Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Packages in Debian we use that need a hand (how-can-i-help)...

2014-08-25 Thread Tim Retout
: https://bugs.debian.org/757858 Might be worth keeping an eye on that, to ensure ejabberd makes it back into testing before the freeze. -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Privoxy via Tor, and APT via Privoxy?

2014-04-19 Thread Tim Retout
be backported. A patch to apt proper will take some time to get into real apt, and then Debian wheezy users can't benefit. Also, it's probably harder to mess up this way - it's very obvious when looking at the URLs fly past that they're coming via tor. -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Privoxy via Tor, and APT via Privoxy?

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Retout
go over Tor. Apart from anything else, there will be no UDP support, so it would be more difficult to get e.g. VoIP working, I think. A third idea: if we could guarantee that apt was always called via plinth, then we could always call it via torify or something. Ugly. :) -- Tim Retout dioc

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Avahi

2014-03-21 Thread Tim Retout
On 20 Mar 2014 14:22, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: These are all avahi and rsyslog related messages since the last boot. Do not see anything obvious there, I must admit. For the record, I can't see anything there either. I have seen occasional problems in my own testing when the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Avahi

2014-03-20 Thread Tim Retout
On 20 Mar 2014 10:36, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: [Petter Reinholdtsen] I agree that avahi/mdns would be very useful, and will change freedombox-setup to pull in avahi-daemon, avahi-utils and libnss-mdns on the freedombox. This is now in place, and freshly built images (or

[Freedombox-discuss] Avahi (was: Re: How to use JWChat on the freedombox?)

2014-03-18 Thread Tim Retout
On 17 Mar 2014 22:06, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: [Alberto Fuentes] echo fb ip fbx /etc/hosts then navigate to fbx You are right. This actually work. When I visit http://eth0-ip-on-freedombox/, I get the redirect to 403 Forbidden. If I add fbx to /etc/hosts on my

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Block brute force login attacks?

2014-03-18 Thread Tim Retout
-facing? If it's being exposed via pagekite etc., it would be worth checking whether denyhosts is going to do the right thing (i.e. block the connecting IP, not the proxy's IP, if you see what I mean). -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org ___ Freedombox

[Freedombox-discuss] redecentralize.org

2013-12-03 Thread Tim Retout
expect to get publicised soon, and in the meantime their newsletter lets you know when new videos are up. I hope this email wasn't too off-topic. -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hosting public services (was: Re: Bootstrapping a Freedombox contact list)

2013-11-29 Thread Tim Retout
to offer publically-available services that existing IPv4 mail servers could talk to? Does NAT64 have to be offered by your ISP? -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Freedombox-discuss

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hosting public services (was: Re: Bootstrapping a Freedombox contact list)

2013-11-27 Thread Tim Retout
. This is where tools like Pagekite come in, and I can't see how I'd achieve this with IPv6. -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss

[Freedombox-discuss] Hosting public services (was: Re: Bootstrapping a Freedombox contact list)

2013-11-26 Thread Tim Retout
On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 23:57 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Tim Retout] Future extensions: == [...] - How would services on public IPs be offered? (UPnP to punch through the router, and then Freedombuddy tells others about them?) I suspect something like pagekite

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hosting public services (was: Re: Bootstrapping a Freedombox contact list)

2013-11-26 Thread Tim Retout
accessible by IPv4-only users? -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] arkOS

2013-11-20 Thread Tim Retout
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[Freedombox-discuss] Bootstrapping a Freedombox contact list

2013-11-20 Thread Tim Retout
Freedombox address with their friends? This would also greatly speed up discovery of other interesting Freedomboxes. Note that I have not yet figured out how to implement any of the above! -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Add Raspberry Pi as a reference platform?

2013-10-10 Thread Tim Retout
on - many people might find that useful, and you could achieve the goal of attracting more people to the project. How cross-platform can this be made? -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Tor

2013-10-10 Thread Tim Retout
(NSFW, slide 137 onwards) -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] freedombox-privoxy 3.0.19-2-2 deb source not rebuildable

2013-10-07 Thread Tim Retout
On 7 Oct 2013 10:58, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: Is the complete silence on this issue an indicator that no-one is maintaining the freedombox-privoxy package any more? If so, what should the project do about it? Yes, I suspect this is the case. I have been looking at the rules

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] freedombox-privoxy 3.0.19-2-2 deb source not rebuildable

2013-10-07 Thread Tim Retout
On 7 Oct 2013 13:19, I wrote: As for what we do about it, I am not sure. Actually, I have an opinion: plinth/freedom-maker should be set up to use the normal Debian privoxy package. This lets development continue while we figure out if/how to move the freedombox-specific rules upstream. Tim

[Freedombox-discuss] Tor

2013-10-06 Thread Tim Retout
anyway, so I doubt there's much point from an anonymity point of view. -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Plinth pushed to alioth, first step toward a package in Debian

2013-09-25 Thread Tim Retout
On 25 Sep 2013 11:07, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: If Nick find time to merge a bit more patches to Plinth soon, we should wait for the new upstream version from him, but if he continue to be busy, I believe we should upload anyway to get the package into Debian to get a slot in

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Onion Pi

2013-09-17 Thread Tim Retout
On 17 Sep 2013 15:32, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: or by configuring privoxy, dnsmasq and redsocks with iptables to pass all traffic passing through the Freedombox via Tor. Is there some reason not to do this by default? Hi! There are some good reasons not to run unencrypted

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Drop exmachina, use sudo instead - at least short term (Was: Kerberos and remctl instead of exmachina?)

2013-09-08 Thread Tim Retout
or nginx, then it would make sense to use FastCGI or mod_wsgi in daemon mode rather than CGI, to avoid having to use mod_suexec or grant these sudo rights to the web server. -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Kerberos and remctl instead of exmachina?

2013-09-03 Thread Tim Retout
On 3 Sep 2013 08:10, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: What I am thinking is a CGI interface run as an isolated user (e.g. via uwsgi or apache2-suexec) talking to debconf. Hi! My thoughts: 1. Presumably debconf needs root privileges, so would you grant that user some limited sudo rights?

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] How efficient is the freedombox privoxy?

2013-08-26 Thread Tim Retout
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Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Install and set up etckeeper by default?

2013-08-23 Thread Tim Retout
-config package contains cfengine scripts. Perhaps that is the way forward? Kind regards, -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Restructure how freedombox is set up to use a .deb package?

2013-08-21 Thread Tim Retout
modules from there? Surely (in the long term) the modules should be uploaded to a mirror as e.g. freedombox-module-ical, and should be installed via apt? Kind regards, -- Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox

[Freedombox-discuss] Building Freedombox to run under KVM

2013-08-20 Thread Tim Retout
.img file which can be imported in virt-manager. I think it would be possible to use qemu-img to convert it to a smaller format. So, this makes me think that I should split out the VM image generation in the Makefile, and create a new KVM target. Kind regards, -- Tim Retout t...@retout.co.uk

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] secure UUIDs

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Retout
On 20 Jul 2013 19:38, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Perl module [Data::UUID::MT] includes in its documentation a comparison between Perl-based UUID generators, including weak uses of random data and details like For libuuid based modules, Version 1 UUIDs will include the actual MAC