Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Janssen
swordfile isn't checked for every other minute... a reboot doesn't go around unnoticed... Mark Janssen Unix Consultant Unix Support Nederland / PSInet Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.homeip.net www.markjan

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Mark Janssen
her advanced features most term-emulators with ssh don't have) from your bash shell. Mark Janssen Unix Consultant Unix Support Nederland / PSInet Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.homeip.net www.markjanssen.nl

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Mark Janssen
be found here: ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/setup.exe Or on other sites... just search with google... Mark Janssen Unix Consultant Unix Support Nederland / PSInet Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.home

Re: Automatic Debian security updates, an Implementation

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Janssen
ve 200+ debian systems spread across the internet in different cities, timezones and administrative domains :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl

Re: ssh "banner"

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1 > > How can I disable the message ? You can limit it somewhat (by editing source), but the protocol needs the version string, so you can't change it without breaking compatibility. --

Re: question about SSH / IPTABLES

2003-01-23 Thread Mark Janssen
rts you do not expect (like sshd's running on port 80, 443 or random port numbers) Why do you want to disallow people to ssh out of your system, while allowing them to ssh into it ??? You can never block anyone who _wants_ to do something -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Technologies

Re: security.debian.org down?

2003-03-10 Thread Mark Janssen
I use it as one of my main debian mirrors, since it's only 5 hops away from me :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Janssen
if (current->mm->dumpable) + if (is_dumpable(current)) error = 1; break; case PR_SET_DUMPABLE: @@ -1294,7 +1294,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, un error

Re: Automatic Debian security updates, an Implementation

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Janssen
ve 200+ debian systems spread across the internet in different cities, timezones and administrative domains :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|

Re: ssh "banner"

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1 > > How can I disable the message ? You can limit it somewhat (by editing source), but the protocol needs the version string, so you can't change it without breaking compatibility. --

Re: question about SSH / IPTABLES

2003-01-23 Thread Mark Janssen
rts you do not expect (like sshd's running on port 80, 443 or random port numbers) Why do you want to disallow people to ssh out of your system, while allowing them to ssh into it ??? You can never block anyone who _wants_ to do something -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Inte

Re: security.debian.org down?

2003-03-10 Thread Mark Janssen
I use it as one of my main debian mirrors, since it's only 5 hops away from me :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSC

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Janssen
if (is_dumpable(current)) error = 1; break; case PR_SET_DUMPABLE: @@ -1294,7 +1294,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, un error = -EINVAL;

Re: Crypto File System-Problems Creating One

2005-06-14 Thread Mark Janssen
module in order to name ciphers by name. Try -E > 16 instead. You need to do something like this: sudo cryptsetup -c aes -y create SomeUniqueName /dev/hda10 sudo mount /dev/mapper/SomeUniqueName /mountpoint -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- pgp: 0x357D2178 | ,''`.

Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Janssen
swordfile isn't checked for every other minute... a reboot doesn't go around unnoticed... Mark Janssen Unix Consultant Unix Support Nederland / PSInet Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.homeip.net www.markjan

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Mark Janssen
her advanced features most term-emulators with ssh don't have) from your bash shell. Mark Janssen Unix Consultant Unix Support Nederland / PSInet Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.homeip.net www.markjanssen.nl

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Mark Janssen
be found here: ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/setup.exe Or on other sites... just search with google... Mark Janssen Unix Consultant Unix Support Nederland / PSInet Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.home

Re: SSH and RSA

2001-02-19 Thread Mark Janssen
d in the sshd_options file and the manual page for sshd (not ssh) ;) Have fun... > > As always, You guys are great, thanks in advance for the help, > > > ~duane > -- Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D

Re: SSH and RSA

2001-02-19 Thread Mark Janssen
d in the sshd_options file and the manual page for sshd (not ssh) ;) Have fun... > > As always, You guys are great, thanks in advance for the help, > > > ~duane > -- Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG Key Id: 357D

Re: shared root account

2001-07-06 Thread Mark Janssen
the other 'root's on the machine, each his own keypair and passphrase (Put the public key in the .authorized_keys file for the root user) TUrn on RSA/DSA authentication and 'allow root login' Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: FTP and security

