Linux - Part 21

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How to limit ssh access to specific users or groups

posted on May 6, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 1 Comment

Its sometimes necessary to limit who has access to a server via SSH. Most Linux security hardening checklist today require this to be enforced. Fortunately this can be easily done with openSSH. Just edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and add the desired directives shown below. You don’t need them all, just use what suits you needs. [...]

How to find recently installed RPMs

posted on May 5, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 1 Comment

rpm -qa –last will return all installed rpm packages with their installed time. The last installed packages will be at the top of the list. rpm -qa –last | less is will return all installed packages with their install date. Less allows you to scroll through the results. rpm -qa –last | tail -n [lines] [...]

support.microsoft.com not working behind Squid

posted on April 25, 2008 in HowTo, Internet, Windows with 12 Comments

Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy. Here’s the fix/workaround, Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go. #> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf add lines into /etc/squid.conf # Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain [...]

Google Earth for Linux

posted on April 24, 2008 in Internet, Linux, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature. Now something to [...]

How to upgrade MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 on CentOS 4

posted on April 22, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 4 Comments

I was playing a round with new software today which needed MySQL 5. My server’s running CentOS 4.6 which ships by default with MySQL 4. The to upgrade to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4 is easy. There are 2 options you could use. The first option would require you to remove all MySQL 4 packages [...]

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