Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
 However, it seems to me that nobody is getting the point about fake
 login screens: if I am an *user* of somebody else's network, how can I
 protect myself from another *user* faking a login screen, used as the
 only running X application, and stealing my password?

 You have evidence that such scenario could happen or even is happened?
 Or you just speculate? Anything can be faked in this world, specially
 on computers.


The first step of an exploit is thinking about how to technically
exploit. The OP also mentioned that he is in the process of writing
such an exploit.

 Under some windows versions, I can use ctrl+alt+delete. I bet the mac
 has something similar,

 Nope, it doesn't (as far as I know, and I have worked with OS X as
 sysadmin for five years). And Windows Ctrl+Alt+Delete have absolutely
 different meaning than anti-faking measure.


When logging into a Windows network, the user is requested to press
CAD before entering his username:password. The help text clearly
states that this is to prevent spoofed login screens.

 Well, unexperienced system administrator would allow box to contain
 trojan to get your password anyway.

So because there is another attack vector, you are of the opinion that
leaving this attack vector open is acceptable?

 Believe me, faking login screens
 is not a way someone would steal your password, unless there is no
 other way.


Ideally, there would be no other way.

 I will surely write my own fake gdm as an exercise just in case I become
 an user of such an admin :) Because of statistics, you know, if I carry
 a bomb there can't be another bomb on my plane.

 Strawman argument.


No, it's not, it is plausible and these cases for making a point are
common. Read ./ :)

 If the solution is currently, ubuntu jaunty is vulnerable to this
 problem, let's just admit it and make it public in the release notes at
 least. So that people will know and avoid leaving the default
 configuration on clients.

 No, Jaunty simply won't have C-A-B feature enabled by default. Simple
 as that. Release notes doesn't have such speculation as OMG, visual
 interface have changed, someone could use it to steal information from
 people.


This is a basic system event that has changed, a system event that has
security and usability implications. Furthermore, this deviates from
the behaviour of every other major Linux distro, and from the
behaviour of Ubuntu itself in previous versions.

 Personally I would love that the power button returned to gdm, and that
 gdm created a new X session (like for the guest login use case) for
 every login, without disappearing, and occupying a fixed tty (the one
 the power button would return to). In that case, gdm could also offer a
 pre-loaded and not-swappable emergency shell that administrator may
 access. However, this *really* needs a blueprint so for now is there any
 other solution?


 Yes, this *really* need blueprint just for a reason - it is how
 world-shattering changes are introduced into Ubuntu. Disabling C-A-B
 by default was blueprint for two years. This is how decision making
 happens.

 Don't get me wrong - I know that changing features is painful process
 of some of us, but as far as I have experienced with Ubuntu, it is
 always pays back in long term. Introduction of compiz broken a lot of
 setups, but Hardy released with nice desktop effects tested for some
 time. NetworkManager 0.7 was introduced as main network configuration
 tool. Sure, I was annoyed, even angry. But I took time to test it and
 understand it and now I admit that it is a future.

 There is a blueprint already for dealing with C-A-B without disabling
 it and I hope it will find a way into Jaunty+1. And that is how system
 should work.


In my opinion distros such as Fedora, that call themselves bleeding
edge, should be reserved for the revolutionary introduction of new /
differing technologies. Ubuntu is a stable distro designed for
everyday usage. Even if the bleeding edge had been introduced in
Ubuntu in the past (Compiz is a terrific example), that is no argument
for changing basic system behaviour.

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Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-15 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sunday 15 February 2009 3:12:32 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
  No, Jaunty simply won't have C-A-B feature enabled by default. Simple
  as that. Release notes doesn't have such speculation as OMG, visual
  interface have changed, someone could use it to steal information from
  people.
 
 
 This is a basic system event that has changed, a system event that has
 security and usability implications. Furthermore, this deviates from
 the behaviour of every other major Linux distro, and from the
 behaviour of Ubuntu itself in previous versions.

False.  This is an upstream change.  Fedora is doing the same thing we are.

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Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional.

