question on having . as LOAD_PATH (ruby)

2006-01-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I am wondering what the security implications of having a LOAD_PATH that includes '.' is. Debian includes software that is written in ruby, and is executed with root privilege, such as apt-listbugs. LOAD_PATH is the list of path that ruby library (MODULE.rb, MODULE.so) is searched against. T

Re: question on having . as LOAD_PATH (ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > Hi, > > > > I am wondering what the security implications of having a LOAD_PATH > > that includes '.' is. > > Gerenally speaking, having . in any path is a bad idea. You are correct > to feel uneasy about it. Can . not be prepended to the path > specifically if desired (as in the shell

Re: question on having . as LOAD_PATH (ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
junichi The following is a full posting I made to debian-security@lists.debian.org: At Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:44:24 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am wondering what the security implications of having a LOAD_PATH >

Re: spam

2002-11-13 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> I try to block on character sets: ie., > > ^Content-Type.*charset.*[gG][bB]2312 > > This catches quite a few spams I can't read. > Some mail I try to reply have latin-1 chars. They will be translated to Japanese charset when I reply to them, so people are conveniently blocking some of my

Re: spam

2002-11-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > Some mail I try to reply have latin-1 > > chars. > > > > They will be translated to Japanese charset when I > > reply to them, so people are conveniently > > blocking some of my mail, > > which is immensely annoying. > > Does that happen when you are replying in English, or only for Japan

Re: pbuilder and dpkg.cfg

2003-03-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I'm not quite sure if I follow what is happening. So, what is the problem ? I presume you are installing debsig-verify within chroot. And is the problem that debsig-verify is being ran in an unpacked but not yet configured state, or is it something else ? > Turns out I wasn't imagining

Re: Stupid package installer wanted: uppity robots need not apply

2003-03-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > dpkg? > > > > dpkg -i filename.deb > > Not even close. For instance: You may want to look at anna and udpkg, maybe. regards, junichi

Re: spam

2002-11-13 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> I try to block on character sets: ie., > > ^Content-Type.*charset.*[gG][bB]2312 > > This catches quite a few spams I can't read. > Some mail I try to reply have latin-1 chars. They will be translated to Japanese charset when I reply to them, so people are conveniently blocking some of my

Re: spam

2002-11-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > Some mail I try to reply have latin-1 > > chars. > > > > They will be translated to Japanese charset when I > > reply to them, so people are conveniently > > blocking some of my mail, > > which is immensely annoying. > > Does that happen when you are replying in English, or only for Japan

Re: pbuilder and dpkg.cfg

2003-03-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I'm not quite sure if I follow what is happening. So, what is the problem ? I presume you are installing debsig-verify within chroot. And is the problem that debsig-verify is being ran in an unpacked but not yet configured state, or is it something else ? > Turns out I wasn't imagining

Re: Stupid package installer wanted: uppity robots need not apply

2003-03-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > dpkg? > > > > dpkg -i filename.deb > > Not even close. For instance: You may want to look at anna and udpkg, maybe. regards, junichi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Granting "sudo pbuilder"

2009-09-23 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Yes. At Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:33:43 +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > > Dear Junichi, > > In default environments, granting "sudo pbuilder" is the same as > granting a shell. I don't believe users are aware of this. Is it an > intended behaviour? > > Thanks. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Which ssh should I have?

2001-11-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > That's because nessus only checks the version number, and since we > backported the patch we still have the old version number even though > we are safe. CERT tells me Debian potato is vulnerable. We might want to correct them if they are

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:26:58 -0800 (PST) Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real > CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. Not the link, the real file. /dev/hdc, or whatever it may be nee

Re: tcl, tk and tix

2002-01-21 Thread Junichi Uekawa
to filing bugs against those packages. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-30 Thread Junichi Uekawa
. I'm referring to > remote people using a scp client to access my linux machine. You can > disable sftp ability by removing the sftp-server program but the scp > server part seems to be part of sshd. I'd be interested to know how you give scp access without giving shell

Re: OpenSSH 3.1

2002-04-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
"Peter Lieven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > is the "OpenSSH_3.0.2p1" version avaiable in the testing/unstable tree already >patched > against the "March 7, 2002: Off-by-one error in the channel code" security hole? yes.

Re: Which ssh should I have?

2001-11-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > That's because nessus only checks the version number, and since we > backported the patch we still have the old version number even though > we are safe. CERT tells me Debian potato is vulnerable. We might want to correct them if they are

Re: the right way to access CDROM as non-root

2002-01-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:26:58 -0800 (PST) Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real > CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. Not the link, the real file. /dev/hdc, or whatever it may be need

Re: tcl, tk and tix

2002-01-21 Thread Junichi Uekawa
and proceed to filing bugs against those packages. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-30 Thread Junichi Uekawa
. I'm referring to > remote people using a scp client to access my linux machine. You can > disable sftp ability by removing the sftp-server program but the scp > server part seems to be part of sshd. I'd be interested to know how you give scp access without giving shell

Re: OpenSSH 3.1

2002-04-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
"Peter Lieven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > is the "OpenSSH_3.0.2p1" version avaiable in the testing/unstable tree > already patched > against the "March 7, 2002: Off-by-one error in the channel code" security > hole? yes.