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chrooted ntpd in NetBSD

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

As we explained in Securing Systems withchroot, Part One, a daemon must run with an unprivileged us

The System Startup Daemon: init

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

A lot of neat stuff happens when you boot up your computer into FreeBSD. I won’t cover all the detai

FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Beastie and BeerwareAt least once a year, I like to comb through the files on my FreeBSD systemto se

Read The Friendly Manpage! — Part Two

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Let’s do an ls of the directory where the manpages are stored:cd /usr/share/manls -aF./ cat4

CVSup Infrastructure

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

CVSup is very convenient. It also uses a huge amount of CPU time andgenerates disk activity. While

The Price Quote of Freedom

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Many of us think of a price quote as something a vendor uses to tellyou how much money he demands in

Monitoring Unix Logins

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Let’s start with /var/log/lastlog. When a user logs in, the login utility reads this file to determi

Cracking Passwords to Enhance Security

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

By editing /etc/login.conf, we were able to enforce a minimum password length and set an expiry date

Networking with TCP/IP

Friday, February 8th, 2008

First off, let’s make sure you are clear on what a protocol is. Bydefinition, a protocol is the rule

Accessing a Cisco Router

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Normally, the only time you need to access a Cisco router is to view or change its configurations an