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Sometime it is necessary to create an anonymous or limited access only account. This allows anonymous user to use MySQL server. I received following criteria
[*] Create a user called anonymous
[*] Set up read and write permission to account
[*] anonymous cannot set or update password (remember if one user changes the password, no other anonymous login [...]
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Samba software, is a free, open source implementation of networking protocols to share files between UNIX/Linux and Windows computers.
Samba provides -
=> File and print services
=> Integration with a Windows Server domain / PDC
=> Part of Active Directory domain etc
Permission precedence
Samba comes with different types of permissions for share. Try to remember few things about [...]
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Recently there was some problem with one of the quite old Dell RHEL box. Application was not working. Someone installed some old binary application. At some point application was crashing under Red Hat enterprise Linux 2.1.
After exchanging tons of email with application vendor and RedHat, problem was solved by installing latest version of Red [...]
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FOSS.IN is one of the world’s largest and most focussed FOSS events, held annually in India. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a “Who is Who” of FOSS contributors from across the world.
FOSS.IN/2006 will be held on November 24-26, 2006, at National Science Symposium Centre of [...]
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This error is related to Kerberos. When kinit starts you get message as follows:
Clock skew too great while getting initial credentials
What does this error mean? After searching bit I found that:
The clock on you system (Linux/UNIX) is too far off from the correct time. Your machine needs to be within 5 minutes of the [...]
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So how do you limit the mailbox size for users configured with the Postfix mail server?
It is good choice to avoid problem (disk DoS) by limiting mailbox size. This will avoid the user or hacker to eat up all hard disk space.
Display the default mailbox size limit
Type the following command:
# postconf mailbox_size_limit
Output:
mailbox_size_limit = 51200000
51200000 bytes [...]
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