Recently I’ve been administering my first Ubuntu machine and I already feel a bit perplexed about its security setup. The issue is that by default, the root account password is locked in Ubuntu and you are encouraged never to use root, but rely on sudoers for system administration. I’ve read the rationale on Ubuntu’s wiki …
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mod_tunnel for Apache 2.2.x
mod_tunnel is a simple Apache module that can be used to create TCP tunnels using your Web server. It is useful to expose services which can be reached through a proxy, bypassing firewalls. After only 4 years since the previous version, you can now download version 2.0 which works with Apache 2.2.x (and maybe 2.0.x, …
Connection without a listening socket?
I’ve encountered a network problem that left me a bit puzzled. Usually, when you want to setup a TCP connection between two sockets (let’s called them S1 and S2), you need to perform these steps on the server: create S1 bind S1 to a port (or to a port/address, if you need to) set S1 …
Don’t shout at your hard drives!
It appears that hard drives don’t like it… It also proves that some sysadmins have far too much time to spare. 😉
Back in 2001
Nowadays everyone knows Google. But do you remember how it looked like in 2001? Let’s have a look… you can even perform searches and get the same results you would have obtained seven years ago 🙂