Peaceful Use Only Licenses (was Re: Peace is not off topic)

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Renfro
-related. In order: I have no idea, and not if you mean DFSG-compatible, at least. DFSG Point #6 is No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Peaceful Use Only Licenses (was Re: Peace is not off topic)

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Renfro
-related. In order: I have no idea, and not if you mean DFSG-compatible, at least. DFSG Point #6 is No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Mike Renfro
, but there is still active development. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Mike Renfro
, but there is still active development. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snort-stats without mailing...

2003-02-12 Thread Mike Renfro
/sendmail. Neither option should require an open smtp port, and you'd only be vulnerable to remote holes in snort or ssh, plus local holes in whatever else is on the system. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL

Re: snort-stats without mailing...

2003-02-12 Thread Mike Renfro
/sendmail. Neither option should require an open smtp port, and you'd only be vulnerable to remote holes in snort or ssh, plus local holes in whatever else is on the system. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL

Re: I'm searching for a network wide system update tool

2003-01-19 Thread Mike Renfro
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Re: I'm searching for a network wide system update tool

2003-01-19 Thread Mike Renfro
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Re: How to get the current security updates on CD?

2003-01-06 Thread Mike Renfro
only i386). Security mirrors should only be for local use, to help keep people from unknowingly using outdated mirrors. Also, fmirror isn't nearly as bandwidth-friendly as rsync, but I'm not aware of any rsync capability on the security site. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center

Re: How to get the current security updates on CD?

2003-01-04 Thread Mike Renfro
of machines. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get the current security updates on CD?

2003-01-04 Thread Mike Renfro
of machines. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh banner

2002-10-18 Thread Mike Renfro
, etc. In a perfect world, those folks would have already read the above supporting material and they wouldn't bug us at all. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ssh banner

2002-10-18 Thread Mike Renfro
, etc. In a perfect world, those folks would have already read the above supporting material and they wouldn't bug us at all. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: export problems on security updates?

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Renfro
debian.snt.utwente.nl. 34.175.89.130.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer satie.debian.org. So, yes. It's in the Netherlands currently. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: export problems on security updates?

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Renfro
debian.snt.utwente.nl. 34.175.89.130.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer satie.debian.org. So, yes. It's in the Netherlands currently. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Security Mirror

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Renfro
of architecture, and I've never installed many of the packages on s.d.o to begin with) -- but at least I'd be able to point other Debian people here to our local mirror so that they could update themselves more quickly. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601

Re: Converting Users from Solaris to (Debian-)Linux

2002-08-31 Thread Mike Renfro
to MD5 as soon as the user changed their password. But that's not the current problem: if they were willing to change their passwords as part of the migration, why worry about the format of the password files at all? -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601

Re: Converting Users from Solaris to (Debian-)Linux

2002-08-30 Thread Mike Renfro
with the same password on the linux maschine and solaris. Put the hashes from the Solaris shadow into the Debian shadow, and they'll have the same password. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on the safety sharing NFS with untrusted machines.

2002-07-25 Thread Mike Renfro
. Having no idea what you intend to do with the NFS mount, I'll refrain from further examples. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Question on the safety sharing NFS with untrusted machines.

2002-07-25 Thread Mike Renfro
to have a kernel with NFSv3 support included. Packaged in woody and sid, at least. Reasonably easy to set up, too. Not pam-aware, as best I can tell. However, that's not a critical failing. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological

gdm and pam_group problem

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Renfro
, and gdm for local. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unknown app ports 32703/32705/32706 logged !

2002-05-12 Thread Mike Renfro
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 04:30:00AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: does solaris have fuser or lsof ? Don't know about Solaris 2.6, but lsof compiled fine under 2.8 -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL

Re: Unknown app ports 32703/32705/32706 logged !

2002-05-12 Thread Mike Renfro
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 04:30:00AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: does solaris have fuser or lsof ? Don't know about Solaris 2.6, but lsof compiled fine under 2.8 -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL

Re: A Linux version of system and network monitoring?

2002-04-30 Thread Mike Renfro
not trying to compete with Tivoli and Openview: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/spong-server.html (and spong-client, and spong-network, and spong-www). May have already been mentioned on the isp list. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee

Re: A more secure form of .htaccess?

2002-04-26 Thread Mike Renfro
that were each run from the desktop or quicklaunch bar don't share authentication info. At least this has been my experience with IE4 and 5.x. However, if you use File / New to start a new window, that window will share authentication info with the parent. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center

Re: A question about some network services

2002-04-02 Thread Mike Renfro
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Re: A question about some network services

2002-04-02 Thread Mike Renfro
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Re: Encrypted Ethernet ?

2002-02-21 Thread Mike Renfro
includes enough modules to prevent simply adding Freeswan support on top of everything else. My solution to this was to uncheck all the SCSI support, and other hardware I wasn't likely to use in a Freeswan router. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601

Re: Encrypted Ethernet ?

2002-02-21 Thread Mike Renfro
includes enough modules to prevent simply adding Freeswan support on top of everything else. My solution to this was to uncheck all the SCSI support, and other hardware I wasn't likely to use in a Freeswan router. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO?

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Renfro
for secure vi shell escape, and found: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enselm=65utkq%2480p%40winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de and it looks like nvi still supports the secure options mentioned there. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO?

