When i set up a new machine these days, I often disable password-based
ssh access by setting PasswordAuthentication and
ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
This protects my users (and the machine) from dictionary attacks based
on the crappy passwords that humans seem to traditionally prefer.
However, /usr/sbin …
For a normal server running with the kernel console over a serial line, you can get Magic SysRq behavior by sending a "break" signal, followed by the character of the command you want triggered. How does that work for dom0 of a Xen install?
I've just set up a xen …
is anyone else having trouble accessing the debian mirror at
debian-mirror.mirror.umn.edu?
I'm in the US, and ftp.debian.org is resolving to this host for me,
but the host itself is not responding (since last night, if my
cron-apt logs are accurate).
I haven't been able to …
I'm trying to figure out if the linux 2.6 kernel's “wait” cycles include cycles waiting on network I/O or specifically just waiting on disk access.
If network I/O is included, it would change my interpretation of a system with spiking “wait” percentages. Maybe the disk controllers aren't …
My impression was that the i386 debian distribution could run fine on an amd64 processor (though i recognize that it wouldn't get the full benefit of the 64-bit platform).
I have a machine which i'm trying to do this on, though, and while it's up and running, i'm getting serious …
I have never needed to do Optical Character Recognition (turning scanned documents back into text form), but it appears i may soon need to (in english, FWIW).
Does anyone have a preferred tool/suite that is packaged for debian?
A scan of the archive turns up
gocrocradunpaperclara …Prompted by Steve's request for an SSL cert, i'm going to air some grievances i have with the X.509 PKI that tends to go along with SSL and TLS. The current real-world X.509/TLS infrastructure gets in the way of real trusted, secure communication. It favors the creation …
After running apt-get update on a typically-stable mixed etch/sid
machine (which also has experimental in the sources list), i'm getting
the following warnings from apt:
W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:A70DAF536070D3A1W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs …Does anyone know of a simple, clean, ALSA-output ogg-vorbis audio player that links (statically or otherwise) against the tremor integer-only vorbis decoder? Here's why i want it:
I recently got a Linksys NSLU2 which i'm happily running debian etch on (with the sid kernel, thanks a million to the debian …
Many sites use multiple MX records in DNS. But i feel like i'm seeing more and more which just have a single MX record. Why choose the one strategy over the other?
Given that MTAs are increasingly complicated these days (with various spam filtering techniques), what are some good arguments …