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Jones
Dane,

Please see my bug-report on launchpad filed as

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329644

Additionally,

Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard
this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with
better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and such, so I am a
bit thrown off.
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Re: Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional.

2009-02-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/2/15 Mike Jones eternal...@gmail.com:
 Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard
 this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with
 better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and such, so I am a
 bit thrown off.


It's the sequence of letters you type whilst holding down Alt+SysRq to
gracefully reboot the system (after doing nice things like syncing the
disks).

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Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
 This is a basic system event that has changed, a system event that has
 security and usability implications. Furthermore, this deviates from
 the behaviour of every other major Linux distro, and from the
 behaviour of Ubuntu itself in previous versions.

 False.  This is an upstream change.  Fedora is doing the same thing we are.


I said major Linux distros! :)

Seriously, though, while in general I am indifferent to the change
itself as I will be able to enable CAB for myself, I am of the opinion
that the change needs to be highlighted. Fedora should make it obvious
as well. This is the type of feature that people rely on when they
need it the most, and they need to know that it has been disabled
_before_ they need it.

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Re: CAB loss, fake logins etc

2009-02-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/2/15 Alex Cockell alcock...@eclipse.co.uk:
 Umm -please forgive me, but you mention that removing the
 Ctrl-Alt-Backspace three-key-salute was proposed for removal two years
 ago...  Has this been made absolutely clear to preinstall manufacturers
 in time for them to print new manuals?


This discussion is about disabling CAB in a _future_ release of Ubuntu
such as the upcoming Jaunty (to be 9.04). As far as I am aware all
system integrators currently install existing supported released
versions of Ubuntu, not the unreleased development version. When they
switch to the new version (after release) then surely they need to put
in some effort to update their documentation in various areas,
possibly including this one.

 My laptop has been set up by my vendor to accept mainstream updates, but
 only offer Major Stable OS upgrades (I believe this is the intention of
 LTS releases?)  I believe the next one is 9.10, correct?


You didn't mention which version of Ubuntu you are currently on. If
it's 8.04 (which is an LTS release) then by default you are right, you
wont get prompted for a release upgrade until the next LTS release
which as I understand it will be 10.04 at the earliest.

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Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-15 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 14/02/2009 Thomas Jaeger wrote:
 C-A-B offers no protection against this attack, as users can easily
 remap keys.  If you don't believe me, run
 
 xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = '
 

Therefore, I was completely wrong along the last 10 years (and fancy how 
many passwords I gave as a gift to my colleagues). Apologises again to 
everybody.

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Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-15 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 15/02/2009 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
 the kernel *does* intercept 
 Alt+SysRq+K as pointed out a billion times already.  Seriously, we 
 have a 
 userspace and a kernelspace way around this one.

This is obviously not working from X11, so it seems like we don't have a 
secure access key under the ubuntu GUI. I thought we had one! I see the 
point that the keyboard may be completely remapped, I just tried with 
the Fn keys and obviously I can't switch to a VT anymore.

V.

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Re: Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional.

2009-02-15 Thread Martin Olsson
Mike Jones wrote:
 Additionally,
 
 Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never 
 heard this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by 
 trade, with better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and 
 such, so I am a bit thrown off.

Each letter represents a separate command:
http://kember.net/articles/231/reisub-the-gentle-linux-restart

For details, open up the Linux kernel source and look at the file:
Documentation/sysrq.txt

( for example you can use this URL: 
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.28.5/Documentation/sysrq.txt )


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Re: [RFC] apturl repository whitelist application process

2009-02-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Alexander e a todos.

On Friday 13 February 2009 11:16:39 Alexander Sack wrote:
  Some repos will want to replace system packages (eg medibuntu)...this
  seems incompatible with these requirements.
 
 I am not sure what medibuntu does. Is that a derivate?

Its a 3rd party repo with license problematic apps.
stuff like google earth, skype, codecs, etc

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Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá John e a todos.

On Friday 13 February 2009 02:08:35 John Moser wrote:
 (read:  Firefox RELOADS the tab it was in, it doesn't come back up into the 
 exact same state it shut down in!  This sucks!)

