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Slackware-13.1-Hacks-Firefox Hardening

Posted 02-13-2011 at 09:55 PM by arniekat

Mozilla-Firefox Hardening

The current version of Firefox for Slackware 13.1 is mozilla-firefox-3.6.13 from the patches directory. Always use the latest version to get the latest security updates.

If you want to play Flash content, compile and install flash-player-plugin (10.3_d162) from SlackBuilds.org. The older versions had some serious security issues. I installed the plugin, then visited the Adobe Flash website so Adobe Flash will store a cookie on my computer....

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Slackware-13.1-Hacks-UFW

Posted 02-11-2011 at 02:22 PM by arniekat

UFW - Uncomplicated Firewall

This firewall for Linux allows you use plain English to control the iptables rules. It is a Command-Line program, but is very easy to create a simple firewall to protect your box.

You need to compile and install this from SlackBuilds:

ufw-0.27

NOTE - Slacky.eu has the current version ufw-0.30. You can also get the source code for any version at https://launchpad.net/ufw/+download

Modify rc.local...

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Slackware-13.1-Hacks-EncFS/Cryptkeeper

Posted 02-09-2011 at 11:38 PM by arniekat

EncFS is a Command-Line application that creates/manages encrypted folders. Cryptkeeper is a GUI that leaves an icon in your system tray so you can create/mount/unmount encrypted folders using EncFS.

You need to compile and install in the following order from SlackBuilds:

rlog-1.4
encfs-1.7.4
orbit2-2.14.19
gconf-2.28.1
cryptkeeper-0.9.5

You will need to create the fuse group and add your non-root users to the fuse group since...

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Slackware-13.1-Hacks-TrueCrypt

Posted 02-09-2011 at 10:23 PM by arniekat

You need to compile and install in the following order from SlackBuilds:

cryptoki-2.20
wxGTK-2.8.11
truecrypt-7.0a

After installing, create the truecrypt group.

# groupadd truecrypt

Now, edit the sudoers file.

# visudo

Add the following lines to the file:

# This will allow all users to run the truecrypt binary
%truecrypt ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/truecrypt

...

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Slackware-13.1-Hacks-WAV to MP3

Posted 01-26-2011 at 09:20 PM by arniekat

Open a Terminal in the directory with the *.wav files and run this command:

for i in *.wav; do lame "$i" "`basename "$i" .wav`".mp3; done

NOTE-This will create the MP3 files with the same name as the WAV files.

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