Useful Commands

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SME Server locale

By default the sme server 8 locale is ISO-8859-1ldapsear

ACL

See ACL

getfacl /path/2/files/or/folders

set ACL

setfacl -P -R -m u:apache:rwX,d:u:apache:rwX /path/2/files/or/folders

-R : recursive

-P : physical, follow symlinks

Apache Related Commands

Apache options to ibay

Expand httpd.conf template

expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
sv h /service/httpd-e-smith

or

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/usr/bin/sv h /service/httpd-e-smith

Restart httpd

/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

or

sv t /service/httpd-e-smith

SME10

How do I start, restart, stop, reload and check the status of a service (httpd-e-smith.service) with systemd.

# systemctl start httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl restart httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl stop httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl reload httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl status httpd-e-smith.service

Enable AllowOverride All/None

leave Apache reads the distributed configuration file .htaccess per ibay:

db accounts setprop IBAYNAME AllowOverride All
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

if you want to remove

db accounts delprop IBAYNAME AllowOverride
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

enable Symlinks in that iBay

db accounts setprop IBAYNAME FollowSymLinks enabled
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

if you want to remove

db accounts delprop IBAYNAME FollowSymLinks
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

disable apache directory indexes per ibay

db accounts setprop IBAYNAME Indexes disabled
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

if you want to remove

db accounts delprop IBAYNAME Indexes
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

PHPBaseDir per ibay

the phpbasedir is a "php-jail", if you want that it uses its normal jail and allow it to use also /tmp then :

db accounts setprop IBAYNAME PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/IBAYNAME/:/tmp/
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

Allow PHP URL File Open per ibay

For SME9 exclusively see Useful_Commands#PHP_settings_only_for_SME9

Make custom httpd directory if not exist

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Create the template name 99allow_url_fopen and put the content

<Directory /home/e-smith/files/ibays/IBAYNAME/html>
php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen on
</Directory>

Save the file

Expand

expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Restart httpd.

/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

Allow PHP URL File Open

This is set with a db command. Use the command here

http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration#Php

and replace the variable and value eg

db configuration setprop php AllowUrlFopen On
expand-template /etc/php.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

PHP document root

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

If you set up an application in an ibay you may have some odd results due to the usage of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] by the application. By default this is set in php.ini to :

/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html

How to overcome $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] issues in ibays see PHP_document_root

PHP settings only for SME9

	Tip:
	These settings modify only the behaviour of one ibay and not at all the whole php settings for the server. Only for sme9, see bugzilla:8239

db accounts setprop ibayname variable value
signal-event ibay-modify ibayname

AllowUrlFopen : enabled/disabled
MemoryLimit : set a M as unit, eg 64M
UpMaxFileSize : set a M as unit, eg 64M
PostMaxSize : set a M as unit, eg 64M
MaxExecTime: unlimited or set time in second without units, eg 60

PHPinfo

PHPinfo will provide an overview of all PHP related settings. A quick way to get an overview or search for a setting, one could use:

php -r "phpinfo();" | less

or to save to a text file:

php -r "phpinfo();" > phpinfo.txt

or to search for specific values and save to a text file:

php -r "phpinfo();" | grep mysql > phpmysql.txt

https forced redirection using custom template

see Https_redirection

If it does not already exist then create the following directory

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/VirtualHosts

cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/VirtualHosts

nano 60redir-ibayname1

Paste or type the following code including the brackets, replacing ibayname with the name of your ibay

{
if ($port ne "443")
{
$OUT .= <<'HERE';
## Redirect Web Address to Secure Address
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/ibayname https://%{HTTP_HOST}/ibayname

## End Of Redirect
HERE
}
}

Save the file & exit by Ctrl+x

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Backup

Debug the Mount of a remote workstation Share

In the case of you have errors when you mount a remote cifs share (used by the panel 'backup or restore', you can experiment by just running the two commands from the command line (replace $host $share $mountdir appropriately)

/bin/mount -t cifs "//$host/$share" $mountdir -o credentials=/etc/dar/CIFScredentials,nounix
/bin/mountpoint  $mountdir

For example :

/bin/mount -t cifs  "//192.168.xx.xx/backup-sme" /mnt/smb -o credentials=/etc/dar/CIFScredentials,nounix
/bin/mountpoint /mnt/smb/

Launch Manually a backup

• only for an usb_backup or a remote_backup

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/workstation-backup-dar

Certificates

see http://wiki.contribs.org/Certificates_Concepts

How to change your certificate

Since SME version 7.1.3, the functionality to configure a Common Name in the certificate is included in the main SME packages and can be configured as follows:

config setprop modSSL CommonName www.domain.com
expand-template /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/crt
expand-template /home/e-smith/ssl.key/key
signal-event domain-modify
signal-event email-update 

see this forum thread [1] and bug report [2]

