Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:13:18 +1300 HappyEvilSlosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Thank you for taking the time out to answer a paranoid novices question. I would still would like to change distributions. Could anyone give me recommendations and

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread sirlancelot
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:13:18 +1300 HappyEvilSlosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Thank you for taking the time out to answer a paranoid novices question. I would still would like to change distributions. Could anyone give

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread sirlancelot
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:21:41 +1300 sirlancelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:13:18 +1300 HappyEvilSlosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Thank you for taking the

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:46:21 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 21:08, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:13:18 +1300 HappyEvilSlosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Thank you for taking the

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread bossman
Got a copy of breezy to burn if you want it then it'll be a matter of adept all updates (adept is the GUI updater front end very easy to drive). ps this is kde version but easy enough to change to gnome if wanted. call 980 4306. Quoting Ken McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2006-03-02

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Don Gould
JD, Great to see a new face on list. I can so relate! New ClarkConnect box I set up last week got hacked on Wednesday and is dead today. I'll be rebuilding it again next week with a little more security in mind. Puts a real downer on your computing day when you spend all week working hard on

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:08, you wrote: JD, Great to see a new face on list. I can so relate! New ClarkConnect box I set up last week got hacked on Wednesday and is dead today. I'll be rebuilding it again next week with a little more security in mind. Puts a real downer on your computing

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Don Gould
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:26, Andrew Errington wrote: My sympathies. Do you know how it was done? Do you now know how to prevent it? Can you document it here (even briefly) so that others can see what could happen, and how it can be avoided? Obviously stuff like this is only valid for a

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:39:30 +1300 Don Gould wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:26, Andrew Errington wrote: My sympathies. Do you know how it was done? Do you now know how to prevent it? Can you document it here (even briefly) so that others can see what could happen, and how it can

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 03 March 2006 11:08, Don Gould wrote: I can so relate!  New ClarkConnect box I set up last week got hacked on Wednesday and is dead today. Before you spend time re-building ClarkConnect you might like to consider using IPCop [1] instead. While it doesn't have the same level of

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-02 Thread Don Gould
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:52, Nick Rout wrote: So you don't know that it has been hacked, merely that it is not working. By the way, what do yo umean not working. What is and isn't it doing? The users screen no longer shows any users. The proxy died. The web server died. The mail system

Re: Dubious securuty? Loyalty

2006-03-02 Thread Don Gould
Hi Chris, I choose to use cc out of loyalty to Wilber. He's been working on it for years now and always been my best oss supporter having spent hundreds of hours helping me learn oss after I was a die hard MS man. I have read an endless number of good things about IPCop. I am determined to get

Re: Dubious securuty? Loyalty

2006-03-02 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 03 March 2006 12:03, Don Gould wrote: Hi Chris, I choose to use cc out of loyalty to Wilber. He's been working on it for years now and always been my best oss supporter having spent hundreds of hours helping me learn oss after I was a die hard MS man. I have read an endless

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-01 Thread jd
I meant to say not very discreet,I'll proof read from now on lol. jd wrote: Hello, my names Josh and I'm new to Linux and computers in general and I thought you might be able to help me out on a few things.I was trying to access G.U.I front for my firewall and couldn't also the computer was

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:34, jd wrote: cracklib_dict This is the list of words which is used to tell the new user if (s)he has selected a readily crackable password when setting up her account. It's there for your protection. -- CS

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-01 Thread jd
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:34, jd wrote: cracklib_dict This is the list of words which is used to tell the new user if (s)he has selected a readily crackable password when setting up her account. It's there for your protection. Thank you for taking

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-01 Thread HappyEvilSlosh
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Thank you for taking the time out to answer a paranoid novices question. I would still would like to change distributions. Could anyone give me recommendations and possibly sell me a distribution. Your average distribution is down-loadable from

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-01 Thread Ken McAllister
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Could anyone give me recommendations ...? Thank you again, Josh. I like Ubuntu. I have a few CDs to give away but they're out of date. Are people in general receiving the latest mail-out of free discs?

Re: Dubious securuty?

2006-03-01 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 7:13 pm, Ken McAllister wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Could anyone give me recommendations ...? Thank you again, Josh. I like Ubuntu. I have a few CDs to give away but they're out of date. Are people in general receiving the latest mail-out