Brand new Sysadmin - trying hard but need advice

GlassMuffins · 2012-05-25T10:31:12.714921+00:00

If you do not have a need for windows on the desktop and will have either a Windows AD or a Samba 4 AD (not production ready), you could go with Linux on desktops and use Likewise-open to join them to the domain and give them easy access to network shares.

If you are going with a Samba 3 PDC you are better off using Windows on the desktop as getting Likewise and Samba 3 to work together is a major PITA but you could use PAM to get similar functionality.

Firewalls I'll give another vote to PFSense.

For remote software updates on Windows Desktops, PDQDeploy works quite well (though I'm sure there are better). PDQInventory will let you remotely review what software is on the Desktops (among other tasks)

To monitor the network look at either Snorby of Security-Onion.

stealthmodeactive · 2012-05-25T09:34:53.561147+00:00

Not easy, but you can take some of the initial donkey work out of it with Security Onion or Snorby. But as you said maintaining it is the hard part.

666kopimicv · 2012-05-25T08:05:08.799226+00:00

/r/techsupport

technologiquepark · 2 days

this is not really privacy related, I'd suggest posting it to /r/andsec and /r/commandline where it may be more suited.

Joe_12265 · 4 days

one for /r/politics surely?

BadAdminGuy · 4 days

/r/techsupport would be a better place for this.

xrandr · 5 days

Yeah, had I looked closer I'd have spotted the wrong URL in the about section

pkiyan · 5 days

It will accomplish the same thing but make sure you set truecrypt to securely wipe the drive as it encrypts. As for speed, you'd probably find it quicker just to wipe the drive, especially if your drive supports ATA erasing commands (Secure Erase)

xrandr · 5 days

Thanks, I had been looking on TPB

douchemonster · 5 days

s/TOR/Tor/g

QBVII · 5 days

Am I a bad IT guy.

As long as you've learned from any mistakes AND taken a backup of the config, then no.

number12and35 · 5 days

ssh on to it (during setup you should have got a .pem file)

ssh -i tor-cloud-servers.pem ubuntu@yourserverip

Once logged on run

sudo -u debian-tor arm

This will give you a curses based monitoring tool (arm)

number12and35 · 6 days

What did your bandwidth usage look like?

I don't have figures to hand but I'm on the free year and have yet to break any soft caps that would incur a charge from Amazon.

By default you are set up as a bridge so traffic will be lower than a regular node, as you are only helping those who are configured to use bridge access, and it will be even lower if you select the private bridge option as only those people you tell about it will use it.

LawbringerS13 · 6 days

Spyderco Sharpmaker.

digg_reject · 6 days

Full disk encryption (ICS only)

ICS only encrypts /data afaik, honeycomb was the one with true FDE.

xrandr · 6 days

Can anyone point me to an announcement that this is a TPB run server?

lugh · 7 days

The event will be live streamed tonight for those of us who may not be in the country:

http://www.digitalrightsforum.com/live.html

xrandr · 7 days

It will just bog down the network

ytse77 · 7 days

Rabbit season!

dcbinge · 7 days

thanks I try to keep it real ;)

lugh

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