Apache provides basic user authentication mechanism based on usernames and passwords. The easiestt way to manipulate them is to use a tool called ‘htpasswd’ from the command line interface. Various tools such as control panels use the same tool only that they provide a GUI interface. This...

This is the second part of the Gentoo Tutorials. In the first section “Minimal Gentoo Installation” we have built a fresh Gentoo system using the minimal install disk and downloading the stages/ports and building the kernel. This left us with a bare Gentoo OS. In this second Gentoo Tutorial...

This is quite an easy one. Even for a newbie. Here we will show the quickest way to create an openVPN tunnel between your safe home Linux/BSD router and your Windows client. Very useful for mobile computers, which do not always use the same secure network. Mind that this only shows you the quickest way...

Recently I had to encrypt an entire partition to protected some sensitive data. I found out that TrueCrypt is quite easy to use and provide pretty good protection against attackers with physical access to your machine. You can encrypt your data in two ways: 1) By creating an encrypted file which you...

Top Solution of the day: SSH keys are very useful for people who work with multiple servers every day. How do keys work: Simply, you generate yourself a key: ssh-keygen -t dsa -C “Comment-goes-here” The ssh-keygen is an application that generates and manages authentication keys. You can see...

As you might already know, there is a testing version of K Desktop Environment 4 released. It is as expected full with bugs and problems to solve. Here is one: After you install the KDE4, try to change the wallpaper by selecting a new desktop from the ones available with the installation. For some reason...