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This is an informational Question that I'll ask a Moderator to close so it'll be in the solution DB. I had a need recently to, as I migrated shell accounts off of a particular server, disab...
hi All,        Can I know how can I disable user accounts on HP-UX using script? Thanks in advance.... Regards, Pralay
Ok, this is a hard question, so put on your thinking caps!! On a trusted HP-UX system you can configure the system to remember the last X passwords in order to prevent a user from re-using ...
Hi, Occasionally, I will receive a certain security advice of a certain systems/network security vulnerability.  One such example is DNS cache poisoning & another one is an Snmp vulnerab...
Hi, /dsd/ondemand/2005--->source in 2005 directory i have many files like eg:a_2005,b_2005... What i want is i want to make a new directory named 2006 in /dsd/ondemand/2006.... Also i ...
Hi, We want to set up Radius on FreeBSD to authenticate users of a PHP/MySQL custom program, Microsoft Exchange users, Windows domain controller, and VPN clients. We also want to add/modify...
I have set up pub/priv keys in using... ssh-keygeb -b 1024 -t rsa -N <typed my passphrase> ls -alt  ~/.ssh -rw-r--r--   1 rtl      100          219 Jul  9 16:31 id_rsa.pub -rw-------  ...
hello all,    I run a ftp server and few other kinds of servers from my home machine(hotline, kdx, sshremotelogin, vnc and a few other random ones).  I have dydns running and stuff and stupid...
As subject said. Also fo security, how to configure the system to make each user have a unique, unshared, user account?
Hello If no one else but me has login access to the server can  777 directory permissions be a security threat? thanks for your help
I have 2 peoplesoft admins that currently log in as sysadm (all files created and owned by sysadm). Looking for accountability audit trails etc. if they login as themselves, then su - sysadm t...
Hi My sites were runing fine but i use mysqlcc via putty to connect and maintain the mysql databases and found suddenly i could not connect. logged into webmin and found there also i could no...
I am running ubuntu 8 and truecrypt.  All works well unless I have a file or directory name that is all upper case.  In this case and only this case the system converts the file name to all lo...
I rebooted my windows 2000 server last night due to some excessive network traffic and upon restarting my ftp software is claiming the port (21) to be in use.  I opened a terminal connection t...
I am running a dedicated server with FreeBSD 6.3. I've noticed that tons of login attempts are being made every night with random user names and passwords. I know this happens all the time to ...
kv_bsd#uname -a FreeBSD kv_bsd 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Wed May  7 19:40:55 PDT 2008     root@kv_bsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386 kv_bsd# Can't build Nessus port ibglib-...
Hello I am installing a php script and in order for it to work properly it has to be able to write data on the server. Therefore the directory permissions have to be set at 777. If no on...
Where can I know if password histry depth and account lockout for failed logon attempts are set in Solaris Unix?
In our NIS, we have above 1000 users. About 600 of them are allowed to browse a specific server, while the rest is not. We want to create a NIS group, e.g. "goodguys", put all 600 into it a...
Hi All, I'm having problems accessing ssh for the following version , installed on Solaris 8 OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005 When i ssh in from my LAN, it does not give me an...
How can i pipe the commands entered over an SSH connection to a log file and syslog? Basically, I want to monitor SSH connections to my RedHat box and the system commands made during that s...
How can I get TCP Wrapper (tcp_wrappers_7.6.tar.gz) to log messages about tftp connections?  I have done the following (Solaris 9): /etc/inetd.conf: tftp dgram udp6 wait root /usr/local/bin/t...
hello Expert, I want to restrict user from using ftp on my unix system. Hence I transferRED all user to ftpusers directory. using the following command cat /etc/passwd/cut -f1 -d:>...
We have application accounts on our solaris 8 servers like 'sybase', and 'oracle'.  I found out that our DBAs are logging in via SSH directly as these application accounts, rather than logging...
Is there a solution like Hotspot Helper but for the Mac: http://www.jiwire.com/hotspot-helper.htm This seems to offer using public unencrypted wifi hotspots and encrypt all of your own tra...