Re: exim virus scanning and spam scanning

2003-12-21 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:09:38AM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
 whats the difference between amavis-ng and milter and amavisd-new?   are 
 some going away?  which one do you use for what? or clamscan directly? 
 how can virus scanning be added?  clamscan and spam Spam assassin seem 
 to be the norms from googling.  the configuration files to integrate 
 with exim are befuddling.
 
 the plan is too hook a virus scanner into exim4 from sarge.  any 
 thoughts are appreciated.  A copy of someone's working exim4 config 
 would be great!
 
 how does one integrate the following with exim?  And which do you folks 
 recommend for what reasons?
   SPAM
   Spamassassin
   bogofilter
 
   VIRUS
   amavis
   amavisd-new
   clamscans

Exiscan-ACL (included in exim4-daemon-heavy) + SpamAssassin + clamav

See the exiscan-acl documentation and the exim list for configuration
details.


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Re: CVS server in a user-mode-linux

2003-12-19 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:46:11PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
 Hello Debian-security list,
 
 I have experimented with running an anonymous CVS server inside
 user-mode-linux. So far this seems to work well and hopefully should
 enhance security a bit. The host kernel has the skas patch.
 
 I use hostfs to mount only the repositories inside the UML.
 I have limited the UML memory to 128Mb.
 
 Performance are quite sufficient for the server usage since load stay close
 to 0.
 
 The only problem is that the server need write access to the repository
 in order to create locks (which are directories, IIUC). I have not yet
 find a way to only allows the server to create locks, but to change
 nothing else.

You can use a separate lock directory by setting LockDir in
CVSROOT/config.


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Re: CVS server in a user-mode-linux

2003-12-19 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:46:11PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
 Hello Debian-security list,
 
 I have experimented with running an anonymous CVS server inside
 user-mode-linux. So far this seems to work well and hopefully should
 enhance security a bit. The host kernel has the skas patch.
 
 I use hostfs to mount only the repositories inside the UML.
 I have limited the UML memory to 128Mb.
 
 Performance are quite sufficient for the server usage since load stay close
 to 0.
 
 The only problem is that the server need write access to the repository
 in order to create locks (which are directories, IIUC). I have not yet
 find a way to only allows the server to create locks, but to change
 nothing else.

You can use a separate lock directory by setting LockDir in
CVSROOT/config.



Re: clamscan avavis spamassassin with exim4 on sarge

2003-11-09 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:08:40AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
 Anyone have/working on integration of these?
 
 clam spamc and amavis are installed however, they dont seem to update
 the /etc/exim4/conf.d  of the new packaging system.
 
 thank you.

exim4-daemon-heavy has the exiscan-acl patch providing clamav and
spamassassin processing in your data acl.  I don't know if amavis offers
anything additional, but the exiscan-acl/clamav/spamassassin combination
works well for me.

xn


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Re: clamscan avavis spamassassin with exim4 on sarge

2003-11-09 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:08:40AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
 Anyone have/working on integration of these?
 
 clam spamc and amavis are installed however, they dont seem to update
 the /etc/exim4/conf.d  of the new packaging system.
 
 thank you.

exim4-daemon-heavy has the exiscan-acl patch providing clamav and
spamassassin processing in your data acl.  I don't know if amavis offers
anything additional, but the exiscan-acl/clamav/spamassassin combination
works well for me.

xn



Re: How efficient is mounting /usr ro?

2003-10-17 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:01:27AM +0200, Yasar Arman wrote:
 Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
  In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
 
 A read-only /usr is not a security measure.
 
 
  Depends on your definition og it-security. It reduces downtime, prevents
  some admin and software failures and therefore is a security measure.
 
 
 I think,
 
 you mean safety, not security.
 
 Safety (eng.)  = Sicherheit (german)
 Security (eng) = Sicherheit (german)

we have the same problem with english.

