Frequently used Linux one-liners

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Mar 30 2009

I just submitted a couple of one-liners that I frequently use to Command-line-Fu.

Find brute force attempts on SSHd – Searches the /var/log/secure log file for Failed and/or invalid user log in attempts.

root@empulse:$ cat /var/log/secure | grep sshd | grep Failed | sed 's/invalid//' | sed 's/user//' | awk '{print $11}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

List SMTP connections by host – Searches /var/log/secure for smtp connections then lists these by number of connections made and hosts.

root@empulse:$ cat /var/log/secure | grep smtp | awk '{print $9}' | cut -f2 -d= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail

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Command-line-Fu

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Mar 29 2009

If you haven’t seen this site you need to check it out. Command-line-Fu is running list of submitted Linux one-liner commands. Some of these are really cool and you can of course submit your own for peer review.

Here are a couple of examples you may find.

Update twitter via curl

username@computername:$ curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

List of commands you use most often

username@computername:$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

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Linux Security Quick Reference Guide

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Mar 29 2009

I just found this quick reference sheet on Linux security topics from Apache and DNS security to crucial system files, tcp wrappers, and configuring syslog. This document from LinuxSecurity.com is available as a pdf download is provided below.

Linux Security Quick Reference Guide (pdf)

Excerpt: “Regularly audit your systems for any unauthorized and unnecessary use of the setuid or setgid permissions.”

Quick tip: Find all setuid and setgid programs

root# find / -type f -perm +6000 -ls

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How do you linux? Contest

1 Comment | This entry was posted on Mar 27 2009

What do you do with Linux? is the question being asked by howdoyoulinux.com, who is having a video contest describing what you do with Linux. We all the great things you can do with Linux from a hardware firewall/router to a home theatre system. $2,000 and other prizes will go to the winners.

http://howdoyoulinux.com/

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