Last week I was asked to help a friend to check out his server that has been hacked. First I was thinking some kind of PHP leak or SQL injection. But I was wrong. The crack uses some kind of SSH user/password scanner and got his root password.
I find this out because the cracker created […]
Well I need to handle some PHP upgrade on a Debian server some days ago, and it turns out to be a nightmire…
Debian is famous for its “apt-get” package management system, and I thought it would be easy. However, it turns out all the packages are binary and have exact version numbers in dependency. To […]
Well the ultimate way to tweak a program (besides modify the source)
is to edit the configure file. This is what we are gonna talk about in
this part.
There are two kind of config file for OpenSSH: for the server side and
for the client side.
- For the server side
The server side configure file is usually /etc/ssh/sshd_config. No
matter […]
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Posted 17 August 2007
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It is ideal if we can live in a Unix only world. However sometimes we’ll need MS windows. In this part we’ll talk about using OpenSSH, or SSH in general, on MS Windows platform. On the OpenSSH Alternatives for Windows page, there is a list of available free/open source software. We’ll talk about the two […]
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Posted 13 August 2007
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I gave Damm Small Linux a try today. I’ve heard it before but this article makes me decided to try it out.
There are many ways to boot DSL, CD, USB, or from a host OS, as I’m still concerning the many old PCs that can’t boot from USB, I decided to give the embeded version […]
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