RE: WIRELESS THEFT

2002-10-23 Thread Teodorski, Chris
I am amazed that this discussion continues.it seems to metheft of services is theft of services. You can't break into my house and use my stuff just because I don't lock the door.. -Original Message- From: Raoul Armfield [mailto:armfield;amnh.org] Sent: Tuesday, October

Re: SETI@Home - Safe or Exploitable?

2002-10-23 Thread counterpol
In-Reply-To: !~[EMAIL PROTECTED] Never gave this too strong a consideration until I read a TechRepublic article pondering the safety of running distributed computing programs on corporate computers. While I discourage our employees from installing personal software on company computers and

RE: Why can I see other traffic at switch environment just tcpdump?

2002-10-23 Thread Naman Latif
I would think that it is the unknown unicast traffic. If the switch doesn't find the destination MAC Address in it FDB (mac-address table), it will flood all ports in that VLAN with that packet. If you want to protect the port from getting these messages, use the port block unicast command in

Newbie: OpenBSD security

2002-10-23 Thread His Imperial Majesty Christopher Calderon
I am new to OpenBSD and other Unices. I have some Linux experience. I can install the operating system, install software, delete software, add/rm users, etc. How can I strengthen OpenBSD's good security even more? I would like it as tight as possible. I will probably be the only user

Re: Webmin Security Questions

2002-10-23 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 21/10/02 15:48 -0400, Joe McCray wrote: Have any of you used Webmin http://www.webmin.com/ I'm looking into webmin software - thought it'd be cool to play with, but I'm curious about security issues with it. I've never used it before - I glanced over the website, and didn't see

RE: WIRELESS THEFT

2002-10-23 Thread Alaric Darconville
It's not harmful despite the fact that it lowers the bandwidth available to authorized users? Suppose you did a ping -f on multiple hosts on the network, cutting their effective bandwidth due to the traffic you generated. Would that not be harmful? So would downloading a file and cutting into

Re: ??? Solaris password scheme ???

2002-10-23 Thread Chris Berry
From: Ansel, Kenny L. (Sytex Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of a NATIVE way that will force users to create a password containing uppercase, lowercase, alpha, and numeric characters? The /etc/default/passwd does the MIN MAX and length If there aren't any NATIVE ways, can

Re: Webmin Security Questions

2002-10-23 Thread ATD
I suppose you could configure webmin so it was secure, but in general I would say it is fairly insecure. On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 15:48, Joe McCray wrote: Have any of you used Webmin http://www.webmin.com/ I'm looking into webmin software - thought it'd be cool to play with, but I'm

Re: ??? Solaris password scheme ???

2002-10-23 Thread Brad Arlt
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:42:29AM -0500, Ansel, Kenny L. (Sytex Contractor) wrote: Does anyone know of a NATIVE way that will force users to create a password containing uppercase, lowercase, alpha, and numeric characters? The /etc/default/passwd does the MIN MAX and length If

Re: wanted: Cisco PIX Management Tool

2002-10-23 Thread shawnmer
Cisco now has the PIX MC 1.0 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps2330/products_user_guide_book09186a00800e48b0.html -scm :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, we are running 8 Cisco PIX Firewalls now, with the option to get up to 12 more in future. They are all placed at different

RE: WIRELESS THEFT

2002-10-23 Thread ATD
Jay, If everyone was ethical and did what was right, there would not be a security industry. Fact of the matter is not all people are ethical, and many people would do things that are wrong. On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:54, Stevie A. Jones wrote: The disclaimer on PPV's, video rentals,