Archive for the ‘networking’ Category

Enabling root access to vsftpd

Friday, March 6th, 2009

It took me a while to figure out due to misleading information over the vast Internet suggesting to search for non existing /etc/vsftpd.users or something like this. Thing you have to do is to edit /etc/ftpusers and remove root from there.

I don’t want that NIC to be probed

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Suppose you are on a Linux box with multiple NICs. It happens that there is one of them that loads with a driver disturbing test/activity you’re doing and you want to exclude it from modprobe. You should edit file /etc/modprobe/blacklist and add there the driver name used by the card you want ...