I’ve started moving some (very!) old projects to GitHub. This one deserves a mention since it’s still useful: SSHDShield is a daemon that monitors your sshd log looking for signs of a brute force attack and reacts to them. When I created this small tool, back in 2005, I needed something to protect SSH servers …
Tag: ssh
Perplexed about Ubuntu’s sudoers configuration
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 …