similar to: OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

Probably too late for consideration at this point, but there are Enterprise Class SSDs available with DoD/NSA certified/approved self encryption capability. The concept is that encryption is a hardware feature of the drive, when you want to dispose of it, you throw away the key. This allows vendors to receive broken drives back from GOV/MIL clients securely so that failure methods can be

On Sat, April 18, 2015 11:16, Jake Shipton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 16/04/15 16:01, James B. Byrne wrote: >> This morning I discovered this in my clamav report from one of our >> imap servers: >> >> /usr/share/nmap/scripts/irc-unrealircd-backdoor.nse: >> Unix.Trojan.MSShellcode-21 FOUND >> >> >> I

I apologize in advance for the subject and length of this reply. I debated just letting things pass without comment. But, security has many levels. And the first level is recognition of the threat. Whether we recognize it or not. Whether we agree of disagree with the politics that lie beneath this situation or not; Whether we consider this a non-technical issue or not; By virtue of our

Recently I have been deeply troubled by evidence revealing the degree to which U.S. based corporations (well actually all resident in any of the so-called 5-eyes countries) appear to have rolled over and assumed the position with respect to NSA inspired pressure to cripple public key encryption and facilitate intrusions into their software products. This has engendered in me a significant degree

This morning I discovered this in my clamav report from one of our imap servers: /usr/share/nmap/scripts/irc-unrealircd-backdoor.nse: Unix.Trojan.MSShellcode-21 FOUND I have looked at this script and it appears to be part of the nmap distribution. It actually tests for irc backdoors. IRC is not used here and its ports are blocked by default both at the gateway and on all internal hosts.

CentOS-5.4 i86_64 I have a calculator applet on my desktop (superbcalc.jar). When I double click on it I get no response. If I right click and select open with java I get no response. If I open a terminal window and cd to Desktop and type java -jar superbcalc.jar then the applet opens. Does anyone have any idea why I am seeing this behaviour? There are no messages in the syslog file relating

I installed CentOS-5 on a test machine, a P4 1.8 Ghz Compaq Evo D510 series. This was a clean install onto a new disk drive and everything went well. After updating with YUM and installing Postgresql, Rails for Ruby, Firefox-2 and Thunderbird I shutdown and restarted the system several times without incident. I then pulled the CD-ROM and replaced it with an LG-DVD DVD-RAM/RW device. I also

On Tue, July 11, 2017 14:16, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:05:55PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: >>> I have just installed CentOS 6 i386 onto an old rack server (it's >>> gonna be a Bacula storeage server and is a 1U 1/2 depth chassis) >>> >>> I did a minimum netinstall and so far so good. However, I

> Could be because you added the wrong line to your smb4.conf (why does > freebsd call it smb4.conf ?), Why does freebsd put these things in /usr/local/etc/? Some questions have answers that are not worth the effort to know. > try: > nsupdate command = /usr/local/sbin/nsupdate -g I did catch that error earlier. But it makes no difference. samba_dnsupdate does not give any

Thank you for your patience. On Tue, June 30, 2020 16:48, Rowland penny wrote: > > From 'man smb.conf': > > nsupdate command (G) > > This option sets the path to the nsupdate command which is used for > GSS-TSIG dynamic DNS updates. > > Default: nsupdate command = /usr/bin/nsupdate -g > > dns update command (G) > > This

I changed the entries in smb4.conf (smb.conf) to this: [global] . . . dns update command = /usr/local/sbin/samba_dnsupdate nsupdate command = /usr/local/bin/samba-nsupdate -d -g And this is what results when I run: samba_dnsupdate --verbose -d8 --all-names . . . update(nsupdate): SRV _ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.ForestDnsZones.brockley.harte-lyne.ca

On Tue, March 31, 2009 13:03, James B. Byrne wrote: > Found it. No etc/at.allow and no etc/at.deny means only root can > submit jobs. > Well, that was not it. I still get the same errors after adding my user id to /etc/at.allow. I tested whether job control was enabled by moving top into the background using ctrl-z and fg to return and that worked. Any suggestions as to what I am

On Fri, March 4, 2011 14:12, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> --On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:11 AM -0500 Digimer >> <linux at alteeve.com >> > >> wrote: >> >>> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in >>> CentOS 6 when it is released? >> >> A new

On Thu, July 17, 2008 15:05, James B. Byrne wrote: > I have no clue how to get java to work in FF3.0.1 at the moment. Any help > would be appreciated. > Ah. I now have to put this logical link in the.mozilla/plugins directory under each users home directory. At least it works. Sorry for the interruption. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne

To get the server working again I reinstalled the previous version of openssh and the service came up without complaint. cd /tmp; rpm -i openssh-4.3p2-41.el5.i386.rpm --force --nodeps cd /tmp; rpm -iv openssh-server-4.3p2-41.el5.i386.rpm --force --nodeps cd /tmp; rpm -iv openssh-clients-4.3p2-41.el5.i386.rpm --force --nodeps cd /tmp; rpm -iv openssh-askpass-4.3p2-41.el5.i386.rpm --force

On Tue, September 14, 2010 02:30, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> So, I'm quite keen on finding out what is it that is causing >> the breakage for you > > Karanbir, in the middle of the thread from the archive: > > James B. Byrne at Mon Sep 13 12:59:25 EDT 2010 >> Did that via webmin's command interface and nothing

On Thu, July 28, 2011 14:30, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am trying to check for a single period '.' in a shell variable. > > $ I=. > $ echo $I > . > $ if [[ "$I" -eq '.' ]]; then echo true; fi > -bash: [[: .: syntax error: operand expected (error token is ".") > . . . > > How does one check to see for this in a bash script? Found

On Wed, March 28, 2012 09:44, James B. Byrne wrote: > CentOS-6.2 > > I am confused. Yes, yes I am. I was looking at the wrong server. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario

On Tue, February 9, 2016 16:05, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:18 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> > wrote: >> On 2/8/2016 9:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> Secure erase is really the only thing to use on SSDs. >>> Writing a pile of zeros just increases wear (minor negative) >>> but also doesn't actually set

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> Date: Mon, October 6, 2008 12:26 To: cenos at centos.org Cc: "John Newbigin" <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au>