Comments for Phocean.net

Comment on Automatic backup when inserting a drive by DLT

DLT — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:04:16 +0000

a great tutorial to easily take back up of the devices… good sharing

Comment on Disk Encryption on Linux by JC

JC — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:45:25 +0000

Yes, this is the same idea (a random password), but you will have to add a startup script to mount /tmp properly.

For instance, check :
http://www.maxsworld.org/index.php/how-tos/encrypt-tmp-swap-home

Comment on Disk Encryption on Linux by kirm

kirm — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:08:52 +0000

Hey! I tried your routine for encrypting a USB key and it worked but I couldn’t access it. I then realized I had to create a partition first and then go through the steps with the partition. So, to anyone out there, make sure you’ve created your partition before encrypting the key.

Works like a charm. Thanks a million!

BTW, I’m not to worried about encrypting the swap as I see that, with 4 GBs of memory, it doesn’t seem to be used but I sure would like to encrypt the /tmp and /var/tmp directories. Is there a way to do that in the same manner as your swap method (Don’t want to be bothered with passphrase)? I can do it in OpenSuse through the Partitioner but then I’m going to be prompted for 4 passphrases just to get to the login prompt.

Comment on OpenVPN and DNS on a linux client by PCoE

PCoE — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:37:55 +0000

Many howtos and docs before i left any hope about VPN&DNS… But this article helped me. I was only about trying to edit correctly /etc/resolv.conf (as I remember, even with correct DNS coming with push command from server), thought it’s anougth, but no luck.

Thnx a lot. =)

Comment on So much noise from Google about the attacks in China !? by thenews

thenews — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:49:48 +0000

No, google pulled out because China hacked them from inside their own China offices forcing the employees to give them access to google data.

Comment on So much noise from Google about the attacks in China !? by bittin

bittin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:22:26 +0000

http://audio.lugradio.org/shotofjaq/shotofjaq_thechinesegoogletimeout.ogg

Comment on Dovecot LDA vs Procmail by JC

JC — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:30:14 +0000

There were an issue with comments, so I post the comment I received from darix.
Thanks to him for this extra info :

[[[
1. also add mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
so also local mail gets delivered through dovecot.

2. sasl auth made simple
/etc/postfix/main.cf
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

/dev/dovecot/dovecot.conf
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}

in the socket listen section of the config. voila you can use SMTP AUTH without
much hassle.
]]]

Comment on Connecting your GNS3 labs to the real network by JC

JC — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:47:35 +0000

So what ?
GNS3 also deserves respect.
Believe me, having a frontend like GNS3 is nice when you want to test an architecture with more than a router and switch.
If you don’t like it, then pass your way.

Comment on Connecting your GNS3 labs to the real network by XDoC

XDoC — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:38:29 +0000

Why you need so lame way ) GNS is just a lame Graphical interface
and real thing that work for you and gns is a DYNAMIPS knowing this you can just put -p 0:NM-1FE-TX -s 0:0:gen_eth:eth0 or whatever interface you want

REMEMBER DYNAMIPS that is a real project that we must know and RESPECT

Comment on OpenSSL : CVE-2009-3555 security fix and mod_ssl client authentication breakage by JC

JC — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:46:21 +0000

Oops
No we rather bindly trust the maintainer…
That said, even if I read this changelog, as I did not know about ssl renegociation with clients before this issue, it wouldn’t have helped me immediatly…
Good lesson anyway, I will be more careful in the future.