Posted by admin on 25th March 2010
A quick calendar on the roadmap for openSUSE 11.3 release. With the openSUSE 11.3 milestone 4 released today, the next release Milestone 5 is expected on the 5th April 2010 and the final stable release for public use is expected to be released on the 15th July, 2010.
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Posted by admin on 25th March 2010
As scheduled, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 has been released. You may now download and beta test the version keeping in mind this is still in development and not ready yet to upgrade your existing stable version.
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Posted by admin on 24th March 2010
DenyHosts is a free opensource utility to secure your SuSE server or your openSUSE system from Brut-force attacks on the SSH server running on your system. DenyHosts works by updating the /etc/hosts.deny file on your SuSE or openSUSE system with the IP address of a host after a set number of failed login attempt from it.
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Posted by admin on 23rd March 2010
As you may be aware, ‘AT’ allows you to run a command or script at a particular time (say at midnight) and ‘CRONTAB’ allows you to run commands and scripts at scheduled times and at regular intervals. If you have SuSE or an openSUSE system in a multi-user environment then it is important to control access to the crontab and at utility to ensure system availability and security. This is one of the many steps in the system hardening procedures.
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