Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
After reading the report at http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg3.html and following this newsgroup discussion, I have some very basic questions: 1) What is a "sniffed password", and how do they know the attacker used a password that was "sniffed", rather than j

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-03 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
Sorry, this was misposted earlier. For those following this thread, I'll repeat the post: On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:50:32 +0100, Bill Goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists//Contents-.gz > zgrep Contents-.gz Thank you. Thank you. Finally a method t

Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!

2003-12-02 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:50:32 +0100, Bill Goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists//Contents-.gz > zgrep Contents-.gz Thank you. Thank you. Finally a method that works !! Just to summarize everything I've tried and failed: Debian Package Problems 1. S

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
swen spam, because I used it in posting to a newsgroup. After that, I set my newsreader's return address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. MacQuigg wrote: > I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they > never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation.

How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume this is something to do with a connection between this mailing list and the newsgroup. Are we supposed to use email only, or can we work with our normal new