My friend was try to setup Linux SSH public key authentication without password and he’s keep getting password prompt. I will not going to go through how to setup SSH public key authentication here and I just would like to share few troubleshoot tips in order to fix the similar problem here:
1. Checking /var/log/messages file
Basically [...]
I was try one of the microblogging software with my friend for the past few days and we are noticed one of the features that automatically send notices to Twitter stored a plain text password in MySQL database. That’s mean if you’re using the similar web services, your Twitter password is actually disclose.
Remember [...]
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Google Moderator is a small application initially created for submitting and voting on the questions for Google’s tech talks.
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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 [...]
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 actually 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 [...]
