Plugins-DA.NET

Running DirectAdmin through apache on port 80

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:27:21 +0700

If your users are unable to connect to DirectAdmin on port 2222 due to firewalls or proxies. It is still possible to setup apache to allow DirectAdmin to run through apache using its proxy options.

How To Enable Spamassassin Logging to a file

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:24:56 +0700

Enabling logging of Spamassassin actions is simple enough, so here i how to do that.

Exim quotas and Pigeonhole

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:03:23 +0700

As soon as you enable Pigeonhole with Exim and Dovecot you get email quotas not working any longer. And here is a way how to enable them back with Dovecot.

Exim+Dovecot+Sieve via LMTP

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:28:40 +0700

To switch Exim+Dovecot+Sieve to LMTP from LDA one need to apply some changes

How to block IPs with Brute Force Monitor in DirectAdmin using CSF

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:27:06 +0700

Directadmin since version 1.39 has a built-in brute force monitor, which scan your service logs for any brute force login attempts on your system (dovecot, exim, proftpd, sshd) and sent notifications to an admin. Here you can find a short guide on how to block attackers with CSF (ConfigServer Firewall)

Linux Malware Detect on Directadmin Powered server

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:10:06 +0700

Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks and generates signatures for detection.

Protecting IP from hijacking from inside

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:13:36 +0700

If you sell additional IPs to your users, so they could connect remote servers from your hosting server using their dedicated IP as a source IP, you might want (or even need) to protect it from hijacking by other customer of yours. So nobody else could use it.

session.save_path is not set, or how to store sessions securely with directadmin

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:28:53 +0700

It was mentioned somewhere that to have session.save_path pointed into /tmp is not very secure, as a hacker with a hosting account on your server might hijack a session file from a neighbor site, if he (or she) manages to get list of files located in /tmp. To prevent this you might want to store sessions under user's home directory.

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Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:34:57 +0700

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Directadmin + Exim + Dovecot + Sieve + Roundcube

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:04:01 +0700

A step-by-step How-To on the subject is inside. With that you'll learn how to configure da_exim and da_dovecot to use Sieve email filters, and how to configure roundcube to manage the rules.