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Re: [suse-security] SuSE "?"
- From: Roman Drahtmueller <draht@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:59:40 +0100 (MET)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101072350570.26898-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now that the new 2.4 is out,can SuSE tell us when it will be integrated
> in the new SuSE?
I'd like to point you to the press announcement, but I don't have an URL
handy.
But, considering that it's a few days already that this kernel is out, you
should be able to guess reliably... :-)
> The commercial SuSE is full of soft,but is it possible to do a little
> bit of clean-up?
This is the main reason why we made two distributions (a split): There is
a personal and a professional SuSE, since most people really don't use
everything an all of these CDs.
> I agree with the people writing that we don't need 1000 packages of fe
> intrusionsoftware
> but that we want the soft that really works.
This is difficult. Read Thomas Biege's comment ono that on the list a few
days ago: free IDS packages currently suck hamsters through straws.
> Here are my suggestions.
>
>
> Easy setup for cable and ASDL connection.
:-)
> Easy setup for allowing the users to connect the internet.So not only
> root.
> I did not yet find out how to do this.
I vote against it (security implications). And it won't come. network
setup is a superuser task. Ask the admin of the box that you wish to dial
out with.
Doing it as unprivileged user might not be that easy (you need ifconfig
commands). It would require some of the tools to be suid root. And we
definitely don't want that.
> Soft for IDE-CDburners...
AFAIK there is no such software. Everybody uses the scsi emulation in the
kernel to access IDE burners. And it works quite well.
> integration in the softpackages of PMFirewall,portsentry and Licq.Would
> Bastille for SuSE be a bad idea?It's included in Red Hat only,but it
> seems to be good.
We'll add them in future releases. Good luck that the hassle with the
format string parsing bugs has become quiet.
> I wish the SuSE-team good luck...
This is *quite* a few people in the "team". Many thanks!
> Jean-Paul Faessen
Roman.
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| Roman Drahtmüller <draht@xxxxxxx> // "Caution: Cape does |
SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly."
| Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) |
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> Now that the new 2.4 is out,can SuSE tell us when it will be integrated
> in the new SuSE?
I'd like to point you to the press announcement, but I don't have an URL
handy.
But, considering that it's a few days already that this kernel is out, you
should be able to guess reliably... :-)
> The commercial SuSE is full of soft,but is it possible to do a little
> bit of clean-up?
This is the main reason why we made two distributions (a split): There is
a personal and a professional SuSE, since most people really don't use
everything an all of these CDs.
> I agree with the people writing that we don't need 1000 packages of fe
> intrusionsoftware
> but that we want the soft that really works.
This is difficult. Read Thomas Biege's comment ono that on the list a few
days ago: free IDS packages currently suck hamsters through straws.
> Here are my suggestions.
>
>
> Easy setup for cable and ASDL connection.
:-)
> Easy setup for allowing the users to connect the internet.So not only
> root.
> I did not yet find out how to do this.
I vote against it (security implications). And it won't come. network
setup is a superuser task. Ask the admin of the box that you wish to dial
out with.
Doing it as unprivileged user might not be that easy (you need ifconfig
commands). It would require some of the tools to be suid root. And we
definitely don't want that.
> Soft for IDE-CDburners...
AFAIK there is no such software. Everybody uses the scsi emulation in the
kernel to access IDE burners. And it works quite well.
> integration in the softpackages of PMFirewall,portsentry and Licq.Would
> Bastille for SuSE be a bad idea?It's included in Red Hat only,but it
> seems to be good.
We'll add them in future releases. Good luck that the hassle with the
format string parsing bugs has become quiet.
> I wish the SuSE-team good luck...
This is *quite* a few people in the "team". Many thanks!
> Jean-Paul Faessen
Roman.
--
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| Roman Drahtmüller <draht@xxxxxxx> // "Caution: Cape does |
SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly."
| Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) |
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