I use the Cannon LIDE35 flat bed scanner and works right out of the box with xsane. didn't have to do a thing. $80 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 1:33 PM Subject: OT: Printer/scanner suggestions. > "Doug Sutherland" <doug&proficio,ca> speculated: > > > It should not be possible for files to be inaccessible by root. > > It is possible that you now have a rootkit installed. > > Yeah, definitely a root-kit with filenames like "input.history" and > "catalog.events". chattr didn't work. I think most of the commands > have been compromised. The little bastage didn't re-write the ls > command very well, though. The files appear if you do an 'ls -a .*' to > display just the dot-files. Then a few dot and non-dot-files > appear...to normal and root users. It's a pretty neat hackk. I really > only had sendmail and fetchmail semi-configured, and a bunch of > symlinks to docs and HOWTO's. Oh, and commenting out half of > rc.profile. <grins> I'm not losing very much. > > > > Don't leave ports open! > > Don't run services that you don't need. > > Create some detterants so they go somewhere else instead. > > Had all that, except for the deterants. The firewall's closed, and > I'm only running sendmail. I have other services installed but > disabled, as they're not even configured yet. I was planning on > activating the whole shebang with a runlevel change. It's barely above > runlevel 1 at present. It's really no big deal. Helps me learn the > system. > I was wondering though. Do you know if it's possible to require > that both the executable and indestructible bits be set so a program > can run? I was thinking of password protecting the chattr command, or > re-writing it so that it could only be executed from localhost, and > locking everything down. You'd have a catch-22 scenario, if you > removed one of the bits from chattr, though. You couldn't change any > binaries or libraries remotely without access to chattr, nor upload > anything that can be made executable without chattr. <grins> I guess > admins who need full remote access won't like it, though. Nor would > anyone using a package manager, or needing to do any programming. I > guess there would have to be some kind of security toggle that only a > working chattr could disable. > Myself, I'd prefer laughing my hairy butt off at some jerk trying > to upload a virus or root-kit that he can't even run. > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.1/1050 - Release Date: 10/4/2007 > 5:03 PM > >
