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How do I turn on a login page for Bugzilla?
I have Bugzilla 4.2.1 running on my Ubuntu 11.10, It working as it should and everything is fine.
Now when somebody accesses the URL www.myapplication.com/bugs without logging in, it allows the user ...
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“Successful su for user by root” - suspicious entries in my /var/log/auth.log?
This post on reddit made me go through my logs. That's when I discovered the following entries which appeared on two non-subsequent days. "user" is my user account.
Aug 4 22:50:37 UbuntuSystem sudo: ...
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Is there a way to lock my browser with a password?
It would be OK if it was only with my login password, but I would like to lock both midori and Firefox so that they cannot be used without entering a password. I'm running 12.04.
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How do I create one user without key authentication?
I've completed the following steps:
I have configured Ubuntu server with Key authentication and it is working fine.
I have disabled password authentication for key authentication to work.
The server ...
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How can I use a passcode generator for authentication for remote logins?
I would like to strengthen the authentication of my SSH logins by adding another factor: a passcode generator device, or a passcode generation application on my mobile phone. The only obvious options ...
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Easiest authentication for LAN networks?
There are a lot clients inside a LAN. The server is trusted, the clients are not.
It has to be ensured that other clients can not spoof another clients or the servers LAN IP address.
I want to ...
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How can I allow SSH password authentication from only certain IP addresses?
I'd like to allow SSH password authentication from only a certain subnet. I see the option to disallow it globally in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
# Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords
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What is the least insecure way to store a password that is used by a script?
I have a Bash script that automatically authenticates with a service using my username and password. The credentials are currently stored as plain text within the script.
What precautions should I ...
