SSH’s (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called “interactive keyboard password authentication”, so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard.

Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool ssh into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in.

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Houston, USA, and Bucharest, Romania, April 21st, 2008 - AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, and Stimulus Software (http://www.mailarchiva.com), vendor of the MailArchiva email archiving system, announced today the closure of a partnership aimed at integrating email messaging and archiving functionalities. Through this strategic technology integration, the two companies aim to pro-actively address the issues arising for businesses of all sizes that work towards complying with IT Governance standards and concepts.

From http://hehe2.net/:

Switching to Linux can be very daunting, most seasoned Linux users experienced that first hand. After all, at some point they were also “noobs”. However, the Linux community has excelled in making the switch for beginners as easy as possible by providing guides, howtos, tweaks, and general advocacy articles. When I first made the switch 3 years ago, I found the community welcoming me with open hands on forums, IRC channels, and E-mail, I was surprised how helpful these penguins were!

Read the full thing at http://hehe2.net/linux-general/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-linux-users/

From internetnews.com:

Networking goliath Cisco is now opening its Integrated Services Router (ISR) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platforms to become Linux-based application server platforms. The move could have wide-ranging implications, as Cisco's gear has millions of deployments that now can be leveraged to serve applications directly.

Read the full thing at http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3740106/Cisco+Turns+Routers+Into+Linux+Application+Servers.htm

After more than 15 years of Linux development, the last couple of years have seen an explosive spectrum of progress in conquering the desktop. It is as if the world is suddenly waking up and discovering Linux. Ubuntu has a place in the history books already as the distro that pushed to make this happen, taking the old Linux and wrapping it up into a user-friendly desktop system. On the business front, Novell SuSE and Red Hat have traditionally dominated.

Read the full thing at http://biguncledave.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/linux-distros-that-could-take-the-lead-soon/

One of the most noticeable differences between Linux and Windows is the directory structure. Not only is the format different, but the logic of where to find things is different.This tutorial will explain about Linux Directory Structure Overview with graphical image.

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Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer,and hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset your users.This tutorial will explain how to setup mail server with Postfix + Dovecot + SASL + Squirrel Mail.

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Bucharest, March 11th, 2008 - AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, announced today the commercial release of the AXIGEN Mail Server 6.0. The new version is designed to effectively address the requirements of both collaborative enterprises and service providers offering hosting with added advanced collaboration services.

The new AXIGEN Mail Server 6.0 primarily features groupware and advanced collaboration functionalities that enable users to share their emails, tasks and appointments by granting colleagues permissions to read, write, delete or perform other actions on the content of mailbox folders of choice, to view others' free/busy status or to delegate the right to send messages in their name to co-workers.

This set of new groupware and advanced collaboration functionalities has shaped a new product version, the Enterprise Edition, a best-in-class solution to the requirements of collaborative enterprises that comes to enrich the existing AXIGEN Mail Server product range.

Lynis is an auditing tool which tests and gathers information from Unix based systems. The audience for this tool are security and system auditors, network specialists and system maintainers.

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Renton, WA, and Bucharest, Romania, February 21st, 2008 - AXIGEN (www.axigen.com), the professional mail server vendor, and Parallels (www.parallels.com), worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software, announced today the launch of a strategic technological partnership, in which the companies will offer an integrated AXIGEN Mail Server and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers solution specifically for Service Providers offering virtualized hosting environments.