Re: how to identify the superuser in C

2002-12-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
Oohara Yuuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fakeroot (or any other dynamic linker tricks) will not work on set[ug]id programs. libc can be trusted here. Is this Linux specific? (There can be a Hurd port in the sarge release). Of course the same protection is present in GNU/Hurd. Btw: this

Re: port 6051: hacked?

2002-09-06 Thread Moritz Schulte
Kristof Goossens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I am still wondering why the port showed up in the nmap-output in the first place. I have seen nmap behaving very strange. I just had to scan my host again and again in a loop and after some time I had a funny list of open ports; looked

Re: Secure Finger Daemon

2002-01-06 Thread Moritz Schulte
eim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, I can't tell you which fingerd is the most secure one. But... Shouldn't I install this service at all ? ... do you really need it? Every additional service is a potential security risk; only run these services, which you really need.

Re: Secure Finger Daemon

2002-01-06 Thread Moritz Schulte
eim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, I can't tell you which fingerd is the most secure one. But... Shouldn't I install this service at all ? ... do you really need it? Every additional service is a potential security risk; only run these services, which you really need.

Re: Secure 2.4.x kernel

2001-12-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Phillip Hofmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless you like recompiling your kernel 2 or 3 times a month I wouldn't look to 2.4 for a FIREWALL kernel yet. If you want the neat features of 2.4 I would recomend installing 2.2 on the firewall and another box on the internal network with 2.4

Re: Mutt tmp files

2001-11-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
it or not. Hmm, have you considered ramdisks? moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199 In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. - Linus Torvalds.

Re: nmap ...

2001-10-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
that I tried a newer nmap version than the one from Potato and it didn't show this broken behaviour. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. - Linus Torvalds. GPG fingerprint

Re: nmap ...

2001-10-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
tried a newer nmap version than the one from Potato and it didn't show this broken behaviour. moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. - Linus Torvalds. GPG fingerprint