Filtered ports
Except for ssh those ports are not open but FILTERED. Connection attempts are most likely blocked by your or your provider's firewall so that not even the "port closed" information is returned.
View ArticleDevice ownership
The strange owners of some device nodes for removable media might be some pam setup that chowns them to the "locally" logged on user.i think some "desktop" distros do such things.
View Articlepam_console?
The devices owned by you could be because of pam_console as you're the only user logged in. If you haven't wiped it yet, have a look at the files /etc/security/console.* and see what they've got. May...
View ArticleRTFM ;-P
If you're going to use nmap and draw conslusions from its output, it'd be nice if you would RTFM."Open" means just that: a connection to that port is accepted, as in, a SYN packet gets a SYN,ACK...
View Articlepam
Hm, I didn't find any *pam_console* anywhere in /etc. There's a lot of stuff in /etc/pam.d, but nothing looks relevant there... What am I looking for exactly?Another idea I had is that it's related to...
View ArticleWhich PAM config option
Which PAM config option would do such a thing exactly? I didn't find anything upon a quick glance...
View Article"Conclusion" is such a hard
"Conclusion" is such a hard word. Let's call it observations ;) Ok, seriously though, you're correct of course. I'll attach netstat output to each of the posts, too, in future (and also for Debian +...
View ArticleThat's a very good question.
That's a very good question. I have no idea, yet, but will check the release notes. Maybe it's used for verification of packages or of the CD image or something...
View Articlea bit googling says
a bit googling says relavants to look at are: /etc/logindevperm /etc/pam.d/* look for pam_devperm resmgr might be linked overriding file permissions on some accesses toosee also:...
View ArticlePackage signing key
Ok, a gpg --list-keys returns "SuSE Package Signing Key", so I guess that's what it's used for.I didn't investigate any further, though...
View Articledevperm etc.
Ideed, that seems to be it. There's signs of resmgr and devperm in /etc, so I guess that's what going on...Thanks, Uwe.
View Articlecrypted partition
You can also crypt the partitions easily with the SUSE partinionner... juste a few more clicks But it's does not allow to crypt the swap :-/
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