AdaPower.net

AdaPower.net

[David Botton]

AdaPower.net is temp off line. AdaPower.COM is not affected.

It seems that my account (and perhaps root) was compromised :-(

Although it seems this was done a fairly long time ago and the damage
limited to some one passing along some files or the like.

On the bright side, it forced me to push ahead with an upgrade and change to
Linux I planned some time ago. AdaPower.net is coming back on a new server
(already up). I'll be rebuilding the mirror sites on it soon and will have
to see what can be done with the user accounts.

Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD system to a
Linux system?

David Botton

Re: AdaPower.net

[David C. Hoos]

<snip>
> Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD system to a
> Linux system?
You should be able to copy the encrypted password field of /etc/passwd or of
the
shadow password file, and perhaps the entire file -- I don't remember
whether
the file formats differ between Linux and BSD.

Re: AdaPower.net

[Samuel Tardieu]

On  9/11, David Botton wrote:

| Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD system to a
| Linux system?

It is not a FreeBSD/Linux issue, it is a password format issue: if you used
MD5 passwords under FreeBSD and want to use DES passwords under Linux, then
you have to remake a brand new map (passwords are one-way hashes, in both
schemes, and the hashes are not related).

Re: AdaPower.net

[Adrian Knoth]

Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote:

> | Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD system to a
> | Linux system?
> It is not a FreeBSD/Linux issue, it is a password format issue: if you used
> MD5 passwords under FreeBSD and want to use DES passwords under Linux, 

Linux supports MD5-passwords, too.

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[OT] Linux passwd format

[Harri J Haataja]

Adrian Knoth wrote:
>Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote:
>
>> | Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD system to a
>> | Linux system?
>> It is not a FreeBSD/Linux issue, it is a password format issue: if you used
>> MD5 passwords under FreeBSD and want to use DES passwords under Linux, 
>
>Linux supports MD5-passwords, too.

Well, really Linux doesn't care squat what the userspace does WRT
logins. Most distributions built on Linux use pam.

So it could be anything. =)

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Re: AdaPower.net

[Peter Hend�n]

"David Botton" wrote:
> AdaPower.net is temp off line. AdaPower.COM is not affected.
<snip>
> It seems that my account (and perhaps root) was compromised :-(
<snip>
> Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD
> system to a Linux system?

David, as one of your grateful users, I'd recommend that you not
carry over the old passwords, but instead require all users to
set a new one. Just on general paranoid principle:-)

/Peter H.

Re: AdaPower.net

[Preben Randhol]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:30:14 +0100, Peter Hend�n wrote:
> "David Botton" wrote:
>> AdaPower.net is temp off line. AdaPower.COM is not affected.
><snip>
>> It seems that my account (and perhaps root) was compromised :-(
><snip>
>> Any one know of a way to port over passwords from a FreeBSD
>> system to a Linux system?
> 
> David, as one of your grateful users, I'd recommend that you not
> carry over the old passwords, but instead require all users to
> set a new one. Just on general paranoid principle:-)

Selinux seems to be something one should also keep a note of. It is not
a distribution, but NSAs security-enhanced Linux kernel. More info:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/

Preben
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Re: AdaPower.net

[David Botton]

OK, AdaPower.net mirrors are being run now:

The Libre site (GtkAda, AWS, etc., confirmed the binaries are also being
mirrored)
The Booch Components (already done)
GnuAda.org

David Botton