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When a user wants to filter messages with the ".procmailrc" file, make sure that the file is NOT world readable or writeable. Otherwise forwarding will not work.

Or put another way, make sure ONLY the user has access to the file.

$ ls -la .procmailrc
-rw------- 1 user group 86 Jun 12 10:00 .procmailrc

We all have used at least one piece of trial software that ended after a certain amount of time or a certain date. With virtualization, you can now run some of these applications (or systems) within a virtual environment pretty much forever. When it expires, reload the original snapshot of the software.

Example:

You have a utility similar to PKZip. You will create a bare virtual system with that as the main program. Then make a snapshot or backup the virtual machine.

When the software expires, reload the snapshot or backup.

** Note ** Some virtualization add-ons like VMware Tools can synchronization the time between the host and the guest. Normally this is a good thing. For the purpose of this exercise, do not install these tools. Please do install the necessary tools to optimize the Virtual Machine -- just skip the time synchronization options.

1) Go into the "albums/.users" directory

2) Edit the file that has a number for its filename
example: 1055879304:298113996

$ vi 1055879304:298113996

3) Change the password string to another md5 string

4) To get another md5 string, run this command

$ md5 -s newpass
MD5 ("newpass") = e6053eb8d35e02ae40beeeacef203c1a

In some cases, it may be a good idea to run separate SSH daemons -- one internal and one external.

Here's how I did it using the new SMF method.

1) New Config

cd /etc
cp -rp ssh ssh_copy
cd ssh_copy
rm ssh_host_*
vi sshd_config


change to desired port
add line for alternate PID i.e. "PidFile /var/run/ssh_copy.pid"

2) SMF method

cd /lib/svc/method

cp -rp sshd sshd_copy

edit the new file using the diff below:

# diff sshd sshd_copy
8c8
< SSHDIR=/etc/ssh
---
> SSHDIR=/etc/ssh_copy
10c10
< PIDFILE=/var/run/sshd.pid
---
> PIDFILE=/var/run/sshd_copy.pid