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: sysadmin
Screenshot Of The Day
uhm… what should I choose? This very useful dialog pops up when you aren’t an administrator on Windows 2003, annoying you until you decide that it’s time to reboot. Or find someone that can do it, that is. I guess it deserves an UI Design Award 😀
LogMiner 1.23
Version 1.23 of LogMiner, my Apache/IIS log analysis package, is now available. This release mainly fixes some build problem on modern distributions. Also it finally includes the cleanup function I was talking about some days ago…
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 …
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, …