Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Mark Stapper
Kurt Buff wrote: I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday morning, with the following entry: zmx1.zetron.com login failures: Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2 Aug 30 09:42:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp0 What's

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday morning, with the following entry:      zmx1.zetron.com login failures:      Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2      

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: I traced it down, and found out that he had not logged in on Sunday. The auth.log is, as you can see from the listing below, quite old. The entries referenced

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:03, Dan Nelsondnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: snip Heh. Well, for me a very long time is more than a year, because security patches for the OS will at some point mandate a reboot - and usually in less than a year. I

Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-01 Thread Kurt Buff
I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday morning, with the following entry: zmx1.zetron.com login failures: Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2 Aug 30 09:42:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp0 What's puzzling is that this

Re: Security report question

2007-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/30/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:41:00 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm being port scanned. Is this a reasonable guess? Yes. It could also be something beating really hard on a single closed port, too. --

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm being port scanned. Is this a reasonable guess? Yes. It could also be

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:41:00 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm

Security report question

2007-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
I've noted in a security mail from one of my machines the following log entries: +++ /tmp/security.yEepp7hR Sat Sep 29 03:02:07 2007 +Limiting closed port RST response from 253 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST response from 233 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST

security report messages

2005-07-11 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hi all, Receiving the following... I assume this is just because of a portupgrade that we did that tried to upgrade cyrus, and I assume this is the automated port account creation/deletion that it does but I wanted to run it by everyone. Jul 9 15:29:52 mercury saslpasswd: failed to

Security Report

2003-01-13 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Is it my imagination or should FreeBSD automatically make run a cron job to generate a security report? If so does anyone have the cron line? Rgds Rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog http://www.65535.net - $120 for a lifetime UNIX shell account To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

RE: Security Report

2003-01-13 Thread Yonatan Bokovza
-Original Message- From: Rus Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 13:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Security Report Hi, Is it my imagination or should FreeBSD automatically make run a cron job to generate a security report? If so does anyone

Re: Security Report

2003-01-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:16:50AM +, Rus Foster wrote: Is it my imagination or should FreeBSD automatically make run a cron job to generate a security report? If so does anyone have the cron line? No, you're not imagining things. See /etc/crontab for the invocation of the periodic(8

Re: Security Report

2003-01-13 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:16:50AM +, Rus Foster wrote: Is it my imagination or should FreeBSD automatically make run a cron job to generate a security report? If so does anyone have the cron line? No, you're not imagining things. See /etc