Re: SOLVED (part 2): problems with printing system

2003-07-31 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:06:38PM +0200, Arie Folger wrote: Now I still 'd like to figure out why went wrong with the updated glibc (glibc-2.3.2-27.9) that trashed my system, leading to the whole mess in the first place. Where is it

Re: GUADEC 5 - Host Wanted!

2003-07-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, dittigas wrote about Re: GUADEC 5 - Host Wanted!: The post was a link to a full and detailed description of an event which might be of interest to some people in the community. I don't think transalting it to English is either neceseary or important, nor do I need to

Re: Whatsup *** SELF-PROMOTION *** :)

2003-07-31 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Guy Cohen wrote: Please stop sending SPAM to the list... See values: 1. self-promotion 2. no real name behind the email 3. got nothing to do with the lists topic 4. plain old pain in the neck. FYI, What'sup is a. a local Linux community site and b. not for profit. These guys are financing this

Re: something to print

2003-07-31 Thread Eli Marmor
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Orna Agmon wrote: EsFahbod. And what I found from Orna and Muli was that Shachar pronounces the ch as in Dutch. Moreover I met someone from Tel-Aviv Univ. today

Linux vs. MS-Windows XP in the Deaf World?

2003-07-31 Thread Omer Zak
Having never bought any copy of MS-Windows XP, I was not aware of the following until someone else pointed it out: The process of registering MS-Windows XP requires the customer to make a voice phone call to the apporpriate Microsoft service point. Thus, making it impossible

Re: Linux vs. MS-Windows XP in the Deaf World?

2003-07-31 Thread Oleg Kobets
You can activate XP by either phone or internet. Deaf person can connect to the internet and activate his windows with no problem. What is there in Linux to be used by deaf person ? - Original Message - From: Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux ILUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Shalom, I need to set up an FTP server or an account that will use SSH for a user outside of our organization that needs to send us data. They haven't been able to successfully set one up on their end. I would like to avoid setting up and FTP server because of the security issues but I am also

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Moshe Shemesh
Hi Chaim, Did you consider using sftp-server ? It's ftp server running on top of SSH. you will need sftp clint to access it. Moshe Shemesh Liraz-x - Original Message - From: Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:57 AM Subject:

Re: Linux vs. MS-Windows XP in the Deaf World?

2003-07-31 Thread Orna Agmon
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Omer Zak wrote: Having never bought any copy of MS-Windows XP, I was not aware of the following until someone else pointed it out: The process of registering MS-Windows XP requires the customer to make a voice phone call to the apporpriate Microsoft service

Re: ip_forward mysteriously turnes off(?)

2003-07-31 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Guy Teverovsky wrote on 2003-07-31: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:15, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Some time ago I had a very long battle with iptables only to discover that they were fine all the time - turned out that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward was 0. I'm pretty sure I didn't setup it like

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
I am intending that sftp will be used for the file transfer. The problem is that once I create the account that will use sftp it automatically has the ability to log in with ssh and wander around the system. I would like to limit the users ability to travel ouside of the home directoy and to

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread katriel
Hello Chaim, Perhaps you should try this out: http://www.penguin.org.il/guides/chrooting-services/4.html#4 +Katriel Shalom, I need to set up an FTP server or an account that will use SSH for a user outside of our organization that needs to send us data. They haven't been able to

[RETRACTION] Re: Linux vs. MS-Windows XP in the Deaf World?

2003-07-31 Thread Omer Zak
I received several E-mail messages pointing out the alternate ways, by which Microsoft allows one to activate MS-Windows XP installations. So, it appears that I was misled by my source of information about this. --- Omer My opinions, as expressed in

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am intending that sftp will be used for the file transfer. The problem is that once I create the account that will use sftp it automatically has the ability to log in with ssh and wander around the system. I would like to limit the users ability

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:57:29PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: Shalom, I need to set up an FTP server or an account that will use SSH for a user outside of our organization that needs to send us data. They haven't been able to successfully set one up on their end. I would like to avoid

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Moshe Shemesh
Hi Chaim, Give the full path name of the sftp-server as the login shell for the user. This will prevent him from running arbitray commands. If you would like to jail him in his home directory (in the same manner that regular ftp server does), look at

RE: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Tzahi Fadida
and also, this http://www.tjw.org/chroot-login-HOWTO/ using sudo. ofcourse you also need to make sure the sshd is securely configured and patched. but thats not a problem you didn't have before. I use it, it works great. * - * - * Tzahi Fadida Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
You are right, I meant /bin/false. I tried /sbin/nologon and /bin/true but couldn't login to sftp with either. On 31 Jul 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am intending that sftp will be used for the file transfer. The problem is that once I

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Moshe Shemesh
Hi Chaim, When you give the full path name of the sftp-server as the user's login shell. This way he will be able to access to the system via sftp client only. However, he still be able to traverse the directories tree and issue get/put commands. If you would like to jail him, use

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:48:17PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: You are right, I meant /bin/false. I tried /sbin/nologon and /bin/true but couldn't login to sftp with either. You probably need to add it to /etc/shells. But other people offered better solutions, I think. -- Didi

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:48:17PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: You are right, I meant /bin/false. I tried /sbin/nologon and /bin/true but couldn't login to sftp with either. You probably need to add it to /etc/shells. But other people

[APII] Just when you thought it can't get any better

2003-07-31 Thread Aviram Jenik
What could possibly be better than a PGP key signing party, book exchange, excellent lectures and great atmosphere? We are glad to announce that August Penguin II will also have WiFi (802.11b) connectivity on the premises. So all of you wireless users, bring your cards and configure them to

Re: [APII] Just when you thought it can't get any better

2003-07-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Aviram Jenik wrote: What could possibly be better than a PGP key signing party, book exchange, excellent lectures and great atmosphere? We are glad to announce that August Penguin II will also have WiFi (802.11b) connectivity on the premises. So all of you wireless users, bring your cards and

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:39:31 +0300 (IDT), Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am intending that sftp will be used for the file transfer. The problem is that once I create the account that will use sftp it automatically has the ability to

mailing list insertion (fwd)

2003-07-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! I am forwarding this message on behalf of Irving M. Simon who seems to have problems subscribing to GNUbies-IL. Please help him with suggestions for a suitable 56K modem that can be used on Linuxes. Regards, Shlomi Fish

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday 31 July 2003 20:18, Ehud Karni wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:39:31 +0300 (IDT), Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am intending that sftp will be used for the file transfer. The problem is that once I create the account that will use sftp it automatically has the

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Moshe Shemesh
Hi Ehud, Doing chmod +s /uusr/sbin/chroot will simply break the security on your system. For example (as a non root user) do: chroot / cat /etc/shadow. Getting a root shell is left as an exersice to the reader. Moshe Shemesh Liraz-x - Original Message - From: Ehud Karni

Re: mailing list insertion (fwd)

2003-07-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:11:16PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi! I am forwarding this message on behalf of Irving M. Simon who seems to have problems subscribing to GNUbies-IL. Please help him with suggestions for a suitable 56K modem that can be used on Linuxes. There were a few posts on

Re: SSH Jail

2003-07-31 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 23:37:13 +0200, Moshe Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing chmod +s /uusr/sbin/chroot will simply break the security on your system. For example (as a non root user) do: chroot / cat /etc/shadow. Getting a