Give TabMix Plus (session saver feature) Firefox addon a try.
it restores everything to me, even current position in a page.
Also there's Text Area addon, that can restore any text form.

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Re: Fwd: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Matthew e a todos.

On Friday 13 February 2009 18:27:06 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
 I have no doubt that it could be solved if people put their minds to
 it. System Monitor (or a process-specific buset) could reduce the
 priority of your other programs whenever it is running, be special-cased
 by the window manager to ensure other windows can't hide it, and so on.

There's AND:


Description: Auto Nice Daemon
 The auto nice daemon activates itself in certain intervals and renices jobs
 according to their priority and CPU usage. Jobs owned by root are left alone.
 Jobs are never increased in their priority.
 .
 The renice intervals can be adjusted as well as the default nice level and
 the activation intervals. A priority database stores user/group/job tuples
 along with their renice values for three CPU usage time ranges. Negative nice
 levels are interpreted as signals to be sent to a process, triggered by CPU
 usage; this way, Netscapes going berserk can be killed automatically. The
 strategy for searching the priority database can be configured.
 .
 AND also provides network-wide configuration files with host-specific
 sections, as well as wildcard/regexp support for commands in the priority
 database.

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Re: improving compiled modules of kernel - per-user (was Reasons Why Jaunty Will Not Ship With 2.6.29)

2009-02-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi,
On Do, 2009-02-12 at 14:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
 I'd do something like:
 
  - iterate /sys, looking for the devices
  - track to their drivers (either by looking at what's loaded, or
comparing modalias to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE)
isnt that what MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs.conf does already ? you
would only need the 

 - figure out the CONFIG entry
 - spit out a config

parts actually imho ...

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Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-15 Thread Remco
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote:
 Arguing that something's a security feature without checking that it's
 actually a security feature isn't a good plan.

Obviously. But I do think this is a security issue that needs to be
solved. Let's forget the whole C-A-B discussion. We need an unmappable
key sequence which only the kernel captures. Maybe C-A-D could be
promoted to that? Someone on this list said that the Windows kernel
intercepts this key sequence and then tells the login screen that it
has been pressed. If there is no login screen, it will just open the
Task Manager.

Whichever keys are chosen, it would be as an instruction in the login
screen: Please press keys before logging in. Maybe in an
information bubble it could explain how this prevents password theft,
and that you should be suspicious if the instruction isn't there the
next time.

Remco

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RE: improving compiled modules of kernel - per-user (was Reasons Why Jaunty Will Not Ship With 2.6.29)

2009-02-15 Thread Stefan Hamminga
-Original Message-
 hi,
 On Do, 2009-02-12 at 14:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
  I'd do something like:
 
   - iterate /sys, looking for the devices
   - track to their drivers (either by looking at what's loaded, or
 comparing modalias to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE)
 isnt that what MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs.conf does already ? you would 
 only need the 

  - figure out the CONFIG entry
  - spit out a config

 parts actually imho ...


I was thinking about this lately myself and started a little work on a bash 
script that retrieves a list of currently used modules and drivers (using 
lspci) and looks up the corresponding .config entry in the kernel source 
Makefiles.

Here is what I've got so far:

for mod in `((lspci -v | grep -i Kernel driver in use:  | cut -b 24-)  
(lspci -v | grep -i Kernel modules:  | cut -b 18-)) | sort -u` ; do
echo `grep $mod $(find -name Makefile) | grep -v debian | sed 
s/.*obj-\$\(// | sed s/\).*// | grep CONFIG`
done

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Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-15 Thread Dylan McCall
Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).

For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becomes SysRQ when Alt is
being pressed.

If you change the GNOME keyboard settings you could find different
results. Is it possible that whether userspace is using the Alt
Printscreen key combination impacts whether the kernel does the Magic
SysRQ stuff?


