Re: PermitRootLogin enabled by default

2002-06-26 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:11:00PM +0200, InfoEmergencias - Luis Gómez wrote: IMHO, we'd better set it to no. I always thought it was much better. Is there any landscape in which you may want to allow direct root login to your host? Yes, there is. For example I have some servers that retrieve

Re: SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON

2002-01-24 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:34:35AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: Quoting James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We could start by blocking @aol.com =) Or by all running good anti-spam measures and not replying to spam; I didn't even know it was there until people started replying to it, and i had

Re: buffer overflow in /bin/gzip?

2001-11-21 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:47:49AM -0600, Bryan Andersen wrote: On thing I think is quite important is to get rid of calls to routines that it is possible to buffer overflow. OpenBSD has a feature in their version of gcc that will cause a compile time error message telling you when one

Re: buffer overflow in /bin/gzip?

2001-11-21 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:47:49AM -0600, Bryan Andersen wrote: On thing I think is quite important is to get rid of calls to routines that it is possible to buffer overflow. OpenBSD has a feature in their version of gcc that will cause a compile time error message telling you when one of

Re: Is ident secure?

2001-09-01 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 06:41:42AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: Layne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK they just keep coming. I had 8 messages at 11:00PM , all of who I knew. Now I have 227 in my in box of solicitors all of who I didn't subscribe to. And you wonder why I get mad. Did it ever

Re: Is ident secure?

2001-09-01 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 06:41:42AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: Layne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK they just keep coming. I had 8 messages at 11:00PM , all of who I knew. Now I have 227 in my in box of solicitors all of who I didn't subscribe to. And you wonder why I get mad. Did it ever

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need strong evidence in

Re: How can I help ?

2000-06-14 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:46:12PM -0700, Ryan White wrote: As I recall after windows 95 the passwords are sent over the line encrypted. The encryption might be weak but they are not clear text anymore. There is a switch in SMB to allow encrypted passwords. This is ON by default in debian

Re: bind running as root in Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-07 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:17:41AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: i don't think it is necessary (or really desirable) to have the postinst asking about running bind as root, i think that the number of people who need it is far to small to justify ya interuption in the system install. I tend to