PC (kernel 2.6.26-2-686) > I had installed the nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Graphics Card > which was working OK, > (Version 173.14.05 under etch) > > After the

Problem installing nvidia driver after upgrading from etch to lenny...

Greetings, I have just upgraded from "etch" to "lenny" on my PC (kernel 2.6.26-2-686) I had installed the nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Graphics Card which was working OK, (Version 173.14.05 under etch) After the upgrade, gdm was crashing saying it couldn't find the driver; When I tried

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kun Niu wrote: > Somewhere on debian.org are pages on how to upgrade from Woody to Etch. So, > I'd read them first and try it. What about sarge? IIRC, it was woody -> sarge -> etch -> lenny. You'd have to find a sarge archive to upgrade to, though.

Secure Server

Hi all!! I just wanted ask about the security of services like ssh, dns, etc,  what is the best way to secure this services?, perhaps /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny?, or perhaps with a superserver inetd or xined?, what's the difference among those way to secure the system? --

Re: installation (python/libc6) broken, but how?

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 16:14 +0200, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > Hi, > > The three-line python program > > import numpy > m = numpy.random.random((16, 16)) > (x, v) = numpy.linalg.eig(m) > > runs fine in my chrooted sid, but in my (main) squeeze installation > it produces > *** glibc detected *** p

Re: wi-fi security?

Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: >> Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never >> used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops >> that offer free wii but I need to know: >> >> 1) How do I setup wifi in

installation (python/libc6) broken, but how?

Hi, The three-line python program import numpy m = numpy.random.random((16, 16)) (x, v) = numpy.linalg.eig(m) runs fine in my chrooted sid, but in my (main) squeeze installation it produces *** glibc detected *** python: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x01407890 *** In squeeze, I

Re: cups undocumented deprecation

> There are errors with the cups web page > interface too though, I'll document here. In the add printers dialog a > user gets asked for a ppd file in a couple places. The user needs to be > told the path to the file and the ppd file name are needed not just be > asked for a ppd file. True it's

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

> > Yes. That's what I want. Would that be too dangerous? > > We've encountered the boot failure problem. > > But the system works fine when switching back to the old 2.4 kernel. > > > > I don't think that Debian ever supports skipping major releases, and also I > think that before moving to Etch

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

That would be really appreciated. Have you got that email? 2009/8/5 Siggy Brentrup > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:05 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > > Just wish me good luck then. > > Or I'll have to go thousands of miles to check my system. > > That'll be really awesome for me. > > And a live cd will be

Re: cups undocumented deprecation

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:26:38AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The command line tools in cups current debian version are deprecated and > that deprecation is undocumented. I proved this a few minutes ago by > setting up my printer using the web interface and set printer options > after suc

Re: wi-fi security?

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never > used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops > that offer free wii but I need to know: > > 1) How do I setup wifi in Linux? The easiest way is

Xen USB integration not working

Hi to all, I'm trying to use a specific USB device on a Xen Server (Primergy RX300S4 with Debian Lenny as Dom0). What works is when I integrate the USB device by hand. (Using xenwatch, connecting with the xenwatch VNC Server to the Windows XP guest, pressing "ALT+CTRl+2" and using the command "usb

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:34 -0700, fred basset wrote: > Hi All, > > I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone > recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian > and support all the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and Dell > laptops myself. > It would be great

wi-fi security?

Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops that offer free wii but I need to know: 1) How do I setup wifi in Linux? 1) How do I detect and connect to public free network(s)? 2) How do I make my laptop more s

Re: A customized debian distro using existing installation (Text-based installer)

On 2009-08-05 01:54, Sanjay Varanasi wrote: Hello, [snip] Now comes the main question: --- Is there a way I can now take this installed system and create an installation disk with a text-based installer? In other words, I'd like to keep all the software I installed, removed and config

Re: dpkg -i question

Thanks go to Andrei and Sven for prompt response and helping me clearing this thing out! On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Hinko Kocevar wrote: > Hi, > > I've started using dpkg in the company I work for now. Before that I > was not familiar with the tool. > My question is in regard to the fact when

Re: dpkg -i question

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-05 09:38 +0200, Hinko Kocevar wrote: > >> I've started using dpkg in the company I work for now. Before that I >> was not familiar with the tool. >> My question is in regard to the fact when/how are files installed in >> /etc/default

problem with installing wifi driver from source

In The Name Of God The compassion merciful I'll be thankfull if you guide ; How can this error be fixed ? # make Kernel Makefile not found at '/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/source' chmod: cannot access `compatible/*': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 2: compatible/kversion: No such file or dir

Re: qemu slowness

Dne, 04. 08. 2009 07:48:50 je jeremy jozwik napisal(a): > hello list. the wife wants to watch netflix "watch instantly" videos. > it requires a program to be installed in order to watch the videos. > said program is only supported under the w and mac os. > > so i figured this would be a nice time

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 05:04:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > AFAICT it is generated by console-setup > > > > > XKBMODEL="thinkpad60" > > Thanks. > I'm on sid. Does your xserver-xorg depend on console-setup? I suspect not because I did not have console-setup installed. How do I conf

cups undocumented deprecation

The command line tools in cups current debian version are deprecated and that deprecation is undocumented. I proved this a few minutes ago by setting up my printer using the web interface and set printer options after successfully adding the printer. Before I did any of this configuration tho

Re: dpkg -i question

On 2009-08-05 09:38 +0200, Hinko Kocevar wrote: > I've started using dpkg in the company I work for now. Before that I > was not familiar with the tool. > My question is in regard to the fact when/how are files installed in > /etc/default when I run 'dpkg -i pkg.deb'. > > What I've observed is tha

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

On 04 Aug 2009, James McCloskey wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > |> You might want to keep a copy of this handy: > |> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ > > Indeed. But I think I sorted this out (or at least I have succeeded in making > the > system boot at least once). In case anyone finds themse

cups package bug

When either real root or sudo root runs commands like: lpadmin -d Panasonic-KX-P1123 Immediately afterwards /var/log/cups/error-log should not contain an entry stating that root tried setting cups default and that the attempt was unauthorized. This potentially means three things: 1) cups no

Re: dpkg -i question

On Wed,05.Aug.09, 09:38:54, Hinko Kocevar wrote: > Hi, > > I've started using dpkg in the company I work for now. Before that I > was not familiar with the tool. dpkg is a very useful tool, but it shouldn't be necessary unless your package is not available via APT. > My question is in regard to

dpkg -i question

Hi, I've started using dpkg in the company I work for now. Before that I was not familiar with the tool. My question is in regard to the fact when/how are files installed in /etc/default when I run 'dpkg -i pkg.deb'. What I've observed is that missing or modified file in /etc/default is never ins

A customized debian distro using existing installation (Text-based installer)

Hello, I'm working on a project for my graduation - creating a customized, minimal debian distribution for installation on HP T5530 thin-clients that have only 512MB Flash disk and 228MB RAM. I installed debian on one thin-client using the NetInstallation disk of Lenny. I have been able to limit t