Re: Debian Security Mirror

2002-09-18 Thread Rick Moen
a slow and tortuous process for me. Every Rick Moen few minutes, I start screaming 'No, you fools!' and have to go [EMAIL PROTECTED] read something from _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ to de-stress. -- The Cube, www.forum3000.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: SMTP and POP3 with ssl + login/password

2002-10-10 Thread Rick Moen
/doc/html/spec_38.html Sendmail http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/starttls.html Courier-MTA http://www.courier-mta.org/ -- Cheers,Emacs is a good operating system, but I prefer Linux. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SMTP and POP3 with ssl + login/password

2002-10-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Scott Moynes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks, that was enlightening. Yr. very welcome. I count it a major success when I can add clarity to a traditionally flame-shrouded subject. ;- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Vulnerabilities found by Nessus

2002-10-15 Thread Rick Moen
, the security.debian.org host does include a branch for testing, and that branch does furnish packages on occasion. What's the deal? -- Cheers, That article and its poster have been cancelled. Rick Moen -- David B. O'Donnel, sysadmin for America Online [EMAIL

Re: DHCP

2002-10-28 Thread Rick Moen
. Acquiring one to borrow requires nothing more than unning tcpdump or equivalent. -- Cheers,Before enlightenment, caffeine. Rick Moen After enlightenment, caffeine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DHCP

2002-10-28 Thread Rick Moen
and tortuous process for me. Every Rick Moen few minutes, I start screaming 'No, you fools!' and have to go [EMAIL PROTECTED] read something from _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ to de-stress. -- The Cube, www.forum3000.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: DHCP - rootkit

2002-10-28 Thread Rick Moen
the intruder uses _after_ breaking in. -- Cheers, Learning Java has been a slow and tortuous process for me. Every Rick Moen few minutes, I start screaming 'No, you fools!' and have to go [EMAIL PROTECTED] read something from _Structure and Interpretation of Computer

Re: DHCP

2002-10-28 Thread Rick Moen
, Rick Moenbut my duties are largely ceremonial. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

2002-11-09 Thread Rick Moen
to do: $ ssh -X root@localhost -- Cheers, Right to keep and bear Rick Moen Haiku shall not be abridged [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or denied. So there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: spam

2002-11-10 Thread Rick Moen
Faust, die Jung. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 195-1] New Apache-Perl packages fix several vulnerabilities

2002-11-13 Thread Rick Moen
penance for my having posed a version of the question discussed, earlier, asking if the existence of http://security.debian.org/dists/testing/ means that the Security Team FAQ's policy has changed. The answer was no.) -- Cheers, Errors have been made. Others will be blamed. Rick

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-17 Thread Rick Moen
. _Always_ to the list daemon's address. Those are always distinct, and the distinction is vital. -- Cheers,My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 Rick Moen my parent process. Prepare to vi. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: X Security Issues?

2002-11-19 Thread Rick Moen
them later. Rick Moen -- Mark Twain [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File system integrity checkers - comparison?

2002-12-05 Thread Rick Moen
, by comparison, is pure C, with autoconf support, and thus very portable. -- Cheers,Open-source SourceForge retakes the lead: Rick Moen http://gforge.org/ Thank you, Tim Perdue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: smtp-auth

2002-12-15 Thread Rick Moen
experience; I'm just reading docs.) -- Cheers, Reality is not optional. Rick Moen -- Thomas Sowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: FTP-SSL

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Moen
,There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP-SSL

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Moen
not SSH at all Am I missing something? -- Cheers, Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first Rick Moen woman she meets, and then teams up with three complete strangers [EMAIL PROTECTED] to kill again. -- Rick Polito's That TV Guy column, describing

Re: FTP-SSL

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Moen
more universally supported than is sftp.) -- Cheers, Chaos, panic, disorder - my work here is done. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP-SSL

2002-12-26 Thread Rick Moen
preciselyWe say exactly Rick Moen Since such is our habit inHow to do a thing or how [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking to machines; Every detail works. Excerpt from Prof. Touretzky's decss-haiku.txt @ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ACLs

2003-02-06 Thread Rick Moen
is that there's no agreed-upon standard in the NFS definition for exactly how ACCESS is to be implemented, so such tend to be vendor-specific. -- BLINKResize your browser so the following line touches both margins!/BLINK HR WIDTH=75% Best Regards, Rick Moen

Re: what this logs means?

