Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
I am going to configure an debian mail server for my company (only 20 emplyes) i have 2 40 gigs disk witch are going to run raid 1. I am going to configure it with wu-imap/pop3 and postfix. Is there any special security thing i should consider (the server is placed in DMZ becuase 2-3 people are g

Re: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Lars Roland Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020401 13:52]: > I am going to configure an debian mail server for my company (only 20 > emplyes) i have 2 40 gigs disk witch are going to run raid 1. I am going > to configure it with wu-imap/pop3 and postfix. Is there any special > security thing i

Re: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lars - make sure the 2 disks is on 2 different ide cables.. - make sure its "fd" partition type - use secure pop3s or secure imap... http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/secure_pop3.txt - since its pop ... supposedly internal corp users... i'd put the secure pop3s server insid

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
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: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Monday, 2002-04-01 at 13:47:21 +0200, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: > I am going to configure an debian mail server for my company (only 20 > emplyes) i have 2 40 gigs disk witch are going to run raid 1. I am going > to configure it with wu-imap/pop3 and postfix. Is there any special > securi

re: scp and ftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
I'm not sure if this message made it through. Our ISP was having problems this morning. Sorry if you get this message twice. I think some of you misunderstood me. I was not clear about my concern. Users can ssh into my machine but their profiles are fixed to run a menu of things I allow them

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
> > > 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. > This does not seem to affect sshd. I changed a user to use rbash but I could still go to a windows machine and use the p

re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
I think some of you misunderstood me. I was not clear about my concern. Users can ssh into my machine but their profiles are fixed to run a menu of things I allow them to do. Thus they can't get to the $ prompt and thus can't cd to other directories to see what's there. And even they did, perm

Re: scp and ftp

2002-04-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:35:46AM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: > concern. Users can ssh into my machine but their profiles are fixed to > run a menu of things I allow them to do. Thus they can't get to the $ > prompt and thus can't cd to other directories to see what's there. And > even they did,

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:04:50AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > With the following commands, you can copy files without "scp": > > $ cat localfile | ssh somehost "cat > /somedir/remotefile" > $ ssh somehost "cat /somedir/remotefile" > localfile > > So, it seems unusefull to disable "s

re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
All of this has gotten me to thinking about another flaw in the way I have things set up. I'm preventing users from getting to a $ by running a menu from their profile. exec /usr/bin/menu This works fine since the exec causes menu to become their shell process. But some smart user could get ar

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Reeves
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: > All of this has gotten me to thinking about another flaw in the way I > have things set up. I'm preventing users from getting to a $ by running > a menu from their profile. > > exec /usr/bin/menu > > This works fine since the exec ca

Re: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Tim van Erven
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:45:30PM +0200, Lupe Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (ext3 had good marks in a recent test in c't. Most (all?) others > put bad data in files after a crash.) That's because most of the others only do meta-data journaling and not file-data journaling like ext3 doe

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
Chris Reeves wrote: > > Why not change the users' shell to /usr/bin/menu? > Because they need to be able to transfer files to their home directories. If you do this, then ftp,pscp,etc won't work. My original goal was to allow them transfer files to/from home directory with something besides f

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 18:41, Jon McCain wrote: > Chris Reeves wrote: > > > > Why not change the users' shell to /usr/bin/menu? > > > > Because they need to be able to transfer files to their home > directories. If you do this, then ftp,pscp,etc won't work. My original > goal was to allow them

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: > But changing permissions on the .bash_profile so they don't own it (and > not in their group) should take care of that problem. They can read it > all they want, just not change it. A cleaner solution would be to make it immutable. (

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Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Stelios Bounanos
> On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 10:35:35 -0500, Jon McCain > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was runoured to have said: > All of this has gotten me to thinking about another flaw in the way I > have things set up. I'm preventing users from getting to a $ by running > a menu from their profile. > exec /

Re: Security-Update of LISTAR broken...