$ dict security
2 definitions found

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Security \Se*curi*ty\, n.; pl. {Securities}. [L. securitas: cf.
 F. s['e]curit['e]. See {Secure}, and cf. {Surety}.]
[...]
(c) Freedom from risk; safety.
[...]


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Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-20 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 07:39:28PM +0100, Ian Goodall wrote:
  Any recommendations, experiences, thoughts?
 
 Running ftp over a vpn would work but its not the easiest option. Sftp is
 exactly what you need. Why not just run it on another port?

Last I checked, sftp requires a patch to chroot, though.

xn


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Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-20 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 07:39:28PM +0100, Ian Goodall wrote:
  Any recommendations, experiences, thoughts?
 
 Running ftp over a vpn would work but its not the easiest option. Sftp is
 exactly what you need. Why not just run it on another port?

Last I checked, sftp requires a patch to chroot, though.

xn



Re: Email Virus Scanner

2002-08-12 Thread Christian G. Warden
i recently setup mailscanner with mcafee virusscan and have been pretty
happy with it.
if you describe the nature of the error, i might be able to help you
out.

xn

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 08:00:16PM -0500, Daniel J. Rychlik wrote:
  
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Gentlemen,
 
 I am wanting to setup a good virus scanner for exim.  I tried out
 mailscanner, but it bombs with an error.  I tried to fix the error,
 but I got frustrated.  I would like to use mailscanner or even the
 santizer.  Do you guys have any suggestions or even a preference over
 one or the other?
 
 Sincerely,
 
 Daniel J. Rychlik
  Money does not make the world go round , Gravity does .
 
 
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 Version: PGP 7.1.1
 
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 soHEdM9HMqdePuLWBsloImIq
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Re: Configuration problems with pam_smb, mod_auth_pam

2002-05-29 Thread Christian G. Warden

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:05:45AM -0700, Tom Dominico wrote:
 I am attempting to configure our Debian webserver, running Apache, to
 use our Windows PDC when authenticating for secure web access.  I have
 followed instructions that I found on the web, but I am having trouble.
 [...]
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName PUSD Website Admin
 require valid-user

i have no idea how to make apache authenticate against a windows pdc,
but i believe AuthType Basic can only be used to authenticate against a 
local password file, usually generated using htpasswd.
see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html

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Re: Configuration problems with pam_smb, mod_auth_pam

2002-05-29 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:05:45AM -0700, Tom Dominico wrote:
 I am attempting to configure our Debian webserver, running Apache, to
 use our Windows PDC when authenticating for secure web access.  I have
 followed instructions that I found on the web, but I am having trouble.
 [...]
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName PUSD Website Admin
 require valid-user

i have no idea how to make apache authenticate against a windows pdc,
but i believe AuthType Basic can only be used to authenticate against a 
local password file, usually generated using htpasswd.
see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html

xn


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off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)

2002-05-10 Thread Christian G. Warden

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
 Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting
 is quite irritating, IMHO)
 
  i just want to add a warning about spamassassin.  i had it setup for
  about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occasionally it
  would drive the cpu load into the 20s.  
 
 Yes, I can say this, as well. My computer swapped twice (so much, that I
 had to hit MSysRq and boot) because of SA started to investigate pretty
 big binary mails. Although, fixing the problem is pretty easy; just
 add 'required_hits = x' in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, where 'x' is
 maybe 5 or something else. This makes SA to stop processing mails
 further than hits you just specified.
 
i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point
between paragraphs.  admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive
quoting, but this just feels awkward.  i'll try it out for a few days.
maybe it'll grow on me.
thanks for the required_hits tip.  next time i try SA, i'll read through
the docs more thoroughly.

xn


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off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)

2002-05-10 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
 Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting
 is quite irritating, IMHO)
 
  i just want to add a warning about spamassassin.  i had it setup for
  about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occasionally it
  would drive the cpu load into the 20s.  
 