2003-02-19 Thread Rick Moen
IPT FORWARD packet died: -- Cheers, It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. Rick Moen It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, rick@The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, linuxmafia.com It is by caffeine alone I

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-18 Thread Rick Moen
-end software). Substituting LDAP-SSL for NIS is arguably a step forward, but then NFS remains a problem (No Friggin' Security). -- Cheers, The genius of you Americans is that you never make Rick Moen clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-19 Thread Rick Moen
perusal of that site plus some Google hits suggests that such is not the case now, if it ever was. Can someone confirm from experience that AFS can be done with all open source, both ends? (Yes, I do consider IBM PL code to qualify.) -- Cheers, Rick Moen

Re: is iptables enough?

2003-03-19 Thread Rick Moen
, Java is COBOL 2.0. Rick Moen -- Deirdre Saoirse Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-19 Thread Rick Moen
that changed? -- Cheers, Not using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker Rick Moen 40 or 50 years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it's hard to avoid second-hand smoke. -- M. Tiemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Rick Moen
. -- Cheers, A host is a host, from coast to coast. Rick Moen And nobody talks to a host that's close, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung, or dead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Daylight Saving

2003-03-28 Thread Rick Moen
from time to time, and therefore changes filenames.) You'll find there a set of time rulesets for various parts of the world, including rulesets that specify the details of DST changeovers. -- Cheers,A: No. Rick Moen Q: Should I include quotations after

Re: cracked? rm uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

2003-06-15 Thread Rick Moen
? -- Cheers, First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, for Rick Moenverbing weirds language. Then, they arrival for the nouns [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I speech nothing, for I no verbs. - Peter Ellis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-20 Thread Rick Moen
Commander, KD3 3.1's kio_fish plugin, and lftp (ftp-like browsing over generic SSH transport). http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/fish-protocol -- Cheers, First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, for Rick Moenverbing weirds language. Then, they arrival

Re: [d-security] Re: ssh vulnerability in the wild

2003-09-16 Thread Rick Moen
install somepackage=12.17.4-4 Tutorial: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html -- Cheers, I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate Rick Moen those who do. And, for the people who like country music, [EMAIL PROTECTED] denigrate means 'put down

Re: [d-security] Re: ssh vulnerability in the wild

2003-09-17 Thread Rick Moen
-8_powerpc.deb ...and would guess they're built from upstream's v. 3.7.1. (The two latter arrived within the last fifteen minutes.) -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed

Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!

2003-09-21 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bernd Eckenfels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Actually one should think about using FTP at all :) http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/ftp-justification -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated

Re: FTP in general (Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!)

2003-09-21 Thread Rick Moen
, The cynics among us might say: We laugh, Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now! [EMAIL PROTECTED] MuaHaHaHa! but that would be rude. -- Jim Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP in general (Re: Watch out! vsftpd anonymous access always enabled!)

2003-09-24 Thread Rick Moen
was referring to. -- Cheers,Linux: It is now safe to turn on your computer. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can anyone help me ID who is trying to hack my system?

2003-10-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Alderbrook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can anyone help me identify who is trying to get into my system? 9/1/03 7:14:51 PM Deny unknown 1080 TCP 64.222.178.231 64.222.178.231 9/1/03 7:14:50 PM Deny unknown 1080 TCP 64.222.178.231 64.222.178.231 9/1/03 7:14:49 PM Deny unknown 1080 TCP

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linuxgazette.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Name match the web server name that browsers will use. Indeed. I've been intending to revise my article to insert mention of that fact. Thanks for the reminder. -- Cheers, * Contributing Editor, Linux Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
, * Contributing Editor, Linux Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linuxgazette.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
that it already said: It's important that the hostname match what's specified in httpd.conf, or users will get a warning about the mismatch. Did you miss that? -- Cheers, find / -user your -name base -print | xargs chown us:us Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications