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Renfro
for secure vi shell escape, and found: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enselm=65utkq%2480p%40winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de and it looks like nvi still supports the secure options mentioned there. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee

Re: shutdown user and accountability

2001-11-27 Thread Mike Renfro
the shutdown is as viable a solution as any. If you don't mind losing accountability, but want an idiot shutdown button attached to the machine, I'd look at getting some sort of LCD/keypad interface from Matrix Orbital or one of their competitors. http://www.matrixorbital.com/products.htm -- Mike

Re: In Praise of Dos (RE: Mutt tmp files)

2001-11-19 Thread Mike Renfro
, Ctrl-O, Ctrl-W, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-B, Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-N are consistent among all three. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: In Praise of Dos (RE: Mutt tmp files)

2001-11-19 Thread Mike Renfro
, Ctrl-O, Ctrl-W, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-B, Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-N are consistent among all three. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which ssh should I have?

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Renfro
-buildpackage cd .. ; dpkg -i ssh*deb -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which ssh should I have?

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Renfro
-buildpackage cd .. ; dpkg -i ssh*deb -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh vulernability

2001-10-21 Thread Mike Renfro
public by CORE SDI. -- Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:15:04 +0100 If it's a different exploit entirely, please ignore. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ssh vulernability

2001-10-21 Thread Mike Renfro
public by CORE SDI. -- Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:15:04 +0100 If it's a different exploit entirely, please ignore. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CODA + portmapper == insecure?

2001-09-04 Thread Mike Renfro
several months ago. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CODA + portmapper == insecure?

2001-09-04 Thread Mike Renfro
several months ago. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secure Network Filesystem

2001-08-28 Thread Mike Renfro
, but that may have been a local issue, and not related to SFS itself. But it has the advantages of looking like NFS to the client and server, but operating over the network in a cryptographically secure method. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee

Re: Secure Network Filesystem

2001-08-28 Thread Mike Renfro
, but that may have been a local issue, and not related to SFS itself. But it has the advantages of looking like NFS to the client and server, but operating over the network in a cryptographically secure method. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee

Re: apt sources.list

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Renfro
a question -- you want security, you run stable and keep security.debian.org in your sources.list. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: apt sources.list

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Renfro
a question -- you want security, you run stable and keep security.debian.org in your sources.list. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locking down a guest account - need help.

2001-08-06 Thread Mike Renfro
any remote hosts port 22, 80, or 443. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snort 1.8 for demarc

2001-08-06 Thread Mike Renfro
to `yylex' grammar.o(.text+0x9ba): undefined reference to `yylex' You have bison installed too? Or just flex? I think yylex calls are frequently references to yacc. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL

Re: Locking down a guest account - need help.

2001-08-06 Thread Mike Renfro
any remote hosts port 22, 80, or 443. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snort 1.8 for demarc

2001-08-06 Thread Mike Renfro
to `yylex' grammar.o(.text+0x9ba): undefined reference to `yylex' You have bison installed too? Or just flex? I think yylex calls are frequently references to yacc. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL

Re: apt and other sources.

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Renfro
-free deb-src ftp://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US RELEASE/non-US main contrib non-free (In the deb-src lines, use either stable, testing, or unstable where I've indicated RELEASE) -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

Re: apt and other sources.

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Renfro
-free deb-src ftp://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US RELEASE/non-US main contrib non-free (In the deb-src lines, use either stable, testing, or unstable where I've indicated RELEASE) -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Mike Renfro
want to look into Stephane Bortzmeyer's list of unofficial apt sources to see if anyone has already built something you're looking for. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how secure is mail and ftp and netscape/IE???

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Renfro
: * niftytelnet with ssh: no port forwarding, but everything else is pretty good. For Java: * mindterm: runs on Windows Mac, and probably others (Macs require using jbindery to turn a java class file into a recognizable executable). Does port forwarding, and can even be run inside a browser. -- Mike

Re: how secure is mail and ftp and netscape/IE???

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Renfro
: * niftytelnet with ssh: no port forwarding, but everything else is pretty good. For Java: * mindterm: runs on Windows Mac, and probably others (Macs require using jbindery to turn a java class file into a recognizable executable). Does port forwarding, and can even be run inside a browser. -- Mike

Re: secure install

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Renfro
to look into would be the Fully Automatic Installation page: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: secure install

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Renfro
a local task package that depended on the exact set of packages you wanted to install. e.g., task-myserver could depend on postfix, proftpd, boa, etc. 'apt-get install task-myserver' would then be able to install any of the depending packages automatically. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center

Re: secure install

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Renfro
to look into would be the Fully Automatic Installation page: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISPs offering ssl-encrypted e-mail?

2001-02-04 Thread Mike Renfro
of security issues, or simply don't care. 2) See above. 3) See above again. But, having said all that, check out hushmail.com -- should be capable of every level of encryption. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

Re: mirroring security.debian.org?

2001-01-26 Thread Mike Renfro
trying to make updates from security.debian.org during the day. Assume the people in charge of managing our bandwidth are doing all they can, and the saturation problem isn't going away anytime soon. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee

Re: mirroring security.debian.org?

2001-01-26 Thread Mike Renfro
trying to make updates from security.debian.org during the day. Assume the people in charge of managing our bandwidth are doing all they can, and the saturation problem isn't going away anytime soon. -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee