See who’s poking your Linux box
If you’re using SSH and you have your ports wide open to the world, your best bet would be to install fail2ban. If you’re curious though as of whom is trying to get in by bruteforcing your SSH passwords, you [...]
Archive for the ‘Security’
Remove Update Manager’s pop-up in Jaunty
The Update manager in Jaunty tends to show up unexpectedly now and then. You close the window by reflex. But what if you didn’t have to cloes it anymore? Disable the application’s pop-up window by launching g[...]
Lock your KDE screen from the command line
Did you know you can lock your current KDE screen by using the command line? For the 3.x series use dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface lock and for KDE 4.x try qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock With the he[...]
Find all world-writable files
If you are an administrator and have users on your server, keeping files with limited permissions should be a priority. To seek out all world-writable files on your machine, do a simple find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls [...]
