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wireless networking
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Hi, last week on IRC there was someone by the nick of shadowtlx, who was interested in setting up a local wireless community network. Apologies with the delay in my writing this post for him/her as offered, I've been at home groaning with the 'flu all week. Shadowtlx lives in Norwich and is looking for people to build wireless networks with, using probably WIFI (IEEE 802.1lb) with wireless ethernet, i.e. a free internet, getting round problems of local loop (modems) being slow. A site has been registered as a speculative node on consume.net site, they provide software to run on the nodes. Anyone interested? Contact accus(a)btinternet.com (Hope I made sense of my scribbled notes there...it's all gobbledygook to me) Jen

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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KMail Problem
by Ian Bell 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

My emails to the group keep being intercepted by the moderator because Kmail is reporting my email address as a different one to the one I used when registering with the group. So I thought, no problem, just set up another identity in Kmail and use this whenever I post to the group. Just tried this and the moderator still intercepts. tried mailing myself and it seems no matter what identity I select, Kmail ignores it and uses the default. Is this finger trouble ot a bug in Kmail. Hopefully this will get straight through as I modified the default specially. Ian

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Re: [Alug] (RedHat) rsync-2.4.6-8 Update BROKEN
by MJ Ray 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

Simon: > James I believe was doing "the right thing" and I feel having a go at the > guy for being informative is bad form... Yes, in this case, I think it was probably right. > [...] I was under the impression that an open community was somewhere the > passage of information is accepted and not quashed.. I don't think you can draw that conclusion quite so generally. Yes, we love getting more information, but certain types of information have the potential to be very damaging if done in an uncontrolled manner. Generally, security alerts to this list are worse than useless, so they are "actively discouraged". In this specific case, there was probably justification for sending, though. > I'm sure that everyone has at sometime sent an e-mail that others have read > about before without getting this sort of reaction. Oddly enough, people don't tend to send me the typical junk "that others have read about before" any more. I wonder why ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] (RedHat) rsync-2.4.6-8 Update BROKEN
by MJ Ray 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

James: > I handed out a CD containing updates with this broken rsync on it at an ALUG > meeting, so in this instance I had a responsibility to warn the recipient, [...] Yes, in this case it probably was a good idea. In general, though, security alerts are best handled by people who can actually verify them. If you're relying on unsigned messages to open ALUG lists, you've got serious security problems already. In general, I beg everyone here to sign up to a security alert service from their service company, distributor or a recognised authority. -- MJR

