Re: [ilugd]: [OT]USA to monitor Internet
now here again we come to the same debate..who gives the right to some specific persons to decide what content is bannable and what shudn't be banned..i think the whole internet idea was freedom of expression.. if u don;t like it..click on that cross button on the top right of u're browser... if M$ influences and wooes indian govt then linux can also be scraped as threat to national security..what'd happen then Naresh Narang wrote: OTOH, Several countries have imposed restrictions based on Internet content and specific sites. Its time Indian Govt should wake up and apply restrictions to sites that are considered a threat to National security. Regards, --Naresh --- Raj Shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! But at the other end of the spectrum of reaction, Mr. Vatis warned, You end up without technology that could be very useful to combat terrorism, information warfare or some other harmful act. __ Sometimes I feel thankful that Indian bureaucracy is a bit slow. May the Great Gnu have mercy on your soul! Regards Raj Shekhar Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org = -- Naresh __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Economic Times: Govt opens gates wide by giving top billing to Linux
A perfect Christmas gift I must say ! I think all the LUGs all over India must take the initiative to take this further. Cheers, Surjo. --- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Posting full article since my cursory search of the ET site hasn't managed to unearth it there] [Front page] IT Ministry holds high-powered meet to fashion strategy Govt opens gates wide by giving top billing to Linux Presenjit Bhattacharya New Delhi, 24 December The Government of India has started taking precise, wide-reaching steps to usher in a Linux wave in India. And that cannot be good news for proprietary software vendors like Microsoft. Yesterday the IT Ministry had a meeting of about 70 people, from companies like HP, IBM, Sun and TCS, government agencies like BARC and CDAC, state governments like Kerala, West Bengal and MP to evolve a level playing field for Linux vis-a-vis proprietary software (read Microsoft). All the IITs too were represented at the meeting that went on for 4 hours. There was consensus at the meeting that Linux was a secure, robust and cost-effective system. As far as concrete pro-Linux acts go, government tenders may soon stop specifying Microsoft or any other vendor's name while floating software tenders, thus throwing open the way for Linux vendors to grab lucrative government contracts hitherto barred from them. The government is also setting up special interest groups with officials of industry and academia to find out how Linux can be deployed in e-governance, defence, education and so on. Since support to Linux is [s]till a big issue, the government is also thinking in terms of setting up support and resource services, and call centers for Linux users. It is also looking at setting up pilot sites, where Linux applications can be touched and felt. A heartening fact for Linux-philes would be the enthusiasm for Linux shown by extremely security-sensitive agencies like Bhabha Atomic Research Center and the National Information Center (NIC) Another aspect that came out in the meeting was the work on Indianisation of Linux that's happening now. [Continued on Page 8] Hindi version C-DAC's agency NCST and Red Hat have, for instance, developed a Hindi version of Linux, called Indix. IIT Mumbai too is doing pioneering research in Linux. Yesterday's meeting of industry, academia and government representatives was chaired by IT secretary R R Shah. According to industry sources, companies like Sun and TCS were all enthusiasm for Linux, with the TCS representative claiming that the company was implementing the country's largest Linux project in Chennai. The government, however, was at pains to bring out the fact that it was not against Microsoft or proprietary software and was only looking to leverage the strengths of open source software. However, one official present at the meeting wisecracked, Microsoft would have had a heart attack if it was present at the meeting. The interest in Linux at this meeting was palpable. One influential official told ET that many people were violently against computer textbooks in schools and colleges teaching Microsoft Word or Excel, instead of generic applications or technologies, like word processors. Industry sources also said that on the sidelines of the meeting, there were two views among those present about Microsoft's reported move of sharing source code with the government. While some thought it was just a posturing by MS, others felt that it was a genuine attempt by the Redmond giant to reach out. However, sources said that it was the representative from Madhya Pradesh, who made a forceful case for Linux. He said that since MP had a paucity of resources, Linux seemed the best solution for the state. He, however, said that there was need to train people in Linux technologies. A member of the Linux user group sprang up to say that the MP government can take help of the extremely active Linux User group in Indore. [end] -- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Re: RH, Mandrake, Knoppix installation blues
Hi On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 10:43:55AM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: [root@planetneptune cd]# cdrecord -atip No wonder I have never seen it, seems my CD writer does not support the reporting of ATIP info. :-( [root@vipul root]# cdrecord -atip dev=0,0 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'SAMSUNG ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW SW-224B ' Revision : 'R205' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 27 Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc. -- --,_, Vipul Mathur (O,O)mail at vipulmathur dot org http://vipulmathur.org/ ( ) vipul at linux-delhi dot org --- There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. -- Morpheus, The Matrix To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
[ilugd]: short cuts
hello sir i m new to linux if my mouse is not working i want some short cut commands from which i can operate my linux shell and some other tips to operate it bye To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: dhcp address assigning
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:49, Vineet Mehta wrote:
vivek,
what i have understood from ur quesitons is that, u want to configure
the client IP address manually (which has been specified as 192.168.0.10
by dhcpd.conf on server).
