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• Sshpass: non-interactive SSH password authentication 1 week, 5 days ago
  
  SSH’s (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called “interactive keyboard password authentication”, so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because OpenSSH takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard.

  Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool SSH into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in ....

• Pash - cross platform PowerShell is out in the wild! Announcement. 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  PowerShell open source reimplementation for “others” (Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc…) and Windows (including Windows Mobile and Windows CE)
• Linux users answer the call: Ubuntu wireless-adapter glitch resolved 4 months ago
  
  "The sage advice of Linux community members gets my Linksys wireless adapter working in Ubuntu 7.10 in just a few minutes."
• The perfect server - Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 6 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  This tutorial shows how to set up a Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) based 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, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.
• Microsoft responsible for nearly half of IT jobs 6 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  A study sponsored by the software giant found global IT spending will top $1.24 trillion in 2007, thanks in large part to itself ....
• Disk based backups with Amanda on Debian Etch 7 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "This document describes how to set up Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) on Debian Etch ... The resulting system provides a flexible backup system with many features. It will be able to back up multiple hosts via network to various devices. I chose the disk based backup for this howto .... "
• Central Log Management System 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  "Central Log Management System is a simple web based logging system which allows logging all syslog messages from various Network Devices, Unix, Linux, Solaris and Windows Servers. This allows the visibility of logs from all these devices in one single interface ...."
• The perfect start with Smoothwall Express 3.0 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  "Smoothwall Express is an internet firewall, which allows you to protect your network, as well as providing NAT functionality. It is ease to use and configurable via a web-based GUI. This open source firewall distribution requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or use .... "
• Chrooted SSH/SFTP tutorial for Debian Etch 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  "This tutorial describes two ways how to give users chrooted SSH access..."
• Preventing domain expiration 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Internet users have an equally pervasive -- and oddly similar -- problem: accidental Internet domain expiration. Your Linux user group or other nonprofit group (or, hey, even your company) is relying on some vaguely defined chain of command to make sure the domain keeps getting renewed, making the assumption everything's fine as long as no disaster has yet happened (which tactic is called "management by exception" in business school -- usually just before they cue the ominous music). Somebody drops the ball, the domain everyone's relying on expires when nobody's looking, and when the dust settles you find that a domain squatter's grabbed it. Yes, there are companies that make domain snatching their core business. They do well at it, too. Too well for my taste.
• Configure local and remote system logging 9 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "A Linux machine has a logging system which keeps track of what everything is doing. Anytime you authorize with sudo it gets logged. Anytime you (or someone else) connects via ssh it gets logged. Apache logs connections, mail servers log emails sent and refused. Pretty much everything keeps a log of what it is doing so you can later troubleshoot it or simply have a record of it.For those that are security minded it may not be a bad idea to keep duplicate of your logs by sending them not only to the local machine but to a remote machine as well .... "
• The most useful command line tools? 10 months, 1 week ago
  
  E. Stride writes "Our readers and experts helped us create our first guide to the 50 most-used Linux command line tools. This wildly popular guide needs updating, so we asked our inner circle to pitch in again. We're looking for the most important-most used tools for the command line."
• Entering a safe mirror when logging in with unionfs and chroot 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "This environment is a exact copy (mirror) of the system you're working on. Because you're in safe copy of the real system, you can do whatever you like, it will never change the system, everything stays inside the cache (the readwrite branch) ... "
• A Discussion on Grub Security 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "Today’s post isn’t so much a tutorial but more of a discussion or educational topic on grub. It was inspired by the original post here and continued discussion in the comments. I thought I would outline some suggestions on securing the grub boot loader and why Ubuntu adding a “rescue mode” entry in grub is not a security flaw and is really not any less secure than any other distribution ... "
• Open-source remote access technology advances 10 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  NoMachine has achieved a major new release of its remote access software for thin clients and other devices that run remotely hosted applications over low-bandwidth networks. NX 3.0 adds new connection options, handy per-server and per-user profiles, support for x86_64, and enhanced scriptability, the company said.
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