Re: questions about FreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Jeremy Hooks
2009/8/31 James Phillips : ... >> I have some questions about FreeBSD. The questions I had in >> mind are: > > Such general questions imply "homework assignment." Indeed, I found "General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on." quite amusing. I am surprised he didn't incl

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Hooks
Hi Colin. I thought I'd just add my tuppence here. Some time ago I suffered a similar exploit, albeit on a Linux box, with Apache and a different PHP web app (Horde if I recall correctly). There are a number of ways your server could have been comprised via a PHP webapp, and a mailling list prob

Re: rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Hooks
> How, may I ask, does this work? If you search the bash man file you can find this and lots of other useful constructs, search for 'Parameter Expansion' - I'm not sure how much of this relates to other Bourne Shell derivatives, but I don't imagine it would be difficult to test it out. ___

Re: Can an Account be Locked out for ssh but allow su?

2008-10-09 Thread Jeremy Hooks
Personally I prefer AllowUsers, as that denies all users except those specifically allowed. Deny/AllowGroups are useful too. 2008/10/8 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henrik Hudson writes: > > Check the sshd_config man page for AllowUsers and DenyUsers directives. > > Many thanks. DenyUse

Re: detecting monitor's sync and refresh rate?

2008-10-08 Thread Jeremy Hooks
I cheated a little and pulled this out of openSUSE 11's monitor database: #== # [EMAIL PROTECTED] #-- --> LCD:[EMAIL PROTECTED] { Option=DPMS Hsync=31-60 Modeline="1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771

Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem

2008-10-07 Thread Jeremy Hooks
>> 4. however, after upload, the file has the ownership A:B (i.e, owned by A, group B) with permissions -rw-r--r--. So B does not have permission to delete the file. -rw-r--r-- 1 user_a user_b 154879 Oct 7 08:40 data_file.csv Hi John. Correct me if I am wrong but permission to delete a fil