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Thanks James,

You saved me some time looking up the system wide variables. I just setup a simple server and wanted to have Java without all the baggage installing it through the repos brings. I...

You can add me to the bug, although when I checked there are several already filed that might deal with this.

The solution I found on...

Sorry, didn't really mean for you to repeat yourself. Just wanted to confirm that I understood you and that what I intend to use the command for is valid.

Thanks for your help.

Tarun,

It is easy to get confused when using tunnels, they are inherently more complex. You do not need to open any port on your firewall except your SSH port. But you must remember that the...

If you want to allow everyone access to FTP the command for ufw is:

sudo ufw allow ftp

Although when you open FTP you are giving an attacker another avenue to pursue. Many machines have been...

Would this command be useful in determining if root has been enabled? (IE the reason I disabled root was I was not certain if it had been enabled and didn't know a way to check to see if root was...

I searched through the cron jobs and can not find where the gconftool is running from.

I am concerned about the security of the box since I can't find where this tool is running from and why it...

Is there any command that can be used to verify that root is disabled?

I disabled root using
sudo passwd -l root which resulted in cron jobs failing. Thus I ended up on this thread and...

Here are a couple of links on how to setup putty to tunnel traffic. The same steps to setup a tunnel for browsing can be done with other services. For instance if you want to setup a tunnel for the...

The following command shows up in my auth.log file at 07:35 everyday or on every reboot?

Sep 12 11:55:53 HOST sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=username ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gconftool...