Re: Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
ctly sure. It should be verified that this detection will work the way you expect, so that the error message doesn't change and create a support burden for the installer team. Currently kernel-wedge generates the udeb package names and would need to add an option to leave out the version pa

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5173-1] linux security update

2022-07-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 22:17 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 03:49:12PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been > > fixed in version 4.19.249-2. > > It seems that linux-image-amd64 does

[SECURITY] [DSA 5173-1] linux security update

2022-07-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - - Debian Security Advisory DSA-5173-1 secur...@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/Ben Hutchings July 03, 2022

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update

2018-05-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 00:06 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:12:02PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > - > > Debian Security Advisory DSA-4187-1 secur...@debia

[SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update

2018-05-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - - Debian Security Advisory DSA-4187-1 secur...@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/Ben Hutchings May 01, 2018

Re: pulling in other vulnerability databases

2018-01-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
fixes in Linux actually get CVE IDs. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[SECURITY] [DSA 4073-1] linux security update

2017-12-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - - Debian Security Advisory DSA-4073-1 secur...@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/Ben Hutchings December 23, 2017

Re: NSA software in Debian

2014-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
of GRSecurity and LSM/SELinux. http://packages.debian.org/jessie/linux-patch-grsecurity2 [...] I bet it doesn't apply to 3.2.y any more... no, it doesn't. Bug opened (#736925). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein signature.asc

Re: possible /dev/random compromise (misplaced trust in RDRAND / Padlock entropy sources)

2013-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
() and get_random_bytes_arch() will use it and it is documented that they are not suitable for cryptographic purposes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: CVE-2013-2224 RHEL-specific?

2013-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
-opt.patch?view=markuppathrev=19969 Our backport is different. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2480-1] request-tracker3.8 security update

2012-05-25 Thread Ben Whyall
Hi I also came across this issue applying the fix yesterday. I did resolve it though by doing an apache restart. Ben Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:29:44AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 07:37:03PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Several

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
;) Wishing it so doesn't make it practically possible. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
on them. Hmhm, that might be a good idea indeed. I need to investigate and try that a bit. Ben, what would kernel team think of that? I don't speak for the whole team, but I don't see that it solves any problem. You would have to Build-Depend on exact versions of linux-source, so that you

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On mer., 2012-02-01 at 14:32 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:51 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: (adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 20:57 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On dim., 2012-01-29 at 18:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote

Re: Upcoming stable point release

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
in 2.6.32-40 (currently in stable-proposed-updates). I can probably make an upload this weekend, but cannot promise that a further upload will not be needed. We need some testing of the isci driver (added in 2.6.32-40) and more generally regression testing. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt

RE: [SECURITY] [DSA 2222-1] tinyproxy security update

2011-04-25 Thread BEN ALEYA Richard
unsubscribe Cordialement, your sincerely, European Parliament Richard BEN ALEYA -Original Message- From: Moritz Muehlenhoff [mailto:j...@debian.org] Sent: 20 April 2011 19:16 To: debian-security-annou...@lists.debian.org Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA -1] tinyproxy security update

Re: Fwd: Fwd: question regarding verification of a debian installation iso

2011-01-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
the SHA1 (or any other checksum) of the original files. How would the USB drive tell whether you were reading the file to verify its checksum or to use its contents? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1912-1] New camlimages fix arbitrary code execution

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Stewart
For the most part I'm on holidays until 19th of Oct. Cheers Benny If this is an Urgent ticket please submit a repair ticket herehttp://ts.sd57.bc.ca I will be checking my mail during the week! Personal contacts phone me cell at 250-640-3100 Thanks Benn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: bind9_9.5.1.dfsg.P1-1_i386.changes is NEW

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Closes: #511768 - other bug fixes worthy of patch-release inclusion This looks like much too big a change to get into lenny now. You'll probably need to upload just the two critical fixes to t-p-u or testing-security. Ben. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: clamav.* package versions (etch)

2008-05-30 Thread Ben Finney
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Re: Security Debian Questions

2007-04-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
. The former is for Discussion about security issues, including cryptographic issues, that are of interest to all parts of the Debian community. The latter is where The security team informs the users about security problems by posting security advisories about Debian packages on this list. -- Ben Pfaff

Re: policy change is needed to keep debian secure

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Bucksch
Matt Zimmerman wrote: I guess you aren't reading my mail, then. He may well be. Which browser are you using? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Bucksch
antgel wrote: 2) Mozilla security patches are not easy to find and isolate. Ben has disputed this, saying that we should be able to extract all necessary patches. Public ones from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html then bugzilla, and embargoed ones via mdz

