I have a mail server configuration based on Postfix for the smtp, Dovecot for the imap and virtual users receiving e-mails in maildir boxes. I am also using Amavis and Spamassassin for content filtering. I am not going now to describe this configuration, I think there are already a lot of very good tutorials about [...]
A security advisory on OpenSSL has recently been published. Details are there and there. It is vulnerable to a MiTM attack where the attacker can intercept and retrieve the credential to a trusted HTTPS website, by intercepting the session cookie sent back to the client. A proof of concept of an attack against Twitter was [...]
I tried yesterday to set up a home server with two disks in a RAID 1 array. My intention was to have everything on the RAID volume, including /boot, so that if a disk crash, I still can boot on the second one. That’s the way I think it should work anyway, despite the number [...]
I bought a 500 GB 2.5″ external disk drive to backup the data of my laptop. It is small, quiet, easy to move and far enough for the important data I want to backup, mostly documents, e-mails or script from work. Being lazy, it happened that I did not backup my data. Yes, it is [...]
It allows to play a music file by letting the cursor over it, without opening a player. Very easy to set up : and it should work immediatly.
As I work on security, I used to use Nessus on my openSUSE system. But it seems that Tenable Network Security dropped support for the client on our favorite distribution. At least, for some reason, they stopped making an universal statically linked binary (though they keep doing it for the server part) and it hasn’t [...]
What is this ? It is said that this change is useless and won’t make any difference. In a few words, you consider that the request was stupid. On that point, and also as a Gnome user, I agree. In that case, why would you change anything ? No one is going to be satisfied [...]
I am using the 2.6.30 kernel sources from Kernel:linux-next and noticed that it has not yet been patched against the ’sock_sendpage()’ NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability. The threat is serious as it could allow a local user to gain root privileges. Those who compile their own 2.6.x kernel should apply this patch (from Linus, check there [...]