How to set a different expiration time

The SME self signed certificate is valid for one year, and is automatically renewed on the anniversary of the installation date of the SME server OS. To specify how long your SME certificate will last for, do the following:

cp /etc/e-smith/templates/home/e-smith/ssl.crt /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/home/e-smith/ssl.crt
nano -w /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/home/e-smith/ssl.crt

change the value for KEYLIFEINDAYS on the first line to the number of days the certificate will remain valid for eg 1826 for 5 years.

Save & exit by pressing the following keys at the same time

ctrl o
ctrl x

Create a new self signed certificate, with the longer validity period. Replace the filenames below with the correct file/key names applicable to your server.

rm /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/servername.domain.com.crt
rm /home/e-smith/ssl.key/servername.domain.com.key
rm /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/servername.domain.com.pem
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

Install the new certificate into your browser.

Also see http://wiki.contribs.org/Certificates_Concepts

How to simply recreate the certificate for SME Server

rm /home/e-smith/ssl.{crt,key,pem}/*
config delprop modSSL CommonName
config delprop modSSL crt
config delprop modSSL key
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

alternately

config show modSSL
config delprop modSSL crt key CertificateChainFile
signal-event ssl-update

Command-Line Quick Reference Guide

Below is a list of commands that I use all the time & tend to forget.

Generic Linux

COMMAND NAME	DESCRIPTION
/usr/sbin/smbd -V	samba version
/usr/sbin/httpd -v	apache version
httpd -t	verify the syntax of the configuration file of apache
httpd -tf /path/to/config/file	verify the syntax of the specified configuration file of apache
httpd -t -D DUMP_MODULES	display all loaded modules of apache
mysql -v	mysql version
php -v	php version
du -sh /*	shows your folder sizes by directory in the root (you can adapt to your directory path)
df -h	shows disk usage in human readable form
man <commandname>	shows more info about a command
uname -a	kernel release version
mv	moves or renames a file
cp	copies or backup a file
rm	removes or deletes a file
ps -aux|grep <process>	outputs processes running <process>
ps -AH	report process status
ps fax	display processes by tree with their pid
top	shows processes
top -i	shows only active processes
htop	shows processes (more versatile than top)
iptraf	shows network info
mc -d	show midnight commander (cli file browser) to navigate through system easily
host -t mx aol.com	shows the mx records for aol.com
dig any aol.com	show all dns records for aol.com (you can choose the dns server by adding its IP or hostname : '@8.8.4.4')
net groupmap list	shows samba mappings to nt groups
telinit 1	changes to single user mode
ifconfig	shows detailed info on ethernet ports
grep -nsr "casesensitivesearch" /path/to/dir	finds all documents containing the criteria in a dir (add 'i' to the options for a non sensitive search)
grep -nsri server-manager.jpg /etc/e-smith/	search the file server-manager.jpg in the path directory /etc/e-smith
apache' /etc/group	search after patterns which start by www and/or apache in /etc/group
tail -f /var/log/<LOGFILE>	realtime viewing of your log file
tar -czvf foo.tar.gz foo	creates a tar/zip file of a directory
tar -xvzf foo.tar.gz	untar/unzip a tar/zip file
scp -P <ssh_portnumber> foo.tar.gz <user>@<other_server_ipaddress>:/opt	transfers file to another server in /opt directory
rsync --progress -te "ssh -p <ssh_portnumber>" foo <other_server_ipaddress>:/opt	transfers file to another server
sed -i -e "s/foo/fee/g" <FILENAMEORPATHTODIR>	replaces foo with fee
sed '/abba/Id' file.txt	remove all lines with the string 'abba' (case sensitive) in the file.txt
sed -n '/^www/p' /etc/group	print all line starting by www in the file /etc/group
watch mysqladmin process	shows the mysql processes running
lslbk <ONLY SME9>	lsblk lists information about all available or the specified block devices. The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem to gather information. The command prints all block devices (except RAM disks) in a tree-like format by default.
find . -type f | xargs rpm -qf | sort | uniq	find from which rpm these files come from
who -r	see in which runlevel you are running (7 for sme8, 4 for sme9)
findmnt	findmnt will list all mounted filesytems or search for a filesystem.
pstree	pstree shows running processes as a tree. The tree is rooted at either pid or init if pid is omitted.
clamdtop	clamdtop is a tool to monitor one or multiple clamd(s), that shows the jobs in clamd’s queue, memory usage, and information about the loaded signature database.

