How to properly setup nginx local authentication
If you have a website running on nginx and you want to make sure the content is not viewable by anyone that isn’t authenticated, the easiest way to set this…
Tag: security
How to manage fine grained password policy with powergui
We here at Computer-howto.com are big fans of the free utility Powergui. Powergui offers a wide range of free powerpacks which offer tremendous control for admins over their environments. One…
Windows 7 Malware Cleanup with Roaming Profiles
We have covered this situation before with malware and profiles in a different post. However, we thought it good to cover this topic again since in a roaming profile environment,…
How to Fix the publisher could not be verified warning Windows 7
If you have ever run into this error message, it is certainly annoying, especially if you have installed software that you DO trust and KNOW where it came from and…
How to setup Mikrotik 751 Router for home or office
Mikrotik makes great quality products that can do just about anything you would like them to do. The RB751 routerboard can be bought for cheap on the net and we can…
Untangle 9.1 resolves disk space issues
For those of you running Untangle UTM on the gateway in your network environment, many know of various problems that have occurred with past releases of the Untangle family and…
Cyanogenmod promises to never include apps like Carrier IQ
Our friends at Cyanogenmod have vowed to never include spyware apps such as Carrier IQ in their distributions of Cyanogenmod. We are huge fans of Cyanogenmod here at Computer-howto and…
How to Configure OpenVPN Android mobile
For those of you who are running an OpenVPN server perhaps on an Untangle box or some other variety of OpenVPN solution, you may have the need to connect to…
Preventing a user from receiving group policy settings
Let’s say you have a group policy object that you are applying to a group of users. Maybe you have one user that is a member of this group that…
Allowing SSH in Untangle
To allow an SSH connection in Untangle simply run the following command: rm /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run /etc/init.d/ssh start