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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ System Administrator Appreciation Day http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091167601 The last Friday in July is the [1]System Administrator Appreciation Day. A day to think about those people who are looking for your computers, files, mails, networks and phones to work. References 1. http://www.sysadminday.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Understanding authentication in Panther http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/86 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virus in your mailbox http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090856384 During this day, several exemplars of [1]Mydoom.M or [2]Mydoom.O passed our Virus filter. McAfee and Symantec don't reconise this virus for now. Please don't open any attachements you don't expect. References 1. http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_126621.htm 2. http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_127033.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Definite problems in Internet Explorer http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1088415044 After the [1]rumors from friday about bugs in the base system, new [2]storys about [3]Internet Explorer appears. Short description: don't use IE. Read on for the long description. Update: There is now (Friday afternoon) a [4]patch from Microsoft which closes one of thoses problems. Please visit [5]Windowsupdate! Update 2: The fix is not perfect, see [6]BUGTRAQ. References 1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1088144702/index_html 2. http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/27/1436213.shtml?tid=126&tid=154&tid=172… 3. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ 4. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=870669 5. http://windowupdate.microsoft.com/ 6. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367878/2004-07-02/2004-07-08/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Linux Kernel Security Update http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090602229 In the Linux kernel some [1]security holes have been found and [2]updates are available. This security hole applies to our setup as well, so we will need to reboot all client workstations on Monday morning, July 26. References 1. http://www.osvdb.org/7357 2. http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_20_kernel.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yet another Linux kernel problem http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090564301 [1]SuSE discovered a [2]problem in the [3]chown() system call of the [4]Linux [5]kernel. While all kernels of the [6]2.6 line are affected and should be upgraded, only kernels from the [7]2.4 line running the [8]kernel-nfs-server could be exploited. The fixes are in [9]2.6.7 and [10]2.4.27-rc3. We will reboot our [11]servers during weekend and the [12]workstations on monday morning. References 1. http://www.suse.com/ 2. http://www.osvdb.org/7357 3. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man2/chown.2.gz 4. http://www.linux.ch/ 5. http://www.kernel.org/ 6. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ 7. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ 8. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/man2html?nfsd 9. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.7 10. http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3399 11. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/ 12. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/workstations/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes How to Use Email http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/14 How to Use Student Computers http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/25 How to use your Tapedrive under Linux http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/80 How to use D-PHYS2-Computers http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes How to use USB Harddisk or USB Memorysticks http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/95 VPNC with Linux http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes D-PHYS Domain Logon http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/144 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes How to automatically forward Email http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/81 PXE-Boot http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/88 MacOS X Setup - DHCP http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/90 MacOS X Setup - TFTP / NFS servers http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/91 MacOS X Setup - Image setup http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/92 MacOS X Setup - Image creation http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/93 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Security news http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1089896015 While our [1]newsletter is usually the right thing for a user of our services, a computer administrator should get informations direct from the vendor of his system(s). We have collected a [2]list of the security newsletters / mailinglists from the common vendors. References 1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/subscribe/ 2. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/links/security/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Security Bulletin July 2004 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1089747516 [1]Microsoft has released the [2]Security Bulletin Summary for July 2004. It is a real big bulletin with 2 crtitical, 4 important and 1 moderate problem. While writing this article, not all information is yet available. Run [3]Windows Update (with Internet Explorer) on all the Windows Workstations and Servers to install the Security Updates. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-jul.mspx 3. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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