Scenario; set up ssh keys to machine so that you do not require a password for use with something like scp. First you need a slave user. If you ‘adduser’ on both machines and pick a user name. Make sure they have a shell account but do not require authentication using a password. On the ..
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I needed to configure some NAT rules on a Mikrotik, but the rules only worked from outside in. The customer uses split DNS for the domain, so a local address on the mail client, and it needed a loopback rule. In the end I wrote the rules into the router using the terminal, or ssh. Here’s an ..
I recently installed FreeBSD 10, as I broke my server by trying to install a 32bit ESET av, which is actually all they provide for FreeBSD. Anyway, I couldn’t see anything in the source /usr/src/ so I tried to install it using sysinstall. # sysinstall bash: sysinstall: command not found sysinstall for FreeBSD 10 has ..
Vi delete from line1 to current :1,.d This deletes lines 1 to current. :1,.-1d This deletes lines 1 to abov..
I installed a certificate for apache to enable SSL on a website. To create the CSR for the authority it asks for a passphrase. When you install the certificate and restart the httpd service it asks for the passphrase, so it needs to be removed from the private key. To do this use ..
Installing TLS on sendmail Freebsd – cd /usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd && make install echo ‘saslauthd_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf Start the saslauthd – /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh start Changing sendmail build options – vi /etc/make.conf #Add the following – # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags… SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 # Adding to enable alternate port (smtps) for sendmail… SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL ..
I use vi a lot on nix machines and there’s a lot of useful tricks you can do to edit files. A good trick to get rid of those annoying ^M characters from a dos file is – :%s/(ctrl-v)(ctrl-m)//g So you want to type :%s/ and then ctrl & v and without ..