I decided this morning to install antivirus on my desktop running Fedora 13.
I had to do some looking around before I finally got it installed.
First
yum install clamav-scanner
yum install clamav-update
Second
cp /usr/share/doc/clamav-server-0.96.1/clamd.conf /etc/clamd.conf
Third
vim /etc/clamd.conf /etc/freshclam.conf
Follow the instructions in the file where it says:
# Comment or remove the line below.
Example
If you see errors like below refer to above.
ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf.
ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/clamd.conf.
ERROR: Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf
This is my personal blog to keep track of all those sysadmin items that keep recurring in my life that I can never remember.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Adding a Superuser Account to Linux
I have been testing a Linux Application and found it useful to create a second superuser account on the box besides the root account. Below are the list of commands that I used:
Check the current root account's user ID, group ID and group memberships:
id root
Create account with superuser privileges (this is for CentOS 5.5):
adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 LOGIN
passwd LOGIN
Verify change:
id LOGIN
less /etc/passwd
less /etc/shadow
less /etc/group
To change the account properties:
usermod [options] LOGIN
To delete the account if you don't care about the home directory:
userdel -r LOGIN
If you chose not to delete the home directory and need to go back and do it later:
rm -rf /home/LOGIN
A better way of doing this that aligns with best practice is to create a user and assign it to the wheel group and use 'sudo' instead:
adduser -G 10 LOGIN
Use 'visudo' to uncomment the below line:# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
Check the current root account's user ID, group ID and group memberships:
id root
Create account with superuser privileges (this is for CentOS 5.5):
adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 LOGIN
passwd LOGIN
Verify change:
id LOGIN
less /etc/passwd
less /etc/shadow
less /etc/group
To change the account properties:
usermod [options] LOGIN
To delete the account if you don't care about the home directory:
userdel -r LOGIN
If you chose not to delete the home directory and need to go back and do it later:
rm -rf /home/LOGIN
A better way of doing this that aligns with best practice is to create a user and assign it to the wheel group and use 'sudo' instead:
adduser -G 10 LOGIN
Use 'visudo' to uncomment the below line:
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Testing Website Encryption
Using Openssl, use the following commands to verify website encryption strength:
openssl s_client -no_tls1 -no_ssl3 -connect:443
openssl s_client -connect:443 -cipher NULL
openssl s_client -connect:443 -cipher LOW
openssl s_client -connect:443 -cipher MEDIUM
openssl s_client -connect:443 -cipher HIGH
The only command that should not generate an error is the last. If any other command returns results instead of an error, then the site's encryption strength is not sufficient.
openssl s_client -no_tls1 -no_ssl3 -connect
openssl s_client -connect
openssl s_client -connect
openssl s_client -connect
openssl s_client -connect
The only command that should not generate an error is the last. If any other command returns results instead of an error, then the site's encryption strength is not sufficient.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Recursively Copy Only Files to New Location
Here is a simple command to copy only the files from directories. The downside is that it does not build out the direcotry structure, but that is not what I want to do right now, I just need the files:
Copy-Item -Path C:\Tools\tes*\*.exe -Destination C:\Scripts\test\ -Recurse
Copy-Item -Path C:\Tools\tes*\*.exe -Destination C:\Scripts\test\ -Recurse
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Install or Upgrade NMAP
With root privileges, run the following command-line:
sudo wget -c "http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.21.tar.bz2" && bzip2 -cd nmap-5.21.tar.bz2 tar xvf - && cd nmap-5.21 && ./configure && make && sudo make install
sudo wget -c "http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.21.tar.bz2" && bzip2 -cd nmap-5.21.tar.bz2 tar xvf - && cd nmap-5.21 && ./configure && make && sudo make install
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