Ubuntu
I have installed ubuntu 8.0.4 and am tring to get the compiz add on to work. Am i wasting time trying on an dell inspiron 1525 have noticed a lot of brute-force or dictionary attacks on my FTP server. Most of the time, the attacker is running their own FTP server, so they were probably themselves compromised by the same attack, and their system is now being used by their attacker to attack my server. I’ve been using fail2ban to block them, but I thought it might be cool instead to actually connect to their server and proxy everything, logging any successful logins.
Would there be anything illegal about this? My script doesn’t spoof, it only proxies. Their own FTP banner will be sent to them. They are essentially interacting with their own server. It does log passwords, but they willingly connected to my server and provided the passwords. I would be concerned about implicating yourself in already-compromised system behavior. If you’re redirecting logins from your host and they are successful then you’re now a user on their FTP server (a big if). (Authorized or otherwise) You now have to hope there’s nothing on there that might incriminate you. (most likely not)
Although you are presenting them with their own banner, does that banner say “you are allowed to use this system for your own purpose”, or anything about it being an open system?
To what end are you redirecting the attacks? Are you simply trying to find out what username/passwords work on the compromised system? Although that sounds interesting it may not be worth the risk (of involving yourself) if you’re only going to uncover bad passwords.
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Tags: banner, Their own FTP, Ubuntu.
February 20th, 2010 at 9:05 PM
It should install just by right clicking on your desktop clicking “Change Desktop Backgroung” >> “Visual Effects” tab >> and clicking “Normal”.
Once installation is finished restart your computer.
See Also: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t…
A movie on Compiz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944VX8wHD…
And if all else fails you can use Mibit ( http://www.mibbit.com ) to join the official IRC channel #ubuntu on the server irc.freenode.net.
Hope this helps.
February 21st, 2010 at 3:11 AM
Make sure you are using either NVIDIA’s or ATI’s proprietary drivers with OpenGL support enabled. Other graphics cards with OpenGL capabilities are also somewhat supported.
I should say that all cards known to myself on a standard 8.0.4 Ubuntu Desktop install with Gnome as your desktop manager and it’s windows manager will still have a rough time for a full 3D AND usable desktop at the same time.
Many application you may install will work fine in full acceleration mode, others will not, yet, will work with partial acceleration, and then yet again for some users Compiz is not acceptably in coherence with the majority of Desktop application developers, and their released applications – thus Compiz (the pops and bangs), may not be usable what so ever.
If you are unable to even attempt to use Compiz, and you have a video card with proprietary drivers, make sure that the Linux kernel restricted modules package is installed. If your video card is not included in this set of drivers (or modules), you may have to browse your manufacturers site, or a GPL, BSD, etc community driven alternative.
February 21st, 2010 at 6:34 AM
This is a website describing how the person who wrote it put compiz fusion on his Dell Inspiron 1525 with an Intel graphics card. There is only One problem: it’s in French.http://blog.thelinuxfr.org/2008/Installa…
Babelfish translates the relevant paragraph like this:
“Compiz-fusion The Intel cards are blacklisté by default because there is small problem related to Compiz-Fusion. It is thus necessary to carry out a small handling for cure all that. Started by taking a terminal then: Cd .config/ & & to mkdir compiz & & touch compiz-manager & & echo ‘SKIP_CHECKS=” yes” ‘> > /.config/compiz/compiz-manager Then made: * To support on ALT+F2 * Type: gstreamer-properties * And in the mitre ” Vidéo” select the graft of exit to X Windows System (without Xv) Under Hardy all this handling is not necessary any more. ”
What you should type in the terminal has been slightly messed up by this process. This is what you type from the web page, and it’s proper bash syntax:
cd .config/ && mkdir compiz && touch compiz-manager && echo ’SKIP_CHECKS=”yes”’ >> /.config/compiz/compiz-manager
Notice, type a period before .config.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:01 AM
Right click on the desktop to get properties
Select Visual Effects
Select Extra or Normal