removing problemes with deluser

soon as possible. Regards Klaus Ethgen Ps. For me the bug is not a problem anymore as I do not do use deluser anymore and remove a user by hand with vipw. But I do not think that the problem is gone therewith as for other users the problem still sleeps until they trigger the problem

Re: removing problemes with deluser

default in the deluser source code. In the default > | configuration, deluser will not zap any important system directories > | any more. Thanks to Ernst Kloppenburg and Klaus Ethgen. (mh) > | Closes: #293559, #271829 > > You should have received this in a "fixed-in-e

*** POKED TIMER ***

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With newer upgrade of bind9 I get the Message "*** POKED TIMER ***" in the log several times. I'm not sure if this is a bug or just logpolution. Do anybody know about this issue and why it happens? Gruß Klaus - -

update-inetd and xinetd

s Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

ch can have security issues which the others never will have. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Outrageous Maintainer

competence to get debian maintainer but I have to see that this was a wrong assument. :-( Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88

Bug tracker broken?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I sended a followup to a bug (#267015). Now I got a mail back that this bug is not existing. But "bts -m show 267015" is showing me the bug without problemes. Is the bug tracker broken? Regards Klaus - -- Kl

Re: Bug tracker broken?

ortant a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. And mut IS unusable for me (and few others) completely without this patch but not for everyone. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Another Bug for ldap

? - - mozilla? - - libldap2? - - pam-ldap? - - nss-ldap? Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Orphaned Packages

finish the new maintainer procedure. I would be able and proud to give some work to debian but the my time is very limited. So is there a way to give official packages to debian without being a official maintainer? Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp

Re: Question: mount /var/run as tmpfs

ut creating there subdirectory. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

there is no way to do this with debian Linux so I have to switch to an other distribution like RedHat or even Susi^He. The related bug report is tagged as wontfix (146464) but this is absolute not reasonable. Best wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethg

Politeness was: woody removed from mirrors

! Best wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUB

Re: update-inetd

Wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/L

Trouble with some X applications.

two independing software. But which of the xorg components??? Did someone else has the same problemes? Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

problemes. Beginnig with the futex implementation and ending with the "not whant" of the kernel developper to fix bugs in that tree. By the way, your link is not of use. Sorry about. Please do not answere the question with that the questions are under your niveau. I can forbear for suc

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

's been around for several years now. Please ask on -user. Its not a question. Its a fact! Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30

Hidden files

not registered to any package. I see ANY hidden file in /usr as a bug which should be fixed! Packages are: - - kaffe - - blender - - firefox - - libnss3-0d or libxul0d (/usr/lib/xulrunner/.autoreg) Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub

Re: Hidden files

methods private -- no problem. But is it necessary to put them in common paths? I think this is more a misuse. Finished programs should be compiled in some way. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klau

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

to stay with virtual per-service certificates, but to > link them to the common snakeoil certificate from ssl-certificates > during configuration and only if there is no other setting. That would be another way. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

xscreensaver-gl I will try to make a dummy-package which provides xlibmesa-glu and depends on libglu1-xorg. ;-) Gruß Klaus Ps. Im not a official debian maintainer but also a beer from me for them I meet in person. ;-) - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I will try to make a dummy-package which provides xlibmesa-glu and > depends on libglu1-xorg. ;-) Hmpf, dosn't work as libglu1-xorg conflicts xlibmesa-glu :-( Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.eth

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

osting to debian-x. Well, true that kind is nothing to fill in the bts (Maybe for the broken packages but not for X). Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4

Problemes with the debian archives or apt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I notive that for about a week there is NO package upgrade in sid. This is realy unusual. Is there any problem with the package servers or with apt (version 0.6.38)? Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp

Unison

, 310004 and 318132 where the problems are similar. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: init.d script for iptables ruleset

more flexible, and more complete as it use the provided tools iptables-save and iptables-load to save all available rules. Cheers Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4

