Access https by telnet

openssl s_client -connect mysite.com:443

To retrieve a certificate

openssl s_client -connect sdms.ecp:443 2>&1 | sed -ne ‘/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p’

Useful page:

http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/

PHP session

Use both Session and cookie to keep security for the website
$_COOKIE[session_name()]
the session name is stored as cookie, other variables are stored as session var

auth.php

<?php
session_set_cookie_params(7200,’/’,”,true);
session_start();
if($_SESSION[‘auth’]!=’xxx’){
session_destroy();
header(“Location: ./login.php\n\n”);
exit;
}else{
//check fingerprint
$fp = $_SERVER[“HTTP_USER_AGENT”];
$fp .= $_SERVER[“REMOTE_ADDR”];

$fp = md5($fp);
if($_SESSION[‘par’] != $fp){
header(“Location: ./login.php\n\n”);
exit;
}
}
?>

login.php
check if ID, pass are matched with those in db….then

session_start();
$_SESSION[‘user_id’] = $uid;
$_SESSION[‘grp_id’] = $gid;
$_SESSION[‘auth’] = 1;

$fp = $_SERVER[“HTTP_USER_AGENT”];
$fp .= $_SERVER[“REMOTE_ADDR”];
$_SESSION[‘remote’] = md5($fp);
header(“Location: ./index.php”);

logout.php

session_set_cookie_params(7200,’/’,”,true);
session_start();
$_SESSION = array();
if(isset($_COOKIE[session_name()])){
$params = session_get_cookie_params();
setcookie(session_name(), ”, time()-3600,
$params[“path”], $params[“domain”],
$params[“secure”], $params[“httponly”]
);
}
session_destroy();
header(“Location: ./login.php\n\n”);
exit;

session_destroy() destroy the session, and cookie will be deleted as setting the cookie lifetime as a time past

SQL — MySQL

Insert

INSERT INTO tablename (col1, col2) VALUES(‘data1’, ‘data2’ );

Grant
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* to dbuser@localhost;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* to dbuser@”%”;
GRANT SELECT ON dbname.dbtable to dbuser@”111.111.111.111″;
GRANT SELECT(colname) ON dbname.dbtable to dbuser@”111.111.111.111″;

set password for username = password(‘password’);
flush privileges;

Find

To avoid files started with “.” in find result

find . -name ‘.snapshot’ -prune -o -name ‘file.mp4’

To delete files older than 7*24h

find /var/tmp -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

mysqldump

1. dump all database into backup file

mysqldump –opt  –all-databases > /tmp/databkup

(–opt includes lock table option)

2. dump several databases

mysqldump –opt –databases db1 db2 db3 > /tmp/databkup

3. dump single table

mysqldump –opt db1 table1 > /tmp/databkup

Touble shooting
Error: Access denied for user x@y to database z when using lock tables
mysqldump -u username -p database –single-transaction >dump.sql

User tar to back up db

mysql> FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;

(This will lock the db so it won’t be updated by other threads. Write threads by other process will wait till the lock is released)

#tar cvzf /var/tmp/datadump.tgz /var/lib/mysql/*

mysql> UNLOCK TABLES;

Restore data
lock tables bbb write;
mysql bbb < /data_backup/databkup
unlock tables;

MySQL interface — PHP

Connect and Close connection to DB

$DB_HOST = “localhost”;

$DB_NAME = “mysql”;

$DB_USER = “mysql”;

$DB_PASS = “password”;

function conn_db(){

global $DB_HOST;

global $DB_USER;

global $DB_PASS;

global $DB_NAME;

if(!($conn = mysql_connect($DB_HOST, $DB_USER, $DB_PASS))) {

echo “Failed to connect DB”;

echo mysql_error($conn);

die;

}

if(!(mysql_select_db($DB_NAME))) {

echo “Failed to select DB”;

echo mysql_error($conn);

die;

}

return $conn;

}

function close_db($conn){

mysql_close($conn);

}

$conn = conn_db();

$sql = “select * from users where date>’20081001′ order by id”;

if (!($rs=mysql_query($sql))) {

echo mysql_error($conn);

die;

}

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs)) {

echo “$row[0] $row[1]\n”;

}

Reset db slave

Some old data were missingon db slave server

copy data from master db01.lalife.net to slave db02.lalife.net and reset slave

On Master:

Lock table

mysql> FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;

mysql> show master status;

+——————+———-+————–+——————+

| File             | Position | Binlog_Do_DB | Binlog_Ignore_DB |

+——————+———-+————–+——————+

| db01-bin.000901 | 84861692 |              |                  |

+——————+———-+————–+——————+

cd /var/lib

tar cvfz  TARFILE_NAME.tgz mysql/

mysql > unlock tables;

On Slave:

cd /var/tmp/

tar -zxvf db01_bk.tar.gz

service mysql stop

##backup old db

mv /www/mysql /www/mysql0603

mv /var/tmp/www/mysql/ /www/

service mysql start

mysql>STOP SLAVE;

mysql>RESET SLAVE;

mysql> CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=’db001.lalife.net’, MASTER_USER=’replication’, MASTER_PASSWORD=’xxxxx’, MASTER_LOG_FILE=’db01-bin.000900′, MASTER_LOG_POS=13482116;

mysql>START SLAVE;

How to get master bin file and position:

On master server

mysql> show master status;
+——————+———–+————–+——————+
| File             | Position  | Binlog_Do_DB | Binlog_Ignore_DB |
+——————+———–+————–+——————+
| db01-bin.000900 | 437292441 |              |                  |
+——————+———–+————–+——————+

Find

To delete empty directory

for d in `find /www/xxxx/oldfiles/* -type d -mtime +1| sort -r`;do echo $d;rmdir $d;done

requiretty

Some cron didn’t work well after move to CentOS5

New to disable requiretty

May 19 10:40:01 xxx sudo:     root : sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/www/xxx/bin ; USER=xxx ; COMMAND=/bin/sh moviepagechmod.sh
vi /etc/sudoers
#Defaults    requiretty