Re: E-mail account security warning.
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E-mail account security warning.
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mail and security
Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. -- -t
Re: mail and security
tf wrote: Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database update. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: mail and security
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:48:05AM +0300, tf wrote: Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. No, find was (most likely) run ron the /etc/cron.daily dir as part of Debian's daily maintenance. Actually, the locate program uses find to build a database of files and directories. The locate command uses this database to quickly locate files, i.e. if you issue the command 'locate texmf' it will list all matching entries. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACORN techie http://www.acorn.net AOL/IM Jim Foltz
Re: mail and security
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) When you tell your email program to send a message, it uses the protocol SMTP to tell a program running on the server to handle delivery. The delivery programs are called MTAs - mail transfer agents. exim and sendmail are just two examples of MTAs. but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. That's some scripts run daily for system maintenance. No need to worry. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstien
more mail and security..
Thanks a lot (Michael)... That makes sense. I tend to get a bit paranoid (as if I was blind and fearful of tripping). I've given myself alot of stuff to practice. Since I don't really understand mail, I just tried to work around it--now I've got lots of different mail packages installed that I want to get rid of. Actually, mutt-exim-fetchmail would be fine, but I don't quite understand it. with mail clients in general, you must specify a pop and smtp server. now, with exim, (or any mta?) I am the smtp server, right? I wrote a test message with mutt, and it arrived, but identified me as only root. so do I have to give myself an alias, or what? What's keeping me from having a header that reads, [EMAIL PROTECTED], as opposed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen the percent hack at work in someone elses header..is that what I need to use? Thanks for your patience...I'm an idiot! -tf
Re: mail and security
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. Actually, it was proably a cron job running updatedb(1), wich is the command used to update the locate(1) database. If you havn't discovered locate(1) yet, cheak it out, it's a really useful command. -Levi P.S. Most holes in un*x (linux included) aren't password related.
Re: mail and security
On 19-Sep-99 dyer wrote: tf wrote: Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database update. Isn't that locate database updated with 'updatedb' and not with 'find'? I do think it was *something* in cron.daily or other cron. -- Andrew
Re: mail and security
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: Isn't that locate database updated with 'updatedb' and not with 'find'? I do think it was *something* in cron.daily or other cron. And updatedb is a script calling find... :-) -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right? - anonymous For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail and security
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 04:36:30PM -, Pollywog wrote: May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database update. Isn't that locate database updated with 'updatedb' and not with 'find'? I do think it was *something* in cron.daily or other cron. updatedb is a shell script which calls find as part of its work. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpGR0PEQe38s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mail and security
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. Nope, that's normal. Don't worry about it. That's the updatedb command for 'locate'.
Re: mail and security
Nope -- that is the locate program updating the list of files on your harddrive. If you don't like this, you can uninstall locate, but I suggest you just start to like it instead. :) Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than slocate (secure locate) -- it will only show files that the user has the ability to see -- root sees all files, and normal users see all the files they have access to seeing. I suppose, if I like it enough (which I do :) I should just debianize it and maybe after a year or so, suggest it replace gnu locate. :) On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:48:05AM +0300, tf wrote: Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should change my password. -- -t -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: mail and security
Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than slocate (secure locate) -- It's there all right: slocate 2.0-1 H 25KB 59KB utils +-[slocate]---+ | a secure locate replacement | | This locate shows all files on your system that you have access to. locate | | only does the files it has access to(usually the ones nobody has access| | to). If you install suidmanager this pkg will use suidregister.| +-+ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log
Re: mail and security
Drat. I wanted a package to maintain. And, since I like slocate, I figured that it would be a good one to maintain. Back to the wnpp for me I guess. :) On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:33:28AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than slocate (secure locate) -- It's there all right: slocate 2.0-1 H 25KB 59KB utils +-[slocate]---+ | a secure locate replacement | | This locate shows all files on your system that you have access to. locate | | only does the files it has access to(usually the ones nobody has access | | to). If you install suidmanager this pkg will use suidregister. | +-+ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