 Yes, I can say this, as well. My computer swapped twice (so much, that I
 had to hit MSysRq and boot) because of SA started to investigate pretty
 big binary mails. Although, fixing the problem is pretty easy; just
 add 'required_hits = x' in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, where 'x' is
 maybe 5 or something else. This makes SA to stop processing mails
 further than hits you just specified.
 
i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point
between paragraphs.  admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive
quoting, but this just feels awkward.  i'll try it out for a few days.
maybe it'll grow on me.
thanks for the required_hits tip.  next time i try SA, i'll read through
the docs more thoroughly.

xn


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Re: register_globals in php4

2002-05-09 Thread Christian G. Warden

you must write your application safely.  it sounds like you're trying to
prevent a user from changing their userid.  after they log in, you could
create a session variable with their userid and only use that session
variable.  i still use register_globals=on with my code, but i have the
following code that gets included on every page:
if(!session_is_registered('userid') {
unset($userid);
}
and in my login function, after username and password are verified, i
put the userid in $userid and session_register('userid');
this allows me to always trust that $userid matches the userid of the
authenticated user.
here's an article on secure programming in php:
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/art-oertli.php

xn

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:11:41AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
 Hello Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 
 Yes. But when a user type the url something like login.php?id=fakeid
 Then $HTTP_GET_VARS['id'] and $_GET['id'] will also get fakeid, right?
 How do I avoid users affecting the system by changing the variable
 values in the URL directly? If not, is there any way to protect myself
 from malicious url injection attack?
 
 
 
 
 
 On Thu, 9 May 2002 09:51:02 -0700
 Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  one of the php lists is probably a better forum for this question, but
  in short, register_globals=off means that if you want to use the id
  variable passed in the query string by the browser, you would access it as
  $HTTP_GET_VARS['id'], or $_GET['id'] in 4.1+, rather than $id.  more info
  at http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php
  
  xn
  
  On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:09:22AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
   Hello list,
   
   php4.1 recommends to set register_globals=off in php.ini to make php
   more strict.  My question is, if I turn off register_globals, what will
   happen if any malicious user just try to modify the variable values in
   the url? Say,
   
   http://www.domain.com/xxx.php?id=3sex=female
   
   Does it work if user just change the value in the URL directly and send
   the url directly to web server?
   
   How can we avoid the malicious attack by directly http GET/POST with
   modified parameter values to make possible system error or compromise?
   
   
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Re: register_globals in php4

2002-05-09 Thread Christian G. Warden
one of the php lists is probably a better forum for this question, but
in short, register_globals=off means that if you want to use the id
variable passed in the query string by the browser, you would access it as
$HTTP_GET_VARS['id'], or $_GET['id'] in 4.1+, rather than $id.  more info
at http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php

xn

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:09:22AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
 Hello list,
 
 php4.1 recommends to set register_globals=off in php.ini to make php
 more strict.  My question is, if I turn off register_globals, what will
 happen if any malicious user just try to modify the variable values in
 the url? Say,
 
 http://www.domain.com/xxx.php?id=3sex=female
 
 Does it work if user just change the value in the URL directly and send
 the url directly to web server?
 
 How can we avoid the malicious attack by directly http GET/POST with
 modified parameter values to make possible system error or compromise?
 
 
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Re: register_globals in php4

2002-05-09 Thread Christian G. Warden
you must write your application safely.  it sounds like you're trying to
prevent a user from changing their userid.  after they log in, you could
create a session variable with their userid and only use that session
variable.  i still use register_globals=on with my code, but i have the
following code that gets included on every page:
if(!session_is_registered('userid') {
unset($userid);
}
and in my login function, after username and password are verified, i
put the userid in $userid and session_register('userid');
this allows me to always trust that $userid matches the userid of the
authenticated user.
here's an article on secure programming in php:
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/art-oertli.php

xn

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:11:41AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
 Hello Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 
 Yes. But when a user type the url something like login.php?id=fakeid
 Then $HTTP_GET_VARS['id'] and $_GET['id'] will also get fakeid, right?
 How do I avoid users affecting the system by changing the variable
 values in the URL directly? If not, is there any way to protect myself
 from malicious url injection attack?
 
