Drigg - Ubuntu news, tricks, stories, scoops, and more

http://en.emanuele-gentili.com – For several years I decided to reject the possibility of managing a hosting outside, mainly for security reasons. Why pay an external hosting if we can not completely manage? Where are the guarantees on server configuration and arrangements related to security? It is true, there are virtual servers and dedicated servers, but who makes him to spend unnecessary money for a pseudo machine that can not always manage how we want? So I decided to use an old Pentium 3 with Ubuntu Server (encrypted disks) and other serious side arrangements kernel and demons going to transfer logs on the external device. The device that you can see in the picture, copy every few minutes some log files (which I set), analyzes at them independently and sends them both to paper Printer and via email to me (if they conform to the warning rules that I set). A true server-safe! Tools: * Apache2 and Mod_Security * GRSEC * Chroots * Open SSH Server (only with key login) * Snort * Knockd * dm-crypt and other stuff wrote by me. Read »