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50 Recent Changes in LabPrimer Web retrieved at 07:06 (Local)
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SshD
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03 Aug 2009 - 14:01
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HilaryHolz
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| sshd, the secure shell daemon The ISC guidelines cover most of the important ssh configuration information. We provide some more detail to help you get going, as well ... |
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WebHome
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29 Jun 2009 - 15:12
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HilaryHolz
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| Welcome to LabPrimer LabPrimer is a set of technical best practice guidelines primarily intended for web 2.0 / science 2.0 research labs. Navigating LabPrimer ... |
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ManagingTWiki
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04 Jun 2009 - 14:41
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HilaryHolz
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| ManagingTWiki 05 Aug 2008: Feel free to dive right in, but you may find this quick foreword very helpful in using these materials. Ahat (the lab) has been maintaining ... |
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UseSudo
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24 Apr 2009 - 20:13
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HilaryHolz
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| Use Sudo! sudo is a system that (1) provides you with a log of everything you do as superuser, and (2) allows finer grained control over who can do what than simply ... |
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PortsIPTables
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22 Apr 2009 - 20:47
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HilaryHolz
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| Ports iptables On any new server, you'll need to ask to have any ports you want accessible from off campus explicitly entered into the university's firewall setup ... |
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DenyHosts
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22 Apr 2009 - 20:47
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HilaryHolz
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| denyhosts denyhosts is a python daemon that detects and thwarts brute force ssh attacks. The configuration script, by the way, needs to be /etc/denyhosts.conf, but ... |
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DontPanic
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22 Apr 2009 - 20:43
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HilaryHolz
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| Don't Panic! (or when things go wrong...) During package updates %pre, %post, %preun, %postun errors %pre, %post, %preun, and %postun are scriplets used by rpm ... |
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ServerAccess
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22 Apr 2009 - 20:42
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HilaryHolz
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| Regaining access to your Server Ok, so you have been following all of our security guidelines (ManagingSecurity) and you have locked yourself out of your server. Now ... |
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LessIsMore
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27 Mar 2009 - 15:34
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HilaryHolz
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| Less is more It's tempting to think that a lab machine is just a research machine, so it isn't really critical to worry about issues of security, optimizing performance ... |
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ManagingPerl
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:49
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HilaryHolz
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| Managing Perl Any Unix distribution will come with perl installed. Hilary has a bunch of perl info she needs to move over here, where it will be much easier to play ... |
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SixtyFourBits
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:45
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HilaryHolz
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| 64 bit systems On a 64bit machine, you occasionally need both the x86 64 packages and the i386 (i.e., 32 bit) packages. As best we currently understand it (folks who ... |
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WhyPostfix
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:43
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HilaryHolz
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| Mailservers (postfix) postfix is our prefered mailserver (not sendmail yuck!). When you install postfix, make sure you not only stop sendmail, but actually remove ... |
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MailMan
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:42
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HilaryHolz
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| Listservs (MailMan) We use Mailman for our lists. Mailman is written in Python, and is easy to use. It has built in web based archiving via pipermail archives, which ... |
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GdbM
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:24
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HilaryHolz
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| gdbm As of April 1st, 2008, the rpm install of gdbm had a bug that affected mod perl, so you'll need to install gdbm from source. You can download it from any mirror ... |
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ModPerl
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:23
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HilaryHolz
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| mod perl You'll also be best off installing mod perl from source (and it is easier than trying to use a package install of mod perl.) The source comes from the homepage ... |
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ModEvasive
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:22
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HilaryHolz
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| mod evasive Jonathan Zdziarski's mod evasive module is also a fundamental protection module to install on your Apache server. Download it from his site and follow ... |
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ModSecurity
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:21
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HilaryHolz
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| mod security Install and use mod security (keep up to date). Mod security is a third party module (not part of the apache project, so you get it from the homepage ... |
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SsL
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:20
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HilaryHolz
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| mod ssl Comes as part of the source install, although you do have to enable it explicitly. We use openssl as our ssl package. (Get info about how to get certificates ... |
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PhP
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:19
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HilaryHolz
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| PHP No PHP. Ever. Turn it off. Making and keeping php secure takes more resources than we have. You must get explicit permission from Hilary to turn it on, even for ... |
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ManagingApache
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23 Mar 2009 - 16:16
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HilaryHolz
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| Managing Apache Why Apache rather than other webservers? There are lots of reasons, but I suppose, in the end, it has to do with working on the platform that w3c works ... |
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