 
 
 
 
 On Thu, 9 May 2002 09:51:02 -0700
 Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  one of the php lists is probably a better forum for this question, but
  in short, register_globals=off means that if you want to use the id
  variable passed in the query string by the browser, you would access it as
  $HTTP_GET_VARS['id'], or $_GET['id'] in 4.1+, rather than $id.  more info
  at http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php
  
  xn
  
  On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:09:22AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
   Hello list,
   
   php4.1 recommends to set register_globals=off in php.ini to make php
   more strict.  My question is, if I turn off register_globals, what will
   happen if any malicious user just try to modify the variable values in
   the url? Say,
   
   http://www.domain.com/xxx.php?id=3sex=female
   
   Does it work if user just change the value in the URL directly and send
   the url directly to web server?
   
   How can we avoid the malicious attack by directly http GET/POST with
   modified parameter values to make possible system error or compromise?
   
   
   -- 
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Re: html spam

2002-05-08 Thread Christian G. Warden
i just want to add a warning about spamassassin.  i had it setup for
about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occassionally it
would drive the cpu load into the 20s.  i didn't spend any time trying
to track down the problem.  i was using procmail to send all my mail
through SA so maybe using the milter solution would work better, but i'd
be careful about installing it on a busy mail server.

xn

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:06:53AM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
 Thomas Buhk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  If you don't want any spam, it's up to *you*.
  
  i don't think so. i think spam is a problem *all* have!
 
 That's true, fair enough. But in the end, if you don't wanna receive any
 spam, you should set up good Procmail recipes. Or, the easy way; install
 SpamAssassin. :-) It is *really* good, I have to emphasize it again and
 again. 
 
 If I'd be whining to every mailing list I've subscribed to (believe me,
 there are *many*), I would still receive tons of spam, no matter how
 politely I would've been asking. As I said, after installing this
 marvellous software, the amount of spam that comes *through* has dropped
 to almost zero. You really should consider installing it.
 
  a first step would be if mailinglist (this include) drop any html
  mail. next step could be to remove those with 'unsubscibe' in the 
  subject ;
 
 Well, again -- before I set up SA, I had Procmail recipe, which would
 kill all mails with Content-type: text/html and also all mails with
 subject 'unsubscribe'. This worked fine -- for me, at least.
 
  I recommend visiting URL: http://www.spamassassin.org 
  and setting it up. My spam problems have ended after installing it.
  
  can't say anything about it. the url was refused by the host...
 
 Umm, something weird is going on in your end, because I can access the
 site with no trouble at all. Try adding a trailing slash to that URL,
 if it would help? Pretty weird indeed, because I just pasted that URL
 I wrote and am looking at the page right now...
 
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Re: PPTP with Encryption

2002-04-30 Thread Christian G. Warden

looks like there's a package for the patch:
kernel-patch-mppe - ppp_mppe module for pppd

xn

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:03:09PM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:
 At 8:43 AM -0700 4/30/02, Anne Carasik wrote:
 Last time I checked, PPTP comes with encryption. All you
 have to do is configure it.
 
 I don't think you should have any patching to do. :) The home page
 for poptop is at http://www.poptop.org.
 
 Not unless the packaged pptpd/ppp has something else, from the poptop.org 
 page:
 
 # Available PPPD patch allows Windows compatible encryption and 
 authentication (MSCHAPv2 and MPPE 40-128 bit RC4 encryption)
 
 So it seems like theres SOMETHING I need to add to pppd to get 
 encryption to work with it, and (from my reading) it seems like 
 there's a patch that also needs to go in the kernel to make that pppd 
 change work as well.
 