actually i was trying to setup a machine which will assign ip addresses
dynamically and also control net access thru iptables.
i ensured that a machine with a mac add will be assigned ip add as given
by me by specifying the following in dhcpd.conf
host hostname {
hardware ethernet 00:B0:D0:64:43:48;
fixed-address 192.168.0.10;
}
and
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -s 192.168.0.10 -j ACCEPT
in the firewall config file.
now was slightly worried that if 192.168.0.10 machine is switched off,
someone can assign 192.168.0.10 to his/her machine and access net.
my method is not good though, and would appreciate if anyone can provide
something better.
thanks
vivek
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Re: [ilugd]: sharing on windows [was: (fwd) Matlab /tmp usage]
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 22:22, manish bagla wrote: hello sir i m new user to linux i wanna know something how to see if we share something on windows on linux machine tell me the details bye try LinNeighborhood - http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=linneighborhoodsubmit=Search+... or if you prefer text mode, then try smbclient (smbclient --help) vivek To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: sharing on windows
Try www.samba.org or #man smb.conf and #man smbclient or just try using swat with your browser, point the address to http:901 regards Sauron The Dark Lord - Original Message - From: vivek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: sharing on windows [was: (fwd) Matlab /tmp usage] On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 22:22, manish bagla wrote: hello sir i m new user to linux i wanna know something how to see if we share something on windows on linux machine tell me the details bye try LinNeighborhood - http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=linneighborhoodsubmi t=Search+... or if you prefer text mode, then try smbclient (smbclient --help) vivek To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
[ilugd]: Information required regarding trojan (The Thing)
hello all. I have observed that there is a trojan called The Thing using port number 6000 on one of the linux machines. can any one give me the removal instructions and how to block desired ports on linux. im running rhl 7.2 smp. regards To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Economic Times: Govt opens gates wide by giving top billing to Linux
there's a followup article to the ET article of 25 dec, in today's ET as well. have been scanning the papers every day for a month, and what astonishes me is that not a single day goes by without a mention of linux or gnu in some way in the news. that's heartening :-) LL To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: dhcp address assigning
now was slightly worried that if 192.168.0.10 machine is switched off, someone can assign 192.168.0.10 to his/her machine and access net. my method is not good though, and would appreciate if anyone can provide something better. If your network is small, you can probably try scanning the arp table at regular intervals and then find out if someone is using an ip address not assigned to the mac address of that card. When you find out a rouge machine using an ip address, ban it's mac address from the network and talk to the user. If you are doing this in a normal office environment and you feel that this can be an issue, then I guess you need better users or probably a more sophisticated firewalling solution. Probably you might need to use or develop some code that will allow you to do mac address level screening at the firewall. Note that a user could probably also change the mac address of his card to match that of a taken over machine, so this method is not completely foolproof. The only real solution would be to have some kind of user authentication other than mc addresses and ip addresses. You might wan't to check out products that allow access to firewalled resources only after they have successfully authenticated. Probably this might mean setting up a proxy, but if you have a hostile environment, then plugging leaks is not a good security system. Rather a system where you only allow access to properly authenticated users is a good idea. If you have people who are sophisticated enough to change ip addresses and mac addresses, you will probably need professional help as the users will be quite sophisticated. In schools and colleges this can be a big problem, but you can find solutions specially tailored for this kind of users. Don't expect a oss/free solution. Most security/firewall products are quite expensive and this is not the kind of use that most oss firewalls (Linux/*BSD) will address properly. Ambar To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Information required regarding trojan (The Thing)
monitor hello all. I have observed that there is a trojan called monitor The Thing using port number 6000 on one of the linux monitor machines. can any one give me the removal instructions monitor and how to block desired ports on linux. im running rhl monitor 7.2 smp. If it's port 6000/tcp, then it should be your X server. LOL... I suppose the original poster used a port scanner to scan for externally accessible trojans. Don't use a port scanner to find out trojans. Most trojans use well known ports anyway, so you will not be able to catch them with a port scanner. A better approach would be to use a trojan scanner that does a process scan and tries to find out infected processes. IMHO most Linux trojans are root shells that provide a root shell terminal to any one who telnets to that port, so you can check that out too. One way to ensure that you are ahead of the worm/buffrer overflow exploits is to not use the stock precompiled binaries that come with your distro. For every app running as a server and accessible remotely, make sure that it is recompiled with some changes. This will ensure that most of the common worms and exploits used by script kiddies are defeated. If you use redhat linux, then consider recompiling your distro for the target cpu that you are using, and probably with some config options that are different from the stock compile. Don't do this if you don't know what I am talking about here. Or probably use gentoo linux in your production machines! Ambar To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
