On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 00:58:59 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
yppasswordd.
I've heard about
Hello,
I tried to upgrade debianutils from 1.16 to 1.16.2woody1
and retreived the following error:
(Reading database ... 111696 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debianutils 1.16 (using
.../debianutils_1.16.2woody1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement
Hello,
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
(Debian Woody 3.0 r1)
--
On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 09:27:04 +0100, mi wrote:
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
You want to
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Hideki Yamane wrote:
i was talking about i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() instead
of md5.
But I can think of something like compatibility (to what?) :)
to ...maybe NIS ?
I use NIS with md5, no compatibility problems at all as long as all
clients
mi wrote:
Hello,
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
(Debian Woody 3.0 r1)
$ ls -l /etc/passwd
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:27:04AM +0100, mi wrote:
Hello,
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
%--(6)--$ ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r--1 root root 1276 17. Sep 22:57 /etc/passwd
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, mi wrote:
I tried to upgrade debianutils from 1.16 to 1.16.2woody1
and retreived the following error:
(Reading database ... 111696 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debianutils 1.16 (using
.../debianutils_1.16.2woody1_i386.deb) ...
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, mi wrote:
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
They are both 644 by default.
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
As a member of the mass of slightly advanced skills trying to use Debian
for their typical day-to-day server needs, I am put rather off-balance by
the issues presented by the recent kernel compromise.
I have an installation that has run quite well, and have been running
regular upgrades on the
I believe that this issue has caused serious doubts for many users about the
possibility of running a typical secure linux server with medium sysadmin
skills. As I gather, running apt-get upgrade is not sufficient to patch a
vulnerable system for this exploit, meaning that the method
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:11:52PM +, Magn?s ??r Torfason wrote:
As a member of the mass of slightly advanced skills trying to use Debian
for their typical day-to-day server needs, I am put rather off-balance by
the issues presented by the recent kernel compromise.
I have an
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:57:29PM +0100, Adam ENDRODI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I tend to disagree. The kernel is a versatile program, it can be
patched, configured and compiled in too many ways.
...including many of
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:32:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
Keep in mind that there is no official security contact for the kernel,
and no established bug handling procedure.
What about http://bugzilla.kernel.org ?
Time to fix is now measured
in months, and official kernel release
Dec 6 16:08:07 plaguesplace fam[3044]: fd 5 message length 67181060
bytes exceeds max of 4136.
Dec 6 16:08:07 plaguesplace fam[3044]: fd 6 message length 1129270862
bytes exceeds max of 4136.
Dec 6 16:08:07 plaguesplace fam[3044]: fd 5 message length 83951621
bytes exceeds max of 4136.
Dec 6
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:27:45PM +0100, Adam ENDRODI wrote:
Little details of a system are subject to change and my
observation is that the more you customize the more likely
you'll end up in trouble. Clearly, in my case with my little
changes I diverge from the Debian (and likely other)
On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 00:58:59 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of
course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your
password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the
yppasswordd.
I've heard about
Hello,
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
(Debian Woody 3.0 r1)
--
Hello,
I tried to upgrade debianutils from 1.16 to 1.16.2woody1
and retreived the following error:
(Reading database ... 111696 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debianutils 1.16 (using
.../debianutils_1.16.2woody1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement
On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 09:27:04 +0100, mi wrote:
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
You want to
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:27:04AM +0100, mi wrote:
Hello,
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
%--(6)--$ ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r--1 root root 1276 17. Sep 22:57 /etc/passwd
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Hideki Yamane wrote:
i was talking about i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt()
instead of md5.
But I can think of something like compatibility (to what?) :)
to ...maybe NIS ?
I use NIS with md5, no compatibility problems at all as long as all
clients
mi wrote:
Hello,
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
(Debian Woody 3.0 r1)
$ ls -l /etc/passwd
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, mi wrote:
I tried to upgrade debianutils from 1.16 to 1.16.2woody1
and retreived the following error:
(Reading database ... 111696 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debianutils 1.16 (using
.../debianutils_1.16.2woody1_i386.deb) ...
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, mi wrote:
Can you tell me what are the default permissions for /etc/group and
/etc/passwd ?
They are both 644 by default.
I restricted them to rw for root only, but some things like exim (and
possibly dpkg ?) seem to need read access there too.
What's recommendet ?
I believe that this issue has caused serious doubts for many users about the
possibility of running a typical secure linux server with medium sysadmin
skills. As I gather, running apt-get upgrade is not sufficient to patch a
vulnerable system for this exploit, meaning that the method
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:57:29PM +0100, Adam ENDRODI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I tend to disagree. The kernel is a versatile program, it can be
patched, configured and compiled in too many ways.
...including many
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:32:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
Keep in mind that there is no official security contact for the kernel,
and no established bug handling procedure.
What about http://bugzilla.kernel.org ?
Time to fix is now measured
in months, and official kernel release
Dec 6 16:08:07 plaguesplace fam[3044]: fd 5 message length 67181060
bytes exceeds max of 4136.
Dec 6 16:08:07 plaguesplace fam[3044]: fd 6 message length 1129270862
bytes exceeds max of 4136.
Dec 6 16:08:07 plaguesplace fam[3044]: fd 5 message length 83951621
bytes exceeds max of 4136.
Dec 6
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:27:45PM +0100, Adam ENDRODI wrote:
Little details of a system are subject to change and my
observation is that the more you customize the more likely
you'll end up in trouble. Clearly, in my case with my little
changes I diverge from the Debian (and likely other)
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