Estimate file space usage - drill down into directories

cd /
du --si --max-depth 1
cd /home
du --si --max-depth 1
cd /home/e-smith
du --si --max-depth 1

UID/GID

• see informations of a user

id USER

• change the uid of a user

usermod -u UID USER_NAME

• create a group

groupadd -g GID -o GROUPE_NAME

• modify the GID of a group

groupmod -o -g GID GROUPE_NAME

• add a principal group to a user

usermod -g GROUP_NAME_OR_GID USER_NAME

• add a secondary group to a user

usermod -a -G GROUP_NAME_OR_GID USER_NAME

usermod

• change the home directory (-m move files/folders to the new location)

usermod -d /var/lib/jdownloader jdownloader

• change the shell access of a user

usermod --shell /bin/bash jdownloader

Read a TAI64N timestamp in human readable format

tai64nlocal converts precise TAI64N timestamps to a human-readable format. tai64nlocal reads lines from stdin. If a line does not begin with @, tai64nlocal writes it to stdout without change. If a line begins with @, tai64nlocal looks for a timestamp after the @, in the format printed by tai64n, and writes the line to stdout with the timestamp converted to local time in ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSSSSSSSS.

Eg

cat  /var/log/qpsmtpd/current |tai64nlocal|less

Or

tailf /var/log/sshd/current | tai64nlocal

adjust the ntp time

if you want to set the correct time via ntpd without restarting the server

in a root terminal

/etc/init.d/ntpd stop
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
/etc/init.d/ntpd start

and to verify

date

create missing group and set gid

If a specific sme group or linux group is missing, you can create it again. see bugzilla:7932#c48

groupadd -g 102 -o apache
rpm --setugids --setperms rpm1 rpm2

where 102 is the correct gid of apache group, adapt it to the right setting where rpm1 and rpm2 are valid rpm but broken due to the lack of apache group during installation or upgrade

if the group apache exists but with the wrong gid (example 48) you can set the 102 gid

groupmod -o -g 102 apache

display what are your network interfaces

# perl -Mesmith::ethernet -e "print esmith::ethernet::probeAdapters();"
EthernetDriver1	e1000	08:00:27:23:85:a6	"Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)"

alternatively, and only for SME9 or greater, you can use

# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
   link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
   inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
   link/ether AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
   inet 11.22.22.44/XY brd 11.22.33.255 scope global eth0
3: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
   link/ether 10:00:01:02:03:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
   inet 192.168.45.1/24 brd 192.168.45.255 scope global dummy0

find files by their size

it could be useful to find large file by the command line

find /home/e-smith -type f -size +200M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $ ":_" $5 }';

use

‘k’    for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)
‘M’    for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)
‘G’    for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)

reduce root's user reserved space

as a default, 5% of the disk space is allocated to root user

you can reduce the allocated space to 1% with (for LVM)

tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mapper/main-root

if you're not using LVM, use

df -h

to see where / is mounted

find files by the Name

find ~/smeserver/ -name 'e-smith-backup-2.4.0*'

or use (updatedb is launched every night)

updatedb
locate e-smith-backup-2.4.0

how much mail data per user is stored on the server

You can adapt that command line to your needs, here we can see the used disk spaceof all emails stored by your users on your SME Server.

du -s /home/e-smith/files/users/*/Maildir | sort -rn | cut -f2- | xargs -d "\n" du -sh

Replace a chain of characters

Replace a chain of characters chaine1 by chaine2 in all files of the current directory with '.txt'

find . -name "*.txt" -type f -exec sed -i "s/chaine1/chaine2/g" {} \;

Check file system in case of corruption

If your filesystem is corrupted. That can be a hardware failure, or a software corruption (after a crash). The server won't boot before you manually run fsck to check/repair the filesystem. Note that this might not be possible if the problem is comming from hardware failure (hope you have backups....).

Try this: - when you're prompted to, enter the root password, you'll be dropped on a shell - manually run fsck

e2fsck -D -tt -y /dev/main/root

It can take several minutes/hours depending on the size of your drives and their speed. With some luck, the filesystem will be cleaned, and you'll be able to boot.

