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How to Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer

Password Sniffer on Linux? Yep, we all need to be informed of passwords being sniffed out! I would not entail those details and cover specific issues of identifying your network securities as that would be large enough to be covered here and case to case basis. However, those two words are being mentioned here and [...]

How to Prevent Non-Root From Rebooting/Shutting Down The System

Have you experienced a scenario where your users make use of reboot or halt command? Did somebody user just reboot your own server? Do you want to prevent your users from shutting down your linux box or even rebooting it? Here’s a quick entry on how to prevent users from rebooting or shutting down your [...]

How to Secure SSH by Disabling Root Logins

Securing SSH is one major thing on server boxes regardless of server location. Here’s one quick tip of adding security to your SSH connection by disabling any root logins. How to secure SSH by disabling root logins? To disable direct root logins, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and replace this line #PermitRootLogin yes with the below line [...]

HowTo: Prevent Non-Root From Rebooting/Shutting Down The System

Have you experienced a scenario where your users make use of reboot or halt command? Did somebody user just reboot your own server? Do you want to prevent your users from shutting down your linux box or even rebooting it? Here’s a quick entry on how to prevent users from rebooting or shutting down your [...]

How to Prevent the IIS SMTP Virtual Server from Relaying E-mail Messages

1) Start Internet Information Services Manager or open the Internet Information Services (IIS) snap-in. 2) Expand Server_name, where Server_name is the name of the server, right-click Default SMTP Virtual Server, and then click Properties. 3) Click the Access tab, and then under Access control, click Authentication. 4) Click to select either or both the Basic [...]

Rsyslog – Most Advanced Log Server

Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it suitable for [...]

How to setup Transparent Proxy with Squid

One of the many tasks we could be facing from time to time in our work is setting up and building a production proxy server. Proxy implementation could be done in several ways to achieve the same goal. One best bet we could have with this kind of setup is by using Squid linux software [...]

How to set Sendmail MTA

Long before the decades of email servers begun, a postman’s job is highly critical on delivering postal mails, not to consider those old transportation means to travel those postal mails and deliveries across the country and states. Technology is continuously evolving. Gone were the days on spending almost the whole day configuring a linux server [...]

How to Install WordPress on Fedora9

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. If your desktop is currently being powered by Fedora, here’s a [...]

How to Smart Host Sendmail

Sendmail can be configured to send emails directly to destination host or email server. However, network traffic congestion, email destination location, and connectivity rate sometimes affect and tend to fail a successful email delivery. Medium and large type of private networks are traditionally behind a firewall. This type of network usually sends emails directly to [...]

Fedora 9: How to Install SquidGuard Proxy Filter

SquidGuard is a URL redirector and content filter addon that restricts proxy clients from accessing particular and/or banned site(s), IP addresses, URLs, website patterns using the proxy server.  SquidGuard can be used in conjunction with Squid proxy to implement website content filter from the proxy server. Here’s a run down on how to install and [...]

Fedora 9: Quick NFS Server HowTo

Here’s a quick post on how to build and setup NFS server. Fedora 9: Quick NFS Server HowTo NFS Server Configuration 1. Download and install NFS rpm package using yum # yum -y install nfs-utils rpcbind If  you have an earlier Fedora versions # yum -y intall nfs-utils portmap 2. Prepare and modify /etc/exports for [...]

Fedora 9: Mount Shared NFS from Another Linux Host

Sharing files over network have been very usual network activity in any type of networks whether private or public network. NFS is only way of sharing files located from server over a network of hosts. Here’s a quick run down on how top mount an existing read-only NFS share folder over a network from a [...]

Linux: How to Call Linux Commands Inside PHP Page

At times, we need to verify some linux binaries from our web hosting provider. Say, we need to confirm path locations of specific linux binaries in order for our particular PHP pages to work out its function. There are lot of ways to do it, the simplest way is to call your web hosting provider [...]

Sendmail: How To Queue Mails based Server Load Average

There has been a lot of web debates and arguments which STMP email server works better, safer and faster. Not to discredit any other SMTP armies on the field, but I do often hear people debating about how difficult for them to configure Sendmail on time. Probably sendmail should be repackaged with a little teaspoon [...]