Re: this year's PGP key

2003-01-12 Thread Bonez
Doug: How does this work? I am using GPG on my system, and have a key. What I am wondering is how do you manage keys from others. For example, let's say that you and I were exchanging email frequently, and we wanted to exchange mail that needed encryption, validation, etc. Do you have a

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-12 Thread M.W. Chang
that's a 1024-bit kit. it's not supposed to be that easy to hack it, right? I never consider yahoo to be safe. :P email account to be secure I hope. Any wannabe script kiddie will crack that account in less than a minute, grabbing your private key, checking the header for the originating ip

Re: Reply-to is fixed

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Douglas J Hunley wrote: % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % seems the upgrade to mailman 2.1 did some weird things with my settings. they % should be fixed on all the lists now. let me know personally (not to the % lists) if things still aren't right 'kay.

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Federico Voges wrote: [PGP noise snipped] % Congratulations. You've just been bitten by RIAA and digital rights % management, that is, by RIAA managing your digital rights and deciding % on your behalf where you can play your music. I'd return the CD as % defective, because

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel % wrote: [...] % DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights). % Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your % computer's CD.

Re: Firewall Question

2003-01-12 Thread Jim Bonnet
Tom- Thanks for the reply. I have specifically disabled identd on my imap server because many of our users are behind firewalls that don't pass identd. I have also enabled for the heck of it identd on my firewall.. This didnt change anything. It is not a consisstant port, it is like other

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:41 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote: Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel % wrote: [...] % DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights). % Take

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Tom Condon
On Sunday 12 January 2003 09:20, Tim Wunder carved in granite: % DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights). % Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your % computer's CD. The only way to fight DRM is refuse to accept delibrately %

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:41 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote: % Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % % On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. % Bandel % wrote: % % [...] % % % DRM (digital rights

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Ted Ozolins
Tim Wunder wrote: by rendering the % technology to digitally [mangle] your rights ineffective? Perhaps. But, because RIAA is mostly concerned with money, depriving them of it seems more effective and less likely to run the risk of a DMCA prosecution for circumventing the restriction.

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, don't condemn those guys for worrying about money. They aren't the only ones. Isn't linux touted as the FREE operating system? Linux users are very price sensitive, IMHO. So, why shouldn't the music publishers be worried about money, too? Besides, having bought the CD, you really haven't

Re: rsync without a shell

2003-01-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Federico Voges wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:20:12 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: I'm trying to setup rsync over ssh without giving the user a shell account. Unfortunately, setting the user's shell to /bin/false prevents

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread ronnie gauthier
Line out to line in should cure the problem I would think. On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:42:53 -0500 - Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: New CD won't play Feigning erudition, Federico Voges wrote: [PGP noise snipped] % Congratulations. You've just been bitten by RIAA and digital

Re: rsync without a shell

2003-01-12 Thread Andrew Mathews
Net Llama! wrote: snip I'm trying to setup rsync over ssh without giving the user a shell account. Unfortunately, setting the user's shell to /bin/false prevents the rsync from running, as it fails with this error: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in

FireWire for laptops

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Campbell
I need to backup a customer's SCO OpenServer system next week before they make an office move. My plan is to do a normal BackupEdge backup to tape, and to back it up over the network to an external 120GB hard drive connected to my ThinkPad 600 via a USB connection. I had done some testing on the

I feel bad, but a great learning experience...

2003-01-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On comp.os.linux.networking I happend to come across a discussion going on about a good size lan being hacked into. They used linux for routers and firewall(s), but got hacked anyway. There's tons of useful information if you're into case studies and prevention. The bottom line is; they had

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-12 Thread Net Llama!
THe key length is irrelevant if you're sending your private key over the wire. Nothing needs to be cracked if they get your private key. On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: that's a 1024-bit kit. it's not supposed to be that easy to hack it, right? I never consider yahoo to be safe. :P

Re: rsync without a shell

2003-01-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Federico Voges wrote: Actually, i tried rssh, but the very limited dox don't explain how to specify the allowed commands. Is this domented somewhere other than the rssh man page? Nope, if you want to allow rsync, you'll have to modify the source code. The allowed

Re: rsync without a shell

2003-01-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Andrew Mathews wrote: Net Llama! wrote: snip I'm trying to setup rsync over ssh without giving the user a shell account. Unfortunately, setting the user's shell to /bin/false prevents the rsync from running, as it fails with this error: rsync: connection unexpectedly

Re: I feel bad, but a great learning experience...

2003-01-12 Thread m.w.chang
why would they open ports 137-139? puzzling... I logged many connection attempts to these 3 ports (and the SQL Server ports as well) with my iptables. studies and prevention. The bottom line is; they had netbios going over the firewall... Anyways, if you have the interest and your usenet has

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-12 Thread m.w.chang
you need a passord to use the private key... hmm...I thought you guys were talking about hacking the password out of the private key. that's dictionary hack, I believe, which may be easier. Net Llama! wrote: THe key length is irrelevant if you're sending your private key over the wire.

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-12 Thread m.w.chang
let me try to publish the public key instead. I forgot whether puttygen.exe could produce the private key from the public key. I need to use the private key to connect to my linux's openssh. I could buy a cheap 64M USB storage to keep my own key. but it would be nice to put it inside my mobile

Re: Reply-to is fixed

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, stayler wrote: % Apparently Mailman is the list manager du jour? Was there something % wretched about majordomo? It's a bitch to administer. Kurt -- Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while. ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: Reply-to is fixed

2003-01-12 Thread stayler
That's always a good reason. Thanks Shawn On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:26:28 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: Feigning erudition, stayler wrote: % Apparently Mailman is the list manager du jour? Was there something % wretched about majordomo? It's a bitch to administer.

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-12 Thread m.w.chang
my flaw. no way to generate private key out of the public key. yes, I indeed didn't quite comprehend the maths involved in RSA. still looking for an easy and safe way to access the private key safely from my linux remotely... which sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem with security. m.w.chang

midnight commander

2003-01-12 Thread m.w.chang
what options should I use to make MC to be able to handle these weird directory names? I could delete them with F8, but I wanted to peek. :P error from MC --- Warning: Couldn't change to /usr/ftp/ .ÿ1ÿ / . ÿ 2 ÿ . -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux We Trust.

Re: midnight commander

2003-01-12 Thread Ken Moffat
m.w.chang wrote: what options should I use to make MC to be able to handle these weird directory names? I could delete them with F8, but I wanted to peek. :P error from MC --- Warning: Couldn't change to /usr/ftp/ .ÿ1ÿ / . ÿ 2 ÿ . could you try wild cards? cd

Re: midnight commander

2003-01-12 Thread m.w.chang
I knew that trick, too. but I want to do it via mc. bsides, what if the directory has multiple diectories like that? * could not guarantee the right choice. cd /usr/ftp/*1*/*2* what options should I use to make MC to be able to handle these weird error from MC --- Warning: Couldn't