Adding notes/comments to shell commands

You can add comments to shell commands without interrupting the functionality of the shell command. The comments will be appear in .bash_history which can be beneficial for later analysis. e.g. Why was the the command given or who entered the command. Examples:

cat /etc/redhat-release #johnd What version are we running

config setprop sshd status disabled #maryc Disable ssh access ticket:#12345

With (complex) grep arguments one would be able to search the bash history on different criteria. e.g. To find all shell commands given entered by mary that have something to do with ssh (example line above):

cat /root/.bash_history | grep "#mary" | grep ssh

will return:

config setprop sshd status disabled #maryc Disable ssh access ticket:#12345

Adding date and time to bash history

By default the bash history does not show the date and time of any activity. You can enable this by entering the following command:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

where %d=day, %m is month, &y is year and %T is time

To see the bash history with the date and time added, enter:

history

the history command can be useful in combination with added comments to shell commands for more precise analysis or (automatic) reporting based on a shell script and cron.

Find open ports

• netstat

# netstat -anp|grep 5232
tcp        0      0 192.168.12.233:5232         0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2028/python

• nmap

nmap can specify if a port is closed or not

yum install nmap
nmap localhost -p 5232

Raid

You have a lot of interesting tutorial concerning the Raid

shows software raid performance

hdparm -Tt /dev/mdX 

(where X is 0,1,2,etc)

gives raid info

mdadm --detail /dev/mdX 

(where X is 0,1,2,etc)

shows software raid

cat /proc/mdstat 	

remove the degraded raid

when you install the smeserver with one drive and in a degraded raid, you will see a 'U_' state but without warnings. If you want to leave just one 'U'

mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --force --raid-devices=1
mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --force --raid-devices=1

RPM's

Command	Explanation
rpm -qa	shows all rpms installed
rpm -qa --last	shows all rpms installed & installation date
rpm -q	asks for rpm info
rpm -qi	asks for detailed rpm info
rpm -qlv <packagename>	lists all files in a package
rpm -qlvp <packagename.rpm>	List all files in a rpm which is not installed
rpm -qf <filename>	reports what package a file belongs to
rpm -qV <packagename>	reports if permission and ownership are OK
rpm -qRp <packagename.rpm>	Find what dependencies have a rpm
rpm -qR <packagename>	Find what dependencies have a package name
rpm -q --whatrequires <packagename>	find what packages have <packagename> as dependancy
rpm -e --test <packagename>	find what packages have <packagename> as dependancy (more verbose as above)
rpm -e --nodeps <packagename>	remove packagename without removing dependencies
rpm --setugids <packagename>	set right ownership to rpm
rpm --setperms <packagename>	set right permissions to rpm
rpm -e --noscripts <packagename>	remove packagename without executing sciptlets (%pre, %post, %preun, %postun)
rpm -Va	capture any damaged/incomplete rpms - but will also show lots of configuration files, which you of course expect to be modified.

Find upstream rpms patched by contribs.org

For the need of the distribution we ought to patch some upstream rpms, this is the list

rpm -qa --qf "%{name} %{BuildHost}\n" | grep -P 'build64\-1|builder.koozali.org' | awk '{print $1}' | grep -vP '^smeserver|e\-smith' | sort

Restore all permissions and ownership

If you want to restore all permissions and right ownership of rpm, you can do this in a root terminal. See bugzilla:6851#c15

for f in $(rpm -qa); do echo $f; rpm --setugids $f; done
for f in $(rpm -qa); do echo $f; rpm --setperms $f; done

YUM'ing and repositories

Command	Explanation
yum install <packagename>	installs packagename & any package it may need
yum remove <packagename>	removes packagename
yum history package-info <packagename>	Shows the installation/removal history of a package and it's Transaction ID see more commands
yum history undo <Transaction ID>	Removes all packages from a specific Transaction ID see more commands
yum list updates	list updates to any installed package
yum list available	list available packages in all repos not already installed
grep <reponame>	list available packages -shows only from repo name
yum search <packagename>	lists all packages in all repos matching packagename
yum clean all --enablerepo=*	Is used to clean up various things which accumulate in the yum cache (includes disabled repos)
yum --enablerepo=<reponame> <command>	enables a repo not normally enabled
/sbin/e-smith/audittools/newrpms	shows all extra packages installed
/sbin/e-smith/audittools/repositories	show all repositories and if they are activated or not
db yum_repositories show <reponame>	show properties of the repository <reponame> (you may use TAB to auto-complete your command line)

Restoring Default Yum Repositories

	Note:
	If you have problems with your yum setup you may have entered incorrect repository values. Remove the current values and restore the original setting with these commands

cd /home/e-smith/db/
mv yum_repositories yum_repositories.po
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases

