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Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5
Author: vkfwb • Tags: security • Comments: 1Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how branching rules can be built.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, ftp •
Comments: 0 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, ubuntu • Comments: 3How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu) This tutorial shows how you can limit the CPU usage of a process with the tool cpulimit on Debian/Ubuntu. cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much CPU. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real CPU usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny (LAMP)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, mysql, php •
Comments: 11 Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Lenny server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Secure Your Wordpress Blog Administration With Two-Factor Authentication
Author: nowen • Tags: apache, linux, security • Comments: 3Secure Your Wordpress Blog Administration With Two-Factor Authentication Wordpress is a very popular blogging service. It was recently hit by a disturbing vulnerability that allowed attackers to reset the Administrator's password. While there is a patch for that vulnerability now, wouldn't it be best to not use static passwords? It is actually quite simple to add two-factor authentication to Wordpress.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, php •
Comments: 18 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Debian Lenny This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Debian Lenny. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
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Magento 1.3.2.3 Installer For Ubuntu 9.04
Author: linuxunixmadrid •
Tags: ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Magento 1.3.2.3 Installer For Ubuntu 9.04 This script automates the installation of Magento 1.3.2.3 on Ubuntu 9.0.4 Server and Desktop. Magento is an Open Source ecommerce web application.
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OpenERP 5.0.2 All-In-One Installer For Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (Server And Desktop)
Author: linuxunixmadrid •
Tags: ubuntu •
Comments: 0 OpenERP 5.0.2 All-In-One Installer For Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (Server And Desktop) This script automates the set up of openerp-server-5.0.2-0 & openerp-client-5.0.2-0 & openerp-web-5.0.2-0 on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (Server or Desktop). The goal is to provide an all-in-one installer of OpenERP for Linux.
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Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 4
Author: vkfwb • Tags: security • Comments: 0Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 4 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how IPv6 and mixed IPv4+IPv6 configurations can be built.
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Set Up DKIM For Multiple Domains On Postfix With dkim-milter 2.8.x (CentOS 5.3)
Author: poustchi •
Tags: postfix, centos •
Comments: 11 Set Up DKIM For Multiple Domains On Postfix With dkim-milter 2.8.x (CentOS 5.3) This tutorial shows how you can sign your email messages by using DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) for multiple domains. Signing email allows the recipient of a message to confirm a message originated with the sender's domain and that the message content has not been altered.
