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My hobbies and myself

August 2012

  • OpenWRT pptp tunnel to the office LAN with Windows VPN server

    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

    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 …