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Special Forums Cybersecurity Need Help Post 52172 by obitus on Friday 11th of June 2004 08:10:24 PM

06-11-2004

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I don't think you really understand what a honey pot is. A honey pot is a machine with fake services on it that tries to attract crackers and (most of the time) logs them so they can be dealt with.

However, I do commend you on wanting to learn how things work. If you want a good understanding of how unix works, I strongly suggest avoiding alot of main stream Linux distributions and opt for something a little more BSDish (OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Slackware Linux, etc). Another good option for learning about how the operating systems work is Gentoo Linux.

If your focus is security, I'd suggest reading some of the stuff on Packet Storm. However, don't use that information on machine you are not an admin for.

If you focus is how GNU/Linux works, Linux From Scratch will show you how things are glued together from a million parts.

If you focus is operating system design and you know how to code, I'd suggest one of the BSD's (OpenBSD for security).

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httppower

httppower(8)							     powerman							      httppower(8)

NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units.	It is run interac-
       tively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
	      Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
	      Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
	      over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
	      Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
	      Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
	      Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

ORIGIN

       PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters.  This software is open source and distributed under the terms
       of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman

powerman-2.3.5							    2009-02-09							      httppower(8)