I try to understand the reasons for restricting DVD and MP3. My conclusion so far is that DVD is restricted due to software patents (and the DMCA). The software decoding DVD is open software, though. What is the situation regarding MP3? It is also restricted. Is it due to the same kind of software patents? As I understand, the MP3 codecs are not free software (like DVD)?
View 2 RepliesI have a server with two active network interfaces. On one, I need ssh open for all users (it's running LTSP, and as I learned the hard way today, blocking ssh kills LDM access).
On the other interface (which connects to the rest of the network), I only want to allow a few administrative users to connnect.
Is there a way to do this cleanly using sshd_config or PAM? I don't want to do something hacky like running dropbear.
I have an Apache, PureFTPd, PHP5, and MySQL server setup and running. I'm running several scripts that require folder access of "var/www" in order to accomplish the scripts duty. How do I remove and/or work around the security measure?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've got Ubuntu server 10.04 set up and I wanted to make a few restrictions. It's pretty much just acting as a VMware server at the moment, and there are some users I've created who I only want to be able to be able to log into the VMware infrastructure web interface. I want to make sure these users can't log in via SSH, FTP, or the console itself. I understand how to block them from logging in via SSH by using DenyUsers, and I added these users to the /etc/ftpusers file to lock them out of FTP, but how can I block them from logging in at the console itself?
I tried locking the user out by editing the /etc/passwd file, but the problem is that by doing this, it also prevents the user from being able to log into the VMware web interface.
The user's entry in /etc/passwd looks like this: bsmith:*:1005:1005:Bob Smith,,,:/home/bsmith:/bin/bash
does anyone know how to set restrictions on the commands a user can run as sudo? i want to make it so they can only halt the system.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow can I get rid of all policykit restrictions that fedora 13 has? I just upgraded from fedora 10 and of course my freenx sessions are again unable to do anything useful like mounting a drive. Difference is no GUI now to help fix this. So I would like to get rid of all restrictions.
View 6 Replies View RelatedBeen trying for some time to get Postfix to not allow some internal users to send email externally. I have found some good resources online but none of them work. The user is still able to send email internally and externally.
I used the following web pages to assist me... [URL]
Below is my main.cf
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
[Code]....
Is there a program available that would allow me to create an index in a pdf file that has no security restrictions on it? I know people can lock there files so I am not worried about thise but if I have open permissions on a pdf file how do I go about creating an index. It seems that by default you get the thumbnail view but I like to be able to click on a index list to go to a page.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm working with Opensuse 11.2 and KDE 4.3.5. I tried to restrict the run command (with Alt-F2) in the kdeglobals file:
~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals
[KDE Action Restrictions]
run_command=false
But there is no effect. With Opensuse 10.3 and KDE 3.5 it works fine.
I usually use .htaccess to restrict access to directories. But what if I just wanted to secure a single php file? Is there some sort of code that would allow me to say ONLY THIS IP can access this PHP file?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI set some restrictions in /etc/pam.d/system-auth, but they don't seem to be affecting anything.
/etc/pam.d/passwd:
Code:
password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=8
password required pam_unix.so md5 shadow use_authtok
/etc/pam.d/system-auth:
Code:
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so likeauth nullok
auth required pam_deny.so
[code]....
I dont want to allow the user winny on saturday and sundays. I added the following line in the /etc/security/time.conf file.
login;*;winny;!SaSu0000-2400
Then i added the following line in the /etc/pam.d/login file.
account required pam_time.so
this is the first line of that login file. But if i tried to login with the username winny it allows me to get log in. Is anything has to be change?
i have jsut setup a kvm virtual machine on my server. to connect to the VM from outside of the network i use ssh tunneling. what i would liek to know is if there is any way to create a new user with jsut ssh access. i dont want people to be able to edit files in ~/ or such. jsut need the user to estabilish the connection to the server
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have searched for days on Google and can't find a clear answer to my question. I have a NT4 PDC which I am migrating to Samba 3 (Version 3.4.2-47.fc12) on FC12 with kernel(2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686). I am using tdbsam as my passdb backend.I setup Samba as a BDC and then joined to NT4 Domain succesfully. When I go to vampire the accounts I get lots of errors and some user accounts get transfered over. It turns that all the user accounts that transfer are those that don't have a capital letter in their username on the NT4 domain server. Most do and don't get transfered. There seems to be errors with my groups and Computer accounts.Is there a way to change the requirements in Fedora 12 for username, groups and computernames?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have Fedora 10 installed. I want my users to be able to use any password they want. So I edited /etc/pam.d/system-auth, the password section.
