Tag Archives: Ubuntu
Debian – Ubuntu, S/Key and OPIE
Posted by on May 31, 2008
Been looking for a simple way to enabling S/Key support in Linux. Once I found out the magical keyboards being OPIE and PAM it became almost trivial to allow ssh-logins using One Time Passwords (OTP). The following instructions are specifically written to apply on Debian and Ubuntu. On a general note the concept should work [...]
Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall
Posted by on April 28, 2008
A nice new feature in Ubuntu 8.04 is the so called Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW). It’s a command line tool to handle simple firewall rules on a stand alone computer. Basically UFW acts as a fronted, with its own configurations files, to iptables-restore. Besides keeping track of saving and loading your firewall rules, the thing which [...]
Ubuntu (8.04) and OpenVZ
Posted by on April 24, 2008
A new version of Ubuntu ( Hardy Heron / 8.04 ) is now available. To my great surprise I noticed that there’s an OpenVZ-kernel included in the universe-repository. Considering OpenVZ being my favorite approach on server virtualization, this is really good news. Seems as if Ubuntu’s OpenVZ-support is still somewhat experimental thought. One thing is [...]
