Comments for MDLog:/sysadmin

Comment on Dell BIOS firmware updates on Debian by Hansen

Hansen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:46:44 +0000

Works perfectly to upgrade Dell Precision 340 BIOS v.A01 to BIOS v.A07
Thanks for this guide !

Comment on Debian Lenny PXE Installation on Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950 servers: bnx2 annoyances by Ger

Ger — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:18:24 +0000

First of all, very useful info.. thanks!

It helped me through this mess of our autoinstall procedure being broken. Perhaps useful to mention, we use Dell R410 servers and it is also needed with those broadcom versions that a more current module is included in the ramdisk besides the firmware.
In that case, just download the official driver and compile it for the version kernel you’re pxe booting. cp the module files inside the extracted dir and archive it again like mentioned above

Comment on Elance to offer Prepaid MasterCard for service providers starting March 2008 by Madge Madre

Madge Madre — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:12:25 +0000

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Comment on Ubuntu: How to enable the root account by isaaclw

isaaclw — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:34:12 +0000

Ok… Maybe I’m just confused.
1) you can disable sudo as is posted

sudo protects the computer, because a hacker can’t just log in as root and have full privleges, instead they have to log in as a regular user (guessing the username) and THEN run sudo, most likely having to put the password in twice (which really doesn’t decrease it that much…)

In any case, I have no idea why anyone thinks it’s more of a security risk… Someone mentioned multi-user computers. If you make an “administrator” just make sure other users aren’t in the admin group. And it actually defaults to NOT put them in any group, so you’re fine.

Anyway, I want to rsync data as root, so I need a root login…

Comment on LDAP: troubleshooting “I have no name!” by Lokk

Lokk — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:16:20 +0000

Sure, it’s a nice artice.

You could also use nscd then you won’t need to set the permissions of the config to be world readable.

Comment on Dell BIOS firmware updates on Debian by Cota

Cota — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:24:01 +0000

Worked flawlessly to upgrade a Dell Latitude C640 from bios v.A08 to A10. This should double the maximum RAM from 1GB to 2GB! Thanks

Comment on Setting up a PPTP VPN server on Debian Etch by vinayak

vinayak — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:13:27 +0000

Hello,

Great Dude.Thanks alot. I have a small problem..I am not understanding the importance of localip 192.168.1.1
remoteip 192.168.1.100-120..Can you plz eloborate on this

Comment on iptables geoip match on debian lenny by j.eng

j.eng — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:56:18 +0000

A visitor client generally does not send any information about its timezone, so there is nothing that you could match in the first place.

Comment on Linux Tips: take control of your bash_history by karatedog

karatedog — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:14:18 +0000

‘ignoreboth’ is ‘ignoredups’ + ‘ignorespace’

Comment on Apache Tips & Tricks: Hide apache software version by Clemente

Clemente — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:14:02 +0000

Thanks for this post, just what i was looking for and worked like a charm.

In our case we modified on /etc/apache2/conf.d/security file

Thanks again!