OpenWRT pptp tunnel to the office LAN with Windows VPN server

Posted on August 8, 2012December 11, 2014 by admin

Problem

The idea was to have a separate VPN tunnel tothe office to access office LAN resources without a need to bring up the VPN connection on the workstation. The challenge was a) to find right PPTP options to connect …

Stop pam_unix polluting log files

Posted on August 8, 2012July 2, 2019 by admin

Problem

PAM module pam_unix produces lots of log messages, that pollute system log files. In my case this was in the /var/log/auth.log file. Excessive log messages are logged in particular for sudo, sshd and CRON. In the particular …