Author Archives: Nick

Mounting folders through SSH
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Posted on July 7, 2011 by

One of the first rules of security is to not have any ports open which you do not need to have open.  That is also pretty common sense.  One problem you run into though is you still need to access … Continue reading →

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Connection Throttling
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Posted on July 7, 2011 by

I have begun to throttle connections to the website.  This is because the internet bots which search engines use have been pounding the server to the point of making it unavailable.  I believe this will make the site run faster … Continue reading →

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Improvements to Site Security
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Posted on July 5, 2011 by

I have been improving site security along with putting in lots of new features to go along with our new server.  One of the things I have done is I have changed the file upload to not allow HTML and … Continue reading →

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Advanced Editing
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Posted on July 5, 2011 by

I have added the ability to spice up all of the places you add text on the website.  It should work well but if you have any problems just let me know.

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Setting a Lock-out Policy
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Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Setting a lock out policy in CentOS or Fedora is very easy. edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root account required pam_tally.so deny=3 unlock_time=3600 no_magic_root reset onerr=fail if there is a problem opening the file for some reason fail login no_magic_root … Continue reading →

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