2003-11-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Roland Mas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): /me suggests the Debian Planet and Debian Help (both .org) websites. ^^^ Session initialisation failed. Problems? -- Cheers,A: No. Rick Moen Q: Should I include

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications

2003-11-29 Thread Rick Moen
hung. -- Cheers, Don't use Outlook. Outlook is really just a security Rick Moenhole with a small e-mail client attached to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- Brian Trosko in r.a.sf.w.r-j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications

2003-11-29 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Rick Moen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [http://www.debianhelp.org/ :] Sadly, that hypothesis doesn't check out, so I think the site is effectively hung. And no soon do I say that than I notice the site being usable again! -- Cheers, Reality

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

2003-12-02 Thread Rick Moen
and advisories. Or I guess you could pay someone to do likewise. Did you have in mind some third alternative? I'm not aware of one, given the community nature of the kernel project. -- Cheers,A: No. Rick Moen Q: Should I include quotations after my

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

2003-12-02 Thread Rick Moen
See also Wichert's very canny list of recommendations at the bottom of http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing/ -- Cheers, find / -user your -name base -print | xargs chown us:us Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Will 2.4.20 Source be patched for the latest kernel vulnerability?

2003-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
. -- Cheers, * Contributing Editor, Linux Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linuxgazette.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Will 2.4.20 Source be patched for the latest kernel vulnerability?

2003-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
_said_ the latter. I suspect that over 50% of debian installs use the default installation kernel until there is some good reason to change it (ie, something doesn't work). They might, indeed. If so, they lose. -- Cheers,Before enlightenment, caffeine. Rick Moen

Re: Will 2.4.20 Source be patched for the latest kernel vulnerability?

2003-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
-term use. Your wording makes it conceivable that you are unaware of those. You might wish to browse in {dselect|aptitude|synaptic} among the available kernel-image-2.4* packages. -- Cheers, Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organised. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Will 2.4.20 Source be patched for the latest kernel vulnerability?

2003-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
Editor, Linux Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linuxgazette.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4.18-bf2.4 version confusion, patches?

2004-01-04 Thread Rick Moen
the end of installation. Since you didn't, you should do so now. Alternatively, use make-kpkg and roll your own. -- Cheers, By reading this sentence, you agree to be bound by the Rick Moen terms of the Internet Protocol, version 4, or, at your [EMAIL PROTECTED] option

Re: suspicious files in /tmp

2004-01-05 Thread Rick Moen
succeeded? Read the advisories from your well-tuned IDS. ;- http://linuxgazette.net/issue98/moen.html -- Cheers,A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line, today. The results Rick Moen blacked out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: suspicious files in /tmp

2004-01-05 Thread Rick Moen
of generalised paranoia to your day. ;- -- Cheers, Rick Moen This .signature intentionally left blank. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GnuPG can not read some pgp signatures

2004-01-06 Thread Rick Moen
available at ftp://ftp.gnupg.dk/pub/contrib-dk/ for anyone who really needs it -- though it's been dropped from the upstream tarball. -- Cheers, * Contributing Editor, Linux Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: -*- [EMAIL

Re: Mail processing tool

2004-01-25 Thread Rick Moen
the fetchmail/procmail combination exactly because it is small, reliable and customizable. And yet, ironically, using fetchmail necessitates running an MTA. Thus my point. -- Cheers,I've been suffering death by PowerPoint, recently. Rick Moen

Re: Mail processing tool

2004-01-25 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Am I missing something? http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ includes: Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via SMTP -- Cheers, Rick Moen vi is my shepherd; I shall not font. [EMAIL

Re: Mail processing tool

2004-01-25 Thread Rick Moen
injection, and therefore does not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host. -- Cheers, The cynics among us might say: We laugh, Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now! [EMAIL PROTECTED] MuaHaHaHa! but that would

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Murray J. Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You might want to check out ssmtp. Also nullmailer and smtppush. See: Nullmailers on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/ -- Cheers,There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Rick Moen
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=227981 -- Cheers,There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-11 Thread Rick Moen
think everyone's so used to giving the remove the symlinks answer that they didn't stop to consider better ways, in light of Nick's described situation. -- Cheers,There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-11 Thread Rick Moen
, the crontab fragment in /etc/cron.d/exim will do a queue run every 15 minutes. Good to know; thanks. (I've never needed to run that configuration.) -- Cheers, The cynics among us might say: We laugh, Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now! [EMAIL

Re: Recent minor vulnerabilities in Apache: status in woody?

