per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Marcel Welschbillig
Hi all ! Know this is a bit off subject but dose anybody know any good programs to use for monitoring Megabytes per IP address. What i want to do is have a LAN and be able to get data on how many MB each host downloaded for billing purposes. Any help much appreciated Marcel -- To

RE: per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Antropov Anton
The simplest way - is to LOG packets using IPTABLES. My friends from Internet-provider are doing so. Another way is to use proxy-servers (like SQUID). Know this is a bit off subject but dose anybody know any good programs to use for monitoring Megabytes per IP address. What i want to do is

apache - bots

2001-12-04 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
Is there any docs / FAQs on apache re: stopping bots accessing it. At the moment, one of the worms keeps trying to access /winnt/system32/cmd.exe even though it doesn't exist on debian (or unixfor that matter). I suppose it's a waste of bandwidth as it keeps cropping up every few

Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Ralf Dreibrodt
Hi, Trouble is, the IP addresses that access squid don't have host names (ie. they don't exist) and they keep changing. Is there any way to block access to this and is there a good FAQ, etc. there is a good FAQ at /usr/doc/squid/FAQ.html (belongs to web/squid). But you should not block

Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Ricardo B
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Re: apache - bots

2001-12-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:25:50PM -0500, Robert Ruzbacky wrote: Is there any docs / FAQs on apache re: stopping bots accessing it. At the moment, one of the worms keeps trying to access /winnt/system32/cmd.exe even though it doesn't exist on debian (or unixfor that matter). I am also

Re: Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tend to agree that filtering things at layer 3 and 4 is the best policy (since I don't fully trust every program I run to filter itself properly). iHowever, if you are running 2.4 kernel you will need to investigate iptables rather than

Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Ian McDonald
That's majorly overkill when there's access controls in squid itself. Why take a sledgehammer to break a nut. -- ian - Original Message - From: Rishi L Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Debian Security' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R Ward
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * William R. Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.11.29 18:00:40-0800]: Question: Is it generally considered secure enough to sudo a bash script like your sucpaliases? Or should a C equivalent be written instead? no. especially not the quick'n'dirty

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* William R. Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-12-04 11:56]: Yes, it is difficult, but if one is conscientious enough about checking all the environment variables and such it can be done. For oneliners, maybe. But even there it's hard. YMMV. I can find better things than trying to secure shell

RE: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Chris Massam
ACL's are avalible in squid, what you can do is setup an ACL to allow only your networks IP's to connect to squid, and deny everything else. like this: acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl private_networks0 src xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx acl private_networks1 src xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want 25/tcp opensmtp 37/tcp opentime 66/tcp opensql*net

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R. Ward
Gerfried Fuchs writes: * William R. Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-12-04 11:56]: Because the thread originated there. I haven't seen it before here. Do you really mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Those are two totally different things Maybe you have to resend your message

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Adam Hupp
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:18:09PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want

Rspuns: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Petre Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well,111 is the portmap port..carefully,its a gate for intrusion with rpc attacks.. you must disable portmap. try something like update-rc -f remove portmap or update-rc -f portmap remove i forgot.. if that doesn work try blocking ports vias

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Alexander Clouter
J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want 25/tcp opensmtp 37/tcp

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread thomas fischer
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want 25/tcp opensmtp

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Vegard Engen
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:18:09PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED Well, you're not actually DIABLING anythingin /etc/services. That file is just

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Emmanuel Valliet
(2001-12-04) J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz sed : | Hi, | I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have | tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 | ESTABLISHED | when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want | 25/tcp opensmtp

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
/etc/services doesn't control services. The only function of this file is to translate between port numbers and service names. Commenting stuff in there doesn't help. What you need is to figure out what processes are keeping the ports open and shut down all the unneeded ones. In this case you

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowick: Port 111 is sunrpc. I forgot the exact name of the package that leaves this open (perhaps someone else can recall it). If you type 'netstat -p' (as root) you will see which programs have which ports open. For the quick

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Jaroslaw Podstawa
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:18:09PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want 25/tcp

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: It's been an option on traditional Unix systems for a long time. When kernel runs the interpreter listed on the #! line, it does so with suid/sgid access enabled. It's not really any more difficult than launching binaries. However, there is an

