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Lars Noodén replied to a thread VMWare Fusion in Virtualisation

Try VirtualBox, it works well and is Free/Open Source Software (as long as Oracle lets it be). It can do both 32-bit and 64-bit, but if you want...

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3 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread rsync - copy files within all subdirectories and with patterns in Absolute Beginners Section

The option --files-from only reads the files from an existing list. If you want rsync to find what's there you can just point it to the source...

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3 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread LAMP for Wordpress safe on home computer? in Security Discussions

That's still about the same as restricting access to localhost for non-VM'd services. That kind of access control is something you have to learn any...

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5 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread LAMP for Wordpress safe on home computer? in Security Discussions

That won't make it any more secure. It just makes it easier to clean up. For learning it might be better to take advantage of VM snapshots. But...

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6 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread LAMP for Wordpress safe on home computer? in Security Discussions

If your home router is like most people's it will not forward connections to your desktop unless you specifically configure it to do so. If you...

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6 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Recommend a book/resource to learn bash in The Cafe

I'd also recommend at least skimming the following as you progress with other material: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FullBashGuide ...

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6 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Need help with remote access. in Networking & Wireless

+1 for key-based authentication If you turn off password authentication and use only keys, you can stop worrying about brute force cracking...

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18 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Need help with remote access. in Networking & Wireless

To give more hints on the ssh option, the remote machine needs to be running the server which is in the package openssh-server for Ubuntu. For other...

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19 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Squid or iptables to block facebook https in Server Platforms

Yes. Though sometimes it is a little hard to massage HTML tables into workable lists of text. Having two alternative methods of getting the...

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20 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Squid or iptables to block facebook https in Server Platforms

If you know the AS number of the network, you can also use whois to generate the list for you: /usr/bin/whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934' | tr '...

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21 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread permissions - restrict (human) user from reading a file which is required for process in Security Discussions

There might be a way to do it using sudo. Instead of using sudo to run as root, use sudo to run as a user that can read the password file. The...

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21 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread permissions - restrict (human) user from reading a file which is required for process in Security Discussions

If they are logging in while physically at the computer, then your might consider rbash. Make a special directory with only that one script in it...

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22 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread sudo & root pass in one line!? in General Help

That could be boiled down even shorter, skipping the redirect to a file and just piping the echo into sudo. However, either way you end up with the...

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22 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread sudo & root pass in one line!? in General Help

You can set specific programs to not need passwords in sudo, but you have to be careful in setting it up. Here is one example: %adm ALL=(ALL)...

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22 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread A home server / router in Networking & Wireless

I'd go with something lower power if it's going to be on most of the time. Most of the tasks you list don't demand fancy hardware, except for the...

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23 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Web Proxy server and DHCP Server on ubuntu 12.04 in Server Platforms

Bind is probably not necessary unless special tricks with DNS are needed. ISC dhcpd is easy enough to set up, but dnsmasq is even easier. ...

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1 Day Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread gpg help in General Help

When you are editing text as input you can use ctrl-d on a blank line to exit. It works in many other situations, too. Just be careful not to do it...

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2 Days Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread how to ensure that nobody will connect on my comp via ssh? in Absolute Beginners Section

The single most useful thing you could do to limit access via ssh would be to disable password logins and allow keys only. There are tutorials...

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2 Days Ago

codemaniac replied to a thread Getting creative with SED - removing string and x digits after in Programming Talk

Thread moved to "Programming Talk" sub-forum.

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2 Days Ago

codemaniac replied to a thread where to get a C compiler in Programming Talk

gcc and g++ compilers are bundled with the "build-essential" package. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc -v

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3 Days Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread using the ftp in Absolute Beginners Section

Just to give a little more detail to what Iowan writes about ssh, you can use the built-in SFTP support to copy files if you have the package...

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3 Days Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread remote ssh conection in General Help

Actually you can multiplex using sslh and have both HTTPS and SSH over the same port. I can't speak to how efficient it is but it is easy enough to...

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