Since this setup uses one FTP account to create user home directories and upload files, a compromise to this FTP user would cause the attacker to gain access to all FTP user home directories.

Generating a self-signed certificate may be an easy task for the intermediate or senior level admin, however we decided to post this guide for everyone to use, since using the guide as a reference may hopefully be useful to those of you out there

Working at many different organisations over the past 10 years, I have been involved in the implementation and maintenance of many different monitoring implementations. These include commercial and open source implementations, such as : – Nagios – IP Monitor – Uptime – OpenNMS – Zabbix Although Nagios may not be the most scalable or dynamic […]

This need for a DNS master/slave implementation where new zone files are transferred between the master nameserver and the slave became apparent as operations grew and geographic DNS redundancy became apparent.

Several occasions have arisen where a client requested software raid-1 between two IDE drives in their server. Obviously the servers in question had no hardware raid capabilities, and compromising disk I/O read/write times for increased redundancy was more important. Below is a simple tutorial for setting up software raid in Linux, using MDADM. The specific […]