Re: localhost.localdomain

. RedHat is such a buggy distribution. And it gets more and more worse every upgrade. .localdomain is such a peace of shit which only makes troubles. So please hold the high quality of debian and do not polute it with such grab. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: localhost.localdomain

ot; is for historical reasons such often used in scripts and programms. It whould create many manyears of troubleshooting putting this .localdomain on the end. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROT

Re: localhost.localdomain

are it was. I absolutely remember THAT it was a problem with localhost.localdomain and THAT it takes me long time to debug. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4

Re: localhost.localdomain

y the hell should there be so many traps for users who do not know. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BE

Re: localhost.localdomain

pends on the naming service configuration. Thats not completely true. MySQL use the name "localhost" to select a other connection methode (socket). If you use the ip or localhost.localdomain it tries to connect bei network which is much slower. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

lease don't do this by default as it break the security of many, many systems! Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 8

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

ill be silentely overwritten. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Linup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As there is no linup anymore I plan to take over this package on my private debian ftp. Is there anyone who has the last source package? On snapshoot.debian.net the relevant dir are not readable. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

bugs bevore it is available on servers. This break of the system musn't be. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57

Local root exploid

. Please excuse. I just wanted to bring your attention to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/8 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/131 as well as to http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/27704.c This might also apply to the current kernel. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgen

security embargos (was: Re: ssl security desaster)

bad people to attack (my) systems cause other need a embargo time to develop tools to help me seeing what exactly is vulnerable. The bad people might have ways to get to the informations about zero day vulnerabilities. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.

Re: dbus and initscripts

ould > automatically shutdown dependend services, if a service is stopped. That's not true see how portmap go around the limitation. This is how it is made stable. If you have a init system which touch all services which are depending for the one I restart then the init system might be bro

Inconsistent archive

Klaus Ethgen [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483856 - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: Inconsistent archive

, so please ignore the mail. I did miss the link at the end of the page that there are 3 pages of entries and that one can go to the next page. Confusing. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Inconsistent archive

> So you want them at the top as well? No, I just expected it on one page all. Was just a layer 8 problem. :-) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

ch is much better than the stuff which is recommended. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Martin, Am Di den 17. Jun 2008 um 11:50 schrieb Martin Pitt: > Klaus Ethgen [2008-06-17 10:12 +0100]: > > I cannot prove that. Its sound quality is much better than the one of > > ALSA direct. (Well esd on top of OSS. It is not

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

ver, starting install-grub in the first shell and then xfs_freeze -u in a second do fix the problem. But this is only a workaround. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint:

Re: new package format

ep his configuration stuff of one application (especially when he has a shared $HOME). On the other hand there could be a tool to cleanup such stuff. But this might be not connected with the real packages then better a own application with a data base of know applications. Regards Klaus - --

apt-get not working anymore

until this bug is fixed? It is known long enough for now. I have the version 0.7.20.2+lenny1 installed, so it seems to be the most recent version. (apt-cache doesn't work too so I can only view the web site) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen

Re: apt-get not working anymore

apt-pkg-perl which makes several packages to get purged when installing the unstable version.) Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:18 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: > APT::Cache-Limit "1"; Doesn't help as the limit is hard coded in apt. Just look at the source. The pr

New upstream version

er to have a up-to-date package in debian. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS

Re: New upstream version

ained rather than updated once a year. Steve, what do you think > about > this? You can count for me. > PS: and of course, this discussion has to move to another list as soon as it > enters into technical details about packaging issues. Sure. As I mention I did th

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

ated to the problem but made many problems. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU

Re: update-inetd

es arround NOT having dependencies for update-inetd but using it in postinst and/or prerm. Wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

Klaus Ps. Syntax "bugs" in this message have to be ignored. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

em to my own repository cause to often it was just got ignored. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

test pieces of software in the linux > world right now. Best advertise. :-) (I mean that serious.) Best wishes Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE

Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

already does it, I can probably just > parse the output of one of these programs and do the symlink replacement > myself. That would be the other way. finddup can print out the double files. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4E

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

ise the could be suited. (Bad times today that you always have to fear about getting suited. :-( Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

