Jonas Genannt

I think SMTP-AUTH is very important! Here is a short HowTo for Postfix with sasl authentication against shadow.

First install the necessary packages:
apt-get install postfix-tls libsasl2-modules sasl2-bin

Open the /etc/default/saslauthd for the configuration.

# This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically
START=yes
# You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use.
# This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include
# "shadow" or "sasldb", like this:
MECHANISMS="shadow"

PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/"
PIDFILE="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/${NAME}/saslauthd.pid"

Postfix have to know which authentication mode the daemon will use.
You can define this in the /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf! (chmod 0644)

saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

Then configure the postfix to ask for a username and password then anybody will send a mail to the server.
Add the following lines to the /etc/postfix/main.cnf

#sasl
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination

For security reason you should change that postfix runs in a chroot environment. You can change that in the /etc/postfix/master.cnf

smtp inet n - y - - smtpd

(Change the - to y!)

Create now the directory for the saslauthd:
mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd

Set the right directory permission:
chown root.sasl -R /var/spool/postfix/var/

Instead that dpkg change the permission we have to create an override for dpkg!
dpkg-statoverride --add root sasl 710 /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd

At last postfix musst have the right permission to speak to the saslauthd daemon, add postfix to the sasl group.
adduser postfix sasl

Restart postfix and saslauthd and try to send a mail to the mailserver.

(Don't forget to set a username and a password in your mailclient for mailsending)

Note to myself: mii-tool can't operate with 1Gbit/s and more.

Use ethtool, provides more informtion and has no 100Mbit/s limit.

It's in Debian, so apt-get install ethtool

Today I have read on Heise.de that Xen is one step closer to go into the linux kernel.

I hope this would be soon, because I am a big fan of Xen.

If you get an error like this:

Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.

You musst install hotplug with apt-get on the dom0 system.
After this installation you can start a new domU session...

Very crazy :-/

Rsync Server under Windows is possible with cygwin and cwrsync!

You can get cwRsync with cygwin dlls here: http://itefix.no/cwrsync/

Install it, create a rsync.conf file, but two things are important for running rsync on windows:

strict modes = false
use chroot =false

My rsync.conf looks like this:

secrets file = /cygdrive/c/Programme/cwRsync/passwds
log file = /cygdrive/c/Programme/cwRsync/rsyncd.log
pid file = /cygdrive/c/Programme/cwRsync/rsyncd.pid
strict modes = false
use chroot = false

[Backup]
comment = Files for Backup
path = c:\files
auth users = backup
hosts deny = *
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
read only = yes
list = false

The password file has got that format:

username:password

For installing rsync as a Server you need the programs:
- instsrv.exe
- srvany.exe

Now execute this command:
instsrv.exe "Rsync c:\path\to\srvany.exe

Do not start the service now!

Open regedit and insert the following lins to that path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEMS\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rsync\Parameters

AppDirectory REG_SZ "c:\Programme\cwrsync\bin"
Application REG_SZ "c:\Programme\cwrsync\bin\rsync.exe"
AppParameters REG_SZ "--daemon --config=/cygdrive/c/Programme/cwRsync/rsync.conf"

Now you can start rsync as a normal service.

UGH! is back
That's a really cool old game, I have not played it for years, now it is back on my Desktop