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Moen
waves to the Web Guys.) [1] Which I'd somehow missed until now. Thus my point. -- Cheers, No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message. Rick Moen We do concede, though, that a large number of electrons [EMAIL PROTECTED] were terribly inconvenienced

Re: Recent minor vulnerabilities in Apache: status in woody?

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Luk Claes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, it is linked from the www.d-o/security page (at the bottom click on woody). Ah, mea culpa. I'd somehow managed to miss that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However, I _would_ like to STOP it from being delivered at all, as defined by simple rules like those above. As far as I can tell, this must be done in the SMTP negotiation phase. Mostly. What's it going to cost my ISP to implement this? Is it

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
port 25 outbound will reduce spam abuse. http://spf.pobox.com/srs.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7328 (Tell your ISP: Adapt or die. ;- ) -- Cheers, find / -user your -name base -print | xargs chown us:us Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
! Delicious, thanks. -- Cheers, Rick Moen Age, baro, fac ut gaudeam. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
or MDA -- so the opportunity is lost. -- Cheers, Rick MoenBu^so^stopu min per kulero. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
is the third day Rick Moen of the rest of your life. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yeah, big difference. If the spam is going through a relay, the relay will send the same bounce and the same person will get the bounce message. Oh, oh! jumps up and down Gee, I guess that relay should have rejected the spam instead of relaying

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm sure the guy who got joe jobbed is happy that you can point out the source of his misforture. Must be real comforting and all. Was there a particular part of the immediately preceding reference to SPF that you didn't get, or was it the concept as

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Blu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If my relay server (not open, but relay for customers) has no means to verify recipients, what to do when the destination server rejects that mail already accepted by my server?. Bounce. (Implicit assumption that you have no option but to accept forged-sender

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:24:35PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: One can pretend that the matter's open for debate, but that would be a waste of time: It's happening. Sure it is. How do you manage to sleep, fixing all the email systems in the world

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:32:17PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Was there a particular part of the immediately preceding reference to SPF that you didn't get, or was it the concept as a whole? I get the concept of vaporware. Seen a lot of it over

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Phillip Hofmeister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I am sure finding out whose is bigger is exciting to you. I feel comfortable in speaking for the rest of the list when I say this thread has become WAY OT. I'm surprised that an allegation that SPF -- highly relevant to SMTP security --

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, it is vaporware. Until it's used by a noticable percentage of hosts, it's irrelevant. (1) Where I come from, the term vapourware means software touted far in advance of its availability. As noted, such is most emphatically not the case, here.

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): yeah, aol's pleased as punch about it. they also don't have much interest in customers sending email with @aol from off their own system unless they use an obnoxious webmail client. same goes for hotmail. anyone with users who isn't aol and whose

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There's a line between advocacy and zealotry. Still stuck in name-calling mode? Pity. It's fine for a home user to implement it quickly but it's not so easy for a lot of large organizations that currently allow people to send mail from offsite

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What name calling? There's a difference. snort Cute. Ah, well. You're assuming unrestricted outbound connections. Might even be true in your environment. It's true that there will be interim problems with corporate firewalls (etc.) closing off

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No, I'm not. You _weren't_ ignoring the point I just made and changing the subject? Then, some villain apparently snuck into your MTA and substituted different text that did, for the original message you tried to send. You should sue! ;- I'm

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You're talking about SPF. That's a concept, not an implementation. Implementation details have already been posted. Effective use of SPF requires widespread adoption. Until/unless widespread adoption happens the promises of SPF are vaporware.

