Archive for July, 2008

Ubuntu Hardy Heron unofficial sources.list, enable root account (and su)

I recently installed Ubuntu for the first time in a while, since version 6 actually.  My normal laptop runs Debian Etch and hasn´t been updated in about 9 months due to the samba update breaking smbclient on my laptop and thus forcing me to not care too much about updates, but I recently acquired a 1000mhz PIII laptop with 384mb ram, wifi, DVD-ROM, 1400×1050 screen 15¨ LCD (!)  and 30GB of hdd.  Not bad for free.  Anywho, I have this insatiable urge to run bleeding edge software (see openSUSE being always updated / broken on my web server and the deafault ubuntu software repos, although being some of the largest out of all the linux distros (debian probably coming in second) they still don´t have things like Adobe Flash Player.  Let´s fix that:
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2008
07/31
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Check for failed SSHD authentication attempts in OpenSuse 10.3

Unlike Debian which uses the standard /var/log/sshd style logfile, OpenSuse uses the newer syslog-ng facility and is generally more annoying when trying to just parse a log file for some useful info.  However, it is not impossible, and it seems many users (including myself) were having a hard time finding where failed sshd login attempts get logged.  Webmin was not of much assistance in this area, nor was google.  I however did manage to eventually find, by using my grip function that I posted about earlier in /var/log to find this little nugget:
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2008
07/10
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