Strange things sometimes happen,one of them is a rpm database got corrupted . This means that the computer tells you something is installed and it really is not. i personally encountered this few times before and usually this happens when the ssh session/connection to the server cut off(i used to ssh to the server , [...]
To implement multifactor authentication with Google Authenticator, we’ll need the open-source Google Authenticator PAM module. PAM stands for “pluggable authentication module” – it’s a way to easily plug different forms of authentication into a Linux system. Download the required packages: # apt-get -yy install gcc mercurial libpam0g-dev Download from google code and compile [...]
Sometime i wants to know who is login and when user login to my server but i don’t want to setup and run my own mail server, this can be done easily by using tcpwrapper and ssmtp , first make sure ssmtp is installed # dpkg -l|grep ssmtp iF ssmtp 2.64-4fakesync1 extremely simple MTA to [...]