Message14422

Author wsmith
Recipients ajit, dan, dasu, help, rader, radtke, wcmaier, wsmith
Date 2008.07.01 08:37
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Dear Dan:
Could we remove the web-server? What would be the consequence?
Regards,
Wesley

On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Dan Bradley via UW-HEP Help System wrote:

>
> The condor-hosts ACL does include the web server.  It is just this:
>
>  128.104.28.0
>  128.104.29.0
>  128.105.0.0
>  198.51.254.0
>  198.51.255.0
>  128.104.3.0
>  128.104.202.0
>  128.104.32.0
>  144.92.101.0
>  144.92.180.0
>  144.92.181.0
>  144.92.182.0
>  144.92.183.0
>  128.104.55.0
>
> --Dan
>
> Sridhara Dasu via UW-HEP Help System wrote:
>> Dear Steve,
>>
>> This is quite disturbing.  The loose ACLs (i.e., free write access to
>> all nodes in condor-hosts) were set because we are using that method
>> for shared file system across multiple DNs of GLOW.  I put those
>> directories on web for convenience long ago but I don't really need
>> them now.  Your removing the link is just fine. It appears to me that
>> the "attack" is from one of the condor-hosts as I believe we don't  
>> let
>> the web server post files to our directories, do we?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sridhara
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Prof. Sridhara Rao Dasu                         Department of Physics
>> dasu@hep.wisc.edu                             University of Wisconsin
>> http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~dasu                    4289 Chamberlin Hall
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>>
>>
>> On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:50 PM, rader@hep.wisc.edu wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It happened again--the cause was: the index.html I created
>>> *disappeared*!
>>>
>>> It appears the person abusing our system has exploited the
>>> ACLs on /afs/hep.wisc.edu/cms/data/rootFiles.
>>>
>>> Since /afs/hep/home/dasu/www/rootFiles was a symlink to the
>>> directory above, so I just removed it (the symlink.)  The
>>> loadave and the server is okay now.
>>>
>>> On a lark, I checked for "viagra" in the logs and,
>>> alas, found that we served up various URLs of the form
>>> http://www.hep.wisc.edu//dasu/rootFiles/*/viagra about 1500
>>> times during the last 32 days.
>>>
>>> I guess we're okay now, but we should be aware that it seems
>>> there's someobody out there who understands AFS and is
>>> using loose ACLs to "own" us.
>>>
>>> steve
>>> --
>>>
>>
>> ----------
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>>
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