Ask Google Engineer a Questions
Are you interested to know more about Google? You have a change to ask Google engineer now.
Google Moderator is a small application initially created for submitting and voting on the questions for Google’s tech talks.
“At Google, we host a large number of “tech talks”. These talks cover a wide rage of Computer Science topics like research in machine learning and methods for ranking images based on text queries. I’ve enjoyed attending these tech talks, but as the number of attendees has grown over time, the question-and-answer part of the talks hasn’t been able to scale,” explains Taliver Heath.
Personally I have raised 2 questions to ‘any Google engineer’ and I hope I will get their reply soon plus your support.
My questions are:
“Does Google allow work from home(oversea) permanently?”
“Is there any final decision setup any new office(DC) in Malaysia?”
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Fedora 10 Artwork
Fedora 10 is just around the corner, there is an election in the Fedora voting system for members of the art group to vote on the default theme for Fedora 10.
Key Milestones
| 2008-05-13 | Fedora 9 Release |
| Fedora 10 Planning & Development Begins | |
| 2008-07-22 | Fedora 10 Alpha freeze |
| 2008-08-05 | Fedora 10 Alpha release |
| 2008-09-11 | Fedora 10 Beta freeze |
| Fedora 10 Feature Freeze–Planning & Development Ends | |
| Fedora 10 String freeze | |
| 2008-09-23 | Fedora 10 Beta release |
| Allow Fedora 10 pre-branch | |
| 2008-10-14 | Fedora 10 Translation deadline |
| 2008-10-21 | Final Development freeze |
| 2008-10-28 | Fedora 10 Preview Release |
| 2008-11-18 | Fedora 10 final release (GA) |
The candidates are:
The vote will be open for 36 hours only so please get your vote in ASAP. The vote will close at 1 AM UTC Sep 24 (9 PM EDT Sept 23).
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Set a Good Password Policy On SuSE Linux
Sometimes setting a good password policy is not easy and you may receive many complaint from end user especially non-IT related users. Normally they like password = password = abc123 as easy as possible.
Personally I don’t like pam_cracklib and I would preferred pam_passwdqc.
The pam_passwdqc module is a simple password strength checking module for PAM. In addition to checking regular passwords, it offers support for passphrases and can provide randomly generated ones.
The pam_passwdqc module provides functionality for only one PAM management group: password changing. In terms of the module-type parameter, this is the ”password” feature.
Here you go: SuSE Linux Password Policy.
Operating System: SLES 9
Required RPM: pam-modules, pwdutils, openssh and coreutils
/etc/pam.d/passwd auth required pam_unix2.so nullok account required pam_unix2.so account required pam_tally.so per_user deny=5 no_magic_root reset password required pam_passwdqc.so retry=5 ask_oldauthtok check_oldauthtok min=disabled,8,8,8,8 max=25 password required pam_pwcheck.so use_first_pass use_authtok password required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_unix2.so
/etc/pam.d/sshd
auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/login.deny auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root auth required pam_unix2.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so account required pam_unix2.so account required pam_nologin.so account required pam_tally.so deny=5 no_magic_root reset password required pam_passwdqc.so retry=5 ask_oldauthtok check_oldauthtok min=disabled,8,8,8,8 max=25 password required pam_pwcheck.so use_first_pass use_authtok password required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_unix2.so none session required pam_limits.so
/etc/pam.d/login
auth requisite pam_unix2.so nullok auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_mail.so auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root account required pam_unix2.so account required pam_tally.so deny=5 no_magic_root reset password required pam_passwdqc.so retry=5 ask_oldauthtok check_oldauthtok min=disabled,8,8,8,8 max=25 password required pam_pwcheck.so use_first_pass use_authtok password required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_unix2.so none session required pam_limits.so
/etc/pam.d/su
auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth required pam_unix2.so nullok account required pam_unix2.so account required pam_tally.so deny=5 no_magic_root reset password required pam_passwdqc.so retry=5 ask_oldauthtok check_oldauthtok min=disabled,8,8,8,8 max=25 password required pam_pwcheck.so nullok password required pam_unix2.so nullok use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_unix2.so debug
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How To Check Which Port Is Listern or Open on Linux
For some security reason you may configure SSH or any other protocol using different kind of port number on Linux server. Sometimes it’s important to know which ports are listern or open to the system network, it may open for network instruction or hacking.
Basically there are few methods to see which ports are open on Linux.
“How to check and open ports in Linux”
Option 1:
Check /etc/services file
planetmy:/ # cat /etc/services | grep xxx (xxx = port number)
If the command return no output mean no port configure to listen on the particular port number. For port SSH/22, you should be able to see:
ssh 22/tcp # SSH Remote Login Protocol
ssh 22/udp # SSH Remote Login Protocol
Option 2:
Use netstat command – Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships.
planetmy:/ # netstat -nan | grep 22
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7110/sshd
If the command output return ‘LISTEN’, mean the particular port is open or listen on network.
Option 3:
use lsof command – list open files
planetmy:/ # lsof -i -n -P|grep 631
cupsd 17934 lp 0u IPv4 56540196 TCP *:631 (LISTEN)
cupsd 17934 lp 2u IPv4 56540197 UDP *:631
Read more
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How To Force User Change Password At Next Login on Linux
My previous post talked about How To Show Linux User Password Expires. I would like to share “How to force user change password at next login on Linux“.
Option 1:
passwd command – change user password
Use the following syntax:
passwd -e
- -e Force the user to change password at next login
Setting password expire for user test
planetmy:~ # passwd -e test
planetmy:~ # chage -l test
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 90
Warning: 7
Inactive: -1
Last Change: Unknown, password is forced to change at next login
Password Expires: Never
Password Inactive: Never
Account Expires: Sep 11, 2008
Login as user ‘test’
login as: test
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password change requested. Choose a new password.
Old Password:
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
New Password:
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Reenter New Password:
Last login: Thu Sep 11 10:13:22 2008 from 192.168.1.102
test@planetmy:/>
Note: This is apply to SuSE Linux 9 and 10 but NOT Red Hat Linux.
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