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SSH: Best Practices

Are you using SSH in the best way possible? Have you configured it to be as limited and secure as possible? The goal of this document is to kick in the new year with some best practices for SSH: why you should use them, how to set them up, and how to verify that they are in place. All of the examples below assume that you are using EnGarde Secure Linux but any modern Linux distribution will do just fine since, as far as I know, everybody ships OpenSSH.

How To Delete Mails From Or To A Specific Email Address From Your Mail Queue (Postfix)

If you get hit by a spam attack that floods your server with hundreds/thousands of emails from the same sender email address or to the same recipient email address, you can clean your mail queue from these emails with one single command before the mail flood takes your server to its knees.

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Mandriva 2008.0)

Magento E-Commerce Solution On Debian Etch

This document describes how to set up Magento on Debian Etch. The resulting system provides a professional open-source e-commerce solution with a many features. Please note, that Magento is currently in a preview release and not recommended for use in production environments. But at least it's worth to glance at it.

Setting Up Subversion And Trac As Virtual Hosts On An Ubuntu Server

This howto outlines the process by which one can set up the Subversion version control system, and have it work in tandem with Trac, the project manager for software development projects, on a server running Ubuntu (or possibly Debian).

How To Update The Kernel For Smoothwall Express 3.0

This is a guide for building a new kernel for Smoothwall Express 3.0. Smoothwall Express 3.0 is a UTM Internet Gataway Distro for X86 PC. But it is mainly used on older 386 PCs. If you want use it on a newer CPU, you will only get a "386"PC. So we must update the kernel for SW 3.0.

OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10

This document is a step by step guide for configuring Ubuntu 7.10 as a Samba Domain Controller with an LDAP backend (OpenLDAP). The point is to configure a server that can be comparable, from a central authentication point of view, to a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. The end result will be a server with an LDAP directory for storing user, group, and computer accounts. A Windows XP Professional SP2 workstation will be able to join the domain once properly configured.

Creating an AS400 terminal with an Old PC and Ubuntu

Writing Snort Rules On EnGarde

There are already tons of written Snort rules, but there just might be a time where you need to write one yourself. You can think of writing Snort rules as writing a program. They can include variables, keywords and functions. Why do we need to write rules? The reason is, without rules Snort will never detect someone trying to hack your machine. This HOWTO will give you confidence to write your own rules.

Network Management And Monitoring With Hyperic HQ On Fedora 8

This document describes how to set up Hyperic HQ on Fedora 8. The resulting system provides an awesome, web-based "System ManagementSoftware". It's the next stage of classical monitoring and able to manage all kinds of operating systems, web servers, application servers and database servers.

Creating Snapshot Backups Of Your Desktop With Timevault On Ubuntu 7.10