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• How to change user for more rights on a SFTP client?

  - by Zenklys

  It is always suggested on first step to disable the remote root login for the SSH protocol. I have a low-right user able to connect via SSH and once connected, I simply su in order to gain more rights. Now when using a sFTP client, I use my low-right user and am thus able to do next to nothing. My question is : Is it possible to change user after login using 3rd party client, such as Transmit, Cyberduck, Filezilla ? PS : Mac clients would be great ;)

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• Apache deny access to images folder, but still able to display via <img> on site

  - by jeffery_the_wind

  I have an images folder on my site, let's call it /images/ where I keep a lot of images. I don't want anyone to have direct access to the images via the web, so I put a new directive in my Apache config that achieves this: <Directory "/var/www/images/"> Options Includes AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Deny from All </Directory> This is working, but it is blocking out ALL ACCESS, and I can't show the images anymore through my web pages. I guess this makes sense. So how do I selectively control access to these images? Basically I only want to display certain images through certain webpages and to certain users. What is best way to do this? Do I need to save the images to the database? Tim

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• Solaris 11 installed, no updates?

  - by Paul De Niro

  I was messing around with solaris and decided to give Solaris 11 a try so I downloaded it from the Oracle website. After installing the OS, I went into the package manager and did an update. It told me that there were to available updates! I find this hard to believe considering that it's running a vulnerable version of firefox and java, its own in-house software product! Many of the other software products that came with the default install are also out of date and vulnerable. Is this normal for an Oracle install, or did I do something wrong with the upgrade process? I typed "pkg update" at the prompt, and I noticed that it did call out to pkg.oracle.com looking for updates. I find it bizarre that there are no updates available for an OS that was released a couple months ago with vulnerable software...

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• How Frequent is Centos C5 Testing Repo updated?

  - by jl

  Hi, May I know how frequent does Centos Dev Repo (C5 Testing Repo) update the patches? or Where can I find this information? Thanks.

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• Is the guideline: don't open email attachments or execute downloads or run plug-ins (Flash, Java) from untrusted sites enough to avert infection?

  - by therobyouknow

  I'd like to know if the following is enough to avert malware as I feel that the press and other advisory resources aren't always precisely clear on all the methods as to how PCs get infected. To my mind, the key step to getting infected is a conscious choice by the user to run an executable attachment from an email or download, but also viewing content that requires a plug-in (Flash, Java or something else). This conscious step breaks down into the following possibilities: don't open email attachments: certainly agree with this. But lets try to be clear: email comes in 2 parts -the text and the attachment. Just reading the email should not be risky, right? But opening (i.e. running) email attachments IS risky (malware can be present in the attachment) don't execute downloads (e.g. from sites linked from in suspect emails or otherwise): again certainly agree with this (malware can be present in the executable). Usually the user has to voluntary click to download, or at least click to run the executable. Question: has there ever been a case where a user has visited a site and a download has completed on its own and run on its own? don't run content requiring plug-ins: certainly agree: malware can be present in the executable. I vaguely recall cases with Flash but know of the Java-based vulnerabilities much better. Now, is the above enough? Note that I'm much more cautious than this. What I'm concerned about is that the media is not always very clear about how the malware infection occurs. They talk of "booby-trapped sites", "browser attacks" - HOW exactly? I'd presume the other threat would be malevolent use of Javascript to make an executable run on the user's machine. Would I be right and are there details I can read up on about this. Generally I like Javascript as a developer, please note. An accepted answer would fill in any holes I've missed here so we have a complete general view of what the threats are (even though the actual specific details of new threats vary, but the general vectors are known).