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Alexander Clouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ermdon't diasble them in /etc/services, this normally doesn't work (as far as I'm aware). /etc/services is more a 'lookup' service then a 'whether I should actually work' service. Ditto. according to /etc/serices 111 is 'portmapper', darned

Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-04 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:03:24PM +0100, Robert Magier wrote: Hello. What in source files should I change if I want syslogd to read another config file, then /etc/syslog.conf, by default ? Nothing, it's a runtime argument. When invoking syslogd, use the -f argument to specify an alternative

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread chris
Hi Paul, On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:18:09PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want

Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-04 Thread tony mancill
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Robert Magier wrote: What in source files should I change if I want syslogd to read another config file, then /etc/syslog.conf, by default ? How about the manpage? (The -f opttion) Or, as folks around here say: perl -e 'print

RE: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Howland, Curtis
This is one remnant of the "trusted" world of Unix, and the legacy that Linux has to deal with. It's ipchains/iptables to the rescue. I do not have NFS turned on in the kernel modules, nor the package installed. Yet this port is still open *to the outside world*. Can anyone suggest a reason why

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.04 10:48:19-0800]: Right; but assumin gone takes care of this kind of issue, is there anything inherently unsafe about running shell scripts through sudo? I understand that there are risks of race conditions with setuid shell scripts, and so they

Re: iptables with a linux bridge

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.03 00:57:48+0100]: It filters based on packet content that just happens to be IP information. Just like the u32 filter, except the syntax is easier. It still bridges. i guess you are right. my only problem is that a bridge does MAC/SNAP and is

Re: snorting bridges? [ Was: Re: iptables with a linux bridge ]

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* Rens Houben [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.03 13:02:50+0100]: Anyways, I've been following this thread and wondering: Is there any reason why snort would or would not work with a bridge? snort is a tool that primarily assesses ip, tcp, and application level protocols. if you run it on a bridge,

what is it webster?

2001-12-04 Thread Igor L. Balusov
Hi! I scanned my debian 2.2 and find port 765/tcp - webster I look thru my system files(xinetd, inetd) and didnt find the service webster. What is it? Billy

Re: what is it webster?

2001-12-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:05:07AM +0300, Igor L. Balusov wrote: Hi! I scanned my debian 2.2 and find port 765/tcp - webster I look thru my system files(xinetd, inetd) and didnt find the service webster. What is it? webster is an old dictionary program. We actually run websterd

per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Marcel Welschbillig
Hi all ! Know this is a bit off subject but dose anybody know any good programs to use for monitoring Megabytes per IP address. What i want to do is have a LAN and be able to get data on how many MB each host downloaded for billing purposes. Any help much appreciated Marcel

RE: per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Antropov Anton
The simplest way - is to LOG packets using IPTABLES. My friends from Internet-provider are doing so. Another way is to use proxy-servers (like SQUID). Know this is a bit off subject but dose anybody know any good programs to use for monitoring Megabytes per IP address. What i want to do is

Re: per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Jens-E. Hansen
There is a tool called rasa, look at http://rasa.gis.de. English information is available from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Know this is a bit off subject but dose anybody know any good programs to use for monitoring Megabytes per IP address. What i want to do is have a LAN and be able to get data on

Re: per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Rens Houben
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 09:35, Marcel Welschbillig wrote: Hi all ! Know this is a bit off subject but dose anybody know any good programs to use for monitoring Megabytes per IP address. What i want to do is have a LAN and be able to get data on how many MB each host downloaded for billing

Re: per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:35:04PM +0800, Marcel Welschbillig wrote: Hi all ! Know this is a bit off subject but dose anybody know any good programs to use for monitoring Megabytes per IP address. What i want to do is have a LAN and be able to get data on how many MB each host downloaded

Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
Recently, I had someone trying to browse the web from one of our servers via squid. Luckily, I didn't need squid for this machine, so I took it off and emailed the hostmaster of the domain the person was doing it from..luckily the IP address was the same. i also managed to get the IP address

apache - bots

2001-12-04 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
Is there any docs / FAQs on apache re: stopping bots accessing it. At the moment, one of the worms keeps trying to access /winnt/system32/cmd.exe even though it doesn't exist on debian (or unixfor that matter). I suppose it's a waste of bandwidth as it keeps cropping up every few minutes..other

Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Ralf Dreibrodt
Hi, Trouble is, the IP addresses that access squid don't have host names (ie. they don't exist) and they keep changing. Is there any way to block access to this and is there a good FAQ, etc. there is a good FAQ at /usr/doc/squid/FAQ.html (belongs to web/squid). But you should not block these

Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Rishi L Khan
On another server, which I have squid running and want running, I keep getting accesses from http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve and someone seems to be accessing web pages late at night when everyone has gone home. Trouble is, the IP addresses that access squid don't have host names (ie.

Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Ricardo B
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Re: apache - bots

2001-12-04 Thread Vinai Kopp
I created a php 404 Error page, where I list the fingerprints of the worms I know. If I find one of them is causing the request, I let the script simply die so I don't waste any more bandwidth then neccessary on these anoying creatures. I thought about blocking IP's involved but the sources

Re: apache - bots

2001-12-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:25:50PM -0500, Robert Ruzbacky wrote: Is there any docs / FAQs on apache re: stopping bots accessing it. At the moment, one of the worms keeps trying to access /winnt/system32/cmd.exe even though it doesn't exist on debian (or unixfor that matter). I am also

Re: apache - bots

2001-12-04 Thread Johann Botha
Hi Johann! Is there any docs / FAQs on apache re: stopping bots accessing it. At the moment, one of the worms keeps trying to access /winnt/system32/cmd.exe even though it doesn't exist on debian (or unixfor that matter). I am also interested in this. I experience frequent visits

[정보제공 ] ★ 무료로 팔아 드립니다..

2001-12-04 Thread 한일우
Title: ::: 파라주라 메일 발송 ::: 먼저 사전 양해없이 메일을 보내드려 죄송합니다. 본 메일은 정통부 권고사항에 의거 제목에(광고)라 표시된 광고 메일입니다. 더이상 메일을 받고싶지 않으시면

RE: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Rishi L Khan
Another way to do it is setup an automatic proxy script that tells the browser which port on the squid box to go to. Then you can periodically change the port. (Or you can just change to an obscure port and hope less people find it). -rishi On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Chris Harrison

Re: Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tend to agree that filtering things at layer 3 and 4 is the best policy (since I don't fully trust every program I run to filter itself properly). iHowever, if you are running 2.4 kernel you will need to investigate iptables rather than

Re: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Ian McDonald
That's majorly overkill when there's access controls in squid itself. Why take a sledgehammer to break a nut. -- ian - Original Message - From: Rishi L Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Debian Security' debian-security@lists.debian.org

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R Ward
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * William R. Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.11.29 18:00:40-0800]: Question: Is it generally considered secure enough to sudo a bash script like your sucpaliases? Or should a C equivalent be written instead? no. especially not the quick'n'dirty

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R. Ward
Gerfried Fuchs writes: * William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-12-03 00:50]: Right; but assuming one takes care of this kind of issue, is there anything inherently unsafe about running shell scripts through sudo? shell scripts usually call other programs - whose behavior could be most of the

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* William R. Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-12-04 11:56]: Yes, it is difficult, but if one is conscientious enough about checking all the environment variables and such it can be done. For oneliners, maybe. But even there it's hard. YMMV. I can find better things than trying to secure shell

RE: Squid security

2001-12-04 Thread Chris Massam
ACL's are avalible in squid, what you can do is setup an ACL to allow only your networks IP's to connect to squid, and deny everything else. like this: acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl private_networks0 src xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx acl private_networks1 src xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want 25/tcp opensmtp 37/tcp opentime 66/tcp opensql*net

Rãspuns: per IP billing

2001-12-04 Thread Petre Daniel
what about ip accounting? Petre L. Daniel Linux Administrator,Canad Systems Pitesti http://www.cyber.ro email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +4048220044,+4048206200 -Mesaj original- De la: Yotam Rubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Trimis: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:51 AM Catre:

