how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Demou
I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be willing to download and run putty.exe but am I right? If not is

Re: [solved]: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/23/07, Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Nice idea. Is it easy to support sshd-httpd on the same port also? Yes - assuming that the httpd client doesn't use pooling or the like, which stops the client from talking immediately upon connection: [...] I did do a

Re: [solved]: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-22 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/21/07, Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite being security-through-obscurity, it *is* possible to run https and ssh on the same port, via a proxy: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssh-ssl-proxy/ Nice idea. Is it easy to support sshd-httpd on the same port also? [...]

web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Nick Demou
The only service that listens to the internet on my pcs is sshd (on port 80 or 443 [1]). Since neither me nor sshd is perfect I would like to get rid of as much attackers as possible. My idea was to use port knocking. So I tested knockd and it seems nice[2] except one minor thing[3] and a major

Re: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/20/07, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Demou wrote: Any other idea of simple measures that will keep as many attackers away from the one and only service that is listening to the Internet? Different approach, but the same goal: [...] fail2ban bans IPs that cause

Re: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/20/07, Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:47:20PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: [...] Any other idea of simple measures that will keep as many attackers away from the one and only service that is listening to the Internet? Well, if which outbound ports

[solved]: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/21/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Nick Demou wrote: [...] Any other idea of simple measures that will keep as many attackers away from the one and only service that is listening to the Internet? [...] I'm not sure if this fits what you are looking

Re: looking for email database

2007-04-01 Thread Nick Demou
Miles Fidelman wrote: A while back I came across a pretty neat piece of open source software providing a database for large scale mail storage, searching, and retrieval - with interfaces to all the standard MTAs and both POP and IMAP interfaces to the database [ but I forgot the name ] I was

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Nick Demou
2007/3/30, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... the Wikipedia article The [FSF] considers it a free license incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). I guess this means that although it is free, it isn't free under GPL standards No, GPL compatibility is defined by the FSF, as:

Απ: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

2007-03-16 Thread Nick Demou
2007/3/16, Easthope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Debian Users, I am trying to understand how SMTP uses ports. Ultimately I want it to work through a SSH tunnel. Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses 1025. 25 is the default (ie. the one that all computers in the Internet will attempt to

Απ: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

2007-03-08 Thread Nick Demou
2007/3/8, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:59:07 -0500, H.S. wrote: ...For example, on this web page (CNN): http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html?cnn=yes I see this or his prot�g�s. I assume the last word is protege with ...

Απ: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

2007-03-08 Thread Nick Demou
2007/3/8, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nick Demou wrote: ... in the case of this page the text is really encoded as iso8859-1 (as you can find out if you manually select this encoding when everything displays properly) but the html code reports that it's text is encoded as UTF-8 (as you can see

Απ: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

2007-03-08 Thread Nick Demou
2007/3/8, Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mar 08 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: ... meta http-equiv=CONTENT-TYPE content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 in the HTML header. I see. Since I'm lazy - and unsure precisely what query to feed to a search engine - could you possibly point at a

Απ: IMAP Mail server question

2007-02-28 Thread Nick Demou
2007/2/28, Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go with. Disclaimer: - I have no experience with dovecot - I have used only the basic functionality of courier-IMAP

re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Demou
2007/2/14, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:17:56PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: [...] I personally think that if you want the latest greatest stuff one should run sid instead of testing. If something breaks in sid, it tends to fix itself pretty quickly.

how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Demou
In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Απ: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Demou
2007/1/29, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon January 29 2007 07:01, Nick Demou wrote: In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome? You'll need to uninstall whatever you installed to begin with. [...] Someone else did the installation and included the GUI by mistake

re: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Demou
2007/1/29, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon January 29 2007 07:17, Nick Demou wrote: 2007/1/29, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon January 29 2007 07:01, Nick Demou wrote: In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome? You'll need to uninstall whatever you

Re: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Demou
2007/1/29, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nick Demou wrote: Someone else did the installation and included the GUI by mistake. [I want to remove it] Tasksel is what installs software during the install, and it can also be used post-install to remove it. Just run tasksel, unselect the desktop

Απ: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-25 Thread Nick Demou
2007/1/25, David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 19:04, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Can anyone recommend a good WYSIWYG HTML editor? I require very basic HTML stuff like lists, tables, formatting, inserting images etc., no complex [...] Try Amaya. It comes from

GNOME / any shortcut to arrange windows?

2007-01-18 Thread Nick Demou
Is there a Gnome keyboard shortcut which will arrange all windows in a way that they are all visible? I would love something like what F12 does under compiz/XGL (but I it's an overkill to install it just for this feature). Alternativerly even something like what tile windows does under MS

re: local network with twisted rj45

2007-01-18 Thread Nick Demou
17 Jan 2007 19:35:08 -0800, christop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Yes, but nothing is going through the line for now, and I would like it to do something. Learning and understanding before only buying more (if possible). Would it be different if it was straight with a switch? I would first like to

re: GNOME / any shortcut to arrange windows?

2007-01-18 Thread Nick Demou
2007/1/18, Henrik Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nick Demou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I would love something like what F12 does under compiz/XGL (but I it's an overkill to install it just for this feature). ... you want skippy. It's available as a debian package. Thanks, apt-got