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• ESX Firewall Command Troubles

  - by John

  Hi, I am working on creating some firewall rules to stop some of the SSH brute-force attacks that we have seen recently on our ESX server hosts. I have tried the following rules from the CLI to first block all SSH traffic and then allow the two ranges that I am interested in: esxcfg-firewall --ipruleAdd 0.0.0.0/0,22,tcp,REJECT,"Block_SSH" esxcfg-firewall --ipruleAdd 11.130.0.0/16,22,tcp,ACCEPT,"Allow_PUBLIC_SSH" esxcfg-firewall --ipruleAdd 10.130.0.0/16,22,tcp,ACCEPT,"Allow_PRIVATE_SSH" However, these rules are not working as intended. I know that if you do not enter the block rule first, then the allow rule will not be processed. We are now having the issue where the first entered allow rule is being ignored such that the block rule works and the last entered allow rule works. I was curious if anyone had any ideas on how I could allow a few different ranges of IP's with the esxcfg-firewall --ipruleAdd command? I am at a loss and am having a hard time locating examples or further documentation about this. Thanks in advance for your help with this.

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• Outbound ports to allow through firewall

  - by dunxd

  This question was asked before, but in a rather general way. I'm asking more specifically based on my current requirements. We have a number of remote offices made up of a bunch of PCs and an ASA 5505 which is used as firewall and VPN termination point. In the offices we share the internet connection with one or more other organisations over whom we have very little control, asides from the config on the ASAs. For a bunch of reasons I'd like to lock down these ASA 5505s to only allow outbound traffic to ports used by applications we know we need. I'm putting a standard config to roll out to all the ASAs, and if we need to open up ports for the other orgs we can do it on request. But I want to leave open the most commonly required ports so we can get up and running without waiting on other folks technical staff to get back. I plan to allow the following TCP ports to support commonly required resources: POP3 (110 and 995) HTTP (80 and 443) IMAP4 (143 and 993) SMTP (25 and and 465) The question really is, what other ports do I need to leave open to allow for "normal" working. I've seen UDP port 53 for DNS as one. Are there any others that would be worth opening up? Just to note - I'll also be setting up monitoring systems to keep an eye on the ports we do allow. Any of the above could be misused of course. We'll also back all this up with signed agreements. But I'm aiming for a technical solutions where I don't have to start out with the full requirements of everyone we share connections with. See also: outbound ports that are always open

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• no internet mail group / mail sending and delivery restrictions

  - by Jeff

  I run a win 2k8 a/d server and an win 2k8 exchange 07 server I have a group called 'No Internet Mail', i made it a distribution group. I tried to setup a transport rule on the exchange server that is configured as follows for outgoing: from a member of no internet mail and sent to users outside the organization redirect the message to administrator and send message refused, forwarded to administrator. Please talk to management for external email use. however , when i enable this it forwards everyones emails to me regardless if they are a member of the no internet mail group or not. not sure what im doing wrong, thanks in advanced.

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• How can I ensure an ex-administrator of Exchange doesn't still have email access somewhere?

  - by Tony T

  I work for a company in which an ex-employee had administrative access to Microsoft Exchange 2007, and I understand that at some points this person had email which was sent to other employees also forwarded on to him. Upon taking over the administration of the server, of course all of his known accounts were closed, and any of those forwarding rules were removed. However, I would like to ensure that we didn't miss anything. What would be the best way to ensure that: (1) There isn't still some sort-of email being forwarded on to him somewhere? (2) That he doesn't have some sort-of other access to an inbox or another employee's email? I am less concerned about access to the box itself as I am that there is an existing email rule somewhere that is still getting run, or that there is a distribution list that we missed, etc.

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• Windows File Checksums - Is my system hacked?

  - by rism

  I would like to know if there is a utility to verify the checksums of every windows file on my Win 7 Ultimate system. It seems on the surface such an obvious utility but I dont ever remember seeing one? I had a very weird experience while surfing earlier today and now Im not entirely sure my system is secure. I have a collection of tools in the WSCC suite but these tools no doubt just make system calls to the win32 api and if that has been subverted then the tools are practically useless. How do I know my Win 7 files are actually Win 7 files? I am particularly interested in verifying the integrity of all network TCP/IP files.

