Archive for the 'Tips' Category

How to create full right permission on Samba share

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Samba comes with different types of permissions for share and for some reason you [...]

SSH Remote Access Authentication Tips

Friday, October 10th, 2008

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 [...]

Your Password is Disclose

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

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 [...]

Ask Google Engineer a Questions

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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 [...]

Set a Good Password Policy On SuSE Linux

Friday, September 19th, 2008

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 [...]