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Bucksch
Matt Zimmerman wrote: Ben has now explained that this is in fact not sufficient. No, I have not. Please read again what I wrote. There is clearly a communication gap. And it's not on my end. You still haven't answered my very specific questions about your problems and what you want

Importance of browser security (was: On Mozilla-* updates)

2005-08-02 Thread Ben Bucksch
Stefano Salvi wrote: I prefer to have no X on the server and administer it from command line or Web interfaces (command line is better). Let's say 1. You use Mozilla from sarge 2. Somebody cracks you through known holes in that old Mozilla, either a mass exploit or an enemy of you

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-08-02 Thread Ben Bucksch
Matt Zimmerman wrote: I'm guessing that you're not going to volunteer on the manpower side Actually, he did, in the previous posting. Which is admirable, because this is a dauntingly huge task (and he seems semi-aware of it) - in the area of a few hours *per week*, on average. mozilla.org

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-08-02 Thread Ben Bucksch
Matt Zimmerman wrote: To organize their development processes such that patches can be backported with a reasonable amount of effort. I wrote a response, but deleted it, because I simply don't understand what you mean. Please be concrete, very very concrete. I'm in Los Angeles, California,

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-08-02 Thread Ben Bucksch
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It would be very nice if Mozilla would publish to distributions like ours a description of the security problem, and then a separate patch for that specific problem. 1. You to be going to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-08-02 Thread Ben Bucksch
Adeodato Simó wrote: Publish to distributions is effectively the same as making it completely public, so they won't. Wrong. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/security-bugs-policy.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-08-01 Thread Ben Bucksch
of keeping the everything as-is, no user-noticable changes, for 3 years. You have to lose your current ideas and put security first. (I'm not including freedom etc. here :-) .) I am more than willing to help establish cooperation between Debian and mozilla.org, if there's interest. -- Ben Bucksch

Re: safety of encrypted filesystems

2005-06-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, doesn't CBC or EBC make sure that every block is chained to its predecessor, making even the very last block of a file dependent on the bits of the very first block? Yes and no. If you change the first block in a set of CBC-chained blocks,

Re: Procmail recipe for Nitwit unsubscribers who can't read DU sigs.

2005-03-22 Thread ben
I've been adding unsubscribe requests and out-of-the-office-nitwit replies to my spam folder, and then training Ye Olde Classifier Of Choyce upon them. Works reasonably well... -- Ben Pearre http://hebb.mit.edu/~ben PGP: CFDA6CDA Don't let Bush read your email! http

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm (resolved)

2004-10-18 Thread Ben Goedeke
the arp cache size to 1024 again. And even though I can see 5 infected machine blasting through the network right now everything works fine. Cheers, Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Ben Goedeke
134.102.0.0/16 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 With such a routing entry the firewall will try and resolve mac addresses when the worm is scanning 134.102.xxx.0 subnets, right? I off to the site to do some experimenting. Thanks, a lot so far. I'll post my findings. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Goedeke
it really be possible for a single infected windows machine to dos a linux firewall? Please tell me it's not true and there's just something I'm overlooking. I'm at my wits end here and don't even know what to try next. So any pointers are much appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#257165: udev: input device permissions

2004-07-05 Thread Itay Ben-Yaacov
Actually, re-reading the definitions in reportbug, this seems to be *critical*. Why doesn't anyone DO anything about this? NMU? Something??? On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:28:04AM -0700, Itay Ben-Yaacov wrote: Package: udev Version: 0.026-1 Severity: normal Tags: security

Re: Bug#257165: udev: input device permissions

2004-07-05 Thread Itay Ben-Yaacov
It has been broken for weeks and somebody only noticed a couple of days ago, if you can't update the config file by yourself I'm sure you can wait for a few days while I work on other issues. It was repaired on my box before I reported it, of course. Given that it's a single user machine, it

Re: port 16001 and 111

2002-10-29 Thread ben
simply securing a box and assuming a role as cyber-detective. the former solves the problem, the latter has no end. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: port 16001 and 111

2002-10-29 Thread ben
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:02 am, Jean Christophe ANDRÉ wrote: Hi, ben écrivait : way overkill. 16001 isn't being scanned and 111 is the most common target after 25. you're suggesting that the guy turn his server into a honeypot--to what end? disable portmap and nothing can get at 111

Re: port 16001 and 111

2002-10-29 Thread ben
simply securing a box and assuming a role as cyber-detective. the former solves the problem, the latter has no end. ben

Re: port 16001 and 111

2002-10-29 Thread ben
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:02 am, Jean Christophe ANDRÉ wrote: Hi, ben écrivait : way overkill. 16001 isn't being scanned and 111 is the most common target after 25. you're suggesting that the guy turn his server into a honeypot--to what end? disable portmap and nothing can get at 111

