Re: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Glen Mehn
Ted Roby wrote: On Friday, Dec 6, 2002, at 04:48 US/Pacific, Jeff AA wrote: Second the recommendation for courier. Remember that pop3 by default is insecure in that user/passwords pass in the clear over the net - DON'T make your mail users real users with shell access or you are opening a

Re: Need an advise about isolating a host in the DMZ

2002-12-21 Thread Glen Mehn
Nick Boyce wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:19:52 +0200 (IST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking about using qmail as the smtp(only have access from the mail relay server)/pop3 server (from what I've read this is a very secure software). any suggestions about what ftp server should I run

Re: cluster on firewall?

2003-02-06 Thread Glen Mehn
of failsafe, so even if that host dies all the traffic will go through another host. Since I don't even have an idea where to start, I'll appreciate any ideas/comments/pointers to documentations, etc... thanx have a look at linux-virtual-server http://linux-vs.org -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT]: Recommondations on hardware firewall / vpn device

2003-02-06 Thread Glen Mehn
' ask) -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx. --swan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: securing pop3

2003-02-10 Thread Glen Mehn
, and then allow a user to change it) which is nice. -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx. --swan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-13 Thread Glen Mehn
-nagios is run each time. -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx. --swan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Glen Mehn
commercial packages that do this (sitescope) -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx. --swan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: OpenSSH updates

2003-02-21 Thread Glen Mehn
in testing once it's been in unstable without any changes after two weeks. At the present moment, there are some major (libc) upgrades happening which makes upgrading to testing/unstable non-trivial, to put it mildly. Again, all this information is available at http://www.debian.org/ -g -- Glen Mehn

Re: SMTP logs : what do these mean?

2003-03-07 Thread Glen Mehn
] F=[EMAIL PROTECTED] rejected RCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please go away. -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: iptables and apt-get

2003-03-10 Thread Glen Mehn
Ian Goodall wrote: I am using http to security.debian.org and mirror.ac.uk. When opening up port 80(http) it makes no difference. I think this is beacause I am not running a service to connect i.e. connecting to port 80 on a remote system from an unprivalged port 1024? Does this mean it will use

Re: apache

2003-06-11 Thread Glen Mehn
cronolog: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/logs.html#piped If you dont' like this behaviour, take it up on the apache lists, although it's been discussed before. glen -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan

Re: Apt-get, re-installing a debian system

2003-09-13 Thread Glen Mehn
TongKe Xue wrote: Hello, I just re-installed my debian system (switched to testing/unstable to try out the newer XFree86; decided to switch back to stable + install XFree86 4.3.0 manually), and when I installed X-windows, KDE, and a bunch of developer tools, it seemed to me as if quite a lot of

Re: Web based password changer

2004-01-23 Thread Glen Mehn
Jose Alberto Guzman wrote: If you run an ldap backend, I can send you an example php script. Jose: would you please? cheers, glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting up iptables

2004-03-08 Thread Glen Mehn
Costas Magkos wrote: Thank you all for the links and hints. What I was really looking for was the debian way of doing things, which I managed to locate in the Securing Debian Manual [1]. According to this, the iptables initd script should be used. However, the author/package-maintainer

Re: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Glen Mehn
Jeff AA wrote: Second the recommendation for courier. We have exim / courier [pop imap pops imaps] using maildir formats and controlled from mysql for virtual users accepting mail for about 20 domains. We did compare with Cyrus, but that fell down on integration with exim. This is the list

Re: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Glen Mehn
Ted Roby wrote: On Friday, Dec 6, 2002, at 04:48 US/Pacific, Jeff AA wrote: Second the recommendation for courier. Remember that pop3 by default is insecure in that user/passwords pass in the clear over the net - DON'T make your mail users real users with shell access or you are opening a

Re: Need an advise about isolating a host in the DMZ

2002-12-21 Thread Glen Mehn
Nick Boyce wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:19:52 +0200 (IST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking about using qmail as the smtp(only have access from the mail relay server)/pop3 server (from what I've read this is a very secure software). any suggestions about what ftp server should I run

Re: cluster on firewall?

2003-02-06 Thread Glen Mehn
of failsafe, so even if that host dies all the traffic will go through another host. Since I don't even have an idea where to start, I'll appreciate any ideas/comments/pointers to documentations, etc... thanx have a look at linux-virtual-server http://linux-vs.org -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL

Re: [OT]: Recommondations on hardware firewall / vpn device

2003-02-06 Thread Glen Mehn
' ask) -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan

Re: securing pop3

2003-02-10 Thread Glen Mehn
, and then allow a user to change it) which is nice. -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-13 Thread Glen Mehn
-nagios is run each time. -g -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan

Re: FW: OpenSSH updates

2003-02-21 Thread Glen Mehn
-- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan

Re: SMTP logs : what do these mean?

2003-03-07 Thread Glen Mehn
) [66.130.41.209] F=[EMAIL PROTECTED] rejected RCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please go away. -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan

Re: iptables and apt-get

2003-03-10 Thread Glen Mehn
Ian Goodall wrote: I am using http to security.debian.org and mirror.ac.uk. When opening up port 80(http) it makes no difference. I think this is beacause I am not running a service to connect i.e. connecting to port 80 on a remote system from an unprivalged port 1024? Does this mean it will

Re: scan

2003-04-11 Thread Glen Mehn
on the other systems. Or boot one of those systems to the same 2.4 kernel. The kernel .deb file(s) should be in /var/cache/apt/archives... regards, glen -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx.--swan

Re: apache

2003-06-11 Thread Glen Mehn
cronolog: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/logs.html#piped If you dont' like this behaviour, take it up on the apache lists, although it's been discussed before. glen -- Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon back out.xx

Re: Apt-get, re-installing a debian system

2003-09-13 Thread Glen Mehn
TongKe Xue wrote: Hello, I just re-installed my debian system (switched to testing/unstable to try out the newer XFree86; decided to switch back to stable + install XFree86 4.3.0 manually), and when I installed X-windows, KDE, and a bunch of developer tools, it seemed to me as if quite a lot

Re: Web based password changer

2004-01-23 Thread Glen Mehn
Jose Alberto Guzman wrote: If you run an ldap backend, I can send you an example php script. Jose: would you please? cheers, glen

Re: setting up iptables

2004-03-09 Thread Glen Mehn
Costas Magkos wrote: Thank you all for the links and hints. What I was really looking for was the debian way of doing things, which I managed to locate in the Securing Debian Manual [1]. According to this, the iptables initd script should be used. However, the author/package-maintainer