2002-04-01 Thread Andrew Tait
I have had the package installed since it went into proposed-updates, it been working fine for me. Andrew Tait System Administrator Country NetLink Pty, Ltd E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.cnl.com.au 30 Bank St Cobram, VIC 3644, Australia Ph: +61 (03) 58 711 000 Fax: +61 (03) 58 711 874

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Re: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Lars Roland Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020401 13:52]: > I am going to configure an debian mail server for my company (only 20 > emplyes) i have 2 40 gigs disk witch are going to run raid 1. I am going > to configure it with wu-imap/pop3 and postfix. Is there any special > security thing i

Re: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lars - make sure the 2 disks is on 2 different ide cables.. - make sure its "fd" partition type - use secure pop3s or secure imap... http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/secure_pop3.txt - since its pop ... supposedly internal corp users... i'd put the secure pop3s server inside

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
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: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Monday, 2002-04-01 at 13:47:21 +0200, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: > I am going to configure an debian mail server for my company (only 20 > emplyes) i have 2 40 gigs disk witch are going to run raid 1. I am going > to configure it with wu-imap/pop3 and postfix. Is there any special > securit

re: scp and ftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
I'm not sure if this message made it through. Our ISP was having problems this morning. Sorry if you get this message twice. I think some of you misunderstood me. I was not clear about my concern. Users can ssh into my machine but their profiles are fixed to run a menu of things I allow them t

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
> > > 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. > This does not seem to affect sshd. I changed a user to use rbash but I could still go to a windows machine and use the pu

re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
I think some of you misunderstood me. I was not clear about my concern. Users can ssh into my machine but their profiles are fixed to run a menu of things I allow them to do. Thus they can't get to the $ prompt and thus can't cd to other directories to see what's there. And even they did, permi

Re: scp and ftp

2002-04-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:35:46AM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: > concern. Users can ssh into my machine but their profiles are fixed to > run a menu of things I allow them to do. Thus they can't get to the $ > prompt and thus can't cd to other directories to see what's there. And > even they did, p

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:04:50AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > With the following commands, you can copy files without "scp": > > $ cat localfile | ssh somehost "cat > /somedir/remotefile" > $ ssh somehost "cat /somedir/remotefile" > localfile > > So, it seems unusefull to disable "sc

re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
All of this has gotten me to thinking about another flaw in the way I have things set up. I'm preventing users from getting to a $ by running a menu from their profile. exec /usr/bin/menu This works fine since the exec causes menu to become their shell process. But some smart user could get aro

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Reeves
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: > All of this has gotten me to thinking about another flaw in the way I > have things set up. I'm preventing users from getting to a $ by running > a menu from their profile. > > exec /usr/bin/menu > > This works fine since the exec cau

Re: Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Tim van Erven
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:45:30PM +0200, Lupe Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (ext3 had good marks in a recent test in c't. Most (all?) others > put bad data in files after a crash.) That's because most of the others only do meta-data journaling and not file-data journaling like ext3 does

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Jon McCain
Chris Reeves wrote: > > Why not change the users' shell to /usr/bin/menu? > Because they need to be able to transfer files to their home directories. If you do this, then ftp,pscp,etc won't work. My original goal was to allow them transfer files to/from home directory with something besides ft

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 18:41, Jon McCain wrote: > Chris Reeves wrote: > > > > Why not change the users' shell to /usr/bin/menu? > > > > Because they need to be able to transfer files to their home > directories. If you do this, then ftp,pscp,etc won't work. My original > goal was to allow them

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Jon McCain wrote: > But changing permissions on the .bash_profile so they don't own it (and > not in their group) should take care of that problem. They can read it > all they want, just not change it. A cleaner solution would be to make it immutable. (a

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2002-04-01 Thread akdenizgoz___
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Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Stelios Bounanos
> On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 10:35:35 -0500, Jon McCain > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was runoured to have said: > All of this has gotten me to thinking about another flaw in the way I > have things set up. I'm preventing users from getting to a $ by running > a menu from their profile. > exec /u

Re: Security-Update of LISTAR broken...

2002-04-01 Thread Andrew Tait
I have had the package installed since it went into proposed-updates, it been working fine for me. Andrew Tait System Administrator Country NetLink Pty, Ltd E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.cnl.com.au 30 Bank St Cobram, VIC 3644, Australia Ph: +61 (03) 58 711 000 Fax: +61 (03) 58 711 874

Debian mail server.

2002-04-01 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
I am going to configure an debian mail server for my company (only 20 emplyes) i have 2 40 gigs disk witch are going to run raid 1. I am going to configure it with wu-imap/pop3 and postfix. Is there any special security thing i should consider (the server is placed in DMZ becuase 2-3 people are go