By scott, on February 17th, 2012%
There are a couple of ways to read a packet capture .cap file from the command line. I’ll show you how!
tcpdump
The tack r filename option for tcpdump will display a capture file onto . . . → Read More: How to Read a Packet Capture .cap File from Command Line
By scott, on February 7th, 2012%
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If you get this message attempting to ssh in or su’ing as another user, there is no valid shell set for this user.
You can quickly inspect this by looking at . . . → Read More: This account is currently not available
By scott, on January 17th, 2012%
A common question I hear is ‘Why are there so many different versions of Linux?‘ Especially when there is simply ‘Windows’, or ‘OS X’, it seems logical that there could be a single ‘Linux’, but for various . . . → Read More: Which Linux to Use
By scott, on January 13th, 2012%
Killing zombie processes in Linux or Unix cannot be done, as they are already dead. :) Often the only solution is to restart your machine. However, it is sometimes possible to kill or restart the parent process . . . → Read More: How to Kill Zombie Processes
By scott, on January 4th, 2012%
Ubuntu Server 12.04 will be released on 26 April 2012. Ubuntu 12.04 is supported with security updates until 2017 which makes Ubuntu LTS an attractive choice for use as a server. At the time of this blog . . . → Read More: What’s New in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
By scott, on January 4th, 2012%
ssh has a built in debug mode from the client side to provide information in troubleshooting a connection. This will provide information such as mismatch in client/server configuration options, key conflicts, permission problems, and various other useful . . . → Read More: Troubleshoot ssh Authentication Failure
By scott, on December 27th, 2011%
BlindElephant is a nifty python app that fingerprints web applications such as wordpress, drupal, mediawiki, phpbb, joomla, and many others to determine the version of the web application.
BlindElephant works via a new trendy technique of fetching . . . → Read More: BlindElephant – Web Application Fingerprinting
By scott, on December 26th, 2011%
To empty / clear / delete the Postfix mail queue, simply issue this command:
$ sudo postsuper -d ALL
The output will look similar to this:
$ sudo postsuper -d ALL postsuper: Deleted: 4 messages . . . → Read More: Postfix Empty Mail Queue
By scott, on December 22nd, 2011%
netcat can be used to quickly grab a service banner, as well as trusty nmap. I’ll show you some tips!
The netcat command is simply:
$ nc [target] [port]
Add tack v to get more verbosity.
. . . → Read More: Banner Grabs with netcat and nmap
By scott, on December 22nd, 2011%
The particular way an operating system or device sends and receives TCP packets provides a unique fingerprint. TCP header information such as the window size, TTL, overall SYN packet size, MSS, MTU and so forth can help . . . → Read More: TCP/OS Fingerprinting Tools – p0f and nmap
By scott, on December 15th, 2011%
Cyrus often ships by default with SSLv2 enabled which can be considered a security vulnerability. Here’s how to disable SSLv2 in your Cyrus IMAP server!
1. Edit the file /etc/imapd.conf
sudo nano /etc/imapd.conf
Find the . . . → Read More: Disable SSLv2 in Cyrus IMAP server
By scott, on December 8th, 2011%
myhosting.com provides Linux VPS hosting for cheap. I recently had the opportunity for an in-depth test drive and so here is the scottlinux review!
myhosting.com Linux VPS offerings runs on Virtuozzo Containers, the commercial version of . . . → Read More: myhosting.com Linux VPS Review
By scott, on November 30th, 2011%
In Linux, the command gpasswd can be used to add or remove users from a group. I’ll show you how! To add a user to a group, use tack a:
$ sudo gpasswd -a user group
The . . . → Read More: Add User to Group in Linux
By scott, on November 3rd, 2011%
To check if a server allows SSL Renegotiation, you can use the openssl command. I’ll show you how!
The commands are as follows:
$ openssl s_client -connect yourdomain.com:443
Then after the regular ssl cert info . . . → Read More: How to Check for SSL Renegotiation
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