Was:
Code:
password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
Become:
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I have a work network of about 20 boxes most of which are running Windows 7 and one of them is a file server using linux and another is Windows server 2003. Now the local IP is distributed by the router, and no regulation of internet access is done by any of the servers.What I need to do is restrict internet access to select domains, which would probably need DHCP through linux(I think, not really sure), and I need something simple like a 'blabla.conf' file with the allowed websites that I can edit. need to know how to regulate IP addresses through the linux box (all details if possible, I never tried to do that before), and how to restrict internet access also through linux.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a computer with two interfaces (eth0 and eth1), eth0 is connected with a local network and eth1 is connected to the internet, also it implements a NAT in the interface eth1. Nevertheless, I'm trying to create spoofed packets with sockets raw in the computer that runs the NAT and send the packets to the interface eth1. The problem is that the NAT is changing the IP source to the real one before send the packets. So, anyone have any idea how can I implements the NAT in eth1 but only apply the NAT to the packets that are from/to eth0? I was thinking in something like (I am really newbie with iptables):
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -i eth0 -j MASQUERADE
Well, it didn't work.
While I successfully configured an IPsec-VPN (I use a similar tho modified setup like this:[URL].. I am now stuck on the next steps. While I can connect to everything I want, I need to configure "access-groups" and/or "users".
The scenario is similar to this: Lets say Host A, B and C allow SSH-Connections and some weird non-standard UDP-Connection from Host-VPN, and are also accessible on other ports with public IP's (like http).
I now want to limit, that an admin-user has access to all of them, while trainee-admin only can access everything on Host B and C, and CEO only can connect via telnet to Host C - and all users can be roadwarriors
(I made this example up to give you an idea what i'm trying to do - hope it makes sense). Now my question is, if someone can point me towards a direction, as I'm quite clueless at the current moment as to what to try. I know that commercial IPsec-Implementations can do this, but can OpenSWAN/... give me something similar?
I am using internet web control through squid... All is working fine only some little bit issues.
(1) Sometime when i tried to open google.com or any site I got message (The requested URL could not be retrieved) Screen Shot Attached.) but again after sometimes same websites will open.
url
(2) I would like to block word 'sex'.. So I have edit squid.conf with the following acl
acl Blockword url_regex sex
http_access deny Blockword
but problem occur in some websites where 'sensex' word found in url. Then squid block 'sensex' url content website also..
I have a user that has already used up a demo 24hr trial on my website. At present, I only check the customer id and the IP address to search for duplicates. On the whole this works but it's not foolproof. We now have 1 user from China that is changing their IP address everyday to get access to the free trial. Any options on what to do? I thought of downloading a cookie to their computer that the website could pick up - again not foolproff but most people don't disable cookies. Any other options?
I could ban China temporarily until the user gives up but if they find another proxy to chain then their IP address will be different again.
I have searched other post on here and they appear to be relevant but when I enter in the exact same commands it denies relay access to everyone. I have also used the postmap command to refresh the database.
Feb 16 15:54:48 EMAIL2 postfix/smtpd[6512]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 554 5.7.1 <josh.dobs@gmail.com>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied; from=<msolis@EMAIL2.drewmedical.com> to=<josh.dobs@gmail.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<192.168.1.51>
I used this page as reference. [URL]
Below is my main.cf
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
[Code]....
I seem to be able to install / configure Postfix server in 10 minutes as an MTA for a single domain but my struggle is really understanding the maps / restrictions which even after reading "The Book of Postfix" is not very clear to me:
[Code]....
