When the recent SMB 2.0 vulnerability was announced, there was some discussion on the Toasters mailing list about whether Data ONTAP was affected. Val Bercovici from NetApp responded that Data ONTAP was not affected by this issue.
Today, I discovered that to enable the filer snapshots to be visible within the Previous Versions facility within Windows [...]
Geoff @ UVM
Geoffrey Duke ∈ System Administrator ∈ Enterprise Technology Services
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NetApp and Microsoft Security Updates
Is that program running as administrator?
Using Process Explorer to view process integrity levels
A friend asked me how to open a Control Panel applet As Administrator. In Windows Vista, when you see a little shield icon as part of a button or shortcut, that would indicate that you would get prompted by the User Account Control (UAC) facility to elevate the [...]
Wednesday – March 25
Fixed permissions early (6 am) successfully with NetApp fsecurity command. That and the secedit tool made it quick work.
Did a little Russinovich-guided analysis of a minidump file created by EMC Networker.
Did some more work on UVM::AD module.
A number of other accumulated general administration tasks.
Wrote this perl one-liner to find the volume that contains a user’s [...]
Tuesday – March 24
Home directory permissions issues.
Found: How to display the security permissions of a file from the filer which mentions the fsecurity command. Also found the white paper Bulk Security Quick Start Guide. Information about the Security Descriptor Definition Language SDDL at MSDN. From a comment on that page, I found Mark Minasi’s newsletter describing the SDDL [...]
securing wordpress
I finally found some info about getting current verions of WordPress to use SSL for Logins and wp-admin. I have enabled the settings on both my blogs, and it appears to be working OK. I have been using Windows Live Writer to post entries, and it’s been working very well. We’ll see what happens if [...]
