Re: [ossec-list] failing installation on OS X 10.8.2

2013-04-03 Thread sempai
On Monday, March 11, 2013 1:10:42 PM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:57 PM, hays > > wrote: > > Dan, > > While I'm thinking about it, here's a patch for folks to test > (extensively) > > for the osx105-addusers.sh. Personally, using UID 600-2 scares me a bit > > since

Re: [ossec-list] ossec and hypervisors?

2012-09-10 Thread sempai
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:38 AM, dkoleary wrote: > > Does anyone know if vmware's hypervisor (vSphere??) is an actual OS on > which we can install anything, much less OSSEC? > For my VMWare ESX/vsphere use I'm just having the hypervisor send syslog. The level of effort and scalability of ossec-

Re: [ossec-list] OSSEC WUI

2012-05-04 Thread sempai
I believe the assumption is that the user who wants the ossec-wui will be able to set file permissions correctly and read their web server error log. What did you see when you looked at the server error log? What permissions did you set on that directory and the files therein? On 3 May 2012,

Re: [ossec-list] Web Server Trouble

2012-01-25 Thread sempai
I alert and block on many but not all web servers for precisely this reason, but I knew what Active Response did before I turned it on and complained about it working. There are a lot of vulnerability probes and assessment tools that look specifically for certain urls and generate 404s while

Re: [ossec-list] How to solve this problem

2012-01-18 Thread sempai
This isn't an OSSEC issue, so I'm not sure why you're asking about it here. Five seconds on Google will show you that it's a problem with a parameter being passed to that disk by hdparm. If you don't want that error to occur, fix it. If you don't want OSSEC to tell you about it, suppress the

Re: [ossec-list] Re: Installation and use without root access?

2011-05-09 Thread sempai
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM, dan (ddp) wrote: > It can't switch because you're not root. Make sure "sudo -u ossec" > changes the group as well (and/or try it with "-g ossec" as well). > You may run into other problems running the daemon processes though. > For those you'd have to break out a t

[ossec-list] Re: Installation and use without root access?

2011-05-06 Thread sempai
On Apr 18, 11:12 am, Michael Starks wrote: >  OSSEC can be administered with someone who has sudo access to >  impersonate/become the ossec user account. I tried this several years >  ago. I recall that there was one daemon that failed to start because it >  started asrootand then dropped privile

Re: [ossec-list] differences between ossec versions

2011-04-23 Thread sempai
You should look at the following products and projects: - ISS RealSecure - McAfee Endpoint Protection - Symantec Endpoint Protection - Cisco CSA - Tripwire Changes are usually announced here: http://www.ossec.net/main/category/news On Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 7:57 AM, moazami wrote: > Hi,

Re: [ossec-list] netstat anomaly on solaris

2011-04-21 Thread sempai
fwiw, I have seen this behavior frequently on very busy mail relays that open and close sockets very quickly and have large process tables. It's 'jitter' from processes exiting. On Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Castle, Shane wrote: I dunno. Logic sez that if it's not netstat, it's a ro

[ossec-list] Installation and use without root access?

2011-04-14 Thread sempai
Hello, I'm in a position where it would be advantageous to run ossec-hids as a server by an unprivileged user. Has anyone already gone down this road before and written documentation or shared their installation details?