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Re: PPTP with Encryption

2002-04-30 Thread Christian G. Warden

yeah, it's a mess.  i spent 2 days trying to get poptop working a few
months ago.  once i got everything patched and running and could setup a
vpn between pptp-linux and pptpd, i still couldn't get win98 to connect
to pptpd.  i gave up and decided next time i'd try to use ipsec with
freeswan.

good luck,
xn

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:20:21PM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:
 looks like there's a package for the patch:
 kernel-patch-mppe - ppp_mppe module for pppd
 
 Except that that patch is against 2.4.0
 
 There's a lot of disjointed pieces, and not all of them seem to be 
 maintained or kept current:
 
o  pptpd - which seems to (now) not require any special effort
o  pppd needs to be patched or include support for mppe
o  kernel needs to be patched or include support for mppe
 
 And that very chaos is what led me to ask if anyone has more 
 current info on how to make this work?  ;-)
 
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Re: PPTP with Encryption

2002-04-30 Thread Christian G. Warden
looks like there's a package for the patch:
kernel-patch-mppe - ppp_mppe module for pppd

xn

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:03:09PM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:
 At 8:43 AM -0700 4/30/02, Anne Carasik wrote:
 Last time I checked, PPTP comes with encryption. All you
 have to do is configure it.
 
 I don't think you should have any patching to do. :) The home page
 for poptop is at http://www.poptop.org.
 
 Not unless the packaged pptpd/ppp has something else, from the poptop.org 
 page:
 
 # Available PPPD patch allows Windows compatible encryption and 
 authentication (MSCHAPv2 and MPPE 40-128 bit RC4 encryption)
 
 So it seems like theres SOMETHING I need to add to pppd to get 
 encryption to work with it, and (from my reading) it seems like 
 there's a patch that also needs to go in the kernel to make that pppd 
 change work as well.
 
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Re: PPTP with Encryption

2002-04-30 Thread Christian G. Warden
yeah, it's a mess.  i spent 2 days trying to get poptop working a few
months ago.  once i got everything patched and running and could setup a
vpn between pptp-linux and pptpd, i still couldn't get win98 to connect
to pptpd.  i gave up and decided next time i'd try to use ipsec with
freeswan.

good luck,
xn

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:20:21PM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:
 looks like there's a package for the patch:
 kernel-patch-mppe - ppp_mppe module for pppd
 
 Except that that patch is against 2.4.0
 
 There's a lot of disjointed pieces, and not all of them seem to be 
 maintained or kept current:
 
o  pptpd - which seems to (now) not require any special effort
o  pppd needs to be patched or include support for mppe
o  kernel needs to be patched or include support for mppe
 
 And that very chaos is what led me to ask if anyone has more 
 current info on how to make this work?  ;-)
 
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Re: log the original source ipaddress

2002-04-10 Thread Christian G. Warden
i'm not familiar with rinetd, but if you use netfilter to do dnat the source
address will be maintained.  just make sure internal boxes hit the
webserver directly, on the internal ip, rather than through the external
one so they don't get confused by packets coming back directly from the
web server.
something like this should work:
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d $EXTIP --dport 80 \
-j DNAT --to-destination $WEBSERVER:80

/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d $WEBSERVER --destination-port 80 -j ACCEPT

xn

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:01:25AM +0700, N. A. Hilal wrote:
 dear,
 
 i have webserver (running on localnet rfc1918) stay behind a
 firewall (using rinetd for redirecting), the apache's log
 read all access from the internal interface's firewall
 instead of the original source address. 
 
 any idea how can i log the original source ipaddress's
 anyone who access my webserver even i use redirecting..?
 
 thx,
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Re: log the original source ipaddress

2002-04-09 Thread Christian G. Warden

i'm not familiar with rinetd, but if you use netfilter to do dnat the source
address will be maintained.  just make sure internal boxes hit the
webserver directly, on the internal ip, rather than through the external
one so they don't get confused by packets coming back directly from the
web server.
something like this should work:
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d $EXTIP --dport 80 \
-j DNAT --to-destination $WEBSERVER:80

/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d $WEBSERVER --destination-port 80 -j ACCEPT

xn

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:01:25AM +0700, N. A. Hilal wrote:
 dear,
 
 i have webserver (running on localnet rfc1918) stay behind a
 firewall (using rinetd for redirecting), the apache's log
 read all access from the internal interface's firewall
 instead of the original source address. 
 
 any idea how can i log the original source ipaddress's
 anyone who access my webserver even i use redirecting..?
 
 thx,
 N. A. Hilal
 
 
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Re: A question about some network services

2002-04-04 Thread Christian G. Warden

rdate is probably easier to use.  ntp requires at least a little
configuration, but it is more accurate.

xn

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:56:30PM +0200, eim wrote:
 First of all thanks to all for responses.
 
