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  • Authentication, Authorization & Accounting with FreeRadius & MySQL backend & web based Management with Daloradius

    centos Author: awanTags: Comments: 38

    Authentication, Authorization & Accounting With FreeRadius & MySQL Backend & Web Based Management with Daloradius This tutorial explains how to set up a FreeRadius 2.x server for wifi authentication, authorization and accounting in conjunction with mysql & web based management with Daloradius on CentOS 5.x. Production deployment is also possible with minor tweaking. But as usual I do not guarantee anything & take no responsibilities.

  • Wifi Authentication/Accounting With FreeRadius On CentOS 5

    Author: awanTags: Comments: 10

    Wifi Authentication/Accounting With FreeRadius On CentOS 5 This tutorial explains how you can set up a FreeRadius server with Wifi authentication and accounting on CentOS 5. This howto should work for a newbie. Production deployment is also possible with minor tweaking. But as usual I do not guarantee anything & take no responsibilities if something goes wrong.

  • Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12

    fedora Author: Falko TimmeTags: , Comments: 0

    Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12 This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 12 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

  • Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server

    fedora Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 1

    Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 13 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

  • How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On CentOS 5.4

    centos Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 0

    How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On CentOS 5.4 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a CentOS 5.4 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.

  • Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny

    debian Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 13

    Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new). These graphs can be accessed with a browser, whereas pflogsumm ("Postfix Log Entry Summarizer") can be used to send reports of Postfix activity per email.

  • Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04

    cherokee VMWare Image Download Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 2

    Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04 Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

  • Using eBox As A Gateway: Firewall, Traffic Shaping, HTTP Proxy And More

    Author: jsalameroTags: Comments: 4

    Using eBox As A Gateway: Firewall, Traffic Shaping, HTTP Proxy And More eBox Platform is the Linux small business server that allows you to manage all your network services like firewall, DHCP, DNS, VPN, proxy, IDS, mail, file and printer sharing, VoIP, IM and much more. These functionalities are tightly integrated, automating most tasks, avoiding mistakes and saving time for system administrators. This article will show you step by step how to use eBox as a Gateway, featuring network configuration, load balancing between two Internet connections with WAN failover and multigateway rules for policy routing, traffic shaping, DHCP and DNS cache for the LAN network and HTTP proxy with different content filtering policies and antivirus.

  • Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 10.04)

    ubuntu VMWare Image Download Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 33

    This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.

  • How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

    ubuntu Author: inflateTags: , Comments: 22

    How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) This guide explains how to install Alfresco Community 3.3 on Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.