Security, Linux, Development
i’ve added scponly rpms with chroot enabled for rhel4. get the files here or by apt/yum. this is more useful in a shared hosting environment than the rpms found at DAG and elsewhere that don’t have chroot enabled.
to use this, for example on a plesk box to allow domains to use sftp without having to give them a chroot’ed bash shell, do the following: Continue reading ’scponly rpms with chroot enabled added for rhel4′
This howto is meant to be a quick fix for those moving from one server to two or those with two servers who want to disable recursion. This only works if at least one of your nameservers answers authoritatively for each zone already. I believe it should work for those with more than two servers as long as one of the nameserver listed for any given domain does answer authoritatively. But if you have more servers than two, you should probably looking to setup your dns properly rather than using this quick fix shown here. Continue reading ‘HOWTO: use forwards in bind to only answer queries for domains on your servers (and not be an open dns server)’
The following commands are all you need to create a self-signed (wildcard, if you want) SSL certificate: Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Create a self-signed (wildcard) SSL certificate’
This howto will show you how to setup an SSL certificate on a Plesk server so that it will be used when people connect through secure pop, smtp and imap. Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Setup SSL certificates for mail services (pop3s, imaps, smtps) on Plesk / Courier-Imap / Qmail’