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Daily Archives: November 23rd, 2009

setuid for programs

23-Nov-09

setuid program are programs, which runs as owner of the program, rather than the user executing the program. root@laptop:~# ls -l `which su` -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 31012 2009-04-04 11:19 /bin/su root@laptop:~# ls -l `which sudo` -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 115136 2009-02-17 08:52 /usr/bin/sudo root@laptop:~#

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Reconfigure PHP5 on cPanel Server for XSL

23-Nov-09

Requirements This extension uses libxslt which can be found at ยป http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/. libxslt version 1.1.0 or greater is required. CUSTOM_PHP_FLAGS=”–with-xsl” /scripts/easyapache http://in3.php.net/manual/en/xsl.installation.php On debian – sudo apt-get install php5-xsl

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Fail Open DNS Servers

23-Nov-09

Closing open DNS server. Add the following to your named.conf file. Add the following, replacing mainIP and secondaryIP with your systems nameservers. acl “trusted” { mainIP;secondaryIP;127.0.0.1; }; Example: acl “trusted” { mainIP;secondaryIP;firstserverip;secondserverip;127.0.0.1; }; Only the trusted IP is allowed for certain functions. allow-recursion { trusted; }; allow-notify { trusted; }; allow-transfer { trusted; }; Example: [...]

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The Google Chrome Operating System

23-Nov-09

The Google Chrome Operating System Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system created by Google designed to work exclusively with web applications. Announced [...]

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