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• how to know who is accessing my system?

  - by calvin

  Is it possible to know if anyone is accessing any of folders or drives in my system(32 bit windows 2003)? I mean shared folders or non-shared folders, anything. And once if we know, how to deny access to particular host. For shared folders i know how to do, but if anyone is accessing some folder with proper credentials, i don't know how to control. Please ignore cases like bit torrent etc. All i wanted to know is if anyone is accessing my system folders in this way \\10.30.188.231\d$\calvin_docs with some valid username and password. I wanted to know ip/username of system who is accessing

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• Jail user to home directory while still allowing permission to create and delete files/folders

  - by Sevenupcan

  I'm trying to give a client SFTP access to the root directory of their site on my server (Ubuntu 10.10) so they can manager their website themselves. While I have been successful in jailing a user to a directory and giving them SFTP access; they are only allowed to create and delete new files in sub directories (the directories they own). This means that I must give them access to the parent directory to the root of their site. How can I limit them to the root of their site (for example public_html) while still allowing them the ability create and delete files. All the tutorials I have read suggest that the root must be the owner of the user's home directory, which prevents them from write access inside that directory. I'm relatively new to managing my own server so any advice would be very grateful. Many thanks.

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• Someone tried to hack my Node.js server, need to understand a GET request in the logs

  - by Akay

  Alright, so I left my Node.js server alone for a while and came back to find some really interesting stuff in the logs. Apparently some moron from China or Poland tried to hack my server using directory traversal and what not, while it seems though he did not succeed I am unable understand few entries in the log. This is the output of a "hohup.out" file. The attack starts, apparently he is trying to find out some console entry in my server. All of which fail and return a 404. [90mGET /../../../../../../../../../../../ [31m500 [90m6ms - 2b[0m [90mGET /<script>alert(53416)</script> [33m404 [90m7ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /pz3yvy3lyzgja41w2sp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /stylesheets/style.css [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.htm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /default.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.php [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.php [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.asp [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.cgi [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.jsp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.php3 [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.pl [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.jsp [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.php3 [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.html.en [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /web.gif [33m404 [90m34ms[0m [90mGET /header.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /homepage.nsf [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /homepage.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /homepage.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /home.htm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /home.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /home.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /login.asp [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /login.html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /login.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /login.php [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.cfm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /main.php [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /main.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /main.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /main.html [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET /Welcome.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /welcome.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /start.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /fleur.png [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /level/99/ [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /chl.css [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /images/ [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /robots.txt [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET /hb1/presign.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /NFuse/ASP/login.htm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /CCMAdmin/main.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryServer [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /admin/images/rn_logo.gif [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /vncviewer.jar [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m7ms - 240b[0m [90mOPTIONS / [32m200 [90m1ms - 3b[0m [90mTRACE / [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mPROPFIND / [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /\./ [33m404 [90m1ms[0m But here is when things start getting fishy. [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /robots.txt [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m3ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://37.28.156.211/sprawdza.php [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.daydaydata.com/proxy.txt [33m404 [90m19ms[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m4ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=wp.pl [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=onet.pl [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=ostro%C5%82%C4%99ka [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=google [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.baidu.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mPOST /api/login [32m200 [90m1ms - 28b[0m [90mGET /web-console/ServerInfo.jsp [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m10ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://proxyjudge.info [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m3ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m3ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.baidu.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/search?tbo=d&source=hp&num=1&btnG=Search&q=niceman [33m404 [90m2ms[0m So my questions are, how come my server is returning a "200" OK for root level domains? How did the hacker even manage to send a GET request to my server such that "http://www.google.com" shows up in the log while my server is simply an API that works on relative URLs such as "/api/login". And, while I looked up the OPTIONS, TRACE and PROPFIND HTTP requests that my server has logged it would be great if someone could explain what exactly was the hacker trying to achieve by using these verbs? Also what in the world does "[90m [32m [90m1ms - 240b[0m" mean? The "ms" makes sense, probably milliseconds for the request, rest I am unable to understand. Thank you!

