Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:41, James Sparenberg wrote: ... Not an expert on this one here... but if you run man console-helper you'll see that this is another one of those programs in front of a program designed to run the program behind it programs... (is this confusing enough?) Kind

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread diego
Consolehelper is a program that makes you enter root/admin/... password before executing the program itself. There are programs that need to be run with more priviledges and this is like a graphical version of sudo... El jue, 06-03-2003 a las 20:42, Brian escribió: I just had some strange

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread Brian
For some reason, it was not prompting me to enter su password nor was it launching net_monitor. I had fears of a rootkit, despite what chkrootkit returned, so I did an MD5 checksum and there were inconsistencies. I wiped the root partition and restored a safe backup. All is well, although I

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:45, Brian wrote: For some reason, it was not prompting me to enter su password nor was it launching net_monitor. I had fears of a rootkit, despite what chkrootkit returned, so I did an MD5 checksum and there were inconsistencies. I wiped the root partition and

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread Brian
Yeah, I couldn't rule that out. I'm behind a firewall, but there were simply a lot of oddities in the way my system was operating. I could have taken a month to track them all down, repair everything and learn a whole lot in the process, or I could start with a relatively clean slate. I'm

[expert] net_monitor

2003-03-06 Thread Brian
I just had some strange behavior on my system. I noticed that net_monitor was not working. I went into /usr/sbin and sure enough net_monitor was now a link to a file called /usr/bin/consolehelper and there was a working version of net_monitor called net_monitor.real. I renamed net_monitor to

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:42 pm, Brian wrote: I just had some strange behavior on my system. I noticed that net_monitor was not working. I went into /usr/sbin and sure enough net_monitor was now a link to a file called /usr/bin/consolehelper and there was a working version of net_monitor

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-06 Thread Brian
On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:51 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:42 pm, Brian wrote: I just had some strange behavior on my system. I noticed that net_monitor was not working. I went into /usr/sbin and sure enough net_monitor was now a link to a file called

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:12, Brian wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:51 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:42 pm, Brian wrote: I just had some strange behavior on my system. I noticed that net_monitor was not working. I went into /usr/sbin and sure enough net_monitor was

[expert] net_monitor

2002-01-19 Thread Haug Bürger
Hi, i was not very satisfied with the ISDN Internet configuration of MDK 8.1. It's unaccaptable to give every user the root passwort just to connect the internet. The correct way is probaly to set up PAM to allow net_monitor for internet users. I have no idea how ti configure PAM and used sudo