My question is between those commonly used three maps above, what are the difference between them and how do I know when to use one over the other? Can someone clearly explain them to me? Here's what I have in my 'main.cf' but honestly I couldn't tell you if they're correct or now:
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I'm trying to configure notifying 'sys admins' cellulars about some events in clients IT infrastructure. In linux env it would be ease, just to use 'mail' cmd but need solution for windows env in this case.
I have RAID Controller running under windows xp and its raid array sotfware has feature to notify about events by email. I found some free solutions on the internet but most of them are shareware and if are freeware, they have limitations e.g. nr of sent emails per day.
Is there some free smtp server that I can use with no limitations?
Can I limit the system resources that a process can use on Linux? I want to configure the system to avoid that some specified processes use some system resources:
choose if a process is allowed to use network and Internet.
choose which files and folders that a process can read, write or execute.
choose if a process is allowed to use sound and graphics output, and printer.
choose the limit of memory that it can use.
I'm trying to change the restrictions to some normal text files and their result is not what is expected.
For example, when I put:
chmod 000 testfile.txt
on a file that is
-rwxrwxrwx,
it instead becomes
-r--r--r--.
It doesn't matter whether I do it with a root or the owner of the file, the result is the same.
Also, putting
chmod u-rwx testfile
results in the file becoming, again,
-r--r--r--.
Also, some doesn't have any effect, such as
chmod o-r testfile.
Even if I do this, the result is the same -rwxrwxrwx.
So Im using CentOS 5, trying to install phpmyadmin for my server. Ive done it before but had to re-image my server because of some networking issues. This time when I go to do it I add two more repositories and go through and give all the appropriate ( I believed ) priorities. When I try to install phpmyadmin, I am getting messages that I need php5.2. When I try to install the dependencies, I get the message that i have "427 packages excluded due to repository priority restrictions." How do I fix this?
[URL] This is the guide I used to install phpmyadmin. I installed all the pre-reqs and Ive double and triple checked them all . . . . Ive also installed another repository, utterramblings. All to no avail. If code from the config files are needed I can pull them
How to create a user account on a Linux desktop machine with restrictions on connecting to the LAN, WAN, PCMCIA ports, Firewire, CDROM and generally any user controllable output options?
I have the task to set up a machine for users working with sensitive data that should not be leaving the machine where it is processed. This means disabling access to the ethernet device, lan, all other ports as mentioned earlier, and any other way of leaking the data.
In Mac OSX this was achieved using "Parental controls" from the System preferences; this even allows a selection of the applications that can be used. Under XP, Device Manager offers the option to click various devices and "Disable" them, which worked so far just fine. Some will point out that the latter mentioned OS may be easy to circumvent the security of in other ways, but that has been mitigated with other measures and it's not the point anyway. For the operator users in question, the aforementioned measure proved successful and worked.Using OSX and XP to do this was a 10-15 minutes job with testing included.
So far all guides and tutorials pointed to useradd, groups an facl, but in actual practical terms did not help at all, in fact most of the research did not render any practical results so far. I surely don't expect to point and click, and would gladly run a set of commands from CLI. If I had them. I would really would like to achieve the same restricted user account configuration in a concise, comprehensive and practical manner under Linux too. Preferably tested on humans before, and known to be workign, of course.
The machines that need to be set up are two laptops running Ubuntu. So how can this be accomplished in Linux?
'm a bit familiar with Centos as I have set up few website on this environment but I have never actually installed, and especially, configure ftp server. Now I need to do this. Simply I need to be able to create an access account for a user and then restrict access to only one folder within the website (idea is to allow this user to upload images via ftp). I did google for ftp servers and read about vsftpd but I couldn't find any tutorial on how exactly make it work with folders and specific users.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm new to Linux, so I decided to try using Wubi to get started. THe problem is, when it finished installing 10.04, I got this message: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\ubuntu\install\ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso' Is there any way around this? It might just be that overly restrictive thing called Vista (which I have the bad luck to be using). I was considering getting a USB drive for Ubuntu anyway..
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently got interested with with OS.. So I downloaded wubi in Ubuntu website. I opted for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition as am using a lappy. However, halfway through finishing download I got an error. The log shows:
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\ubuntu\install\ubuntu-10.10-netbook-i386.iso'