Dryice Liu’s Blog

Never think your password is complicated enough

Last week I was asked to help a friend to check out his server that has been hacked. First I was thinking some kind of PHP leak or SQL injection. But I was wrong. The crack uses some kind of SSH user/password scanner and got his root password.
I find this out because the cracker created […]

¶ Posted 21 April 2008 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

Why the FreeBSD ports system rocks

Well I need to handle some PHP upgrade on a Debian server some days ago, and it turns out to be a nightmire…
Debian is famous for its “apt-get” package management system, and I thought it would be easy. However, it turns out all the packages are binary and have exact version numbers in dependency. To […]

¶ Posted 03 September 2007 § freebsd § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

ordinary user using port under 1024

On *nix systems the port number under 1024 are reserved and only root user can bind to it. But today I read a post saying a blog here says about disabling this:
Friday, May 26, 2006 FreeBSD 6.1: Disabling Reserverd Ports
A common misfeature found on UN*X operating systems is the restriction that only root can bind […]