Re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Some of the anti-spam people are very enthusiastic about their work. I wouldn't be surprised if someone writes a bot to deal with CR systems. A bot to detect C-R queries and add them to the refused-mail ACL list would be most useful. ;- -- To

Re: Bug#257165: udev: input device permissions

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Moen
works for that sysadmin's local system. Caveat user. -- Cheers, Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first Rick Moen woman she meets, and then teams up with three complete strangers [EMAIL PROTECTED] to kill again. -- Rick Polito's That TV Guy column

Re: Bug#257165: udev: input device permissions

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Moen
, with maybe 10% stable and 10% Something Else Entirely. (I applaud your enthusiasm, and don't mean to denigrate what you're using. I'm just trying to describe it accurately.) -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Rick Moen
) the same sort of precautions? After all, a PDF is basically just a PS file, so I imagine the same sorts of attack are possible. A run through the manpage was unenlightening. (Ah, I see Kevin has the same concern.) -- Cheers, Rick MoenThis space for rant. [EMAIL

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-05 Thread Rick Moen
... that smug ex- Rick Moen pression You're one of those condescending Unix users! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real computer. -- Dilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-05 Thread Rick Moen
with some PGP 2.x users) are all I'm aware of. PGPi, unlike GnuPG, _does_ include IDEA code by default. -- Cheers,There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Moen
member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Why non-free? The code is available under a DFSG-free copyright license. The one I have here isn't, but if you have one that is entirely DFSG-free, that's much better. An older version is available from:

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I once worked on an OpenPGP implementation vulnerability matrix, but this topic isn't very interesting anymore. For me at least, there's just GnuPG. Just out of curiosity, are there now, or have there been in the past, any _other_ implementations

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting James Renken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Agreed - but some of my customers, even after I've pointed out the risks, just don't want to go through the trouble of changing from their preferred Telnet programs. ObNivenAndPournelle: Think of it as evolution in action. -- Cheers, Rick Moen

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-25 Thread Rick Moen
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Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-25 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Richard A Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Snip MVS mainframe priesthood standing in way of OpenSSH installation.] I typically use cygwin on *MY* laptop, but when away from that - I try not to install random software on other's boxen The usual remedy is to pull down putty.exe (tiny) and

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-26 Thread Rick Moen
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Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-27 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jan Minar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Unfortunately, scp requires a shell access http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-17 Thread Rick Moen
from one's /etc/hosts file, with the result that an avalanche of local socket requests clobber the system's ARP cache. So, don't rush to the conclusion that your system is under attack, just because you see that error. You might be shooting at your own feet. -- Cheers, Rick

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-18 Thread Rick Moen
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Re: rkhunter / chkrootkit

2004-11-06 Thread Rick Moen
there was this error messages: Incorrect MD5 checksums: 6 Which ones? And on what basis is it saying they're incorrect? You don't say. -- Cheers, There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who Rick Moen know ternary, those who don't, and those who are now [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting David Mandelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Do you mean to say that opening message.txt\t\t\t.desktop which happens to be a freedesktop.org compliant launcher for the program rm -rf $HOME is safe because it's designed for people running one of the F/OSS products GNOME or KDE on a F/OSS OS?

Re: .desktop arbitrary program execution (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution)

2005-01-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting David Mandelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Attached. Save to your GNOME/KDE desktop (like many newbies do) and double click the new icon. .desktop files (currently) don't need the x bit set to work, so no chmod'ing is necessary. I'm sorry, but the question was: Please advise this

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-18 Thread Rick Moen
someone can file an ITP for it, as package mutt-fod (for Friends of Darwin). ;- -- Cheers, Hardware: The part you kick. Rick MoenSoftware: The part you boot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-19 Thread Rick Moen
a better MUA, running on a better OS. Quite. -- Cheers, Hardware: The part you kick. Rick MoenSoftware: The part you boot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: .desktop arbitrary program execution

2005-01-19 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): mutt and Gnus are, in typical configurations. Most distributions kindly add all these helpful mailcap entries. Perhaps you need assistance comprehending the word specific (used twice in my question)? I await with interest your achieving that

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