Re: [gentoo-dev] friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts

2013-11-06 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Michael Orlitzky wrote: You should disable OCSP anyway. In Firefox, it's under, Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Encryption - Validation The OCSP protocol is itself is vulnerable to MITM attacks, which is cute when you consider its purpose. Moreover, it sends the address of every

Re: [gentoo-dev] friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts

2013-11-06 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, mingdao wrote: Now, if any one of us turned off OCSP as Michael suggested, what should one do after turning it back on? Could there now be certificates trusted there which should not be? Well, only your current browser session can be affected. For Firefox: History - Clear Recent

Re: [gentoo-dev] OCSP Was: friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts

2013-11-06 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Duncan wrote: Meanwhile, another question for Thomas. Is this certificate stapling the same thing google chrome is now doing for the google site, that enabled it to detect the (I think it was) Iranian and/or Chinese CA tampering, allowing them to say a google cert was valid that was

Re: [gentoo-dev] friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts

2013-11-06 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Michael Orlitzky wrote: If you are aware about any other know attacks, please share. Replay attacks, mentioned in the RFC (or Google). These could be mitigated, but no one has bothered. The OCSP response is signed. The signature contains a time stamp. If your clock is right, replay

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Hosting daily gx86 squashfs images and deltas

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Michał Górny wrote: Now, does anyone have an old portage-YYZZ.tar.{bz2,xz} snapshot? I need the official one from our mirrors, preferably 3-4 months old. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ldh8ie2zzdpnc57/portage-20121228.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item draft for =sys-fs/udev-209 upgrade

2014-02-24 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, not everyone is using systemd. On my systems for example, I don't have /lib/systemd/ (INSTALL_MASK). The current news item draft raises question like When the 'actual configuration' is in /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link... what will happen to people without systemd (and a INSTALL_MASK

Re: [gentoo-dev] News draft #2 for the udev-210 upgrade (was: 209 upgrade)

2014-02-25 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, line 16 (renamed the file to /lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules) and line 18 (you can override in /etc/systemd/network/) doesn't end with punctuation. Did I get this right? I am using udev to give my interfaces custom names and I am not a systemd user but to keep my setup working

Re: [gentoo-dev] News draft #2 for the udev-210 upgrade (was: 209 upgrade)

2014-02-25 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Thomas D. whi...@whissi.de wrote: Also, I cannot belief that I cannot overwrite /lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules via /etc/udev/rules.d... I don't see why not - from the news item: So, to clarify, you can override the new

Re: [gentoo-dev] News draft #2 for the udev-210 upgrade (was: 209 upgrade)

2014-02-26 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, I like your (Alex) new proposal, but I have the following annotations: As of sys-fs/udev-210, the options CONFIG_FHANDLE and CONFIG_NET are now required in the kernel. A warning will be issued if they are missing when you upgrade. See the package's README in /usr/share/doc/udev-210/ for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild?

2014-02-28 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: That said, what we could do (if this isn't done already) is have portage automatically elog or ewarn what files are excluded from the system on merge time due to the INSTALL_MASK. At least that way, users would be able to see in the log what files were removed,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox network-sandbox by default

2014-05-15 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Ryan Hill wrote: Probably best to make FEATURES=distcc disable network-sandbox then. People enabling it are explicitly saying they want to access the network. Do you really think it is a good behavior to automatically disable something you can call a security feature? At least there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox network-sandbox by default

2014-05-15 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Sandboxing isn't about security. It's about catching mistakes. From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_%28computer_security%29): In computer security, a sandbox is a security mechanism for separating running programs. It is often used to execute

RE: [gentoo-dev] Figuring out the solution to in-network-sandbox distcc

2015-01-25 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Michał Górny wrote: I see two generic approaches possible here: 1. proxying distcc from within the build environment, or 2. moving distcc-spawned processes back to parent's namespace. distcc client/server solution - The most obvious solution to me

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: add-on files handling improvements

2015-03-30 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, William Hubbs wrote: I believe, back in the day we started this practice, portage did not support --newuse or --changed-use, so there was no way to only update packages that had changed or new use flags. In that situation, I understand why we installed all of these add-on files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Gentoo do https by default?

2015-03-27 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, Hanno Böck wrote: Right now a number of Gentoo webpages are by default served over http. There is a growing trend to push more webpages to default to https, mostly pushed by google. I think this is a good thing and I think Gentoo should follow. +1 Right now we seem to have a mix: * A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package migration

2015-04-17 Thread Thomas D.
Hi, thank you all for the feedback. I read through the news archive and most previous news items don't use the package category in the title. I'll propose Title: shorewall is now a single package I filled a bug for the news item request: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546952

[gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package migration

2015-04-04 Thread Thomas D.
. === Title: New net-firewall/shorewall all-in-one package Author: Thomas D. whi...@whissi.de Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2015-04-to-be-set Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: net-firewall/shorewall-core Display