NFS? I heard this crap only when using alsa. And even worse also if I move the mouse. But this is not a problem of xmms than of alsa as it happens in all applications. With OSS I never had problems like this. (In fact I never ever had problems ever, it just works. Regards Klaus Ethgen

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

t to just replace the > configuration file without asking me, but it won't do that, even if I > pass the -y option. I think the following lines will help: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Spam-Problem with linux.debian.user.german

reason ever or is that spam that try to get me on a pishing page? Regards Klaus Ethgen [0] Good that this list is english and not german. I can not swear that good in english. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EM

Re: Test Debian : IPv6 pitfalls ?

ugh about ipv6 and the pitfalls to use it. > Anybody feels like improving IPv6 wiki page[1] to explain those pitfalls > (if any) ? Better explain the points which are no pitfalls. This list might be smaller. :-) Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://ww

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You forgot xmms. It is still heavily used and there are no alternative for it. (It is just such a application as xv - very old but there are no alternative that completely replace it (in all facets).) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sa den 6. Dez 2008 um 21:38 schrieb Daniel Moerner: > xmms is gone: It is still in stable and there are many installations. More than 7000 in popcon. And there is still no alternative. Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenh

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

n-devel@lists.debian.org as this is the right place for the discussion. - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

can do that: 1. Creating all needed configurations at build time 2. Having a single update-inetd which create ALL configurarions at install time. But this make update-inetd package as dependency for installation and NOT inet-superserver (the later can be suggestion as well.) Gruß Klaus - --

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

be idiocy. But it IS a solution which work. Please also see the second choice I gave. In any case and to come to the begin again, the correct dependency would be: Depends: update-inetd Suggest: inet-superserver Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ p

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

d/ own > configuration files _and_ inetd.conf then the former wins, which > sounds like a reasonable thing. And what if a service is intentional _not_ configured for xinetd and the inetd.conf is ignored? Best wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.et

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

to be the proper approach, I'll > try to write a patch asap. Why using the name of the service? In inetd.conf the name has to be the same than the port in /etc/services (and even some service might have multiple names). In xinetd the name can be any if you specify the service por

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

nsequences I believe it's necessary for an > inet-superserver provider to grok /etc/inetd.conf. Well, it might be clear for you but I install xinetd to get away from this crap of the old inetd config. So for me the idea that xinetd might use /etc/inetd.conf is a horror! (Well I c

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

I was really pissed when I realiced the (default on) option in /etc/defaults/xinetd as it has taken many time to find why the hell the new xinetd is handling services it is explicit not configured to do! One more was that I was using samba as daemon and was running into strange problems that many 1000

Re: Bug#458061: RFH: cfs -- Cryptographic Filesystem

urich so I can see there if I will fix some bugs there. I am not a Debian maintainer but have several experiences with packaging and programming (C and perl). The days I am not at home. So I will make contact in new year. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen

Re: "upgrading" my gpg key

an DSA so the length of the DSA key has to be a bit longer than the length of the RSA key to have the same strength. Though the difference are only little so in practice it makes no real difference. Regard Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub

Re: Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

and don't wanted to be disturbed by a bug report. I don't want to tell a concrete package name to not start a flame. Ask by PM if you interested in. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerp

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

, which was added by me only for having a tm struct to test with). So please be not that ignorant. I have a pretty high opinion of debian. Please don't destroy that! Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus E

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

se don't be stupid. Sorry, but I have to return the compliment. But lets stop going to the personal level and stay on the objective level. Now you seems to have a code snipplet to reproduce the bug. So looking forward to get this solved. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: UPG and the default umask

match the UPG scheme? Is this doable for Sqeeze? Are > there reasons for not making the switch? Hopefully not! Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C

Re: UPG and the default umask

ant files only to serve some few use cases where the persons normally know how to get rid of anyway. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2

Re: UPG and the default umask

umask value to allow the write bit on groups when UPG is > setup (as it is by default) just makes sense. In the most cases, no, no, no! Only in a very few use cases that might make sense. > Keeping the write bit off the group, means we're too lazy to change > old historical baggage. Ah

