OpenVAS – Broken Debian Installer Packages
Due to a bug in the debian package of OpenVAS 6, the files in /usr/share/openvas/cert/ are missing (“no such file”). It is being explained how to fix it.
Archive of posts filed under the Linux category.
OpenVPN Unsupported Certificate Purpose
Using certificates with nsCertType=server for OpenVPN clients will result in the error message “Unsupported Certificate Purpose”.
Technical Details on Excito’s Bubba3 NAS System
A summary of the hardware details available in the Bubba 3 NAS system by Excito.
mv_crypto Oops with OpenSWAN / NETKEY on Excito Bubba3
The NETKEY stack (showing an internal error in process mv_crypto) with the current kernel version 2.6.38 appears to be broken for the ARMEL architecture (like the Excito Bubba3) such that larger IP packages encapsulated with IPSEC lead to a kernel Oops. The post describes how to switch to the KLIPS stack where this problem does not appear.
Subversion Installation on Debian with Plesk – Without Security Issue
Available at http://www.bluehelp.de/tutorial/svn-debian-plesk.html there is a good (German) description on how to set up a Subversion repository on a Debian system if also Parallels Plesk Panel is installed. However, there is one thing that needs improvement there: When generating the HTTP password file it is being generated with unix rights which can pose a security thread to your system. This post describes how to fix that.
Funny Linux Kernel
The answers of the Linux kernel sometimes can also be quite funny.
Strongswan on the Excito Bubba3 Server
provides and easy and convient way of installing necessary kernel modules on the Excito Bubba3 server for running a Strongswan IPSEC/VPN installation.
Windows 7 Home Premium and QEMU in SMP mode
I recently played around with a Linux Kernel as host operating system and having Windows 7 Home Premium as guest. My intention was to implement an easy-to-use sandbox system for someone in my family (a good starting point may be here). The hardware should be a Core 2 Duo processor. As he will most likely …
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Logon with SSH takes long until the password prompt is being displayed
Since some time I experienced the problem that it took me ages to logon via SSH to some of my maintained servers on the web until the password prompt is being shown on the command line. After googling a bit I found a post describing my problem which I would like to recommend to the …
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Fedora Core und die AVM Fritz Card ISDN Adapter
Der Blogeintrag beschreibt welche Schritte notwendig sind, um bei einer Fedora Core 12 Installation nicht nur die CAPI-Schnittstelle für die AVM Fritzkarten zum Laufen zu bringen, sondern auch die dazugehörige ISDN-Subsystemschnittstelle für die ISDN4KUtils (ipppd, vbox, isdnlog, …).