User: loncarevic

Re:am I missing something here?

On: The Notable Improvements of GNOME 2.22

Enlightenment under Gnome?

It was never like you said, I'm with Gnome since forever and can't remember such thing.

Re:How to Check a LAMP Server?

On: 2M New Websites a Year Compromised To Serve Malware

For File integrity, you can always utilize somthing like:

AIDE - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

AIDE is a file integrity checker that supports regular expressions. Licensed with GPL.

www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html

Re:Simply Amazed

On: AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID

When you forward email you should use your email address.

I don't understand why someone would forward email with someone elses From: field.

SPF don't break anything. User/client side usually brakes good way of communication.

Re:We did this

On: FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays

Mr. Foreign Administrator,

Ever heard for POP3 before SMTP?

It's solution for your "open relay problem".

Sprint, firewall it

On: Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4

Ok, there is default password on ZyXEL *DSL equipment, but in order to access ZyXEL device you need telnet access to it (or SNMP).

SPRINT should firewall outgoing telnet connections to their DSL customers with ZyXEL and end of story.

Last time I checked, those ZyXEL devices had no SSH port enabled :).

Re:QVGA?

On: New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs

s/France/Europe/

Notes on Red Hat 8.0

On: Red Hat 8.0 For KDE Users (And Newbies)

I've had fears concerning new RH desktop environment, like the rest, but I can say that they *did* great job on this.

Some small portions that I would like to see in next RH 8.x release:

- abilitity to right click on menu item and change the same menu item, e.g. if I want galeon to be default Internet browser, I dont want to edit ~/.htmlview I want to change it thrue Control Center or directly from Menu

- set postfix as default MTA, Maildir support on

- add proftpd as choice for FTP daemon

- can someone tell me why my pcmcia modul is still loaded after any non-laptom install?

- in instalation process there are few unneeded steps, remove them

- installation process should have some game to play or bigger doc to read while instaling rpms (full installation is around 40minutes, avarage is around 20minutes)

- good collections of free Unicode ttf fonts

- existing gnome applications should dynamicaly pick up new ttf fonts placed in ~/.fonts (gnome-terminal)

- RH should work with OpenOffice to find solutions to incorporate ~/.fonts support to OpenOffice

- We need in next release only gnome2 apps, currently my old sheets are really ugly in Gnumeric

- RH need to make better manu organization (I cannot see licq, x-chat, ... in Internet menu)

- xcdroast included in RH8.0 is still old bogus version; RH upgrade it and add gcombust

- Nautilus needs lan:// or smb:// feature (like konquerer)

- gcalc is removed from distribution, as fas as I can tell, current calculator sux :)

Something to add?

XFS 1.0.1

On: Performance of Ext2, ReiserFS, and XFS?

Your benchmark is not up2date thus valid, becouse:

- you used old kernel
- you used old XFS release, 1.0 and not 1.0.1 which is official

Ackward

On: Red Hat 7.2 Released

Today is RH 7.2 officialy released, and today we have these errata-updates:

kernel, openssh, squid, util-linux, nscd, glibc, mew

... I was wandering is there any sane ppl in RH menagement? Who decided to release RH 7.2, and not wait 1-2 week? Or you printed CDs and thus have no way back???

i

Re:Sudo

On: Keeping Audit Trail of Activities from Root Login?

1. sudo for linux exists for centuries

2. how you will record when they type "sudo su" ?

3. use process accouting programs, every distro have it

i

Worst than Microsoft ?!

On: Ximian Gnome 1.4 released

Dissapointed.

I'm on Red Hat 7.1, and when I start, either go-gnome or download install prg for RH7 and RH7.1, M$ Ximian tells me that in order to install himself he must remove 27 packages, and when we look at which packages we can see:

kde*, completely kde, including koffice konquorer etc. etc.

Ximian, what are you doing?

Re:Real conclusions

On: Red Hat Linux 7.1 Release Announcement

If I remember correctly there were some reports on bugtraq a few weeks ago about all the other important FTP servers being affected by DOS attacks. The notable exception was wu-ftpd and a second one, I think pureftp.

So, DoS is worst than remote root exploit?
Strange....

Re:But why not qmail or djbdns?

On: Red Hat Linux 7.1 Release Announcement

Bero,

qmail is open-source, but, you must to have approval from author if you want to change code. Sure you have read copyright from djb.

I've made one fuss on Red Hat forums, about not having qmail in RH, someone said (from RH) that, for e.g.:

RH distribute qmail and some bug happens in qmail => RH can't edit code

That's a crap! You tell me does RH edited BIND code after latest bug? Or waited 'till ISC relesed new version of BIND.

Alas, you can always make aggrement with DJB.

And I'll repeat what I do when I install RH:

1. rpm -e kernel-* - install tar.gz kernel
2. rpm -e sendmail - install qmail
3. rpm -e wuftpd - install proftpd (I know I know, but wuftpd is name for remote root = can't sleep)

Best wishes,

i

Re:EXT3?

On: Red Hat Linux 7.1 Release Announcement

Why dont leave users to select do they trust kernel ppl from RH or kernel ppl from World?

So, in expert mode, with COUTION! stated, you will say that RH doesn't support ReiserFS on /, etc. etc.

But, I dont think this is issue, I belive that RH simply had no time to play with LILO + ReiserFS.

Pitty. Are you aware of impact if you had this feature included???

So, someone else will implement that feature, and he will advertise that big time.

Just think, Desktop machine || Workstation machine + ReiserFS, what would be the slogan?

You had two beta releases, .... really strange.

Best wishes,

i

Real conclusions

On: Red Hat Linux 7.1 Release Announcement

As I can see, nothing revolutionary happened here :(.

I want explanation, why Red Hat keeps:

- wuftpd - remote root exploits since ever
- bind - remote root exploits since ever
- sendmail - remote root/mail exploits since ever till few months ago

Why Red Hat doesn't have streigh to face problem and solve it with alternatives???

Red Hat is leader in this area and he must to act as one.

We got another graphic-tools for configuring, yeah, every main release from RH, since 3, have new graphic-tool for configurating 2-3-4 daemons.

We got what? Updated sofware and kernel, and nothing more.

I'm RH user since ever, and using 6.2 on all my servers, more that 30, ...

While I'm here, is it possible do have ReiserFS only installation on RH7.1? That's cool for desktops.

So, Telco is always guilty?

On: ISPs and Usenet, part 94

So, if someone using phone threat or abuse Telco is responsible for that? Something is rotten in land of Dan... Norway ;)

Stupid Human error or do they know for firewall?

On: Microsoft Cracked

Bottom line of this event is human error.

It doen't matter what OS are you having AFTER Firewall as long as stupid human error is not involved in "Network Design".

Human error is main issue here, you may ask why? Simple, if you are Network Admin of Microsoft Network you are really stupid if you leave enabled direct communication between WORLD and local host on network (remember official story of how breakin happened, trojan -> connection from NET -> spread deases...).

What happened with "Bastion host(s)", "Demilitared zone", "Network Address Translators", etc.

Igor Loncarevic