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  2. Users losing KDE [SOLVED]

    in Security

    Posted

    "I just wonder like iphitus if my system is really hacked."

    Me too.

    Assuming what I sugested in a previous post came up empty or clear

    I would attack that machine with a recent nessus.

    Also would get to know that machine intimately

    and not forget that a wipe is peace of mind.

    Hope you are enjoying this.

    Much better then tv I find.

  6. Users losing KDE [SOLVED]

    in Security

    Posted

    Hi

    "I'm thinking of wiping the box clean and reinstalling Mandrake 10."

    Go for it for "best" peace of mind.

    "I just wonder if it is just the two affected users' accounts got compromised but not the whole system."

    As far as I know an updated firewalled linux is not trivial to break into.

    More checking and snooping before wiping?

    -rpm -V all shadow related installed packages

    (rpm -qa | grep -i shadow)

    -chkrootkit -q

    -rkhunter --checkall

    (HOMEPAGE="http://www.rootkit.org/")

    (new for me rootkit checker)

    -output of last and lastlog commands

    -files in /var/log/

    -root's .bash_history

    -"compromised" users .bash_history

    Hope it's not a wipe but a fix and keep since I find it's much more fun!

  8. root password recovery - SOLVED

    in Security

    Posted

    sarah

    Hi

    ASAP go Linux. Malware(and $solutions$) about gone.

    The catch is you got to figure out your linux.

    But it's 100% configurable/documented/open-sourced/free,

    just like you wan't it I hope.

     

    AussieJohn

    "I do not use or need passwords on my computer in either root or my account"

    I do. I call it my idiot proofing for when I am not running on all neurons

    and at keyboard (been there some).

    It is superbly trivial to destroy my linux when root

    and waste time rebuilding while not doing what was initially intended.

    It is (99.9%)not possible to destroy my linux when I am user b.

    Hope you never are an idiot like I am sometimes.

     

    mtaylor57

    If you mount the disk on other machine

    and if it's disk partitions are encrypted

    you have problems getting at it's content if you don't have the key

    unless you are a spook from some such as NSA

    i.e. huge resources and neurons required...

    Bottom line:

    Don't want it known, don't write it.

  9. Drop root privileges from bash

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    Hi

     

    "but my root is not able to connect o X server"

    Good. In X while root is risky/happy-sitting-duck!

    Don't do this!!

    (cut off www if unprotected &| paranoid)

    (then give root X permision)

    cp /home/$USER/.Xauthority /root as root

    check root $DISPLAY value

    (should be same as echo $USER when $USER)

     

    "so i cannot see the dialog box"

    Doe's this work?

    Alt/F2 kdialog --title test --msgbox test

    0 problems here.

     

    I thought the idea was to run kdialog with non root priviledges!

    My little script work's here.

    (Maybe try it stanalone say as test.sh first)

     

    Please post your shell script.

    Maybe somebody will pick up something?

  11. gtkterm

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    Hi again

    Anyone here!

     

    Fallback posistion:

    minicom or xminicom(kinda-guied) work?

    serial link /dev/ttyS* confirgured/up/work?

    null modem cable check?

    Alternative:

    gtkterm-0.99.3 ok here but am not running mdk.

    compile source for your OS?

    A good many .devel packages (for header .h files)

    are required(mdk) if I rememeber correctly.

     

    How about more configuration/raw feedback.

     

    Browsed this ?

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Co...OWTO/index.html

    HIH

  18. Kernel config'ing

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    Hi

    Local resources:

    dmesg

    lspci -vv

    dmidecode (lm-sensors)

    /proc (cat some files in here)

    /sys (cat in here)

    /var/log/... (tail -f, less files in here)

     

    Kernel config:

    Why not start by installing a cooker 2.6 kernel

    (make sure you can compile/install/boot it)

    and use it's mdk .config as model to then tweak.

    I diff'ed 2.4-2.6 .config files and winged it

    removing a lot of not used stuff, it worked.

     

    Took a look at /usr/src/linux/README ?

    ...

    - Alternate configuration commands are:

    Have you tried make xconfig ?

     

    Test it ?

    cd /usr/src/linux

    cp .config config-test

    make ...

     

    I lost 2.4 kernel .../Documentation/Configure.help file in 2.6 !?

    hih

  20. Debian/Mandrake/Gentoo unscientific comparison

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Hi

    If Debian, Mandrake and Gentoo where running

    identical software, identically compiled from identically compiled tools

    (compiler, compiler settings/optimisations, etc)

    on identical hardware benchmark result's would be statistically identical.

