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Etckeeper is a useful tool to store /etc in a version control system. It allows you to read the changes that have been made to the files in /etc, document these changes and recover a previous version of a modified file in case we made some changes that we don’t want to keep. It’ s a great system to control your server and find very quickly solutions.
Its installation is very trivial:
1 | aptitude install etckeeper |
SSH is an acronym which stands for Secure SHell, which provides a secure shell access to a remote machine.
This brut force tool is great to test some security stuff like iptables or sshguard.
You are able to see the proceeder of real hacking attempt.
Like most brute forcing tools, you’ll first need a pretty big passlist. You can get one from here:
1 | wget https://zeldor.biz/other/bruteforce/passlist.txt |
I am still searching for a perfect progress bar for DD, I know a dirty trick[*1] – put DD to background an sending “USR1” signal to bring it to show a progress – I hate this solution!
This one is not so dirty, but you have only the done progress and transfer speed.
1 2 | dd if=/opt/wap/Backup.tib | pv | ssh -c arcfour id@tower "dd of=/home/id/Backup.tib" 1.94GB 0:01:15 [30.1MB/s] [<=> |
Dirty trick:
Only local way!
1 2 | dd if=/opt/wap/Backup.tib of=file.img bs=4KB& pid=$! while true; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 1 && clear; done |
Yeah after installation of Windows seven – my Grub-Bootloader was removed and I get only the Windows bootmager.
This article describe hot to mount root “/” which was created on LVM from a live CD and install GRUB Boot-Loader.
Step 1: Get a live CD in my case it was Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop edition.
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You have a IP-Address from a PC, and you want to know which web-sites ware visited from this PC.
Grep for PCs IP-Address in the access log of your proxy box.
As result you will get a list with visited sites.
1 | grep 172.16.0.5 /var/log/squid3/access.log | cut -d" " -f7 | sort -u | less |