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(RedHat) rsync-2.4.6-8 Update BROKEN
by James 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Simon The rsync security fix released by RedHat was also broken :-( Many other distributions have yet to release any fixes at all. Make sure that you don't deploy the broken one from the update CD that I prepared (just) in time for the CLUG/ALUG Cheveley meet! (Best annotate the second 020126 Update CD with a warning) Here are the details of the new package: rsync-2.4.6-10; the full RHSA security notice is appended. It contains useful hints for running rsync to reduce security risks. The rsync included on the Update CD was the broken -8 version. This bugfixed release reached the European FTP mirrors when they synchonized in the early hours of this morning. --James -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [RHSA-2002:018-10] New rsync packages available Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:10 -0500 From: redhat-announce-list-admin(a)redhat.com Reply-To: redhat-announce-list(a)redhat.com To: redhat-watch-list(a)redhat.com CC: bugtraq(a)securityfocus.com, linux-security(a)redhat.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: New rsync packages available Advisory ID: RHSA-2002:018-10 Issue date: 2002-01-23 Updated on: 2002-01-30 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: rsync signed unsigned daemon Cross references: Obsoletes: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: New rsync packages are available; these fix a remotely exploitable problem in the I/O functions. These include the security patch from the recently released rsync-2.5.2. It is strongly recommended that all users of rsync upgrade to the fixed packages. 2002-01-28: There was an error in the original bugfix patch for the security problem - the new rsync could fail under some circumstances. This has been fixed in a new build. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.2 - alpha, i386, sparc Red Hat Linux 7.0 - alpha, i386 Red Hat Linux 7.1 - alpha, i386, ia64 Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386, ia64 3. Problem description: rsync is a powerful tool used for mirroring directory structures across machines. rsync has been found to contain several signed/unsigned bugs in its I/O functions which are remotely exploitable. A remote user can crash the rsync server/client and execute code as the user running the rsync server or client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2002-0048 to this issue. All users of rsync should upgrade their packages. In addition rsync server administrators should consider using the "use chroot", "uid", and "read only" options, which can significantly reduce the impact of a security problem in rsync or elsewhere. Thanks go to Sebastian Krahmer for providing a patch for this vulnerability and to Andrew Tridgell and Martin Pool for their rapid response. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filenames] where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the desired RPMs. Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system. 5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info): 58874 - New rsync package corrupts files during transfer. 58878 - rsync segfaults 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 6.2: SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.src.rpm alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/alpha/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.i386.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/sparc/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.sparc.rpm Red Hat Linux 7.0: SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-10.src.rpm alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/alpha/rsync-2.4.6-10.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-10.i386.rpm Red Hat Linux 7.1: SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-10.src.rpm alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/alpha/rsync-2.4.6-10.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-10.i386.rpm ia64: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/ia64/rsync-2.4.6-10.ia64.rpm Red Hat Linux 7.2: SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-10.src.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-10.i386.rpm ia64: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/ia64/rsync-2.4.6-10.ia64.rpm 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3b33976775af0d04ce639915e5c7cb63 6.2/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.src.rpm 418e264b0ba45fb9d16deff259e462c4 6.2/en/os/alpha/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.alpha.rpm 441409bda25e79567d4a587994b84d76 6.2/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.i386.rpm 35abb7066b5e5b7092465c33dd24085d 6.2/en/os/sparc/rsync-2.4.6-1.6.sparc.rpm ec10c0deb84328cc553449f4330f1cfd 7.0/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-10.src.rpm b756d3ddf8b2d34d5fe7c6b1a4c1d043 7.0/en/os/alpha/rsync-2.4.6-10.alpha.rpm 2e37e09c1f55d4d825e748a4a2005698 7.0/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-10.i386.rpm ec10c0deb84328cc553449f4330f1cfd 7.1/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-10.src.rpm b756d3ddf8b2d34d5fe7c6b1a4c1d043 7.1/en/os/alpha/rsync-2.4.6-10.alpha.rpm 2e37e09c1f55d4d825e748a4a2005698 7.1/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-10.i386.rpm 7895ca8e94476fe4868c07dad2f079ae 7.1/en/os/ia64/rsync-2.4.6-10.ia64.rpm ec10c0deb84328cc553449f4330f1cfd 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.4.6-10.src.rpm 2e37e09c1f55d4d825e748a4a2005698 7.2/en/os/i386/rsync-2.4.6-10.i386.rpm 7895ca8e94476fe4868c07dad2f079ae 7.2/en/os/ia64/rsync-2.4.6-10.ia64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/pgpkey.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig <filename> If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg <filename> 8. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0048 Copyright(c) 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Redhat-watch-list mailing list To unsubscribe, visit: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-watch-list _______________________________________________ redhat-announce-list mailing list redhat-announce-list(a)redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-announce-list

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Mandrake 8.2 beta 1
by Martyn Drake 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Just in case nobody has spotted it yet, but Mandrake has now released beata 1 of version 8.2. I'm currently downloading the ISOs and would be willing to burn CDs from these for those that would like them (£1.50 per CD plus £1.50 P&P). In other news, thanks to Rackspace, I have negotiated the rental price of the server that ALUG and it's mailing lists sit upon at a special discounted rate which is easily afforable for me. Many thanks to John Spears at Rackspace for arranging this for me. Regards, Martyn

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Web site contrib area live
by MJ Ray 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

Hi all, Some of the changes to the ALUG web site have now gone live. There is now a Wiki-based contrib area. You too can edit and contribute to the site at http://www.alug.org.uk/ -- all I ask is that you add your name to the page that you edit (probably at the end) and that you play with the "sandbox" area of the site and not with the main pages. If you hit any problems, email me and I'll restore it from the backups, or something like that. Thanks, -- MJR

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Python help needed
by Paul 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

Hi Folks Are there any python experts in the Norwich area who would be willing to give me a hand with some small .py scripts - I'm not an expert with this language, but I need to get stuck into a project that uses some, and could do with a bit of initial guidance/help. Regards, Paul. P.S. I'll buy the beers.

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RMS Lecture
by Earl Brannigan 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Hi all, just to let you know, I intend to attend the RMS lecture at Queen Mary's University. Hopefully I will be joined by two colleagues. I shall be setting off from Sawston Cambs at 5:00pm, anyone needing a lift is welcome, but you'll have to get here. I have confirmed 3 places for the lecture although it is poss that one colleague may pull out. Thus I can take at least 2 Lugites along (FCFS) but poss more. If you have any contact with CamLug please feel free to forward this mail to them, may be that someone from that neck of the woods would use the lift, being nearer. Cheers Earl ******************************************** Earl Brannigan, Linden House Software LTD, 82 High Street, Sawston, Cambridgeshire CB2 4HJ www.lindenhouse.co.uk Tel : 01223 834383 ********************************************

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