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Post 302524914 by GSO on Wednesday 25th of May 2011 05:06:09 AM
05-25-2011
Changed VPN provider from one of the $20 a month ones to $5 a month. The former seemed only to maintain one regional server while the latter has half a dozen or so.
First off it appears computer criminals have to make some adjustments to the new VPN (a change of IP?) - it took approx. 4 hours before the usual hacks started to surface.
It appears not all VPN providers are equal, a lot of old hacks that I haven't had while using the expensive VPN resurfaced - one of those being the browser search box works OK for a while, but for some inexplicable reason switches to defaulting to a French, or German etc. search (the Google SSL search fixes this; note the VPN server does not change when this change happens). The VPN provider thinks this is a Google issue.
However a new phenomena not experienced before - the BBC webpage at one point (not ongoing) seemed to think my IP was an overseas IP[1] while all ip lookups reported my IP as a UK site.
[1] If you are not in the UK the BBC serves ads with its pages (apparently the reason adverts are repeated is to condition your mind - I'm not sure exactly what the BBC's philosophy and rational is here
I wonder if setting up OpenVPN using e.g., Amazon servers, might be worth the effort. I noted Tor put a stop to hacking completely (changing IP every 15 mins) - while it worked, so I wonder if maybe setting up tor servers using hosting such as Amazon might be worth the effort also (i.e., so the integrity of the tor server could be guaranteed - the cost of Amazon hosting seems about comparable to a reasonable VPN).
First off it appears computer criminals have to make some adjustments to the new VPN (a change of IP?) - it took approx. 4 hours before the usual hacks started to surface.
It appears not all VPN providers are equal, a lot of old hacks that I haven't had while using the expensive VPN resurfaced - one of those being the browser search box works OK for a while, but for some inexplicable reason switches to defaulting to a French, or German etc. search (the Google SSL search fixes this; note the VPN server does not change when this change happens). The VPN provider thinks this is a Google issue.
However a new phenomena not experienced before - the BBC webpage at one point (not ongoing) seemed to think my IP was an overseas IP[1] while all ip lookups reported my IP as a UK site.
[1] If you are not in the UK the BBC serves ads with its pages (apparently the reason adverts are repeated is to condition your mind - I'm not sure exactly what the BBC's philosophy and rational is here
I wonder if setting up OpenVPN using e.g., Amazon servers, might be worth the effort. I noted Tor put a stop to hacking completely (changing IP every 15 mins) - while it worked, so I wonder if maybe setting up tor servers using hosting such as Amazon might be worth the effort also (i.e., so the integrity of the tor server could be guaranteed - the cost of Amazon hosting seems about comparable to a reasonable VPN).
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pam_stack
pam_stack(8) System Administrator's Manual pam_stack(8) NAME
pam_stack - recurse into other PAM stacks SYNOPSIS
auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=foo session optional /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=foo password optional /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=foo account optional /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=foo DESCRIPTION
In a nutshell, pam_stack lets you "call", from inside of the stack for a particular service, the stack defined for any another service. The intention is to allow multiple services to "include" a system-wide setup, so that when that setup needs to be changed, it need only be changed in one place. ARGUMENTS
debug turns on debugging via syslog(3). service=name tells pam_stack.so to execute the stack defined for the service name, which will usually be another file in /etc/pam.d. EXAMPLE
/etc/pam.d/imap: auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_shells.so /etc/pam.d/system-auth: auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_krb5.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow nullok auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so CAVEAT
Because recursion is fully supported, there is potential to really break things by having a stack call itself either directly or via mutual recursion. BUGS
Let's hope not, but if you find any, please email the author. AUTHOR
Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> Red Hat Linux 2001/01/30 pam_stack(8)