Can you still use a 'distro' that has been knocked off the update tree with security intact, i.e., what are the risks. I ask because I am quite happy with fed 12 but there is a sound problem with my hardware on fed 14. My idea of extended support is 10 years, nieve I know but a nice thought.
View 11 RepliesI currently run Ubuntu 10.04 alongside Vista. I have been looking for a few linux projects to help me learn, the two that I have thought of have been:
1. LFS
2. Something security related
As for no.2, I am interested in learning about network security, intrusion detection, system logging, firewall logging etc. And as a project I would like to work on creating a desktop box as secure as possible, then maybe testing my own box on my home network.
1. Is there a good linux distro that is designed for security?I know people often say "the distro doesn't matter, it only matters how you configure it.
2. Does everyone agree with this? As far as security, learning, etc, are all distros created equally?
When the update manager pops-up with a window informing of updates I choose install with the updates checked, I am asked for my password and subsequently the update is not carried and the window with the update list reappears. When i use apt-get update the process is carried out correctly.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe problem was finding an applet to browse directory tree directly in the Gnome panel similar to that in "Recent Documents". The thread was closed without any solution posted there and also no solution available elsewhere (I searched for over 2 hours) in the forum.
Search for "file-browser-applet" in the Synaptic Package Manager. The applet with exactly that name is what you need. It allows to browse and open files on your computer from the GNOME panel. Once installed, "Add to panel".
Is there a way to update my distro with a newer version and not disturb saved media files? Music and pictures etc. Can I move them to another partition. Its there a better way than to save it to disk?
View 13 Replies View Relatednominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
View 14 Replies View RelatedRecently did a clean install of fc13 and need to get flash player back - following the instructions on adobe's website but still doesn't appear to be working. If I try to download & install again I get a message saying it's already installed.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to see how secure my company is. I am not too concerned about over the wire, more about someone hacking our wireless.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWith the ever increasing threat of financially aimed malware on Windows machines(think Zeus here), I'd like to create a distro of Linux that boots from a USB thumb drive and opens directly to a web browser. I'd like this distro or config not to be writable and its only purpose being to make financial transactions via a web browser. All other services or applications would need to be stopped or locked down.I've seen some threads on here from a few years back and wanted to know if there is anything new out there that can assist with this.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI think ubuntu/canonical should start releasing a new flavour geared towards meeting needs of computer security professionals just like backtrack distro
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow would You encrypt Passwords [emails,forums,accounts] onto USB Flash the most Secure way? (It should be command line so I can use any Linux distribution on it.) Is gpg -c <filename> secure enough ? And what FAST distro would you install on it? I'm learning on old USB flash and found SliTaz pretty damn cool,I use it as a LiveUSB. Also I've tried Kubuntu but it's bit slow. Going to try Lubuntu soon too. Any other idea?
And I'd like to install some FAST distro onto new 8GB mini USB flash drive,maybe Kubuntu as well. How would you partition its Flash drive? Probably separate partition for stored encrypted files?
I recently came upon an ubuntu variant called blackbuntu. Its in early release stages at this point, but its being marketed as a pen test distro. Exactly like Back Track, but in Ubuntu form. Was just wondering if anyone has had a chance to use this yet? All software that the distro uses is readily avilable in the ubuntu repositories already.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to use the cp command to copy some files around but want to preserve the entire folder structure. Example:
Then within the /backup location I want to see /backup/folder1/folder2/file.
I have tried cp -a and cp -p but neither give me the above.
The command: Code: ls -lRt Shows a recusrive listing, and sorts by modification time. But this in in tree fashion, where it first lists the contents of the current folder sorted by time, and then the contents of each child folder sorted by time. How would one accomplish this type of sort, but with an aggregate listing - all items recursively sorted together, rather than by individual folder?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am working on a project where I need to use the C language to generate a tree of processes. I understand how fork() works but I cant seem to get fork() to create two children from one parent and then have the two children create two more children.
Right now what i am seeing is a chain...where the parent creates one child...and that child creates another ONE child..etc.
Here is what I have so far:
for (i=0; i<n;i++){
if (childpid = fork()) break;
}
if (childpid == -1){
perror ("
[Code]....
Currently using linux mint.While it's nice I have the feeling all those bells and whistles must be exposing a large attack surface. What is the most secure distro known to man, but which is still capable of making payments to amazon and ebay?
View 14 Replies View RelatedAre there any other archiving tools than tar that preserve Linux file permissions and user/group flags? I want to create archives of a directory tree on my ubuntu box. The directory trees are large, a first run with tar cvpzf archive.tgz /home/foo/bar yielded a 5GB archive. I also want to keep all permissions and other flags and special files.I'm fine with a 5GB archive, however to look inside that archive -- since it is a compressed tar archive -- the whole 5GB have to be decompressed first! (Or so it appears when opening it with the archive viewer -- I'm happy to be corrected.)So I need a way to "backup" a directory (tree) while preserving full filesystem attributes and right and creating an archive with an "index" that hasn't to be decompressed for browsing its contents. An archive is either a single file, or a (small) set of files that carries full and complete information within this file/s. That is, it can live on any filesystem (size permitting), it can be burnt onto a DVD, you can split it (after which the point of this question is really lost - but still), ...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a WD world book edition 1TB NAS drive, and just purchased an acomdata 1tb drive and connected it to the NAS via USB. If I recall I think the WD NAS has a ext_ or some type of linux filesystem on it, and the acomdata has a ntfs filesystem on it.
