Do You Yearn For The Old Google Days

Does auto-complete drive you nuts and muck with your ability to paste into google's search box.  

Awesome article here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=5a69f1094357f31b&hl=en

We all can't be as cool as "thelostpineapple", but "bluequoll" seems cool in my book for his very simple solution:
https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

Ahh, the pain of actually typing a complete thought returns.

vsFTP MySQL Virtual with Auto-Create Home Directories

Expanding on the howto's shown here:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/centos-redhat-vsftpd-ftp-with-virtual-users.html
http://www.howtoforge.com/pureftpd_mysql_virtual_hosting


We get this error because virtual user directory does not exist.  Attempts at directory auto creation via configuration file fail:

331 Please specify the password.

Password:

500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/opt/ftp/testuser

Login failed.

ftp>

We want MySQL user dir's to be auto-created when a valid user tries to login you will need to change your pam configuration to:

#%PAM-1.0

# Auth in MySQL

auth requisite pam_mysql.so user=vsftpd-ro passwd=readonly host=localhost db=vsftpd table=accounts usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=pass crypt=0

auth required pam_script.so onerr=success dir=/etc/pam-script

# Account in MySQL

account required pam_mysql.so user=vsftpd-ro passwd=readonly host=localhost db=vsftpd table=accounts usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=pass crypt=0

$ cat /etc/pam-script/pam_script_auth

#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -d "/opt/ftp/$PAM_USER" ]; then

  /usr/bin/env mkdir /opt/ftp/$PAM_USER

  /usr/bin/env chown ftp:ftp /opt/ftp/$PAM_USER

fi

Small changes to SPEC file for 64 bit location and packaging:


# see http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html for details
# and sub-package details for maximum-rpm too
#
Summary: a PAM module that can invoke scripts within the PAM stack
Name: pam-script
Version: 1.1.4
Release: 1.local
License: GPL
Vendor: LBNL/NERSC
Group: System Environment/Base
Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-script/pam-script-1.1.4.tar.gz
BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-buildroot
Provides: pam-script-1.1.4
Requires: pam
%description
pam-script allows you to execute scripts during  authorization,  passwd
changes, and on session opening or closing; which can affect the PAM stack.
----------

%package examples
Summary: some pam-script example scripts and docs
Group: System Environment/Base
%description examples
logscript - simply records the various PAM_* environment variables to
a log file.  Useful for studying how the various PAM modules work together.
tally - a pam-script version of the pam-tally module with much of the
same options.  It's a perl script and is useful for hacking your own
authentication scheme.

%prep
%setup

%build

%pre

%install

# pam-script
./configure    --prefix=/usr                    \
        --libdir=/lib64/security                \
        --sysconfdir=/etc/pam-script            \
        --mandir=/usr/share/man

make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install-man7
make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install-examples

%post
# pam-script

%preun
# pam-script

%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/lib64/security/pam_script.so
%doc README
/etc/pam-script/README
/usr/share/man/man7/pam-script.7.gz
%files examples
/etc/pam-script/*