Security of the system console is more challenging than it appears as there is no precisely secure environment on earth where the physical access is entirely and only granted to you. In reality, all the environmental security measures depend on human factor and declared procedures can be reversed meanwhile you suppose everything is going fine. The conflicts of interests may arise suddenly when especially the attached business value of your data grows. A day arrives and it may turn into a “capture the flag” game between the business partners or any concerned parties.
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13/06/2011
Securing FreeBSD Console, How to Reset and Recover Lost root Password
06/06/2010
php5-extensions-1.4 Upgrade Failure, php5-filter-5.3.2, php5-imap-5.3.2 and pcre issues: Stop in /usr/ports/security/php5-filter
There were several vital changes and updates related to PHP, php-extensions and php5-* dependency packages thus I couldn’t expect the upgrades to be a piece of cake. In fact, famous *** Error code 1 showed up without much delay even this time I checked /usr/ports/UPDATING (along with the lessons I took from apache22 upgrade) before doing anything and followed the instructions in “20100409″ before running the portupgrade utility on my FreeBSD 8.0 box;
05/06/2010
Apache 2.2.15 Upgrade Failure: “checking for APR… configure: error: the –with-apr parameter is incorrect.”
There was an upgrade for apache22 (Apache/2.2.15) that added apr-ipv6-devrandom-gdbm-db42-1.4.2.1.3.9_1 Apache Portability Library package to the system by the straight attempt of portupgrade utility I executed without reading /usr/ports/UPDATING (20100518). Bad habit of not reading /usr/ports/UPDATING before performing the upgrade on my FreeBSD box ended up in;