Re: Access on Port 0

2002-10-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Wade Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Notice the PROTO=UDP part of the message. It means that this is a UDP packet, not a TCP packet. UDP is not a socket-based protocol, so the port number is meaningless for UDP packets. This statement is nonsense. Both TCP and UDP have 16-bit port

Re: Access on Port 0

2002-10-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Wade Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Notice the PROTO=UDP part of the message. It means that this is a UDP packet, not a TCP packet. UDP is not a socket-based protocol, so the port number is meaningless for UDP packets. This statement is nonsense. Both TCP and UDP have 16-bit port

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-07 Thread ben
shove off, troll ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-07 Thread ben
On Monday 07 October 2002 02:21 am, Rune Kristian Viken wrote: Monday, ben wrote: shove off, troll Uh.. WHAT? I'm not sure why you're calling me a troll, but I would appreciate it if you at least _attempted_ to be a tad more polite. i'd appreciate it if you could at least be consistent

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-07 Thread ben
On Monday 07 October 2002 04:14 am, Rune Kristian Viken wrote: Ben wrote: shove off, troll I'm not sure why you're calling me a troll, but I would appreciate it if you at least _attempted_ to be a tad more polite. i'd appreciate it if you could at least be consistent in what you

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-07 Thread ben
shove off, troll ben

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-07 Thread ben
On Monday 07 October 2002 02:21 am, Rune Kristian Viken wrote: Monday, ben wrote: shove off, troll Uh.. WHAT? I'm not sure why you're calling me a troll, but I would appreciate it if you at least _attempted_ to be a tad more polite. i'd appreciate it if you could at least be consistent

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-07 Thread ben
On Monday 07 October 2002 04:14 am, Rune Kristian Viken wrote: Ben wrote: shove off, troll I'm not sure why you're calling me a troll, but I would appreciate it if you at least _attempted_ to be a tad more polite. i'd appreciate it if you could at least be consistent in what you

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-04 Thread ben
was rejected, so it's unlikely that anybody has done any harm there. the incidents in your sendmail logs are probably part of a port scan. you should make sure that the rest of your system is solid. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Report on last cmd

2002-10-04 Thread ben
was rejected, so it's unlikely that anybody has done any harm there. the incidents in your sendmail logs are probably part of a port scan. you should make sure that the rest of your system is solid. ben

Re: SubRPC vulnerability: is Debian libc6 affected?

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Collins
It looks like it is fixed in glibc 2.2.5-8, but again, it never made into official announcement. On woody, I believe Ben have been already working, but I don't know its status. Ben? Should I go ahead for woody? Woody and potato are already uploaded to security.d.o. It's in their hands

Re: Fwd: RAZOR advisory: Linux util-linux chfn local root vulnerability

2002-07-29 Thread ben
util-linux. when you say 'doesn't use,' do you perhaps mean 'never invokes'? because: # find / -name chfn /usr/bin/chfn /etc/pam.d/chfn and i'm damn sure i didn't put it there all by myself. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Fwd: RAZOR advisory: Linux util-linux chfn local root vulnerability

2002-07-29 Thread ben
On Monday 29 July 2002 01:04 pm, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously ben wrote: when you say 'doesn't use,' do you perhaps mean 'never invokes'? because: # find / -name chfn /usr/bin/chfn /etc/pam.d/chfn Different implementation (from shadowutils iirc). Wichert. aah! thanks, wichert

ot -- delivery errors

2002-07-29 Thread ben
after both of my posts to the security list, i received delivery error messages in the form of: On Monday 29 July 2002 01:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is anyone else seeing the same or similar? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: beach towel

2002-05-15 Thread ben
near every debian related list in the world. i mean, who knew, before now, that we even needed 100% cotton velour to get the job done? hopefully debian-bugs got the same update. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: beach towel

2002-05-15 Thread ben
near every debian related list in the world. i mean, who knew, before now, that we even needed 100% cotton velour to get the job done? hopefully debian-bugs got the same update. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#126441: [security] What's being done?

2002-01-12 Thread Ben Collins
Ben is merely behind with updating the BTS, by the looks of it... Can't close it till I fix woody/sid too. Which will be when 2.2.5 is released (days). -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Apt-get is insecure

2001-12-13 Thread Ben Staffin
debsign is a part of devscripts. It looks to be present even in Potato. - Ben On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:37:42PM +0200, Samuli Suonpaa blathered thusly: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Alexander Karelas wrote: RedHat uses a PGP signature scheme. What are we doing

Re: Apt-get is insecure

2001-12-13 Thread Ben Staffin
debsign is a part of devscripts. It looks to be present even in Potato. - Ben On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:37:42PM +0200, Samuli Suonpaa blathered thusly: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Alexander Karelas wrote: RedHat uses a PGP signature scheme. What are we doing about

Re: buffer overflow in /bin/gzip?

