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Special Forums Cybersecurity how to hide the IP in the email header? Post 5271 by PxT on Thursday 9th of August 2001 10:47:59 AM

08-09-2001

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Re: Not sure

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Originally posted by Anthony
my systems been tampered with several times because of my IP address spreading around...sometimes the ability to hide your IP is a good way of hacking pervention

Security through obscurity never works. Take CodeRed for example, your IP does not need to be published anywhere, and your machine is still a potential target. My DSL-connected Linux machine is port-scanned and probed pretty regularly -- and I am not special, and do not "advertise" my IP anywhere. One interesting example is from Project Honeynet. They connected a default RedHat 6.2 (this was some time ago) install to the net, and it was rooted within 15 minutes! Just because you don't "spread" your IP around, does not make you safe in the least. My "well-known" IP address receives just as much attention from potential crackers as my "secret" one...

The solution to your problem is a good firewall, and diligent monitoring of the log files that it produces, not spoofing of mail headers.

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httppower

httppower(8)							     powerman							      httppower(8)

NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units.	It is run interac-
       tively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
	      Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
	      Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
	      over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
	      Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
	      Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
	      Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

ORIGIN

       PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters.  This software is open source and distributed under the terms
       of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman

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