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About Vincent Danen
Vincent Danen works on the Red Hat Security Response Team and lives in Canada. He has been writing about and developing on Linux for over 10 years.
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Delegate privileges to users with sudo
June 2, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen offers a quick primer about the popular sudo program and shows you how to use it to delegate different privileges to users.
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Dig for more data in the /proc directory
May 23, 2008 7:42am PDT
Vincent Danen introduces you to the /proc filesystem, which you can mine for a lot of helpful information about your system and running processes on your system.
7 Latest comment by aklujkar@...
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Dig for more data in the /proc directory
May 23, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen introduces you to the /proc filesystem, which you can mine for a lot of helpful information about your system and running processes on your system.
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Find and fix weak OpenSSL/OpenSSH keys: Debian-based Linux vulnerability
May 19, 2008 7:38am PDT
Vincent Danen reports on a recent vulnerability that affects Debian-based systems, including Ubuntu. This vulnerability caused OpenSSL to generate weak keys for anything relying on OpenSSL,...
5 Latest comment by rpr.nospam@...
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Finding weak OpenSSL/OpenSSH keys
May 19, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen reports on a recent vulnerability that affects Debian-based systems, including Ubuntu. This vulnerability caused OpenSSL to generate weak keys for anything relying on OpenSSL,...
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Log Linux services with runit
May 12, 2008 6:55am PDT
Vincent Danen explains how to configure logging for supervised services with the runit program.
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Log Linux services with runit
May 12, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen explains how to configure logging for supervised services with the runit program.
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Use runit to supervise Linux services
May 5, 2008 6:53am PDT
Gerrit Pape's runit is similar to djb's daemontools and allows you to run supervised services, like daemontools, and also allows you to replace SysV init completely if you so desire. Vincent Danen...
9 Latest comment by GimbalOx
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Use runit to supervise Linux services
May 5, 2008 12:00am PDT
Gerrit Pape's runit is similar to djb's daemontools and allows you to run supervised services, like daemontools, and also allows you to replace SysV init completely if you so desire. Vincent Danen...
Provided by: Vincent Danen
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Using the openssl command-line program
April 30, 2008 12:00am PDT
OpenSSL can be used to create, request, sign, and revoke certificates and can also be used to perform other cryptographic operations such as creating hashes for files, testing SSL connections, and...
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Learn to use the openssl command-line program
April 28, 2008 7:16am PDT
OpenSSL can be used to create, request, sign, and revoke certificates and can also be used to perform other cryptographic operations such as creating hashes for files, testing SSL connections, and...
12 Latest comment by Neon Samurai
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Try IRC with Irssi to communicate via chat
April 21, 2008 6:00am PDT
Vincent Danen recommends the command-line based Irssi client as an extensible and powerful tool for communicating with peers via IRC. He tells you how to set it up.
3 Latest comment by DanLM
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Using vi key bindings in bash and zsh
April 14, 2008 6:00am PDT
If you prefer to use vi or vim for command-line editing, you can configure shells to use vi key bindings instead of emacs-style key bindings. Here's how.
5 Latest comment by TJ111
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Use command-line MySQL for additional flexibility
April 7, 2008 7:52am PDT
The MySQL GUI and phpMyAdmin provide great administration tools for handling your database, but the mysql command-line program works quite well also and is more flexible.
9 Latest comment by wratholix
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Securely delete files with shred
March 31, 2008 9:43am PDT
If you want to delete sensitive data and make sure that it can't be recovered, the Linux rm command may not be enough. For deletion and file scrubbing, try the shred command, which overwrites data...
12 Latest comment by dgs010243
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Configure Snort to log packets to MySQL
March 21, 2008 9:14am PDT
Learn how to use Snort to log packets to a remote MySQL server where a graphical Web interface can be used to view captured packets and statistics.
7 Latest comment by sameerads
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Detect intruders on your network with Snort
March 17, 2008 7:27am PDT
Snort is a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), which can view and analyze packets on a network to determine whether or not a system is being attacked by remote. Most Linux distributions...
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Set up ISC's dhcpd server
March 3, 2008 7:00am PST
Large and small networks alike can take advantage of DHCP and often do. With the dhcpd server from Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) you can not only provide dynamic IP addresses to hosts on your...
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Encrypting and decrypting files with GnuPG
February 15, 2008 12:00am PST
GnuPG, the open replacement for PGP, is an excellent tool to manage cryptographic signatures to files or e-mails for validity and integrity, as well as a tool to encrypt and decrypt sensitive...
2 Latest comment by jack6666
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Get started with GnuPG
February 4, 2008 8:25am PST
GnuPG is an open replacement for PGP Corporation's PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption tool, and based on the OpenPGP standard. What GnuPG (or GPG for short) does is allow for the encryption and...
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