HEADS UP: fix for password truncation when using crypt(3) with DES

2012-05-30 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
The patch just committed to master (258ad0e) fixes CVE-2012-2143. This bug manifests for UTF-8 encoded passwords that contain a 0x80 byte (for instance, the À character). This fix restores proper behavior, which means that authentication will break for such passwords. To our knowledge, nothing

Re: Password hashing weakness in DF

2012-01-17 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
On 01/17/2012 10:12 AM, Matthias Schmidt wrote: He guys, I want to bring the following discussion on the oss-security list to your attention: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/16/2 This post and previous posts contain all known details. It seems Solar contacted Matt

Re: Utility to list /dev/nodes serno's

2010-08-12 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
On 08/12/2010 10:30 AM, Dylan Reinhold wrote: On 08/06/2010 01:27 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hi people, : :is there a way to easily list all disks and their associated serno's ? :Something like 'blkid' utility of Linux, if you happen to know it. :I could happily hack something like that, if

Re: HEAD now has powerd for ACPI based cpu frequency adjustment.

2010-07-03 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Am 03/07/2010 01:13 μμ, schrieb Johannes Hofmann: Hi, what is the reason for creating powerd instead of using sysutils/estd fr om pkgsrc, which already does ACPI P-states based frequency scaling? I think the main reason is Matt couldn't find estd so he just hacked up powerd instead. No idea

Re: BSDStats: Status Report

2010-05-26 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
On 26/05/2010 12:26 πμ, Alexander Polakov wrote: 2010/5/26, Marc G. Fournierscra...@hub.org: As of this posting, we are getting reports in from all the *BSD variants: PCBSD 4 872 FreeBSD1 627 DesktopBSD 154 NetBSD43 OpenBSD

Re: Ideas and questions on pkgsrc

2010-04-13 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Chris Turner wrote: Justin C. Sherrill wrote: - General ideas about the bulk builds and binary installs; I've been staring at it so long I can't see the forest because there's all these trees in the way. Yeah.. Lots of these ideas crossing my mind today as well - this DNS-in-base thing

Re: Ideas and questions on pkgsrc

2010-04-13 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: So, after seeing that PostgresQL is moving services from FreeBSD to Debian because of ease of packaging, and seeing Ivan Voras's idea for a stable branch of ports similar to the quarterly pkgsrc releases, I've been thinking about the pkgsrc service. (Here's the

Re: Ideas and questions on pkgsrc

2010-04-13 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Chris Turner wrote: Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: Well, w/o having seen the code, this sounds like a bit of a hack :) Also I'm not sure what problem you're solving. Pkgsrc already has working package dependencies. The serious issue is with handling upgrades. yup. possibly so. Problem

Re: Ideas and questions on pkgsrc

2010-04-13 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Chris Turner wrote: Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: My by far most important gripe w/ pkgsrc is the inability to do mass upgrades from binary packages in a straightforward manner. Not even sure if it's anything the pkgsrc developers are concerned with. Can't you do this if you have the right

Re: CNAME from which to mirror (corrected)

2010-03-24 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Matthew Dillon wrote: Actually let me correct that. I changed the name to mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org. There seems to be a bit of confusion about this on irc; just to clarify, this is ONLY for mirrors to pull from. If you are not running a mirror yourself, please pull from a mirror

Re: Security process

2010-03-09 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Walter wrote: Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: Walter wrote: I got curious about BSD (DragonFly, specifically) security and wondered why there wasn't a security process that processed all security-relevant error messages which could then be used to block IPs, disable user accounts, and kill

Re: Security process

2010-03-08 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Walter wrote: I got curious about BSD (DragonFly, specifically) security and wondered why there wasn't a security process that processed all security-relevant error messages which could then be used to block IPs, disable user accounts, and kill processes. Because a) such a mechanism could be

