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Debian is a popular Linux distribution. Squeeze is also known as version 6.0.

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Does Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) have buffer overflow protection mechanisms?

My question is: Which buffer overflow / stack smashing defenses (if any) are enabled by default in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)? Ubuntu has a handy summary table showing the main security features of each Server edition release, but I haven't found…
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How to use a custom status command for a service in puppet?

I am using debian squeeze with PostgreSQL 9.1 from backports. Puppet has version 2.7.14. Unfortunatly the init script returns the wrong exit code for status. Therefore I wrote a custom status command to detect whether postgresql is running or…
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AMaViS: missing X-Spam-Status header

I set up a mail server with Dovecot, Postfix and AMaViS on Debian Squeeze following the tutorial on workaround.org (ISPmail tutorial for Debian Squeeze). It uses virtual domains and stores the domains, e-mail addresses and accounts in a MySQL…
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How to install packages with APT without user interaction?

I have a script that downloads and replaces kernel headers in Debian squeeze. function fixHeaders(){ #Replace the kernel headers from OVH with standard kernel headers... aptitude -y install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 sed…
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modprobe not found at all

I know that a lot of people had problems finding modprobe which was mostely due to an unconfigured $PATH. This time however I logged into a machine (Linux mymachine 2.6.32-6-pve #1 SMP Mon Jan 23 08:27:52 CET 2012 i686 GNU/Linux with root rights)…
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rkhunter error message, how to fix?

I am receiving the following errors from rkhunter. I have recently upgraded my server from lenny to squeeze and this may have caused the problem. How do I fix this or hide the error messages? Warning: The modules file '/proc/modules' is…
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Is it possible to enable TLS v 1.2 in Debian squeeze

I am currently running a Debian Squeeze server with Apache. My OpenSSL version is 0.9.8, and I would like to get up to a version capable of running TLS v 1.2. So far my research shows that this is not possible, but I feel like I am missing…
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Unable to authenticate using Apache and authnz_mod_ldap in Active Directory

I have a problem with Apache2 authentication using authnz_ldap_module in order to authenticate users from Active Directory. My Apache version is 2.2.16-6+squeeze10. Here is the configuration I am trying to use with no luck (one of many combinations,…
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SSH Kerberos authentication fails with "Wrong principal in request/Got no client credentials" on debian squeeze

I have a debian squeeze host where I can't log in with kerberos without a password prompt. An identically configured ubuntu 12.04 host works fine and can log in without getting a password prompt. After a kinit, klist gives: Ticket cache:…
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IPv6 only works after pinging the default gateway.

We now have 2013 and I thought it is long overdue to activate IPv6 on my server. But unfortunately, I ran in some problems. To be honest I only have litte experience with IPv6 So I hope you can help me with my "small" problem. A small remark: The…
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How can I view updatedb database content, and then exclude certain files/paths?

The updatedb database on my debian (squeeze) server is quite slow. where is the database located how can I view its content and find out if there are some paths with useless stuff, that I could add to the prunepaths? how can I prune all paths that…
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Why does cron.weekly not run?

When I noticed that the backupscript I placed in /etc/cron.weekly on my Debian6 server isn't executed I placed this small script in it, to see if the weekly cronjob is executed at all: #!/bin/bash echo 'CRON RAN' >…
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How do I provide dpkg configuration parameters to aptitude or apt-get?

When installing gitolite I find that: # aptitude install gitolite The following NEW packages will be installed: gitolite 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded. Need to get 114 kB of archives. After unpacking 348…
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Access OpenVPN client network from server

I have setup an OpenVPN connection between a Windows 2012 Server and an Debian Linux machine. The windows machine is the server and the linux machine is running openvpn as client. I can ping and connect to each other within the VPN network without…
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Do /usr/local and /usr/local/bin need to be group-writable? If so, why?

While it's possible that it's a fluke of a package I installed or the VPS image, it appears that /usr/local and /usr/local/bin (both of which are owned by root:staff) are group-writable by default on Debian Squeeze. Is there a reason that they need…
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