 On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 20:22, Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
  On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
  
'time' is RFC 868, a pre-NTP time synchronization protocol. It just
sends the time as a 32-bit int, where:

The time is the number of seconds since 00:00 (midnight) 1 January 1900
 GMT, such that the time 1 is 12:00:01 am on 1 January 1900 GMT; this
 base will serve until the year 2036.

I think it sends it big-endian, but I'm not sure.
   
   Is it used by the old rdate tools?
 
 Old rdate tools ? I use them regulary to update my
 servers with the current time, is it more convenient
 to install an NTP server on my local network ?
 
 Thanks.
 
  
  Indeed.  It's quite usefull if you don't have a NTP server at
  hand, e. g. behind a firewall.  It's not ok if you need accuracy
  of less than 1 sec.
  
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Re: A question about some network services

2002-04-04 Thread Christian G. Warden
rdate is probably easier to use.  ntp requires at least a little
configuration, but it is more accurate.

xn

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:56:30PM +0200, eim wrote:
 First of all thanks to all for responses.
 
 On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 20:22, Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
  On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
  
'time' is RFC 868, a pre-NTP time synchronization protocol. It just
sends the time as a 32-bit int, where:

The time is the number of seconds since 00:00 (midnight) 1 January 1900
 GMT, such that the time 1 is 12:00:01 am on 1 January 1900 GMT; this
 base will serve until the year 2036.

I think it sends it big-endian, but I'm not sure.
   
   Is it used by the old rdate tools?
 
 Old rdate tools ? I use them regulary to update my
 servers with the current time, is it more convenient
 to install an NTP server on my local network ?
 
 Thanks.
 
  
  Indeed.  It's quite usefull if you don't have a NTP server at
  hand, e. g. behind a firewall.  It's not ok if you need accuracy
  of less than 1 sec.
  
  /Holger
  
  
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Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-03 Thread Christian G. Warden

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:43:10PM -0800, Petro wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:22:34AM +, Martin WHEELER wrote:
  Release early; release often.
 
 bemfont size=7blinkNO/font/em/b
 
 Measure twice, cut once. 

i haven't really been following this thread, but i like analogies as
much as the next person, so how's this:

if you don't have a tape measure, cut large and sand down as needed.

xn
 
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Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-03 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:43:10PM -0800, Petro wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:22:34AM +, Martin WHEELER wrote:
  Release early; release often.
 
 bemfont size=7blinkNO/font/em/b
 
 Measure twice, cut once. 

i haven't really been following this thread, but i like analogies as
much as the next person, so how's this:

if you don't have a tape measure, cut large and sand down as needed.

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Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Christian G. Warden

the commercial ssh server has an option to chroot to a user's home
directory.  there are patches available to openssh to do it also,
though i don't know if they've been thoroughly audited.  check out
http://mail.incredimail.com/howto/openssh/
you can make sftp-server the user's shell to only allow sftp access.

xn

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:24:28PM -0500, Jon McCain wrote:
 I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and
 noticed what I consider a security hole.  Winscp does the same thing. 
 The user can change to directories above their home.  Is there a way to
 chroot them like you can in an ftp config file?  I don't see anything in
 the sshd config files.  If you can't, how can I disable the scp
 functionality?  I'm not talking about scp from the linux box.  The users
 don't have shell access so that's not a problem.  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 did not see anything about this issue on the openssh web site. 
 Anybody got any suggestions?
 
