For one reason or another RHEL does not disallow incoming ssh connections as root. This is, of course a glaring security problem which should be addressed for all systems that allow ssh connections to be made from any but the most restricted networks.
The best practice, of course, would be to make the initial ssh connection [...]
UPDATE: The item depicted and quoted below was indeed a letter to the editor of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on 16 April 2007, but Snopes tells us:
“It was not intended to be taken literally, as its author, Connie M, Meskimen is a Little Rock lawyer known for penning sarcastic letters with tongue planted firmly in cheek.”
Looks like [...]
With my miserable 49 mile commute to work every day, I’ve been constantly wishing I had a way to turn my drive into a flight. The Moller Skycar has, of course had me dreaming since I first saw it, but its been vaporware so long that I have all but given up. Furthermore, there is [...]
Now that America is coming to terms with the fact that they can’t get their pound of flesh from the VA Tech Campus Police and President, they have set their sights on mental health professionals as a group to blame for last week’s shootings.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D. writes: “As predicted, the media is now making [...]
Mere minuets had passes after the planes hit the World Trade Buildings and everyone was looking for someone to point the finger at. Now, with the VA Tech shootings people are asking probing questions about why the campus wasn’t locked down after the first two victims were shot. Can someone tell me how in the [...]
Of course most everyone has heard that Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday from complications surrounding a brain injury he received from a fall several weeks ago. It’s being well covered just about everywhere, so I won’t rehash all the articles that already exist. I would, however, like to pay tribute to the American author, so I [...]
Taiwanese veterinarian Chang Po-yu had his forearm torn off by a crocodile on Wednesday at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung. The endangered, 17 year old Nile crocodile had been hit with a tranquilizer dart, but still not fully anesthetized when the zoo worker reached his arm through an iron rail [...]
So you have a RHEL system and you want to authenticate it against your active directory. The good news is that Red Hat has made it easy for you to do this. The bad news is that they only get the most basic structure working for you. Here I will show you how to get [...]
On our sixth and final day of diving at the Socorro Islands, We headed back to San Benedicto to dive at “The Canyon” and, we had hoped, another stone pillar rising up from the sea floor called “The Boiler”. By this time in the trip, the weather had turned fairly bad for Mexico, and we [...]
I’m proud to be the first to test out Matt’s new Sexy Comments plugin. Since the comments on a few of my stories have taken on feel similar to that of a discussion group, I was glad to see Matt working on a layout that allowed the user to personalize their comment by adding an [...]
Back in in February 2006, an East German named Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany’s largest rabbit, a 23 pound “German Gray Giant” named “Robert”. It sounds like something from a science fiction film, but when you consider the fact that these creatures are the size of dogs and that they breed like, [...]