Re: pkgsrc bash-4.1 won't build

2010-02-08 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Max Herrgård wrote: Den 2010-02-08 09:00:02 skrev Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org: Hi, I've just done a pkgsrc update and fired off a build of my packages only to find that bash fails to build because of this bit of code: # if defined __sferror || defined __DragonFly__ /*

Re: pkgsrc bash-4.1 won't build

2010-02-08 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: Yes. Like I exlained above, I don't think removing the code for DragonFly is the correct solution. Unless someone takes the time to audit fpurge(), I suppose using __FILE_public is the safest fix since it brings us back to how things were. So this patch

Re: pkgsrc bash-4.1 won't build

2010-02-08 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: So rather more like the one attached then (which is also suitable for use in localpatches or as a pkgsrc patch file). Yah. Assuming you've tested it, can you please attach it to Rumko's PR? Thanks! Aggelos

Re: pkgsrc-current DragonFly 2.4.1/i386 2009-12-19 18:02

2009-12-25 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Alex Hornung wrote: [...] xmlsec1 seems to try to find libdl. This should be fixable; anyone got more insight and some time to fix that? On linux libdl is needed for the dl*() functions which are found in libc in dragonfly. So the solution is not to link with libdl. HTH, Aggelos

Re: git: vendor/BIND bind - Upgraded vendor branch to 9.5.2-P1

2009-12-03 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: commit c40674358ed4bedb23390f50832cadef96754a9c Author: Jan Lentfer jan.lent...@web.de Date: Fri Nov 27 10:06:46 2009 +0100 bind - Upgraded vendor branch to 9.5.2-P1 Thanks to Jan Lentfer we have an updated bind in base. Give it some testing please. Note

Re: git: vendor/BIND bind - Upgraded vendor branch to 9.5.2-P1

2009-12-03 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Regarding the DNSSEC bug -- does that even matter for DragonFly -- did the DragonFly ever get built with openssl? (I was working on it last year, but I don't think I ever committed simple patch before switched to git.) Indeed it isn't configured with --use-openssl, so

HEADS UP: new openssl

2009-11-08 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Our openssl has been updated to version 0.9.8l which works around CVE-2009-3555 (see for instance http://extendedsubset.com/ or http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36935). The vulnerability allows data injection by man-in-the-middle attackers, so you are advised to upgrade to the latest version by

Re: amd64 - invitation to test

2009-06-05 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Jordan Gordeev wrote: It's time public testing of the amd64 port begins. The code is available in my git repo at git://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~smtms/dragonfly.git in branches amd64 and amd64+hacks. The amd64+hacks branch contains what amd64 contains + some band aid to keep the system

Re: Hammer on snapshot cd's

2008-07-16 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert No, we will always stick to -O. GCC is a moving target too, even if -O2 works now there is a high chance it will break something in future GCC rolls. Why should -O2

HEADS UP: blacklisting of weak ssh keys

2008-05-16 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
By now every administrator and/or ssh user should have heard about the bug in debian's ssl library. If you've been offline for the past few days, start here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl While our OpenSSL

Re: HEADS UP: blacklisting of weak ssh keys

2008-05-16 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
On Friday 16 May 2008, Matthew Dillon wrote: [...] I am downloading the key fingerprings debian published and will run it against all the accounts on leaf, pkgbox, and other machines. This just in: if you were going to use ssh-vulnkey, debian just announced they have been told about

Hardware compatibility

2007-10-10 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
Hello all, I'll be buying parts for an AMD-based system tomorrow and I'd appreciate info on what motherboards/chipsets you have booted DragonFly on without problems. Problems you've encountered are helpful also. Hopefully your answers will be useful to other buyers too (at least for the next

Re: init dies with SIGABRT

2007-05-20 Thread Aggelos Economopoulos
On Sunday 20 May 2007 17:34, Morgan Reed wrote: [...] I've tested by exporting / and pointing the client to that and that works so I figure it's got to be something missing from my target root fs, either that or my world isn't quite right (rebuilt world with NOSHARED=no)... If it's something