Re: [ilugd] Linux Security

2009-02-18 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Abhishek Kumar wrote: > Hi list, > > I just wanted to know is there any program or forums in Delhi/NCR > which is involved in discussing topics related to computer and network > security, in particular, linux ? > > regards > abhi > There exists a linux-delhi forum

Re: [ilugd] [ubuntu-in] Need help- new to linux

2009-02-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 19 Feb 2009, V K Madhavan wrote: > > Was desperate to get out of Windows - a long story - and the only CD > that I had access to was 8.04 LTS. No support for Linux available in > Haldwani since the business of support for small offices/homes also > depends largely on MS systems. > > As

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: | y...@yash-desktop:~$ ssh-keygen -h | ssh-keygen: illegal option -- h \-- Yes, there is no -h option, but, you will get the list of available options, and you should see an entry for "-R hostname Remove host from known_hosts file" in

[ilugd] Linux Security

2009-02-18 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi list, I just wanted to know is there any program or forums in Delhi/NCR which is involved in discussing topics related to computer and network security, in particular, linux ? regards abhi ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://

Re: [ilugd] [ubuntu-in] Need help- new to linux

2009-02-18 Thread V K Madhavan
Dear Ram, Having so many people willing to help was great. To discover that my closest support is actually located up in Munsiyari is remarkable. You just made my day! Was desperate to get out of Windows - a long story - and the only CD that I had access to was 8.04 LTS. No support for Linu

Re: [ilugd] Need help- new to linux

2009-02-18 Thread V K Madhavan
Dear Gora, There isn't yet an institutional involvement but it will emerge in a few months. I have migrated to Linux. There are at least another 20 computers - mostly PC's in the organisation I work with and there are a few others who have expressed a desire to move from MS-Office to OpenOffi

[ilugd] Many thanks

2009-02-18 Thread V K Madhavan
Hello, Many thanks. At least this got me started. I shall try and respond to some of the individual suggestions without cluttering everyone's email boxes. A general concern: Increasingly, people like me who use computers as glorified typewriters and now search engines and replacements for th

Re: [ilugd] Need help- new to linux

2009-02-18 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:07:28 +0530 V K Madhavan wrote: > Hello, > > I work in the Kumaun Himalayas and have just migrated to Linux. I am > using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as the operating system. Cool. Where in the Kumaon Himalayas? Is there an institutional involvement? If so, I imagine that various pe

Re: [ilugd] Need help- new to linux

2009-02-18 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:07 PM, V K Madhavan wrote: > Hello, > > 1. I have Clam TK Virus Scanner loaded. To get updates it says that I have > to be "root". How do I solve this? > 3. If I try to make changes to /etc../wvin.config it does not save it and > says that I am not permitted to do so.

[ilugd] Need help- new to linux

2009-02-18 Thread V K Madhavan
Hello, I work in the Kumaun Himalayas and have just migrated to Linux. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as the operating system. I must confess, that I am fairly computer illiterate and therefore despite knowing that there is a lot of information available on the web, am unable to solve some of my

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: > But still I need some more information, URL etc to know what happens when > there are no keys pairs created, what keys are picked up, when these are > generated etc. > > The file which sends the data to add into the .ssh/known_hosts on your

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Yashpal Nagar > wrote: > | But .ssh/known_hosts doesn't record the keys with hostname/IPs, atleast > with > | OpenSSH_4.7 with Ubuntu. So this option is not helpful. > | > | I understand older op

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: | But .ssh/known_hosts doesn't record the keys with hostname/IPs, atleast with | OpenSSH_4.7 with Ubuntu. So this option is not helpful. | | I understand older openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-18 such as on RHEL 3.0, records | keys along with I

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:34:43 + Yashpal Nagar > wrote: > | When i tried to ssh this server it gave me offending key warning on my > | local > | server (/home/yash/.ssh/known_hosts) because I had recently formatted > | the >

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Wednesday 18 Feb 2009, Yashpal Nagar wrote: > But the problem is when i tried to locate the public key in > /home/yash/.ssh/known_hosts I didn't find any key with a reference to > my target host/IP alongwith. All I found is a file, with full of keys > and its damn diffcult to find which I was l

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:34:43 + Yashpal Nagar wrote: | When i tried to ssh this server it gave me offending key warning on my | local | server (/home/yash/.ssh/known_hosts) because I had recently formatted | the | target host, So the finger print/key is changed which is normal. \-- Y

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:34:43 + > Yashpal Nagar wrote: > [...] > > On one of a servers I recently build with SLES 10 SP2, I didn't created > any > > ssh private and public key pair -- id_rsa and id_rsa.pub for root user > > When i tried

Re: [ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:34:43 + Yashpal Nagar wrote: [...] > On one of a servers I recently build with SLES 10 SP2, I didn't created any > ssh private and public key pair -- id_rsa and id_rsa.pub for root user > When i tried to ssh this server it gave me offending key warning on my local > ser

[ilugd] .ssh/known_hosts

2009-02-18 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Hi all, On one of a servers I recently build with SLES 10 SP2, I didn't created any ssh private and public key pair -- id_rsa and id_rsa.pub for root user When i tried to ssh this server it gave me offending key warning on my local server (/home/yash/.ssh/known_hosts) because I had recently form