Tag Archives: osx-server

chroot’d SFTP on Mac OS X server

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Andy Fragen

So here you are finding that you need to grant someone else SFTP access to your server. There are lots of reasons to do this, in my case it’s because I needed to grant access to someone’s web designer. We … Continue reading →

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Squirrelmail Plugins

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Andy Fragen

Just an FYI post. I save all my added Squirrelmail plugins in /Users/Shared/squirrelmail_plugins/. Consequently if I need to reinstall any or all of them all I have to do is issue the following… sudo cp -R /Users/Shared/squirrelmail_plugins/PLUGIN_FOLDER \ /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins sudo … Continue reading →

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Setting up WebDAV Share in Mac OS X Server

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Andy Fragen

As I attempt to transition from a laptop to an iPad, with no specific reason other than the iPad is sooooo kewl; I need to create my own online storage. Yes I have a Dropbox account, but I don’t control … Continue reading →

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Updating DNS settings

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Andy Fragen

Just to document. I’ve updated the settings in /etc/named/named.ca by using the following command and then restarting DNS. sudo curl ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root -o /var/named/named.ca Not sure how often this should be done. I also added the following to /etc/named.conf to reduced … Continue reading →

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Fail2ban Problems and Solutions

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Andy Fragen

If you use Fail2ban then you are probably aware of the fact that you must add a rule number to the ipfw deny rule for actionban in ipfw.conf. If you don’t add a rule number then there is no way … Continue reading →

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Checking Fail2ban regex

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Andy Fragen

I’ve just stumbled across a great command in Fail2ban to check whether or not your filter will actually score a hit from your log file. From the command line. fail2ban-regex /path/to/logfile /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/myfilter.conf regex_to_ignore As an example. fail2ban-regex /var/log/secure.log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sshd.conf (myusername|myIPaddress) … Continue reading →

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Printopia

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Andy Fragen

AirPrint is one of the most welcome additions of late to iOS 4.2. Unfortunately Apple removed the ability to print to shared printers. Fortunately, creative software developers such as Ecamm have created Printopia as a solution for those of us … Continue reading →

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Fail2ban and OS X Server, part deux

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Andy Fragen

As some of you might know I run my own installation of OS X Server. I’ve since updated it to Snow Leopard Server and I think I’ve got most of it running well. As I check my server logs frequently … Continue reading →

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Setting up Snow Leopard iCal Server

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Andy Fragen

After scouring through the official documentation, and finding that lacking, Google has found the answers. Make sure Wiki Server is set to 127.0.0.1 and that Use SSL is checked. Here’s how I was finally able to get my groups into … Continue reading →

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Dovecot Permissions

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Andy Fragen

Well, I finally bit the bullet and installed OS X Snow Leopard Server. Most of what I absolutely need to get working is mail services. One of the peculiarities of Dovecot is that each users mail folder is owned by … Continue reading →

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