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Linux-Announce Digest #29
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Linux-Announce Digest #29, Volume #4 Sun, 21 Oct 2001 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: ProFTPD 1.2.3 released (Mark Lowes)
cgipaf 1.0rc3 (staf wagemakers)
KSnuffle-2.2 released (Kenny Jewell)
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From: Mark Lowes <hamster@suespammers.org>
Subject: Re: ProFTPD 1.2.3 released
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 05:50:54 CST
ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written
from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of
configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on
the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax,
modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including
support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and
permission-based directory visibility.
In this version
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Fix for the Umask bug which crept into the 1.2.3 release.
http://www.proftpd.org/NEWS-1.2
http://www.proftpd.org/ChangeLog-1.2
Download
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ProFTPD can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.2.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.2.4.tar.bz2
ProFTPD is mirrored worldwide, geographic mirrors can be accessed
using the hostname ftp.<iso>.proftpd.org (ie ftp.uk.proftpd.org) not
all countries have mirrors however please try and use your closest
geographic mirror site.
--
Mark Lowes <hamster@suespammers.org http://www.proftpd.org/
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From: staf wagemakers <stafwag@f2s.com>
Subject: cgipaf 1.0rc3
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 05:50:54 CST
cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow users
to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to view their
current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates the mail
configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to
run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is
changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory.
A user with too many invalid logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID
can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that
are allowed to use cgipaf.
cgipaf is available at http://www.stafwag.f2s.com/cgipaf
REQUIREMENTS
+ a Un*x server (only tested with Debian gnu/Linux woody & potato and
solaris 8)
+ a mailserver that uses procmail
+ webserver
+ gcc, ndbm or gdbm
WHAT IS NEW
+ improved PAM detection
+ loglevel + debug messages
+ fixed: accessdb bug, the database wasn't always closed ( thanks to
Andreas Liebe for his patch )
+ it is possible to use the mailcfg.cgi for user with with non-interactive
shell such as /bin/false ( thanks to Andreas Liebe for his patch )
--
Staf Wagemakers
email : stafwag@f2s.com
homepage : http://www.stafwag.f2s.com
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From: Kenny Jewell <kjewel@ns2-235.summitpark.net>
Subject: KSnuffle-2.2 released
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 05:51:13 CST
Thanks!
==========[snip]========
KSnuffle, the KDE network packet sniffer, is now available for download
from:
ftp://195.92.31.34/ksnuffle-2.2/ksnuffle-2.2.tgz
This version has been built against a fairly recent KDE2.1 CVS snapshot.
The manual pages are online at
http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk/ksnuffle.manual
The main change from 2.1 is a work-around for the forthcoming KDE
change whereby setuid programs will not be run.
Please note that if the remote sniffer interface is not compatible with
2.0 and earlier versions. If you use remote sniffers, then you will need to
reinstall the rsnuffle daemon.
A few people have asked about RPMs. Sorry, none avaiable. I've got a
non-standard setup anyway, and there are two many combinations (RH, Suse,
Mandrake, installed under /usr or /opt/kde, etc.) to do this. Volunteers?
Regards
Mike Richardson
mike@quaking.demon.co.uk
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KSnuffle is a network packet sniffer for KDE. Features include:
* Basic filtering and packet selection via the GUI
* Advanced filtering and packet selection via filter programs
* Multiple concurrent monitors
* Text and binary logging, plus replay of binary log files
* Textual display of network traffic overview
* Full(er) details of protocol and application data available
* Display of data in TCP/IP streams
* Network load histograms and time-averaged load display
* Parallel display of multiple load histograms
* Save and restored filter and packet selection configurations
* Support for use by selected non-root users
* Plugin support - 0.8 contains plugins for
* TCP/IP stream monitoring
* DNS lookup monitoring,
* Traffic summaries
* End-to-End summaries
In its current state it is, so far as I can tell, quite reliable. The
main area where is is lacking is actually decoding different network
packets. At the moment, it handles basic decoding of TCP/IP and UDP/IP,
plus ARP/RARP and ICMP. Packet decoding does not go down into the
application level except for DNS packets.
Also, KSnuffle uses libpcap-0.4, as used by tcpdump. As I only have access
to Linux boxen, I cannot build or test it for any other Unix. I'd be
interested if anyone else could try.
KSnuffle is available from ftp://195.92.31.34/pub/ksnuffle-2.1/ ; there
is a homepage at http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk/ksnuffle.html. The latter
contains some screen shots and other information.
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