2001-11-08 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:57:22PM -0500, Adam Spickler wrote: > Is there a decent Windows FTP application that supports sftp? Unfortunately, I have >to use Windows at work. :/ cygwin includes openssh... and the sftp it has supports everything you need. -- Mark J

Re: OpenSSH 3, DEBIAN 2.2 and PAM authentication

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Janssen
t'll use /etc/pam.d/opensshd. If you name it sshd it will use /etc/pam.d/sshd etc :) That's what I read last week in some docs on the OpenSSH site :) Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http:

Re: MTAs

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Janssen
ry directories > is enough for exim to function - unless there are issues with the > permissions of /var/spool/mail/. > Now another question: are there? As long as /var/spool/mail/* is writable/owned by the 'mail' user I do not see a problem here. Also check /var/spool/mqu

Re: portscans and sniffing

2002-01-21 Thread Mark Janssen
y their respective owners (your clients) and keep well away from other people's boxes. Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[

Re: How to modify SSH2 prompt message?

2002-02-06 Thread Mark Janssen
H on the telnet port). You can't get rid of this message (unless you also use a modified client.) The message is part of the protocol, and it is required that SSH servers specify their version. You could modify the string... (removing or altering the OpenSSH part). But the SSH-2.0- part is ma

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-14 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 16:20, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: Greetings, Yes, I would like to do that. Any good tools you folks would recommand? Nmap from a dial-up connection... or login to some unix host and nmap from there... Maniac (Or... just throw your IP into the interne

Re: apache-ssl/woody cannot handle password protected keys?

2002-02-25 Thread Mark Janssen
sr/sbin/apache-sslctl start: httpsd started > -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl]

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Mark Janssen
99:Joe Random User:/home/joe/./:/bin/bash Now joeuser will be chrooted to /home/joe This works for SSH and SCP / SFTP etc of course. Mark Janssen > > I did not see anything about this issue on the openssh web site. > Anybody got any suggestions? > > > -- > To UNS

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Mark Janssen
em safely use ftp over the internet. That's only > way they can use ftp since the firewall blocks ftp from the internet. > But that stills leaves the scp "hole". Fixed :) The chroot-patch is at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139047&repeatmerged=ye

Re: OpenSSH 3.1

2002-04-07 Thread Mark Janssen
e error in the channel code" security hole? Yes, it was fixed in debian package Openssh_3.0.2p1-8 (maybe allready in 7, but that had other problems) Debian usually patches the (security) bug, without going straight to the new upstream release, but only upgrading the package number -- Mark Janss

Re: how to unsubscribe.

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:58, Trancom wrote: > how to unsubscribe. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look here Or Here \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Generating Mail passwords

2002-05-24 Thread Mark Janssen
these words contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case mixed, or digits thrown in. Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that eases remembering their position when memorizing only the word. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux,

Re: Business Proposal (Urgent)

2002-09-23 Thread Mark Janssen
bes the working of this scam... Just ignore it, or send it on to the relevant government agency... -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shared root account

2001-07-06 Thread Mark Janssen
the other 'root's on the machine, each his own keypair and passphrase (Put the public key in the .authorized_keys file for the root user) TUrn on RSA/DSA authentication and 'allow root login' Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: FTP and security

2001-11-08 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:57:22PM -0500, Adam Spickler wrote: > Is there a decent Windows FTP application that supports sftp? Unfortunately, > I have to use Windows at work. :/ cygwin includes openssh... and the sftp it has supports everything you need. -- Mark J

Re: OpenSSH 3, DEBIAN 2.2 and PAM authentication

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Janssen
t'll use /etc/pam.d/opensshd. If you name it sshd it will use /etc/pam.d/sshd etc :) That's what I read last week in some docs on the OpenSSH site :) Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http:

Re: MTAs

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Janssen
ry directories > is enough for exim to function - unless there are issues with the > permissions of /var/spool/mail/. > Now another question: are there? As long as /var/spool/mail/* is writable/owned by the 'mail' user I do not see a problem here. Also check /var/spool/mqu

Re: portscans and sniffing

2002-01-21 Thread Mark Janssen
y their respective owners (your clients) and keep well away from other people's boxes. Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[

Re: How to modify SSH2 prompt message?

