Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Securing Transport Layer

2002-10-08 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > I'm inclined to agree that IPSec closes more holes than ssh or ssl do. > However, I still see a couple of problems I haven't been able to see a > fix for. (Yes, this is a request for help!) > > 1. Ideally, we could use IPSec to authenticate each *workstation* long > before we ask for nam

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Securing Transport Layer

2002-10-08 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
> > Using IPsec is likely to be better than ssh for a lot of reasons, but in some > > cases ssh might be easier to set up. > > CIPE is fairly simple and effective alternative to IPsec; most of the > code is in userspace with a minimal kernel interface. > > http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] portmapper problem on Debian Woody

2002-10-07 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > Unexporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...ws003:/opt/ltsp/i386: > Function not implemented > done. > Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...ws003:/opt/ltsp/i386: > Function not implemented > done. If I remember well, this means that the kernel lacks nfsd support, and thus expo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Securing Transport Layer

2002-10-07 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:54:24AM -0400, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Jim, > nfs over tcp is definitely not experimental. it is being used "all > over the place" - hp-ux and aix, to name 2 that i now of. That said, i > agree that ipsec/ssl is the way to go. will you have it ready soon? ;-)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Securing Transport Layer

2002-10-07 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:11:37AM -0400, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Pstrice, > i believe we should be able to tunnel nfs as well over ssh. nfs v3 > allows the use of tcp instead of udp and the ports are well defined: 2049 > for nfsd and 1110 for keep-alive and status. haven't tried it, th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Securing Transport Layer

2002-10-07 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > NFS can be forced over TCP and secured. Or you could use http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/ but basically you have a chicken and egg problem because your utilities used to tunnel nfs have to be present before mounting the root, but the root is nfs mounted. > Are you saying you h

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Securing Transport Layer

2002-10-07 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, I use ssh to do the authentication and launch X. Only nfs isn't tunneled. Is it that kind of solution that you want ? On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:15:59PM -0400, Barry Newman wrote: > Still searching for a way to secure the transport layer down to the client > (before authentication). Anyone t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RPM install problem

2002-07-31 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:46:28PM +0200, Mike Arends wrote: > Hi there, > > When running rpm to install the rdesktop package on my RH 7.3 machine I get > the message that libcrypto.so.1 is needed. > > Where can I find it? In what package is it available? It is in an openssl package. Pat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] why not to use ssh in runlevel 4

2002-06-12 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, I made a package with that (I took ideas from Robert Stanford) and with X and vnc over ssh for ltsp. Currently there are compatibility library issues, but you may have some luck. The package is in Xtras, under Patrice Dumas, it is called lts_ssh. > why dont we use ssh in runlevel 4 to impro

[Ltsp-discuss] gui frontend for ssh login with ltsp: anyone interested ?

2002-05-17 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, Is there anybody interesting in a graphical ssh login for ltsp (using host based authentication) ? I don't use ltsp currently, but I am willing to develop that if there are people interested in using it. If you are interested, could you please mail me (privately if you don't want to bother

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP without DHCP

2002-05-16 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:32:08PM +0200, Martin Herweg wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm looking for LTSP without DHCP. > > I do not want a DHCP Broadcast. > I want to store the Information > about the clinet & server-IP > on the client's > Harddisk or Floppy. > > did anyone try that? I did for fl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-15 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:22:35PM -0400, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Patrice, > your number 2 solution should work, provided that the workstation > can *locally* encrypt the traffic with a public key. julius If you agree to use RSA based authentication, then I implemented something w

Re: ssh trick [was: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic]

2002-05-15 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > ssh will ignore the -X parameter if $DISPLAY is not set. So > > DISPLAY=":0.0" > export DISPLAY > ssh -X -l user server icewm > > should do the trick. This is needed but not sufficient. In my case, I use xinit, thus the DISPLAY is correctly set. However this isn't sufficient, what is ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-14 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:42:47AM -0400, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Patrice, > you are right about the "man in the middle" attack. my take on the > whole discussion is that we are trying prevent people from sniffing > passwords. ssh *would* work great for it, if the software loaded into t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-14 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > I don't see what you mean. It doesn't matter what who you are on the > terminal, what matters is who you are on the server. You'd script the > user on the terminal (root) to login to the server as some user and run > the su command to be whatever user you want on the server. This is o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-14 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > It's possible in theory, but as far as I know no one has coded the one > part that's needed. It's trivial to script ssh to login in remotely > tunneling X and run a program, so all that's needed is a graphical login > which is setuid to root so it can actually change user ids. Really

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-14 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, > Anthony Dean stated in a post the 25 of april that it is possible to > get a gui login promp over ssh (without using vnc), but, as I > understood his post, other features of the XDMCP such as indirect > queries is not possible (since they rely on udp). > He has not given a working example

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stunnel and encrypted traffic

2002-05-14 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:10:35PM +0200, Jason Bechtel wrote: > Security-minded LTSPers, > > For my contribution, I just want to mention stunnel. From the main page: > > If I'm thinking properly, then we should be able to make an > Stunnel+OpenSSL add-on package for LTSP which provides a wrap

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Security concern: Logging in on terminals - suggestion

2002-05-13 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:52:40AM -0400, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Patrice, > changes would also be needed in the ltsp kernel for direct support > of ssh. here are the answers to your 2 questions: Why ? Why couldn't you do all that in user space ? > > I don't understand how you make th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Security concern: Logging in on terminals - suggestion

2002-05-13 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, You can also use password authentication with ssh. I think that with password authentication the password are fairly well protected. And you can also use a passphrase to protect the private key. I think that getting the private keys with a password and then protect it with a passphrase is fai

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] spanish keyboard

2002-05-13 Thread Patrice DUMAS - DOCT
Hi, On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:01:37PM -0700, Pedro Torres wrote: > hi, > > on the terminal under runlevel 3 or 4 i says : > # loadkeys es > > the command is ok, the keymap is loaded but not work, > > in ltsp_core 3.0.3 and it work but it dont have > support for 486, exist other way to make i