http://blog.andycottrell.com Technology, Security, Life..... Wed, 05 May 2010 18:38:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many python packages suggest using 'easy_install' to install them. How do you get easy_install working if its not present on your system. Download the correct egg for your python version from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools. Run the egg as if it were a shell script (which it is). For example sh xxx.egg There are various options ... http://blog.andycottrell.com/2010/05/setting-up-easy_install/ On January 4th as reported on DarkReading and DataBreaches, Lincoln National Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a major security breach affecting 1.2 million people. In addition to the internal cost of investigating the breach and bringing in an external forensics team; in ... http://blog.andycottrell.com/2010/01/password-authentication-takes-another-poke-in-the-eye/ As part of an experiment at work, I wanted to intercept all traffic on port 80 that was headed to a certain IP address. To handle the traffic, I built a python script using BaseHTTPServer based around this sample code and ran it on .202 - one of my CentOS ... http://blog.andycottrell.com/2009/09/using-route-and-iptables-to-proxy-traffic/ Running out of space on your VMWare Server? Try this to convert some of your larger preallocated disks to growable. This way they only consume the space on the disk that they currently need, and will not consume disk space on the host drive for disk space on the guest ... http://blog.andycottrell.com/2009/02/converting-vmware-106-preallocated-virtual-disks-to-growable/ This is a known bug inherited from RedHat. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html Workaround is to add scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" to the .vmx file before installation. http://blog.andycottrell.com/2009/02/centos-52-does-not-install-on-vmware-server-106/ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=your_image.iso http://blog.andycottrell.com/2009/01/to-read-a-cd-into-an-iso-on-centos-52/ Ensure the mount point /mnt/cdrom exists. To perform the mount: mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom If the symbolic link /dev/cdrom is not there, then try: mount -t auto /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom replacing hdb with whatever your device is called. http://blog.andycottrell.com/2009/01/mounting-the-cdrom-on-centos-52/ With CentOS 5.2 (as ever), use the following to enable a listening tcp port (in this case 8000) to be accessed through the firewall. sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT sudo /sbin/service iptables save sudo /sbin/iptables -F http://blog.andycottrell.com/2009/01/poking-a-hole-in-the-centos-firewall/ The instructions for retrofitting Terminal server to Windows Vista Home are here. This enables Remote Desktop to that machine. http://blog.andycottrell.com/2008/12/enabling-rdp-on-windows-xp-home-2/ The instructions for retrofitting Terminal server to Windows XP Home are here. This enables Remote Desktop to that machine. http://blog.andycottrell.com/2008/12/enabling-rdp-on-windows-xp-home/