Tag Archive for 'Security'

Oct '09 30

Quick Tip: Install a Custom SSL Root Certificate/Key on iPhone

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago in Geekdom. 1 Comment Tags: , .

As it turns out, it’s pretty easy to install new root certificates on the iPhone. All you have to do is grab the certificate file in PEM format (via e-mail or web, either will work) and then open it up. Simple as that. In my case, since I wanted to grab the CACert root certificate so that I could use the WordPress iPhone application with this blog, all I had to do was navigate to their Class 1 PKI Key in Safari on my iPhone and I was presented with an installation dialogue. After clicking ‘Install’ I was ready to go.

Aug '08 10

Allowing Access to FTP Disk Only Via FTP

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago in Geekdom. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

For bandwidth shaping reasons, I wanted to be able to allow access to my FTP disk (mounted at /var/ftp) only via FTP (hosted by ProFTPd). As it turns out, this is quite easy to do using a couple of UNIX permissions tricks and some ProFTPd voodoo. Read on for the basic description of how I’ve done it. Continue reading ‘Allowing Access to FTP Disk Only Via FTP’