 
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Re: scp and sftp

2002-03-31 Thread Christian G. Warden
the commercial ssh server has an option to chroot to a user's home
directory.  there are patches available to openssh to do it also,
though i don't know if they've been thoroughly audited.  check out
http://mail.incredimail.com/howto/openssh/
you can make sftp-server the user's shell to only allow sftp access.

xn

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:24:28PM -0500, Jon McCain wrote:
 I've been playing around with the scp and sftp components of putty and
 noticed what I consider a security hole.  Winscp does the same thing. 
 The user can change to directories above their home.  Is there a way to
 chroot them like you can in an ftp config file?  I don't see anything in
 the sshd config files.  If you can't, how can I disable the scp
 functionality?  I'm not talking about scp from the linux box.  The users
 don't have shell access so that's not a problem.  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 did not see anything about this issue on the openssh web site. 
 Anybody got any suggestions?
 
 
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Re: iptables filtering rules

2002-03-25 Thread Christian G. Warden

i'm in the middle of switching from ipchains to iptables right now and i
haven't tested my DNAT rules yet, but from what i understand, packets
pass through the FORWARD chain in the filter table after the PREROUTING
chain in the nat table.
see the second paragraph here:
http://netfilter.samba.org/documentation/HOWTO//packet-filtering-HOWTO-9.html

xn

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:46:45PM +0100, Andras GALAMBOSI wrote:
 Hello all,
 
 sorry to disturb you with this silly question. I am sure, that it is obvius 
 to all list members (except me ;)
 
 scenario: intranet (10.10.1.x) with win clients (NT  2k), gateway (Debian 
 GNU/Linux potato with kernel 2.4.18 + iptables).  NAT is used for requests 
 from intranet to Internet. this works fine. Web  mailserver is behind the 
 firewall, so I needed to set up portforwarding. dnat is used for this. this  
 works fine.
 as the webserver is an ii$, I am sure, that some firewall rules must be set 
 up for these two ports. The access.log shows, that is a MUST:
 GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0
 GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0
 GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0
 ... so on...  I'm sure, that it's just a script kiddie, but, on the other 
 hand, it's just m$ product.
 
 Q: how to set up filtering rules, if a PREROUTING dnat rule has been set up 
 before? the packet never comes to the INPUT. nor to the FORWARD, doesn't it?
 I really do not want to set up another firewall onto that win2k server.
 
 
 TIA,
 gaan
 
 
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Re: iptables filtering rules

2002-03-25 Thread Christian G. Warden
i'm in the middle of switching from ipchains to iptables right now and i
haven't tested my DNAT rules yet, but from what i understand, packets
pass through the FORWARD chain in the filter table after the PREROUTING
chain in the nat table.
see the second paragraph here:
http://netfilter.samba.org/documentation/HOWTO//packet-filtering-HOWTO-9.html

xn

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:46:45PM +0100, Andras GALAMBOSI wrote:
 Hello all,
 
 sorry to disturb you with this silly question. I am sure, that it is obvius 
 to all list members (except me ;)
 
 scenario: intranet (10.10.1.x) with win clients (NT  2k), gateway (Debian 
 GNU/Linux potato with kernel 2.4.18 + iptables).  NAT is used for requests 
 from intranet to Internet. this works fine. Web  mailserver is behind the 
 firewall, so I needed to set up portforwarding. dnat is used for this. this  
 works fine.
 as the webserver is an ii$, I am sure, that some firewall rules must be set 
 up for these two ports. The access.log shows, that is a MUST:
 GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0
 GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0
 GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0
 ... so on...  I'm sure, that it's just a script kiddie, but, on the other 
 hand, it's just m$ product.
 
 Q: how to set up filtering rules, if a PREROUTING dnat rule has been set up 
 before? the packet never comes to the INPUT. nor to the FORWARD, doesn't it?
 I really do not want to set up another firewall onto that win2k server.
 
 
 TIA,
 gaan
 
 
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