RE: Win32 Snort Question

2001-12-17 Thread Dustin Puryear
ration and let the administrator manually add to the default services. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

RE: ipchains

2001-11-30 Thread Dustin Puryear
Are you using OpenSSH? If so, you can disable host lookups. I'm not so sure about commercial SSH. Anyway, I ran into this problem when servers in our DMZ were taking forever to log into because they were trying to lookup addresses for our internal hosts, which naturally wasn't working. We could h

RE: Windows Security

2001-11-21 Thread Dustin Puryear
Another decent one is "Windows NT/2000 Network Security" by E. Eugene Schultz. It has some problems, but it's not a bad primer. You can read my review at: http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/BookReviews/BookReview.cfm?BookReviewID=41 Regards, Dustin > -Original Message- > From: Andreas Ham

RE: portsentry etc

2001-11-10 Thread Dustin Puryear
Well, PortSentry will alert you via syslog of it's action, so you can view the operation as the software immediately reacting and then letting you take appropriate steps for a long-term solution. You can turn this feature off if desired, and in fact, I usually do. One big issue is that it would b

RE: how to

2001-10-23 Thread Dustin Puryear
re: command history I didn't see the original post, so I'll just reply here. Pablo, there are a few ways to do this. The first, and probably the best, is to enable auditing. Just look this up in your system documentation. The second method, and one that will work nicely where the system doesn't

RE: Encryption for FTP/MAil/Web

2001-10-23 Thread Dustin Puryear
An obvious choice for HTTP is SSL. I also believe that there are FTP servers and clients that can use SSL. That would give you a two-in-one solution. For email, if you are using Exchange you can easily setup S/MIME. Naturally, this would require that your clients also use S/MIME. PGP should work e

RE: SMTP alternative

2001-10-23 Thread Dustin Puryear
You didn't specify if you are hosting your own mail server for inbound mail, or if your POP3 users are hitting this box or another one. If you are hosting all of your mail here then you need to run something. If this is your firewall then setup another box running a mail server and forward SMTP tr

RE: SAM Auditing Tool

2001-10-23 Thread Dustin Puryear
Jason, turn on auditing from the User Manager to see this information in your Event Log. Regards, Dustin > -Original Message- > From: George, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SAM Auditing Tool > Sensitivity: Pr

RE: W2K where to start??

2001-10-22 Thread Dustin Puryear
Well, Windows is no more vulnerable than your average UNIX system is out of the box. This is especially true if you use a mass-market Linux distribution like Red Hat. You should just apply all of the patches available from Microsoft for whatever services you are running (you didn't mention which o

Re: Directory Security

2001-10-01 Thread Dustin Puryear
from the access control list. Unfortunately, I believe that the administrators can still use Take Ownership, but then the original owner would know that something had happened. Regards, Dustin -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe

RE: MS IIS Lockdown tool

2001-10-01 Thread Dustin Puryear
, and other sorts of viruses without > having the patches installed. Obviously you should still patch your > boxes > (and MS clearly states this on their webite), but it could save a lot of > companies headaches! > > -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity

RE: Time Synchronization

2001-09-23 Thread Dustin Puryear
ting the original poster should use Timeserv or W32Time. You could also configure NET TIME /SET to run via AT running under the Service account. Regards, Dustin -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. Th

Compartmentalizing user priviledges, Was: Re: Running more than oneservice on one box

2001-09-23 Thread Dustin Puryear
On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 02:04, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Dustin Puryear spewed into the ether: > > I don't think that's true anymore. More and more people are jumping on > > the Linux bandwagon the same way people jumped on the NT bandwagon. I > > d

Re: Running more than one service on one box

2001-09-20 Thread Dustin Puryear
administrators is going to decrease over time. Regards, Dustin -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Re: Running more than one service on one box

2001-09-20 Thread Dustin Puryear
services being deployed. Regards, Dustin -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

RE: Running more than one service on one box

2001-09-20 Thread Dustin Puryear
nd bounds over NT. It's actually > feasible. The rebooting after patching security holes is a pain, but at > least you can use windows update.. I see Windows 2000 as an improvement as well. > cheers Dustin & company. Cheers back at ya. Regards, Dustin -- Dustin Puryear <

Re: Running more than one service on one box

2001-09-18 Thread Dustin Puryear
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Re: Time Synchronization

2001-09-17 Thread Dustin Puryear
a way to syn the time of all worstation with my server. Assign the priviledge using User Manager. Better yet, setup NTP or W32Time. Regards, Dustin -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely rega

Re: WinNT event viewer --> syslogd

2001-09-16 Thread Dustin Puryear
e configured to warn you of certain priority types. Finally, you can use perl to do it all on your own. In fact, I was skimming _Perl for System Administrators_ from O'Reilly (I may be a bit off on the title) and I think they used this very topic as part of an exercise. Regards, Dustin -