After the recent global distributed botnet attack on WordPress installations that took down servers and broke into admin accounts, I thought I’d write a plugin to prevent it happening again. Distributed botnet attacks can come from multiple IP addresses and locations at the same time, so conventional IP-based lockouts are not effective (e.g. those found […]

None of the vacation/forwarding plugins work with Virtualmin so this is my workaround. Firstly, users need to be created as Mail and FTP users, since we will be using FTP to place the .forward files. Download and unzip the plugin: wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/rcubevacation/vacation-1.9.9.zip?use_mirror=ovh&ts=1280145947 unzip vacation-1.9.9.zip cd vacation vi config.ini We are going to use Usermin’s own […]

I can never get the Virtualmin binary file compilation to work properly, so here’s my workaround to enable changing a user’s Virtualmin password in Roundcube Webmail. Firstly, let’s go to the plugins/password directory (your path will be different): cd ~username/public_html/webmail/plugins/password cp config.inc.php.dist config.inc.php vi config.inc.php We need to change the password driver to virtualmin (hit […]