Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Christian G. Warden
the commercial ssh server has an option to chroot to a user's home directory. there are patches available to openssh to do it also, though i don't know if they've been thoroughly audited. check out http://mail.incredimail.com/howto/openssh/ you can make sftp-server the user's shell to only

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 05:24, Jon McCain wrote: I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and noticed what I consider a security hole. Winscp does the same thing. The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them like you can in an

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously martin f krafft wrote: i don't get it. will someone please push this package ivo made as an NMU into security.debian.org ASAP? i'd do it myself, but i am still waiting for DAM approval... I'ld like someone to answer my question first: how come the glob fix in glibc doesn't fix

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.31.1602 +0200]: i don't get it. will someone please push this package ivo made as an NMU into security.debian.org ASAP? i'd do it myself, but i am still waiting for DAM approval... I'ld like someone to answer my question first: how

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:24:28PM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and noticed what I consider a security hole. Winscp does the same thing. The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them like

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 05:53:35PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: why should we discuss this before pushing the temporary fix into the security archives??? Maybe because, as you say, the fix (read: workaround) is only temporary? :) Including a new rule in the conffile won't automatically fix

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously martin f krafft wrote: wichert, it didn't. why should we discuss this before pushing the temporary fix into the security archives??? Because it might impact other packages as well. i'd also like to see answered, but right now, debian's got a semi-bug in a package found on

Security-Update of LISTAR broken...

2002-03-31 Thread Volker Tanger
Greetings! Few days ago I updated the LISTAR maillist software (apt-get update; ape-get dist-upgrade) with the latest security fix (a buffer overflow IIRC). Since then, the program won't work anymore - does not produce any output, returns with exit code 75 Seems the security fix is broken?

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread vdongen
I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and noticed what I consider a security hole. Winscp does the same thing. The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them like you can in an ftp config file? scp is merely a way to use a

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread ambarish pathak
- Original Message - From: Jon McCain Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 8:54 AM The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them Use restricted bash shell for the user (/bin/rbash) in the /etc/passwd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Christian G. Warden
the commercial ssh server has an option to chroot to a user's home directory. there are patches available to openssh to do it also, though i don't know if they've been thoroughly audited. check out http://mail.incredimail.com/howto/openssh/ you can make sftp-server the user's shell to only allow

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 05:24, Jon McCain wrote: I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and noticed what I consider a security hole. Winscp does the same thing. The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them like you can in an

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously martin f krafft wrote: i don't get it. will someone please push this package ivo made as an NMU into security.debian.org ASAP? i'd do it myself, but i am still waiting for DAM approval... I'ld like someone to answer my question first: how come the glob fix in glibc doesn't fix

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.31.1602 +0200]: i don't get it. will someone please push this package ivo made as an NMU into security.debian.org ASAP? i'd do it myself, but i am still waiting for DAM approval... I'ld like someone to answer my question first: how

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:24:28PM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and noticed what I consider a security hole. Winscp does the same thing. The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them like you

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 05:53:35PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: why should we discuss this before pushing the temporary fix into the security archives??? Maybe because, as you say, the fix (read: workaround) is only temporary? :) Including a new rule in the conffile won't automatically fix

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously martin f krafft wrote: wichert, it didn't. why should we discuss this before pushing the temporary fix into the security archives??? Because it might impact other packages as well. i'd also like to see answered, but right now, debian's got a semi-bug in a package found on

Security-Update of LISTAR broken...

2002-03-31 Thread Volker Tanger
Greetings! Few days ago I updated the LISTAR maillist software (apt-get update; ape-get dist-upgrade) with the latest security fix (a buffer overflow IIRC). Since then, the program won't work anymore - does not produce any output, returns with exit code 75 Seems the security fix is broken? Bye

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread vdongen
I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and noticed what I consider a security hole. Winscp does the same thing. The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them like you can in an ftp config file? scp is merely a way to use a

Re: Security-Update of LISTAR broken...

2002-03-31 Thread John Reinke
Few days ago I updated the LISTAR maillist software (apt-get update; ape-get dist-upgrade) with the latest security fix (a buffer overflow Perhaps the problem is with your second command. I've not had good luck with 'ape-get' either. Perhaps it is distantly related to the infinite monkeys

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread ambarish pathak
- Original Message - From: Jon McCain Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 8:54 AM The user can change to directories above their home. Is there a way to chroot them Use restricted bash shell for the user (/bin/rbash) in the /etc/passwd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a