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JohnG <mcsjgs@cox.net> wrote: > I run OS X 10.3.7 on a PowerMac MDD G4 on a cable broadband connection. > I have reason to think my system has been tampered with. Security > features in Mac OS X have been left unlocked (Preference Pane - Users) OSX is substantially different from FreeBSD (even without netinfo) despite having some of the same source code. I doubt you'll find

I'd like to thank the openssh-portable port maintainer/s for preserving the -overwrite-base option. This eases our systems and security update jobs measurably. Unfortunately, openSSL has dropped the -overwrite-base option (again), leaving us with two versions of openssl and some confusion over A) which version of openssl a new port or upgrade (i.e., openssh) will use, and B) how to update

I tried rebuilding yesterday. It failed [I don't recall the output]. I then completely deleted the /usr/src and /usr/obj, and cvsuped again last night [Approx 7PM on 2003-06-23]. I set the machine up with a buildworld and went to bed. This am I looked at the nohup.out file that was generated and it had failed. I took out the NOMAN=false in /etc/make.conf - as it appeared the failure

Vitelity seems to be offline to both IP and voice traffic. Is there any place to find out what their status is? Roger Marquis

Wise men talk because they have something to say, however on Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:00 , freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org just had to say something so we heard: > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fixed MIME Content-Type header field (Nikolaj I. Potanin) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003

I made a mistake setting my shell and have set the root users shell to /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh. I am curiuos if anyone knows how to fix this. The machines is FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p4 and does not have sudo only su.

Hi List, I have a problem installing the vTPM extension for Xen. I selected the option vTPM Manager (=y) in the Config.mk before compiling the xen-tools, but there is always the same error in every xen version which I have tried: gcc -Werror -g3 -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLOGGING_MODULES="(BITMASK(VTPM_LOG_TCS)|BITMASK(VTPM_LOG_VTSP)|BITMASK(VTPM_LOG_VTPM))"

Dear Xen Users, I am new to this technology and I''ve been reading all over the places about how to setup a cluster infrasctructre using Xen DOM0 and Xen DOMu Domains. So far I have quite a few parts running (cluster) but I am trying to add a (virtual) fencing method. I have read that I can use (Virtual Fencing) using the fence_xvmd-fence_xvm deamon and agents; that will allow me to

Does anyone know of a way to rate limit ssh connections from an IP address ? We are starting to see more and more brute force attempts to guess simple passwords "/usr/sbin/inetd -wWl -C 10" is nice for slowing down attempts to services launched via inetd. Is there an equiv method for doing this to sshd? Running from inetd has some issues supposedly. ---Mike

I am not sure if I had a compromise but I am not sure I wanted some other input. I noticed in this in my daily security run output: pc1 setuid diffs: 19c19 < 365635 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 204232 Sep 27 21:23:19 2003 /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver --- > 365781 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 205320 Dec 4 07:55:59 2003 /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver It was the only file listed and I didn't

> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:31:05 +0800 > From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> > Subject: Strange command histories in hacked shell server Just a minor comment on one portion of your message. [All deleted except the pertinent part - wjv] > Machine is configured in such way that everyone can create an account itself. > Some user dir permissions: > ...

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2354 Bug ID: 2354 Summary: please document that PermitRootLogin really checks for uid=0 Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 6.7p1 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: Documentation

Hi, I'm using samba version 3.0.37 and i encountered a very strange and annoying phenomena when 2 different users from 2 different machines are getting the same PID from samba. (2 windows users that are trying to view documents on the CIFS share). I did some google research on this problem and i found the following regarding such a problem: " One can find references to problems like

Hi?Danny, Thank you for your prompt response. The way you are suggesting is great .?Infect?asterisk have its own functionality that if user presses *1 during meetme conferencing asterisk automatically unmute that user and user comes in talking mode.But it is not?fulfill my need. There is and issue that if 3-4 user presses *1 at the same time than how can i decide that who is asking the question

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-03:12 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: OpenSSH buffer management error Category: core, ports Module: openssh, ports_openssh,

Hi all, this is the first time I post to this list. If I am wrong, sorry. I have been trying for three weeks to update openssl-stable, but I cannot beacause of this message: ===> Cleaning for openssl-stable-0.9.7k # # this ports conflicts with your base system # please undefine OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_PORT # and use WITH_OPENSSL_BASE=yes instead. # *** Error code 1 I do not know how to act. Bye

These source addresses are likely spoofed, but am still curious whether other FreeBSD admins saw a preponderance of DNS probes originating from Microsoft corp subnets ahead of the recent ISC bind vulnerability announcement? Roger Marquis Jul 28 16:51:23 PDT named[...]: client 94.245.67.253#10546: query (cache) 'output.txt/A/IN' denied Jul 28 16:51:23 PDT named[...]: client

I have a grown list of IPs that I am "deny ip from ###.### to any". Infected machines, hackers, etc.. Is there a way to have this list outside of rc.firewall and just read it in?

Heya.. Yesterday someone "attacked" by box by connection to several ports.. In other words, a simple portscan.. yet, since my box has "log_in_vain" enabled, so it tries to log everything to /var/log/messages, since the logfile got full and the size went over 100K, it tried to rotate the log to save diskspace. (Apr 16 21:00:00 omikron newsyslog[32137]: logfile turned over due

https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356 Bug ID: 1356 Summary: adding element to map inverts byte order Product: nftables Version: unspecified Hardware: x86_64 OS: Debian GNU/Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: nft Assignee: pablo at