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: Gerfried Fuchs writes: [setuid scripts] You have a misinformation/misinterpretation there. It's not disabled, it's simply not possible in the way scripts are run. It's been an option on traditional Unix systems for a long time. It's perfectly

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread William R. Ward
Gerfried Fuchs writes: * William R. Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-12-04 11:56]: Because the thread originated there. I haven't seen it before here. Do you really mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not debian-security@LISTS.debian.org? Those are two totally different things Maybe you have to resend

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:18:09PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 /etc/services does not enable or disable ports. It is merely a database mapping commonly

Răspuns: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Petre Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well,111 is the portmap port..carefully,its a gate for intrusion with rpc attacks.. you must disable portmap. try something like update-rc -f remove portmap or update-rc -f portmap remove i forgot.. if that doesn work try blocking ports vias

Syslog config file.

2001-12-04 Thread Robert Magier
Hello. What in source files should I change if I want syslogd to read another config file, then /etc/syslog.conf, by default ? -- Robert Magier

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread thomas fischer
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want 25/tcp opensmtp

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
/etc/services doesn't control services. The only function of this file is to translate between port numbers and service names. Commenting stuff in there doesn't help. What you need is to figure out what processes are keeping the ports open and shut down all the unneeded ones. In this case you

RE: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Tom Dominico
Paul, Commenting things out in /etc/services is not really the way to disable them. Here is a good, concise, Debian-specific piece of documentation: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ Also, try the Security-Quickstart-HOWTO:

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowick: Port 111 is sunrpc. I forgot the exact name of the package that leaves this open (perhaps someone else can recall it). If you type 'netstat -p' (as root) you will see which programs have which ports open. For the quick

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Jaroslaw Podstawa
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:18:09PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want 25/tcp

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: It's been an option on traditional Unix systems for a long time. When kernel runs the interpreter listed on the #! line, it does so with suid/sgid access enabled. It's not really any more difficult than launching binaries. However, there is an

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Alexander Clouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ermdon't diasble them in /etc/services, this normally doesn't work (as far as I'm aware). /etc/services is more a 'lookup' service then a 'whether I should actually work' service. Ditto. according to /etc/serices 111 is 'portmapper', darned

Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-04 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:03:24PM +0100, Robert Magier wrote: Hello. What in source files should I change if I want syslogd to read another config file, then /etc/syslog.conf, by default ? Nothing, it's a runtime argument. When invoking syslogd, use the -f argument to specify an alternative

Re: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread chris
Hi Paul, On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:18:09PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: Hi, I disabled all but a few ports in /etc/services, but I have tcp0 0 pa237.olsztyn.sdi.t:111 80.116.215.37:1064 ESTABLISHED when I netstat my machine. What exactly does this mean? I just want

Re: Syslog config file.

2001-12-04 Thread tony mancill
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Robert Magier wrote: What in source files should I change if I want syslogd to read another config file, then /etc/syslog.conf, by default ? How about the manpage? (The -f opttion) Or, as folks around here say: perl -e 'print

RE: How do I disable (close) ports?

2001-12-04 Thread Howland, Curtis
This is one remnant of the trusted world of Unix, and the legacy that Linux has to deal with. It's ipchains/iptables to the rescue. I do not have NFS turned on in the kernel modules, nor the package installed. Yet this port is still open *to the outside world*. Can anyone suggest a reason why

Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.04 10:48:19-0800]: Right; but assumin gone takes care of this kind of issue, is there anything inherently unsafe about running shell scripts through sudo? I understand that there are risks of race conditions with setuid shell scripts, and so they are

Re: iptables with a linux bridge

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.03 00:57:48+0100]: It filters based on packet content that just happens to be IP information. Just like the u32 filter, except the syntax is easier. It still bridges. i guess you are right. my only problem is that a bridge does MAC/SNAP and is

Re: snorting bridges? [ Was: Re: iptables with a linux bridge ]

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* Rens Houben [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.03 13:02:50+0100]: Anyways, I've been following this thread and wondering: Is there any reason why snort would or would not work with a bridge? snort is a tool that primarily assesses ip, tcp, and application level protocols. if you run it on a bridge,