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• Default document not working after installing SP1 on Windows 2008 R2 x64

  - by boredgeek

  We have a web site that should only be available for authorized users. So we deny anonymous access for the site. However we do allow anonymous access to the default page and the login page. When we installed SP1 the behavior of the server changed. Now if the user is trying to access the root of the site, say http://mysite.com, she is redirected to login page rather than the default page. Is there a hotfix to bring back the previous behavior?

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• How do I prevent my swf files being hotlinked, downloaded etc.

  - by undefined

  I have swf files that are embedded in a PHP page using SWFObject. These swf files are in the same directory as my PHP files. for example www.myurl.com/index.php embeds www.myurl.com/flashfile.swf, index.php and flashfile.swf are in the same directory. However I want to prevent people from being able to type in www.myurl.com/flashfile.swf and viewing the swf. I want the browser to deny access to this file unless it has been embedded by the PHP file. Should I move my swfs to another folder and protect this folder somehow - is this with the .htaccess file? I am running Apache on a linux machine. While my main concern is for swf files I would like to protect graphics used on the site too. all help appreciated thanks

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• I found two usb sticks on the ground. Now what ?

  - by Stefano Borini

  As from subject. I want to see what's inside. I am seriously interested in finding the owner if possible and returning them, but I am worried it could be an attempt at social engineering. I own a macbook intel with OSX 10.6. It is a very important install. What would you do in my situation if you want to see the content without risks ? Any proposal welcome. Edit: I decided not to plug them in, and I brought them to the hotel reception. They will forward it to the police.

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• How do you prepare for death?

  - by klew

  I write programs, run a few websites (I have admin accounts and passwords), write some web services, I have some encrypted data on my computer - and I sometimes ask myself: what will happen to all those projects and data if I accidentally die? Did you prepare yourself for death? Did you make a will (or some kind of e-will)? How to protect innocent people for whom I did some work? Did you write a letter with passwords and put it in envelope in your desk?

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• Disable modsec2 blacklist rule for specific hostname

  - by KevinL

  I have a server running Apache2 with mod_security2. In modsec2.user.conf, there is a blacklist rule: ###BLACKLIST### SecRule REQUEST_URI "mkdir" I need to disable that rule for just one hostname on the server. I realize I could just remove it entirely but I'd rather keep it on for the other sites. I realize you can use the SecRuleRemoveByID directive, based on each rule's ID, but as you can see above, this has no ID, it's just a string. How do I disable that rule for just www.example.com, is there something I can do in custom.conf, whitelist.conf or exclude.conf ?

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• Backup software for Ubuntu - which one?

  - by Industrial

  Hi everybody, I have spent some time testing out different backup solutions for my small home office during the last weeks, but still haven't found anything that have been working out too well yet. We can definitely work with a non-GUI script if that's what it takes, if only the requirements are fulfilled: Upload to Amazon S3 Europe. We get unbelievable slow uploading speed to US, so uploading 400+ GB of data will not be happening anytime this year... Incremental backups - only changed files shall be uploaded or we will have a big bill from Amazon in the end of each month.. Files should not be uploaded in one big per-folder archive. This is not efficient at all, since if we change one file in a subfolder, a huge two-digit GB sized file would have to be uploaded during next backup. Not good for economy again, or traffic overhead on our internet connection. What options are available to us? Thanks!

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• Exchange 2010 allows outside access to network files

  - by user2891127

  One of our users discovered by accident he could access our network files from his smartphone while at home. No VPN needed. He was sent an email with an internal link to a network share on his android. When he opened the email and clicked on the link, he could browse our files while at home. Looking at the access logs, the connection to the share and files he accessed came from our mail server (Exchange 2010). We have no sharepoint servers running at all, and certainly not on the Exchange server. What is this function/feature called, and is it possible to turn this function/feature off? Should I turn this off?

