LB Technology Services Blog » projects http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:26:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 LAT future http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2008/10/10/lat-future/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2008/10/10/lat-future/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:02 +0000 lorenb http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/?p=586 I haven’t done any development of LAT in a while. The tool does all the stuff I need it for and I’m happy with it as is. These days I’m mostly writing applications for the iPhone.

It was looking like the project would just die and fade away but, Jeroen Asselman has stepped up and taken over development. He’s moved the source code over to SourceForge.

I’m sure Jeroen will do a good job of taking LAT forward.

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You can follow the work in my git repository: git clone git://www.lbtechservices.com/lat.git

]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2008/03/24/lat-update/feed/ 1 Future of LAT http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/09/27/future-of-lat/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/09/27/future-of-lat/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:22:20 +0000 lorenb http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/blogs/lorenb/2007/09/27/future-of-lat/ For the last few months I’ve been unable to do much in the way of developing LAT.

The first issue is MonoDevelop. In the 1.3 branch, I started to make more use of MonoDevelop features. I switched from building the interface in Glade to MonoDevelop’s Stetic UI builder.

This made development much easier and I was able to clean up a lot of interface issues. However, I found new MonoDevelop releases wouldn’t compile the project any more. I reported the bug and some things got fixed but overall it stopped development cold.

As of MonoDevelop 0.15 I can’t even open the project anymore. It just crashes try to load the solution file. Even with the stable 1.2 branch, I can open the project but it refuses to compile with some strange errors.

The second issue is Mono, specifically the Novell.Directory.Ldap assembly. It doesn’t support non-Latin characters as far as I can tell. TLS support is broken. There is no support for GSSAPI for Kerberos intergration.

I can’t implement the features I want with the way things currently are. I guess I could try and fix it myself but it took me months to get one SSL bugfix accepted and then I had to wait for the next two Mono releases before I could use it. The TLS bug I reported has been open for over a year now. It doesn’t inspire confidence.

I’m not really interested in re-doing all the UI work in Glade and then switching back to a Gedit/Terminal/Glade workflow. Overall LAT does what I need it for and my itch is basically scratched. So as it stands, I don’t think I will be doing any more releases of LAT past 1.2.3 which I just pushed out today. If someone is interested in taking over the project, let me know.

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  • BUGFIX [#90] Fix bug with samba SID being stripped during edits
  • BUGFIX [#88] Creating new POSIX user causes crash

Downloads: tar.gz

]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/09/27/lat-123/feed/ 1 Sussen 0.90 http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/07/16/sussen-090/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/07/16/sussen-090/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:19:30 +0000 lorenb http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/blogs/lorenb/2007/07/16/sussen-090/ Sussen 0.90 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems.

We are getting closer to v1.0. The remaining items to do are to fix the remaining bugs in bugzilla, clean up the look/feel of the web console. The editor has been disabled for now, it won’t be ready in time for 1.0, but we’ll keep working on it for the 1.1/1.2 branch.

We are also working on setting up an OVAL repository so we can provide updated definitions in a more timely manner. I’ll have more details on that later.

Changes since 0.35:

  • editor: Disabled editor; will continue development in 1.1/1.2 branch
  • oval: Added initial support for OVAL 5.3
  • oval: API documentation updated
  • misc: Change license to GPL v3
  • www: Various improvements to web console
  • xml: Updated Ubuntu definitions for USNs 425-1 to 483-1
  • xml: Updated Windows definitions from oval.mitre.org

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 7) | .deb (Ubuntu 6.06) | .deb (Ubuntu 7.04) | .msi (Windows)

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]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/06/02/new-mailing-lists/feed/ 1 Sussen 0.35 http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/22/sussen-035/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/22/sussen-035/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:09:48 +0000 lorenb http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/blogs/lorenb/2007/02/22/sussen-035/ Sussen 0.35 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems. Changes since 0.34:

  • editor: Fixed crash if definitions were selected and list was empty
  • misc: Improved i18n support in agent,applet and editor
  • misc: Updated build to use po/LINGUAS
  • oval: Added support for OVAL 5.1 and 5.2
  • oval: Fixed error in handling of check attribute on tests
  • oval: Fixed regression in handling of definitions on wrong platform
  • xml: Updated Ubuntu definitions for USNs 413-1 to 424-1
  • xml: Updated Windows definitions from oval.mitre.org

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 6) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .msi (Windows)

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  • BUGFIX [#82] Password mandatory when creating a new user
  • Added it_IT translation from Danilo Ingami

Downloads: tar.gz | .deb (Ubuntu)

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  • Stetic interface now translatable
  • Upgraded managed D-Bus library (dbus-sharp 0.4 / dbus-sharp-glib 0.3)
  • Build system fixes

Downloads: tar.gz

]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/12/lat-132/feed/ 0 Sussen now OVAL compatible http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/02/sussen-now-oval-compatible/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/02/sussen-now-oval-compatible/#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:59:18 +0000 lorenb http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/blogs/lorenb/2007/02/02/sussen-now-oval-compatible/ Earlier today, Sussen was certified as being OVAL compatible. Here is the message we got:

Congratulations! MMG Security’s Sussen has been granted official OVAL
Compatibility. The OVAL Community is excited to add you to the growing
list of products and services that have embraced the initiative and are
working to make IT Security better for all.

The OVAL web site should now reflect this status. We will also be
presenting you with a formal certificate, either by mail or at an
upcoming conference.

Thank you again for you support of OVAL!

Currently it’s only for the Windows version though. We had some issues with XML validation under Linux/Mono. We reported the bugs, they got fixed and are just waiting for the next Mono release. Since the Linux and Windows versions share 90%+ of their code we don’t expect any major issues getting the Linux version certified as well.

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