Domain-name based ssh login attempts

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

The last few weeks I have noticed some illicit ssh login attempts that uses parts of the reverse DNS domain name as user name when it tries to login. The last attempt looked like this in my LogWatch summary: Illegal users from these:     195.38.107.55 (aquila.euroexpert.tvnet.hu): 9 times        root/password: 4 times        ...

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Ant “replace” task does not preserve Unix file permissions

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

This is probably a well-known fact for everyone who has used Ant on Unix for a while, but an annoying discovery for me who have been hiding under a C++ rock. The five year old bug report File Permissions not preserved in replace task pretty much says it all: Java ...

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