July 2013 - luv-main - example.com

[MLUG] Fear of prosecution hampers security research / or When the good guys can't do good without fear.
by Andrew McGlashan 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/350733,fear-of-prosecution-hampers-securi…

1 0

Ubuntu forums hacked.
by Tim Hamilton 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

This comes via Andrew McGlashan & the MLUG mailing list. I thought Andrew might have cross-posted over here but it appears he hasn't and as I feel it's important to the community I thought I'd go ahead and do so. Those with a Ubuntu fourms account should see this announcement by Canonical about a security breach in which user names, email addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes were accessed. http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html This is especially important for those people who may have reused passwords on other sites including (but obviously not limited to) Canonical's Launchpad and UbuntuOne. Cheers Tim Hamilton -- Vote NO in referenda.

2 1

alternate OS voids warranty
by James Harper 21 Jul '13

21 Jul '13

Not necessarily Linux related, but I just got off the phone with a certain large computer manufacture trying to resolve a failed harddisk on a 3 month old computer, and they claim that installing an alternate OS has voided the warranty. In this case the computer shipped with Win7 and the "alternate OS" was XP, but I find the claim ludicrous as I install Linux on all sorts of PC's and the warranty callcenter has never skipped a beat as long as I can demonstrate the fault in an obvious way. This particular computer is a different brand though... What's my best avenue to force the issue? Or are they within their rights to say that I have voided my warranty? Thanks James

19 33

Statistical spam filters
by Jason White 21 Jul '13

21 Jul '13

This issue arose in conversation recently, thus I thought it worth asking here. Which tools are state of the art these days in statistical spam filtering? (Free/open-source and running on Linux are both assumed.) When I last looked (some years ago), the top options appeared to be, in no particular order: Spamassassin (rules + statistical classifier). It works well for many people; the statistical classifier used to be very memory-intensive and I know people for whom SpamAssassin didn't give accurate results even after training. CRM114: this is what I am currently using for my incoming mail. It appears to be in the midst of a rewrite as a library with support for various scripting languages. My initial experiences with it weren't good, but I tried it again several years ago and, this time, it quickly surpassed SpamAssassin when trained to classify my mail. Dspam: also has a good reputation, seems to be maintained to some extent. When last I looked at it in detail, a number of years ago, there were plans to add interesting features for allowing users to share filters so that a new user wouldn't have to train it from an empty database and one user's training could affect other users' filters. There were other projects around, but the above appeared to be the most sophisticated. So it's now 2013... Any changes? Comments?

9 13

Samba 4 and LDAP
by Peter 21 Jul '13

21 Jul '13

Hi all, I just play around with Samba 4. At the moment, there is no official support for external LDAP (e.g. OpenLDAP). My original understanding was: We want Samba 4 "out" as fast as possible so we concentrate on "core functionality" (e.g. using internal LDAP, DNS etc.), and look at issues related to external sources later. Yesterday I found this: ---- http://us.generation-nt.com/re-samba-windows-8-pro-no-domain-logon-possible… (20th Sep 2012) We spent considerable effort over a period of years in attempting to make this possible. It is not. Even if it was, it would not involve 'simply' reading the companies LDAP server, it would be a very intrusive change no more acceptable than using our own built-in LDAP server. Andrew Bartlett ---- I wonder whether it means: Samba will not use external LDAP at all (that would rule it out for me here) "Very intrusive changes".. to Samba or LDAP? Does anybody has insight of the "roadmap", especially about the future of external LDAP sources? I know that you can make it work, somehow, now. But if it does not have support by the Samba team it will be fiddly and fragile and you have to worry about future releases all the time. I am not really keen on that. Regards Peter

3 3

The H website is closing down
by Chris Samuel 20 Jul '13

20 Jul '13

As Steve linked to The H's posts regarding what was new in the 3.10 kernel I thought I'd share the sad news that The H is having to close down due to a lack of income: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-H-is-closing-down-1920027.html All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP

1 0

Flynn
by Toby Corkindale 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hello all, I'd like to bring this project to your attention. It's an open-source set of components to build a platform-as-a-service system. I don't know if you've seen Docker or Dokku, but this is a logical extension of Dokku (and includes the developer of Dokku). It's inspired by Heroku, and aims to provide software to let you run your own clusters so as to make deploying containerised applications and backing services easy for devs and ops. We're sponsoring it, but they're looking for some more sponsorship to reach their goal. (The sponsorship is to allow the devs to work on it full-time to fast-track the development; without sponsorship it'll still get there eventually.) https://flynn.io/ Cheers, Toby

1 0

what's a good GUI MUA?
by Russell Coker 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

I'm idly considering switching away from Kmail. What's a good replacement? I don't want much in the way of features, just basic sending and receiving mail with offline-IMAP. Viewing HTML mail, signing, encrypting, and decrypting via GPG, and an addressbook that also includes a cache of recent addresses. Also I'm idly considering moving my archive of 100,000 old messages to an IMAP server on my LAN and have my laptop access it via offline IMAP. I've got a bunch of folders with about 10,000 messages in each. Am I likely to have any problems doing this? The archive isn't going to change often (only when I manually move messages from the current folders on either my laptop or my workstation), so I'd probably have my workstation poll it once a week and my laptop poll it manually. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

16 43

Easily find all the child processes of a process?
by Chris Samuel 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Hi folks, This is likely an easy one, but my brain is fading rapidly at the moment.. Is there a way to easily collect all child (and grandchild, etc) processes of a particular process? I know I can do ps --ppid $PID to get the immediate children, and I can use pstree -p $PID to see all the descendants in graphical form, but I want to get an easy to parse list. Any ideas, or is this a case of writing it myself? cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

5 7

What's a good xterm and desktop environment
by Russell Coker 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

The latest Debian/Unstable has a newer buggier version of Konsole and I'm looking for a new Xterm type program. An ideal Konsole replacement would allow configuration of the field split characters for double-click copy/paste and have a slider at the side for scrolling back (xterm allows the mouse wheel but doesn't have a slider). It would also allow ^+ and ^- to be used for changing font size (as all web browsers seem to do). I'm now in the process of switching from Kmail to Claws. Claws isn't nearly as polished as Kmail (EG it doesn't allow arrow keys to scroll through the list of messages) and isn't as threaded but seems more solid. What's a good desktop replacement for KDE? I want something that looks like OS/2 2.0+, is reasonably fast (not the slow login of modern KDE), and which has widgets for times in multiple time zones and clipboard management. Thanks.

11 18