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  1. wattie

    Direct copy of home from one DA to another?

    I have a FreeBSD DA installation which I am planning to migrate to Debian. I know about the regular backup/restore process; however I wish if it can be a bit quicker. Can I just somehow copy the whole /home folder instead of going through the zip/unzip procedure?
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    PHP 5.6 on Debian 12 (How to)

    I wish to share my experience with running PHP 5.6 on Debian 12. As you all probably know, Debian 12 is comming with OpenSSL 3 and PHP 5.6 is not going to run with it. Therefore you need to run two Open SSL installations. Here is how to do it: 1. Download openssl 1.1.1 tar.gz from the official...
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    How are they sending this spam from default account

    I have a user who has no website and no e-mails. Their public_html folder contains a single .htaccess file which defines a simple 403 redirect to their new website which is not on my server. Same in private_html. The php-mail.log is 0 bytes but I've disabled PHP just to make sure... And their...
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    Empty backups

    Suddently I found out that my backups are... empty. For example today I manually backed up a site and according to the message system everything was fine: User <user> has been backed up. <17:05:05> The Admin backups have been created in /home/admin/bup2 <17:05:05> But after that looking at...
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    grep: The -P option is not supported

    When doing ./build versions I get: grep: The -P option is not supported It will not continue unless hitting CTRL+C on that point.
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    Wrong parsing of ssh username in logs from bruteforce

    The brute force monitor is showing the following: 1631... 116.110... invalid 1 sshd3 Sep 14 03:17:08 srv2 sshd[89172]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user test from 116.110... port 44658 ssh2 As you can see it incorrectly parses the username as "invalid" instead of "test".
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    SMTPUTF8 is required, but was not offered by host

    One user is complaining that e-mail sent to a domain on the server was bounced back with the following error: SMTPUTF8 is required, but was not offered by host What could be the issue?
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    Weird TLS issue

    The server hostname is srv2.<server domain>. I have wildcard sertificate added for <server domain>. I have not added srv2.<server domain> as separate hosting. Opening https://srv2.<server domain> shows expired certificate notice and I see old LetsEncrypt cert there. Opening https://<whatever...
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    Very promising benchmarks for FreeBSD 13

    FreeBSD was never so far focused on performance - the stability and simplicity was always the priority. Well it looks like now things are getting better in regards of speed! Check this out: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-13-beta1 Briefly the tests show that 13...
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    Discussing Past, Present and Future of FreeBSD Project

    Great interview about the FreeBSD Foundation: https://itsfoss.com/freebsd-interview-deb-goodkin/
  11. wattie

    SquirrelMail CVE-2020-14932 & CVE-2020-14933 (and the old unpatched in DA CVE-2019-12970)

    There are two unserialize security vulnerabilities of SquirrelMail from June. It looks like they are not yet patched officially. Please monitor the ./src/compose.php here: https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrelmail/code/HEAD/tree/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/ An eventual patch which...
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    Remove EC-521 (secp521r1) from the LetsEncrypt generation

    If you try to generate a LetsEncrypt TLS certificate with EC-521, it will fail with the following error: That's because LetsEncrypt does not support secp521r1 anymore. According to the LetsEcnrypt integration guide: Chromium also do not support secp521r1 so even if somehow it's possible to...
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    OSCP Must Staple

    It's an old but still not common feature, but I guess it will grow popularity in future - OSCP Must Staple is an additional instruction bundled inside the TLS certificate which instructs the browser that the server MUST send an OSCP Stapling information. Question: Is there a way to implement...
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    ProFTPd 1.3.7a error at the end of update

    On FreeBSD 11.3 I get this error at the end of the build: ... Done proftpd. ./build: unsetenv: not found Enabling ProFTPd ClamAV module for upload scanning libtool --mode=compile gcc -DFREEBSD11 -DFREEBSD11_2 -g2 -O2 -Wall -fno-omit-frame-pointer -DPR_SHARED_MODULE -I. -I/usr/include/proftpd -c...
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    libxml2 2.9.10

    I can see that the newest stable version is 2.9.10: ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/ A changelog is available here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2019-October/msg00014.html
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    libxslt 1.1.34

    It's not a big deal, but there is a newer official version from few months ago. Here is the news page with summary: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/blob/master/doc/news.html
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    FreeType 2.10.2

    It comes with support of WOFF2 fonts and few bug fixes. Details: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.10.2/
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    MariaDB 10.5.5

    It's not new (actually from 10 Aug 2020) but it is still not available in DA. It's mainly a bugfix release. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1055-release-notes/
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    Nghttp2 v1.41.0 (CVE-2020-11080)

    This release includes a security fix: CVE-2020-11080: Denial of service: Overly large SETTINGS frames
  20. wattie

    "An error occurred while sending the mail" when changing password

    I get "Error while sending email" followed by "An error occurred while sending the mail" when trying to generate new random password and send it to the selected e-mail address. It happens on all accounts. Based on my search in previous threads on this matter, it is supposed to be permissions...
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