An Audit policy determines the security events to report to administrators so that user or system activity in specified event categories is recorded. The administrator can monitor security-related activity, such as who accesses an object, when users log on to or log off from computers, or if changes are made to an …

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When many events logs are being generated, the possibility exists that events are being overwritten to quickly, which causes that important information would be lost. Increasing the maximum size of the Windows Event Logs might help to store events longer on each computer. There are 2 ways to increase the size of the …

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Having trouble finding the place where to enable auto-logon in Windows XP Professional? Since it’s not so secure, it’s well hidden. If you still want the functionality, do the following: Click Start, Run and enter CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 In the list of users, highlight the user account you want automatically logged on. …

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An overview of all options and settings available in the Windows audit policy and user rights assignments. Copyright notice: All information on this page are based on the recommendations made in the “Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Security Guide” at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14845 Audit Policy You can …

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An overview of all options and settings available in the domain policy. Copyright notice: All information on this page are based on the recommendations made in the “Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Security Guide” at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14845 Password Policy Settings The following table includes the …

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This page shows you how you can create a Nagios plugin to check how much bandwidth the server is currently using. In order to do this, we will use the tool vnstat. This tools offers the functionality to check how much bandwidth you use over the last 5 seconds. The Nagios plugin you can find here does not follow the …

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How to configure Apache so that requests for non-existing pages are redirected to the home page. In some occasions, you don’t want people to get 404 messages when they surf to pages or folders that don’t exist on your web server (anymore). For example, when you have Basic Authentication, end users only get the pop-up …

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Name-based virtual hosts use multiple host names for the same webserver IP address. This post show how you can create name-based virtual hosts using the iisweb command-line utility. With web browsers that support HTTP/1.1 (as nearly all now do), upon connecting to a webserver, the browsers send the address that the …

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This article shows how you can perform a DNS zone transfer using nslookup on Windows and using dig on Linux. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_transfer ): DNS zone transfer, also sometimes known by its (most common) opcode mnemonic AXFR, is a type of DNS transaction. It is one of …

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How to find SGID files. There are 2 ways to find SGID files:

You can directly search for them using the find command \ You can take a complete listing of the file system, and searching through that listing afterwards \ The advantage of using the find command is that you directly have the information you need. …

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