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...
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 ...
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 ...
Where can I know if password histry depth and account lockout for failed logon attempts are set in Solaris Unix?
Hi,
We converted our scripts to use sftp in March and it has been working great until today where we have this error.
warning: Authentication failed.
Disconnected; connection lost (Co...
hi All,
Can I know how can I disable user accounts on HP-UX using script?
Thanks in advance....
Regards,
Pralay
I have forget the redhat6.2 passsword,now i go to rescue mode and type command
chroot /mnt/sysimage but it is showing me error....
cannot change root directory to /mnt/sysimage:No such file ...
I've having a "minor" problem using OpenSSH on two AIX 4.3 Unix boxes.... I need to be able to use scp w/o prompting for a password. (I'm currently using an Expect script to get around the p...
Hi,
Currently I use the following script to obtain the number of days root password
is expiring. However this script will not work if /etc/shadow do not exist, esp
in an enhanced securit...
Hello to everyone!
Please if someone has any suggestion or knows good software for Disaster Recovery.
We have in our company installed Solaris 10 in Logical Domain (virtual machine) and ...
i am accepting password from the user in a shell script andstoring it into a temporary variable.
but it is shown on the screen while inputing.
how do i mask it or do not show it on the scree...
Hi all,
I have a big htpasswd file with many login and pass information.
I would like to add comments before or at the end of each line.
Is there a way to do that ? such as putting //comm...
Hi.
I'm having a little trouble with procmail and how to set it up properly.
What I want to do is to make spamassassin tag a mail as spam (which it does through procmail) and then either jus...
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...
Dear all
Thank you so much for you time... I am stuck with a NAT problem on FreeBSD 5.
I am using a FreeBSD release 5 system as a Gateway and simple firewall. The BSD system has two Network...
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 any functionality issues with a 15 character password on UNIX/Solaris machines or those that communicate with non UNIX/Solaris machines?
How to communicate without a passwd between 2 Unix systems where
the communicating sessions have different uid/s? (NOTE: both systems
are on OpenSSH)
e.g.
SystemA UserA SSH to Sy...
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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...
My customer wants to disable FTP and TELNET because a 3rd party vendor "Crowe" has found a back door to the Solaris 10 box. I heard that SSH or SSL can be used instead of FTP and TELNET.
So,...
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...
I am using CRON and MYSQLDUMP to backup a database on a nightly basis, and email the files to an administrator at home. I would like to encrypt the files for transmission, but I'm not having a...
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------- ...
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:>...