    Linux is GPL after all.

     

    A professionnal Mandrake developpement team cooking up like Debian

    team a fast Linux IMHO should be expected/required as opposed to one cooked

    up by me let us say.

     

    Here are my CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS

    -march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer

     

    Notice -fomit-frame-pointer is missing from Gentoo benchmark.

    ...

    -fomit-frame-pointer

    Don't keep the frame pointer in a register for functions that don't need one.

    This avoids the instructions to save, set up and restore frame pointers;

    it also makes an extra register available in many functions.

    It also makes debugging impossible on some machines.

     

    On some machines, such as the VAX, this flag has no effect,...

     

    In short a debugging cycle stealing/time consuming helper(trace)

    I dought Mandrake or Debian are compiled with it enabled.!?(don't know)

     

    I am not selling or pushing anything here(except Linux).

    If my Gentoo is mucked up or not up to par it is my me myself anf I own fault only.

    Please enjoy your whatever GPL/Slow/Fast/Better/Worst/Bigger Linux.

     

    Benchmark's: IMHO marketting BS.

  21. Would like to use another DE

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Hi MottS

    Gnome later, skip it, gtk "blurs(tache)" display, not cool !

    My main GUI is Kde just love the "signets" on desktop.

    However

    export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86

    Check out :

    /usr/portage/xfce-base

    /usr/portage/xfce-extra

    i.e. xfce4

    Light, small + fast compiles.

    Ohlala definite contender, and soon more to come I read.

    Just might cookup/find a "signets" solution but

    won't part with konqueror, whatever.

    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63322

  22. Can i use a Swap partition for two installs

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted

    Hi

    will it affect the distros that i will install in the machine?

    No,

    anyway not for me when mandrake still "owned" /boot partition(lilo)

    for mdk8.2 + 2 gentoo versions.

    Finally got fed up booting mdk to lilo install new gentoo kernel.

    Installed grub(slick fb) in gentoo, now taking over mdk /boot partition.

    (some planing from me required for switch...)

    0 problems booting mdk(symlinks pointed to correct...)

    or gentoo. (mdk now gone from this machine)

    Have 0 direct knowledge about other distros I dont know zip about

    but would not be afraid to try since whatever "loads" a distro

    will load it's kernel et all according to it's particular configuration

    in /etc/lilo.conf, /boot/grub.conf or whatever.

    HIH

  23. DFE538TX

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hy

    I have same card running 8139too module on 2.4.20 kernel.

     

    # lsmod

    ...

    8139too 15208 1

    mii 2528 0 [8139too]

     

    (you did not show yours so here is mine)

    # ifconfig eth0

    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:48:D9:AA

    inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

    RX packets:359025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

    TX packets:333626 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

    collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

    RX bytes:409882377 (390.8 Mb) TX bytes:222237591 (211.9 Mb)

    Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe000

     

    # ./rtl8139-diag

    rtl8139-diag.c:v2.11 4/22/2003 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)

    http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

    Index #1: Found a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (RealTek RTL8139C) adapter at 0xa400.

    Realtek station address 00:50:ba:48:d9:aa, chip type 'rtl8139C'.

    Receiver configuration: Normal unicast and hashed multicast

    Rx FIFO threshold 2048 bytes, maximum burst 2048 bytes, 32KB ring

    Transmitter enabled with NONSTANDARD! settings, maximum burst 1024 bytes.

    Flow control: Tx disabled Rx enabled.

    The chip configuration is 0x10 0x8d, MII half-duplex mode.

    No interrupt sources are pending.

     

    Just ideas:

    - Dig out DLink/DFE538TX diag/setup disquette...

    - Check command that brings up your nic.

    HIH

  25. How do i connect 192.168.0.0/24 to 192.168.1.0/24?

    in Networking

    Posted

    Hi

     

    Dont know much about routed + to me it seems a large network

    overkill solution to a simple network problem.

     

    Assuming /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, /etc/resolv.conf

    are correctly set on all machines

    and all machines on subnet have a correctly set

    default gateway an idea:

     

    The router/2 nic machine has

    /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward == 1

    it's a total blocker if not set to 1

    i.e the packets on each subnet are going nowhere else!

    Again HIH

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