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Subject: Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional

2009-02-15 Thread Jeff Hanson
 From: Mike Jones eternal...@gmail.com
 Subject: Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional.
 To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com, dmutt...@gmail.com
 Message-ID:
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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

 Dane,

Please see my bug-report on launchpad filed as

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329644

Additionally,

Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard
 this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with
 better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and such, so I am a
 bit thrown off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

It does work but doesn't necessarily do anything obvious until the
shutdown or reboot key is pressed.  If you are connecting with a
serial console (not just SSH) from a different system then the
messages are displayed.  However, not all systems shut down or reboot
depending on the type of fault or BIOS/ACPI bugs.

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Re: improving compiled modules of kernel - per-user

2009-02-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Stefan e a todos.

On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:56:32 Stefan Hamminga wrote:
 Here is what I've got so far:
 
 for mod in `((lspci -v | grep -i Kernel driver in use:  | cut -b 24-)  
 (lspci -v | grep -i Kernel modules:  | cut -b 18-)) | sort -u` ; do
 echo `grep $mod $(find -name Makefile) | grep -v debian | sed 
 s/.*obj-\$\(// | sed s/\).*// | grep CONFIG`
 done

Running this here just outputs a bunch of empty lines

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RE: improving compiled modules of kernel - per-user

2009-02-15 Thread Stefan Hamminga
-Original Message-
 Olá Stefan e a todos.

 On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:56:32 Stefan Hamminga wrote:
  Here is what I've got so far:
  
  for mod in `((lspci -v | grep -i Kernel driver in use:  | cut -b 24-)  
  (lspci -v | grep -i Kernel modules:  | cut -b 18-)) | sort -u` ; do
  echo `grep $mod $(find -name Makefile) | grep -v debian | sed 
  s/.*obj-\$\(// | sed s/\).*// | grep CONFIG` done

 Running this here just outputs a bunch of empty lines

Ahh, I see, sorry, I forgot to include that this needs to be run in the kernel 
source root (eg. /usr/src/linux-2.6/), hadn't gotten to creating a 'prettier' 
version. The for loop searches every Makefile in the tree to get the 
corresponding CONFIG_ option for a loaded module.

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Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-15 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:24:32 pm Dylan McCall wrote:
 Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
 works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).
 
 For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becomes SysRQ when Alt is
 being pressed.

Don't you mean when Fn is being pressed?  Laptop users usually have to hit 
Alt+Fn+SysRq+letter

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Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-15 Thread Dane Mutters
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:50 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
 On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:24:32 pm Dylan McCall wrote:
  Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
  works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).
  
  For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becomes SysRQ when Alt is
  being pressed.
 
 Don't you mean when Fn is being pressed?  Laptop users usually have to hit 
 Alt+Fn+SysRq+letter
 

Mike Jones started a bug report with some useful information on this
issue.  (I don't know if you saw that email; this thread is massive...)
I just want to point anybody who's interested to this link, in case you
have any ideas as to what's going on or how to fix it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329644

Thanks.

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Notable Changes to Jaunty's PulseAudio

2009-02-15 Thread Dan Chen
Hi all,

This morning's upload of PulseAudio to jaunty makes two notable changes for the 
desktop user:

Firstly, autospawn is now enabled, which means that if the daemon is not 
running when the first client attempts to connect, it will be executed 
automatically. This step tests a workaround for the daemon ABENDing while we 
further debug the root cause. The impact of this change is that PulseAudio 
users who have desktop environments other than GNOME running may experience 
some nondeterministic behaviour for the default capture and playback devices 
when the daemon initially autospawns. Please report any such issues using the 
Launchpad bug tracker.

Secondly, we have globally disabled glitch-free to work around a number of 
driver bugs that do not seem addressable within the jaunty development span. 
This change reverts PulseAudio behaviour to rely on the driver's 
interrupt-based buffering semantics, which appear to be more stable for a 
significant number of jaunty testers. If you would like to reenable 
glitch-free, edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and change:

load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0
to:
load-module module-hal-detect

Again, please report regressions from the existing jaunty PulseAudio package 
using the Launchpad bug tracker.

Thanks,
Dan
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