Intrusions can take place from both authorized (insiders) and unauthorized (outsiders) users. My personal experience shows that unhappy user can damage the system, especially when they have a shell access. Some users are little smart and removes history file (such as ~/.bash_history) but you can monitor all user executed commands. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Mount Remote Directories Securely with SSH : Ubuntu
t me tell you, I’m a busy man. I’m always on the go and my trusty laptop is the only thing to keep me company much of the time. Despite being here, there and everywhere I still need access to my files and folders at home. But how can I access my files, securely, from anywhere on the planet? It is simple with SSH. Continue reading
Poedit – Useful tool for multilingual sites
Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it (although it was only tested on Unix with GTK+ and Windows). It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the file by hand.
Features
Here is a brief features list:
- Unlike other catalogs editors, Poedit shows data in very compact way. Entries are aranged in a list, so that you can easily navigate large catalogs and immediately get an idea about how big part of the catalog is already translated, what needs translating and which parts are only translated in a “fuzzy” way.
- Runs on Unix and Windows systems.
- Plural forms support. [1.3.0] Continue reading
Connectivity & Accessibility among Windows, Linux & Mac
Connect from Host MAC to Virtual Guest Windows using SSH & HTTP
Background Information.
SSH runs on port 22
HTTP runs on port 80
SSH command can be used many useful keywords such as
-l is for specificing login
-v is to run the command in debug mode. Its always nice to know what is happening behind the scene
Example comand.
>ssh -v -l LoginNameOfGuestMachine IPofGuestMachine
How to Install and configure a Hosting Linux Suse Server 11.1
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of OpenSUSE 11.1, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.
I will use the following software:
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