Archive for March 2008
- Redirect if a website root is empty?
This should be a simple problem to solve, but I've yet to find a good solution, so any assistance would be most welcome. If you'd like to redirect to another website if a directory root has no files in it, how would you do so?
- Debian amd64: iceweasel with i386 plugins, outside a chroot
If you weren't already convinced that closed source sucked before, then surely the experience of trying to browse the net with an amd64 machine will have won you over;
- Struggling to implement PCI compliance
I'm striving to comply with PCI standards, but I'm running into a wall - due mostly to confusing, out-of-date, contradictory, and-or incomplete documentation. Or maybe just my own dense mentality. Does anybody have any guidance help me walk through the security thickets of setting up my Debian-based web store?
- OpenLDAP installation on Debian
The purpose of this article is to give you a straight-forward, Debian-friendly way of installing and configuring OpenLDAP. By the end of this guide, you will have a functional LDAP server that will serve as a central authentication system for user logins onto all machines in the network, without the need to manually create users' accounts on individual machines.
- Using pam-mount to create a sandboxed home directory
My biggest fear when using a public computer is that the data I enter might fall into the wrong hands. One way for developers to combat data theft is to hold personal info only for as long as is absolutely necessary, thereby shortening the window of opportunity for an attacker. This is possible in Linux through a combination of tmpfs and unionfs.
- pam_mount and sshfs with password authentication
pam_mount is "a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session". It is used to automatically mount a network share or volume when a user logs in, and unmount it when the user logs out sshfs is a FUSE filesystem that allows mounting a directory using the SSH sftp subsystem.
- Introduction BackupPC part 1
This HOWTO will describe how to install BackupPC and how to create a simple backup using backuppc. BackupPC can offer a nice solution for both simple and complex backups.
- Checking password strength for squirrelmail
I have successfully used the method below to configure the change_ldappass plugin of Squirrelmail to perform password strength checks using cracklib. I made a few assumptions, but it should be easy to adapt it to your own situation.