2002-02-07 Thread Mark Janssen
H on the telnet port). You can't get rid of this message (unless you also use a modified client.) The message is part of the protocol, and it is required that SSH servers specify their version. You could modify the string... (removing or altering the OpenSSH part). But the SSH-2.0- part is ma

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-14 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 16:20, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: Greetings, Yes, I would like to do that. Any good tools you folks would recommand? Nmap from a dial-up connection... or login to some unix host and nmap from there... Maniac (Or... just throw your IP into the interne

Re: apache-ssl/woody cannot handle password protected keys?

2002-02-25 Thread Mark Janssen
sr/sbin/apache-sslctl start: httpsd started > -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl]

Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Mark Janssen
Random User:/home/joe/./:/bin/bash Now joeuser will be chrooted to /home/joe This works for SSH and SCP / SFTP etc of course. Mark Janssen > > I did not see anything about this issue on the openssh web site. > Anybody got any suggestions? > > > -- > To UNS

Re: scp and sftp

2002-04-01 Thread Mark Janssen
em safely use ftp over the internet. That's only > way they can use ftp since the firewall blocks ftp from the internet. > But that stills leaves the scp "hole". Fixed :) The chroot-patch is at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139047&repeatmerged=ye

Re: OpenSSH 3.1

2002-04-07 Thread Mark Janssen
-one error in the channel code" security > hole? Yes, it was fixed in debian package Openssh_3.0.2p1-8 (maybe allready in 7, but that had other problems) Debian usually patches the (security) bug, without going straight to the new upstream release, but only upgrading the package number -

Re: how to unsubscribe.

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:58, Trancom wrote: > how to unsubscribe. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look here Or Here \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Generating Mail passwords

2002-05-24 Thread Mark Janssen
these words contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case mixed, or digits thrown in. Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that eases remembering their position when memorizing only the word. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux,

Re: SSH2 Encryption

2002-06-10 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 19:13, Jeff Bonner wrote: > Questions: > > 1) Are all those ciphers actually available in my SSH package? Run the ssh daemon with debugging on (2 levels or more) and check the output: sshd -d -d -d -p ssh -v -p 127.0.0.1 Look at all the pretty output... debug2: kex_par

Re: ssh and password authentication

2002-06-25 Thread Mark Janssen
rd will be visible to roots on both ends of the tunnel, but not to anyone in between. So it's quite safe ;) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.co

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-134-2] Unknown OpenSSH remote vulnerability

2002-06-25 Thread Mark Janssen
unning as root) will be chrooted in /var/run/sshd This was/is all in woody, but I suspect potato to act the same :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS

Re: DSA-134-1

2002-06-25 Thread Mark Janssen
pick your > choice > of logout method...) then Getty immediately respawns No... getty exec's a shell (or a login actually) and when this exits the inetd restarts the getty. :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Con

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-134-2] Unknown OpenSSH remote vulnerability

2002-06-25 Thread Mark Janssen
n package chroots to the empty and root:root owned dir /var/run/sshd I myself changed this to root:sys, but that shouldn't really matter. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Ne

[Fwd: ISS Advisory: OpenSSH Remote Challenge Vulnerability]

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Janssen
>From what I understand, the advisory below is for the security issue we've been buggering over for the last 2-3 days. As I understand it, there is no need to upgrade to openssh 3.3 and use priv-sep code, when we turn of the various challenge-response systems discussed below (BSD-AUTH and SKEY).

OpenSSH 3.4 released... should FIX problems

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Janssen
Head over to OpenSSH.com They have just released version 3.4, which should fix some overflow problems and adds lot's of new checks against dubious input. Advisories and updates on the various pages there. Mark Janssen Syconos IT Consultancy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Business Proposal (Urgent)

2002-09-24 Thread Mark Janssen
; > >Reply-To: "Dr. Kola Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: > >Subject: Business Proposal (Urgent) > >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:55:21 -0700 I suggest you first read: http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ Which clearly describes the working of this scam... Just