Uh oh – Pidgin stores passwords in plain text in accounts.xml
Funny thing we found out at work today: Pidgin, which is a multi-protocol chat client I’ve been using for years and
26
Jul
Bash script to split files using the dd command
Careful of the rm -f ${FILE} at the end … I’ve commented it out at first, but if you want to save space,
21
Jun
Bash script to take regular screenshots
UPDATE (06/22/11): Modified the below script to allow two arguments, start time and end time, so there aren’t useless
21
Jun
Bash script to gauge password strength
UPDATE: Modified for better formatting I googled around for this but didn’t find anything. Most replies to forum posts
10
Jun
TIL – IPTables “tar pit” option
Update: A little slow on the ball here, but I found out today that Fedora requires the xtables-addon package to be installed
03
Jun
TIL – easy blocking of brute force attempts using fail2ban
[root@webl001t log]# grep -i 'auth.*fail' secure | wc -l 30909 [root@webl001t log]# ls -la secure -rw------- 1 root root
01
Jun
TIL – Figuring out which port in a switch you’re connected to with tcpdump
[root@yourbox ~] # sudo tcpdump -nn -v -i eth1 -s 1500 -c 1 ‘ether[20:2] == 0x2000’ tcpdump: listening on eth1,
24
May
TIL – multiple field separators with AWK
For the non redditors, TIL means “Today I Learned” … echo
20
May
Using YUM to only apply security updates
Useful link to only apply security updates to RHEL and
28
Apr
Getting the ATI TV Wonder 600 USB to work in Linux (Fedora 14)
About a year ago I got a good deal on an ATI TV Wonder 600 USB TV Tuner ($20 of woot.com), which I was pretty excited about.
12
Feb
