netsoul Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Hi All! Could somebody explain what is going on when one changes the security level in the Mandrake Security Center? I mean what scripts are executed/how to do that in command line? Also - I have troules pinging a site and establishing a PPTP VPN connection when my security level is in Standard. Only Poor selection allows for it. How to fix it? IP tables is not installed - what guards this? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 The security levels in mandrake are set by a mandrake written python program called "msec". Here's an intro to the subject: http://kb.mandrakeclub.com/index.php/SecureSmsec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netsoul Posted March 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Thanks for the reply, however I am not member of the Mandrake club. Is there an open source for that? BTW, can I become the member of the Mandrakeclub free of charge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Try www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/prog-msec.html instead. Club membership is not free. You can find details at www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 erm that's 8.2! Mandrake secuity changed significantly in 10.1 .... to the point of being unworkable for me. Like the mandrake kernels and wizards I think the documentation is 'join the club' or 'use the source code'..I spent a long time looking for the definition and patches to the enterprise kernel before 10.0 but never found it... one of my main reasons for ditching Mandrake as a main distro. (the other being the wizards themselves and breaking webmin) Its unfortunate but MDK are becoming more M$ like every release. ..and getting harder and harder to support if you are not running mandrake ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netsoul Posted March 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Its unfortunate but MDK are becoming more M$ like every release. ..and getting harder and harder to support if you are not running mandrake ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So what would be an alternative to MDK for home workstation then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 erm that's 8.2! Mandrake secuity changed significantly in 10.1 .... to the point of being unworkable for me. The club knowledge-base article that pmpatrick refers to, links to the 8.2 documentation - that's how I found it. So it may be out-of-date but it's probably the most up-to-date available... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 The club knowledge-base article that pmpatrick refers to, links to the 8.2 documentation - that's how I found it. So it may be out-of-date but it's probably the most up-to-date available... :unsure: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't doubt that! That was my complaint The changes in 10.1 were huge by the look of it and the whole thing is completely unusable to me without documentation. So we end up chicken/egg... do I join the club to get documentation ? MY personal feeling is this is blackmail so I won't... even if they gave me the powerpack... because I won't be tied to paying for documentation. (incidentally they DID give me the powerpack - thanks but no-thanks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 (edited) Heya, it has been quite some time since I have worked with Mandrake, but there is a directory (I think /usr/share/msec) or so. It contains various files. I remember there are 2 types of files (maybe more) perm.X and level.X. The perm.X-files specify the permsissions of files for securitylevel X and level.X specify other things like access to X-server, ... I suppose these files are changed when you change settings of msec through the gui. In this directories you may also find some scripts that are executed ... Somewhere there is also a file with a setting to enable a method to prevent buffer-overflows ... at the moment I can't remember the name of the method Mandrake uses, but I believe it is a wrapper around libc-library-calls(?). It's maybe located somewhere in /etc. I didn't test if changing this setting really enabled the protection. Hopes this helps you some, Michel Edited March 17, 2005 by Michel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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