2001-11-20 Thread Ben Leslie
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Guillaume Morin wrote: Dans un message du 20 nov à 23:33, Anders Gjære écrivait : in gzip.c the line: strcpy(nbuf,dir); should maybe be replaced with: strncpy(nbuf, dir,sizeof(nbuf)); gzip runs with user privileges, therefore this is not a

Re: buffer overflow in /bin/gzip?

2001-11-20 Thread Ben Leslie
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Guillaume Morin wrote: Dans un message du 20 nov à 23:33, Anders Gjære écrivait : in gzip.c the line: strcpy(nbuf,dir); should maybe be replaced with: strncpy(nbuf, dir,sizeof(nbuf)); gzip runs with user privileges, therefore this is not a

Re: Port Scan for UDP

2001-10-21 Thread Ben Staffin
the process(es) listening on the named UDP port. -- /-- | Ben Staffin gpg key: http://darkskie.net/~benley/pgp.txt | --/ pgpaNM6YoSBtN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Port Scan for UDP

2001-10-20 Thread Ben Staffin
the process(es) listening on the named UDP port. -- /-- | Ben Staffin gpg key: http://darkskie.net/~benley/pgp.txt | --/ PGP signature

Re: Need Help with the Debian Securing Manual (contributions accepted)

2001-09-23 Thread Ben Staffin
it. Are you sure is not a problem with your proxy? I too get the 403 forbidden error. I imagine this does not affect all of the servers that comprise www.debian.org, and those that are unlucky enough to get the affected one in their DNS lookup get the error. -- /-- | Ben Staffin gpg key: http

Re: Need Help with the Debian Securing Manual (contributions accepted)

2001-09-23 Thread Ben Staffin
it. Are you sure is not a problem with your proxy? I too get the 403 forbidden error. I imagine this does not affect all of the servers that comprise www.debian.org, and those that are unlucky enough to get the affected one in their DNS lookup get the error. -- /-- | Ben Staffin gpg key: http

Re: Is ident secure?

2001-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
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 occur to you that maybe it's not acceptable to harass everyone on

Re: Layne (was: Re: Is ident secure?)

2001-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Visscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Already sent mail to the list admin on the bottom of each email. I just submitted his address in at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe to be unsubscribed, hopefully that will work... I just submitted

Re: Is ident secure?

2001-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
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 occur to you that maybe it's not acceptable to harass everyone on

Re: Layne (was: Re: Is ident secure?)

2001-08-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Visscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed Street [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Already sent mail to the list admin on the bottom of each email. I just submitted his address in at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe to be unsubscribed, hopefully that will work... I just submitted

Re: A question about Knark and modules

2001-06-19 Thread Ben Harvey
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 07:55:40PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: a bit. lids makes system adminsitration utterly impossible. unless you leave enough holes open which an attacker can use to bypass it all. well nearly... at least you can prevent new or unknown process/files from acessing stuff.

Re: A question about Knark and modules

2001-06-18 Thread Ben Harvey
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 07:55:40PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: a bit. lids makes system adminsitration utterly impossible. unless you leave enough holes open which an attacker can use to bypass it all. well nearly... at least you can prevent new or unknown process/files from acessing

Re: X tcp listening

2001-05-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jim Breton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:46:07PM +0200, Tomasz Olszewski wrote: If an user creates his own $HOME/.xserverrc, it overrides the system wide xserverrc. So make /usr/bin/X11/X a wrapper for the real X. Problem with this is, if you upgrade or

Re: X tcp listening

2001-05-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jim Breton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:46:07PM +0200, Tomasz Olszewski wrote: If an user creates his own $HOME/.xserverrc, it overrides the system wide xserverrc. So make /usr/bin/X11/X a wrapper for the real X. Problem with this is, if you upgrade or

Re: strange file

2000-11-20 Thread Ben
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:33:32AM +0100, Virginie-ML wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:26:28AM +0100, Johan Bergström wrote: # cat /.esd_auth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\x9e^@@ There is only this line in ... Could anybody reassure me please ?:) I belive its part

Re: funny rpc.statd events

2000-10-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This was fixed a month or two before potato was released. I've seen those too, on up-to-date woody, so I don't think it really got fixed. On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:09:52PM -0500, Herbert Ho wrote: hi guys. i have logcheck installed so i got this

Re: On the security of e-mails

2000-05-26 Thread Ben White
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