Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 18:25 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > Yes. And despite what people think, those agencies don't have super > powers. They have tools to help them, and lots of resources, but > nothing out of the ordinary. Untrue. They are in advance of mainstream developments. Spying has

Re: [CentOS] humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)

2017-04-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/16/2017 04:37 PM, Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 10:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. Gedit works for me - webpages, PHP,

Re: [CentOS] humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)

2017-04-16 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 10:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" > And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. Gedit works for me - webpages, PHP, init (with Vi) et cetera. -- Regards,

[CentOS] Help w/Error #14 in grub legacy in CentOS 6.8

2017-04-16 Thread ejm
Hi all, I am getting Error #14 from grub version 0.97 when trying to boot for the first time into a newly installed partition with Scientific Linux 6.7 and need help resolving the error. The setup: MacPro with 2 HDs HD #1: ESP partition has rEFInd installed and running 2nd

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/16/2017 03:53 AM, ken wrote: And, yes, the exploits also include more than a few against linux. Go to their site and look under vault7. Or search for "linux" or "redhat"... you'll get hundreds of hits. Here's just one:

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> Indeed. I think the assertion "OSS is somehow safer because of community > audit" is a logical fallacy. How would one go about "auditing" in the first > place? There are tools to audit source code for problems - OSS is safer *because* the source is available and can be audited. > Even if

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 06:53 -0400, ken wrote: > On 04/15/2017 04:46 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Not wishing to extend this thread further, but ... > > > > > There are conspiracy theories out there that the NSA is involved with > > > bringing systemd to Linux so they can have easy access to

Re: [CentOS] Simple OCSP server ??

2017-04-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
What about the pki package that comes with Centos? pki-server and pki-ca? On 04/16/2017 11:54 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: Oh I don't know, their github works. However it seems that it isn't able to deal with more than one ocsp signing key. On 04/16/2017 08:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On

Re: [CentOS] Simple OCSP server ??

2017-04-16 Thread Alice Wonder
Oh I don't know, their github works. However it seems that it isn't able to deal with more than one ocsp signing key. On 04/16/2017 08:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 04/14/2017 10:41 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: https://www.openca.org/ might fit my needs. their Centos repo does not exist,

Re: [CentOS] Simple OCSP server ??

2017-04-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/14/2017 10:41 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: https://www.openca.org/ might fit my needs. their Centos repo does not exist, it seems? On 04/14/2017 06:29 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: Hello list, I'm contemplating running my own CA to implement the new proposed ISP for validation of S/MIME

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Alice Wonder
On 04/16/2017 06:51 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: There is no doubt that most security agencies have a long list of zero- day exploits in their toolbox - I would hazard to suggest that they wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't! But I seriously doubt they would commission exploitable code in

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Andrew Holway
> > There is no doubt that most security agencies have a long list of zero- >> day exploits in their toolbox - I would hazard to suggest that they >> wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't! But I seriously doubt they >> would commission exploitable code in something that is openly >>

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Apr 16, 2017, at 6:53 AM, ken wrote: > Years ago it was revealed that one of the linux developers inserted an > exploit into the gcc code which, when the login code was compiled, would give > him access to any system running it, effectively every linux system. This >

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread ken
On 04/15/2017 04:46 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: Not wishing to extend this thread further, but ... There are conspiracy theories out there that the NSA is involved with bringing systemd to Linux so they can have easy access to *"unknown"* bugs - aka backdoors - to all Linux installations using