Re: UPG and the default umask

gs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581434#25 A black day in the security of Debian. Well.. One more. - -- Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B ---

Re: Bug#581434: UPG and the default umask

t intentional. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS+3kap+OKpjR

Re: Open then gates (was: UPG and the default umask)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sa den 15. Mai 2010 um 1:18 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:57:05AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > A black day in the security of Debian. Well.. One more. &

Anounce of a secure repo for debian

unofficial-secured). This repository holds secured packages of the insecure debian packages just without the insecure patch (or the insecurity patched). The full sources are available to build. At the moment the repository holds base-files, openssh and procmail. Regards Klaus Ethgen

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

s should definitely be warned that they're > using it at their own risk (the same stands for any private > repository, of course, including those I manage myself...:-)). Yes, its a good idea. At the moment the repository is just as it is and it holds the secured packages

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

t for the moment there is just that packages I told about. > gpgv: Signature made Sun 30 May 2010 19:01:45 BST using RSA key ID > D1A4EDE5 Correct. > > Where is that key available? > > I assume it's this one: > pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <(E-Mail Remo

Valid-Until and snapshot or archives

Valid-Until header in archive release files? Should Archives remove them (then that is a bug of snapshot.debian.org) or should there be a switch in apt config to disable it for one particular source URL? Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub

xsnow

. Well, it is not that important but xsnow is at least a nice program and I do not want to miss it that times. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

hat encodings. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTVUksZ+OKpjR

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

iability. Regards Klaus Ps. On all systems of mine I was forced to blacklist dkms via preferences to not break my systems with custom kernel. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40

OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

uot;\x{00a3}\n";' ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' | cat Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected. > * Ian Jackson , 2011-02-14, 12:42: > >Excellent, I look forward to the removal of python. I always > >hated t

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mo den 14. Feb 2011 um 15:15 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > On ma, 2011-02-14 at 14:37 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > lets start a python rant. I love to hate this language. :-) > > Let's not. 'Till here it is personal

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mo den 14. Feb 2011 um 16:24 schrieb Ian Jackson: > Jakub Wilk writes ("Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release > critical?)"): > > * Klaus Ethgen , 2011-02-14, 14:37: > > >~> LC_CTYPE=en_G

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

sayin'. Ehem, no. A system has not to listen for any unused and unneeded services ever. A firewall is to control services you _need_. All that zeroconf stuff is absolutely not needed and wanted. (By the most users, I suppose.) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

oconf is not that insecure. But in all other environments you do not want to have it. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

s is pretty much as secure > as > the avahi-disabled system. That is not true. For two reasons: 1. It is one more daemon that is not needed and can have bugs. (And even more it lowers the sensibility about unusual processes on your system) 2. It even configure parts of yo

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

nd share the hardened packages to others on a private repository. That is not great but sometimes it is the only workable way. And it is no easy way. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

es. But in the security part I do not see an alternative to be a bit to paranoid. And if I am not the only one, that shows me that I am not completely wrong. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerpr

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

sometimes you need a software component on the server that you usually only use on laptops or desktops. One example is the wpa-supplicant, that is common to test radius servers. It should not be that this accidentally leads to zeroconf components with the dependencies. (I did not check if that is t

OT: Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

XFCE/LXDE system: decent functionality, usable also on older machines > WM/console system: packages only installed as needed Hey, I feel discriminated! I use fvwm. ;-) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Fr den 4. Mär 2011 um 12:24 schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:01AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > A user that installs Debian on his system will do that due to the > > reputation in security. If he want to

Kernel legacy

.) Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets stable? Background: The glibc in lenny is compiled to be incompatible with kernels lower than 2.6. I do not know if there are options to use newer glibc with older kernels. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Kernel legacy

needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) > > s/lenny/etch/ ? lenny is still correct. etch runs fine with kernel 2.4 (and lower by the way). > > Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets > > stable? > > etch is already stable Yes, etch is but no

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