Re: time for some OpenBSD-style auditing?

2000-12-29 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:39:40AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: Actually let me chime in at this point and say that personally I'd probably prefer non-developers auditing. If you adopt code as an auditor, you lose the objectivity to be able to junk bad code relatively quickly...

Re: time for some OpenBSD-style auditing?

2000-12-29 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:39:40AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: Actually let me chime in at this point and say that personally I'd probably prefer non-developers auditing. If you adopt code as an auditor, you lose the objectivity to be able to junk bad code relatively quickly...

Extremely simple MTA

2000-12-14 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
Does anyone know of any very trimmed down MTA that all it does is forward mail to a smarthost/central mailhost? i want something that doesn't even sit on port 25, and unfortunately even when i configure exim in satellite mode, it still keeps port 25 open.

Re: I want to try something for freedom.

2000-11-02 Thread Paul Haesler
... Regards, Alex. -- Paul Haesler[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur

Re: Is Open Source software really more secure?

2000-10-08 Thread Paul Lowe
, announce it on freshmeat, have it distributed to thousands of people -- and have malicious code inside it. I mean, hey, do you always read the Makefile to make sure it doesn't contain a line that says rm -rf / for make install? Just my five nickels Paul Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: HHHEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

2000-07-06 Thread Paul Klinkenberg
That would be great, i always wanted to remove random people from the list when i was bored. ;) Paul. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:00:58PM -0600, Mason wrote: It would be nice to have the mailing list software support 'unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]' so that people with more complicated emailing

Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]

2000-07-03 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:24:55PM -0400, Christopher W. Curtis wrote: I thought about unplugging the reset button and power switches, but it's tough to hit them accidentally and if someone wanted the system down, they'd pull the plug out of the back. I like having the ability to reset

Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]

2000-07-01 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:55:10AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Thor [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: ..unless, of course, the machine's owner has disabled floppy boots..in which case, you have to open the thing up and reset the BIOS; if the

Re: How can I help ?

2000-06-14 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
a solution for his Macs as well. I don't have his email here (he contacted me at work). Nathan Paul Simons http://www.nmt.edu/~npsimons/

security probs with su (sh-utils 1.16)

2000-03-25 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
efect start it several times :-)) This can be done be any regular user ! - - End forwarded message - Nathan Paul Simons http://www.nmt.edu/~npsimons/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBONxCzFegz5xsVo19AQFopAP/QJcY73ssk/wktkHjTP7om1arvlIYM4Vt

Re: GNOME security.

2000-03-23 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
(user or programmer). It might be a good idea to put them in a subdirectory owned by the user, say /tmp/.${USER}/ORBit, or, like you say in their home directory, say ~/.orbit. Nathan Paul Simons http://www.nmt.edu/~npsimons/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2

Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
with the above nmap command and found something open on port 800. nmap says it's called mdbs_daemon, but i can't find it being used anywhere in lsof or listed in /etc/services. Does anyone know what this is? Nathan Paul Simons http://www.nmt.edu/~npsimons/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

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