Archive for the ‘security’ Category

Nice way to generate a password

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Nice way, grabbed from a discussion, to generate a password. You should have a Linux console available or an MD5 hashing utility. Console Linux: $ echo "nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" | md5sum 5b14c45d2ae299904da0c4c8e251a05f

HowTo add Radius Authentication to Apache2

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Few notes to myself, to avoid forgetting a cool thing I've just learned. The need is to implement radius based authentication to access a directory on Apache2 Web server. Here's how to proceed (instructions have been tested on an Ubuntu 10.10). First, you need to install the needed module for Radius authentication on ...

Open Security Architecture – Note to Self

Friday, August 27th, 2010

This very well done and useful site has been done, among others, by a great ex-coworker I respect very much. As a note-to-self, I’m placing it in my collection of useful tech tips since their library and documentation is more than useful. And yes, I’m committing to participate ...