What I want to do is copy over certain directory trees of the NAS to the USB attached drive. I usually use MS synctoy to sync folders from my windows pc to the NAS drive, and MS richcopy to make the initial transfer from PC to NAS. For this operation though, since it is taking place entirely on the NAS and its connected drive, I thought that rsync would be the best option, and it is available on my NAS drive.
Last night I entered in rsync -avr /movies/* /usb1-1share1/ to copy the entire "movies" dir to the drive, which shows up as usb1-1share1 on the NAS drive. It copied most of the directory tree ok, but a lot of the folders were empty, so this morning I tried rsync -Carv --ignore-existing /movies/* /usb1-1share1/ to try and get all the files missed, without recopying the 24GB that did make it across. This also managed to copy a few more GB over, but not everything.
I am running the command from an ssh session on the NAS using putty on my PC, in as user "admin" which should have all rights over these folders. There is a bunch of errors in the command window like this: rsync: failed to set times on "/shares/usb1-1share1/movies/classics/fulldvd/First Blood DVD/.VTS_01_2.VOB.RxdjWZ": Operation not permitted (1)
I want to restart another session and get the files it missed, but I want to find out what I am doing wrong first. Should I be doing this as root user? am I missing some switches or just plain doing it all wrong?
I am trying to ftp a whole directory tree using vsftpd as ftp server in fedora11
Code:
I am getting error while transfering a directory tree ...
This little fragment does the opposite of what I want and I am trying to figure out how to reverse it. I want to strip off the directory and echo just the filenames. I cannot predict how many levels deep the directory tree is.
View 6 Replies View Relatedso my update manager keeps saying I have updated everything, but it won't show the new 11.04 release. I did everything the documentation says, including change the release upgrade file so its pointed to normal distro upgrades.
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow do I find a phrase/word recursively in a file tree in Linux?I tried find . -name ./* | grep my_phraseand I tried grep -r "register_long_arrays" *
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like to overwrite files in a directory tree, recursively. The ones I would like to overwrite match the filename "x_alpha*.png" and have a size exactly 456 bytes. Is there any way to search for these recursively in a directory tree, and overwrite them with a reference file, for example "e:mydirgood.png"
I am using Windows 7, but I have UnxUtils, so I can use those too. What I am looking for is something like this, generated automatically:
copy /y e:mydirgood.png e:mydiracx_alpha0023.png
copy /y e:mydirgood.png e:mydirefgx_alpha0045.png
copy /y e:mydirgood.png e:mydirhx_alpha0248.png
i updated both browsers i have and lost my secure log-in pages (no padlocks showing ) concerning different Web mail accounts.Just before i did these updates i checked an unrelated thing on-line regarding my sound card of which i kept a copy of and got this message below :
!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!------------------
[ 12.762633] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: AM
[code]....
How can I make the security applet stop showing an update for firefox 3.5.9? I have a more recent version installed from mozilla repo: firefox 3.6. The mozilla repo already has a higher priority (95 instead of 99), so I don't know what to do.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am from India, and I tried to update my Ubuntu system today. Code: $sudo apt-get update The update failed because the connection to the India mirror timed out: Code: [URL] Could not connect to in.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (111.91.91.37). - connect (110: Connection timed out) I tried the update a few times, with the same result every time.
I had firestarter running at this time, and noticed that I would get new security events every time I tried an update. I checked the events list, and it turned out that the machine at the ip address 111.91.91.37 (the in.archive.ubuntu.com machine, to go by the above error message) had been trying to make connections to seemingly random ports on the machine every time I tried the update: see the attached screenshot. I then changed my repositories to the Main Server using Synaptic, and tried the update again (from the command-line). This time it worked without a hitch, and firestarter did not report any unwanted incoming connection. why is the India mirror trying to open connections that the Main server apparently does not need in order for me to do the update? Should I (we) be concerned?
I was running 10.04 LTS and had decided to stick to the LTS versions as I'm now running my machine as a server and don't want to be updating regularly.Every time I logged in via SSH I got a message telling me there where packages to update including a security update. So I did a search to find out how to perform an update on Ubuntu server from the command line.What I found was to do this:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get dist-upgradeAfter doing that I rebooted but now my machine gives me this message:
init: ureadahead-other main process (794) terminated with status 4Your disk drives are being checked for errors, this may take some timePress C to cancel all checks currently inprogressI'm not pressing C yet and leaving it alone to finish, but I noticed when the machine booted that one of the options for booting talked about Ubuntu 10.10, so I'm worried that I've updated from 10.04 LTS to 10.10 by accident?
Libnss3-1d
xulrunner-1.9.1
xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome support
After click on install updates and entering password, a message says "Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the server(s). Do you want to continue, ignoring these packages? Yes/No.
If I answer No, this message appears:
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/po....10.1_i386.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
If Yes, it tries to download but immediately:
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/po....10.1_i386.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
It has always installed the updates with no problems, until these 3 updates remain in pending installation status.
Just got a sudo update from the update manager-does anyone know what this specific update does?
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust got a message about critical security holes for phpmyadmin (see e.g. [URL]) and wondering, when I'd get an update for my ubuntu server Lucid Lynx 10.04.3?
Currently installed version is 4:3.3.2-1, published on 2010-04-16.