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• Preventing back connect in Cpanel servers

  - by Fernando

  We run a Cpanel server and someone gained access to almost all accounts using the following steps: 1) Gained access to an user account due to weak password. Note: this user didn't had shell access. 2) With this user account, he accessed Cpanel and added a cron task. The cron task was a perl script that connected to his IP and he was able to send back shell commands. 3) Having a non jailed shell, he was able to change content of most websites in server specially for users who set their folders to 777 ( Unfortunately a common recommendation and sometimes a requirement for some PHP softwares ). Is there a way to prevent this? We started by disabling cron in Cpanel interface, but this is not enough. I see a lot of other options in which an user could run this perl script. We have a firewall running and blocking uncommon outgoing ports. But he used port 80 and, well, I can't block this port as a lot of processes use them to access things, even Cpanel itself.

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• Cant Add Columns to a AD Task pad except for the top level of the domain

  - by Darktux

  We are working on Active Directory taskpads application for user management in our organization and facing stange issue. When we create a taskpad, and when we are at top level of the domain, i can click view - Add/Remove Columns and add "Pre Windows Name" (and lots of other properties) to the taskpad as columns, but when i just go 1 level down , i can only see "Operating System" and "Service Pack" ; why is it happening , isnt "Domain Admins" supposed to god access to all the things in AD domain , atleast of objects they own? It is important to have "Pre Windows 2000" Name as a column begause with out that our "Shell Command" task wont show up in taskpads, since its bound to parameter "Col<9" (which is pre qindows name). Please do let me know if any additions questions to clarify my problem.

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• putty 0.61 : why do I see "Access Denied" message after I enter my login id?

  - by anjanbacchu

  I use putty to login to my RHEL 5.3 server. I'm prompted to enter my login as "login as " and I enter my login Id. as soon as I press ENTER, I see a "Access Denied" message following which I'm prompted with password. I successfully enter password and I'm through -- no problems. I tried the same with putty 0.60(as opposed to above putty 0.61) but in this version, I don't get any "access denied" error. What should I make of this ? Is putty 0.61 version buggy ? P.S : If I login using ssh.exe(from cygwin), then I'm fine -- I don't get any "access denied" errors. Thank you,

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• Cloud storage services offering one-time download links? [closed]

  - by TARehman

  Is anyone aware of consumer-targeted cloud storage services that allow users to generate a one-time download link for hosted files? Case in point: I have an encrypted container with some documents I need to send to a vendor. I would prefer to give them a one-time download link, so that I know when they have accessed the file, and then inform them of the passphrase by phone. I have heard that MediaFire offers 1-time links, but that they are buried in tons of advertising. At the moment, I'm not sure that I consider MediaFire fully legitimate; I'm more interested in solutions with Google Drive, Box.net, DropBox, etc.

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• securing communication between 2 Linux servers on local network for ports only they need access to

  - by gkdsp

  I have two Linux servers connected to each other via a cross-connect cable, forming a local network. One of the servers presents a DMZ for the other server (e.g. database server) that must be very secure. I'm restricting this question to communication between the two servers for ports that only need to be available to these servers (and no one else). Thus, communication between the two servers can be established by: (1) opening the required port(s) on both servers, and authenticating according to the applications' rules. (2) disabling IP Tables associated with the NIC cards the cross-connect cable is attached to (on both servers). Which method is more secure? In the first case, the needed ports are open to the external world, but protected by user name and password. In the second case, none of the needed ports are open to the outside world, but since the IP Tables are disabled for the NIC cards associated with the cross-connect cables, essentially all of the ports may be considered to be "open" between the two servers (and so if the server creating the DMZ is compromized, the hacker on the DMZ server could view all ports open using the cross-connect cable). Any conventional wisdom how to make the communication secure between two servers for ports only these servers need access to?

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