Now you have a clean install, you can re-add 3rd party repos as described above

signal-event yum-modify

and check if you can update your server

yum update

LDAP

Show/Debug the state of LDAP

about the DB settings

db configuration show ldap

about the service (see the pid and the output when manually you start the service)

cd /service/ldap
sv s .
./run

See the ownership of LDAP database (must be owned ldap:ldap)

ll /var/lib/ldap/

ldif-fix

it just prints what changes are needed in the ldap tree. With -u instead of -d, those changes are applied

/var/service/ldap/ldif-fix -d

Parse the ldap catalogue

you can use this command

slapcat

or if you want to sort

slapcat | grep -viP 'userPassword|sambaNTPassword|sambaLMPassword'

namingContexts

we can conduct a simple search of the naming context to see our directory information you can display 'dn' LDAP parameters, either by the server-manager or by the command line :

ldapsearch -x -b  -s base '(objectclass=*)' namingContexts

or you can do

ldapsearch -x -h localhost -s base |grep 'dn'

• for example

[root@sme9 ~]# ldapsearch -x -h localhost -s base |grep 'dn'
# base <dc=stephane,dc=dtdns,dc=net> (default) with scope baseObject
# stephane.dtdns.net
dn: dc=mycompany,dc=local

Retrieve the ldap base

in a template you can do

 baseDN = "ou=Users,{ esmith::util::ldapBase($DomainName); }";

request a listing of all entries

The following LDAP search is requesting a listing of all entries starting from the base "dc=example,dc=local". This should return all of the entries

ldapsearch -x -b 'dc=mycompany,dc=local' '(objectclass=*)'

Bind with a specific user on LDAP

Try to connect to ldap with credentials of a specific user and see the LDAP catalogue. Find the 'dc' by the chapter above

ldapsearch -x -D uid=user2,ou=Users,dc=server1,dc=pt -W

• for example

[root@sme9 ~]# ldapsearch -x -D uid=stephane,ou=Users,dc=mycompany,dc=local -W

Check a specific user in LDAP catalogue

display informations on the user requested. Find the 'dc' by the chapter above

for sme9

ldapsearch -x -D cn=root,dc=server1,dc=pt -w $(cat /etc/pam_ldap.secret) -b ou=Users,dc=domain,dc=tld "uid=test2"

for sme8

 ldapsearch -x -D cn=root,dc=server1,dc=pt -w $(cat /etc/ldap.secret) -b ou=Users,dc=domain,dc=tld "uid=test2"

• for example

for sme9

ldapsearch -x -D cn=root,dc=mycompany,dc=local -w $(cat /etc/pam_ldap.secret) -b ou=Users,dc=mycompany,dc=local "uid=stephane"

for sme8

 ldapsearch -x -D cn=root,dc=mycompany,dc=local -w $(cat /etc/ldap.secret) -b ou=Users,dc=mycompany,dc=local "uid=stephane"

Retrieve the ldap password

• directly in a terminal

perl -Mesmith::util -e 'print esmith::util::LdapPassword();'

• in a template

my $pwd = esmith::util::LdapPassword();

if you need to call the ldap password in a script you can invoke this bash variable

• for sme8

PWD=$(cat /etc/ldap.secret)

• for sme9

PWD=$(cat /etc/pam_ldap.secret)

Log

Parse Log files to search for errors

When you want to test the SME Product it can be useful to see what it occurs. This CL can help you, but you should read the entire log

grep -iE "uninitialized|WARNING|ERROR" /var/log/messages

of course this is for the /var/log/messages

or if you want to parse all log

grep -iE "uninitialized|WARNING|ERROR" /var/log/*

	Note:
	you have now a tool in your hand to parse logfile : Audit_Tools#logcheck. You should be aware that tool is here to help to find errors in the development side of the SME Server and thus you could have a lot of false positive

Parse log for hack / phishing for missing files

EXTIP=`curl -s ifconfig.me/ip`
grep "File does not exist" /var/log/httpd/error_log | sed -e 's#\: /#\n#' | grep "home" | sort -u | sed -e "s#$EXTIP#\<IP\>#g" > dict_err.txt
# grep "File does not exist" /var/log/httpd/admin_error_log | sed -e 's#\: /#\n#' | grep "home" | sort -u | sed -e "s#$EXTIP#\<IP\>#g" > dict_admin_err.txt

• verbose output

less  /var/log/messages| grep -iE "useless|uninitialized|warn|fail|error|disable|unable|exit"

• search all logs with verbose output

less  /var/log/* | grep -iE "useless|uninitialized|warn|fail|error|disable|unable|exit"

Mail

see Email

check blocked email address by the server

grep -i 'blocked email address' /var/log/qpsmtpd/current

maximum email size

Email#Set_max_email_size

Spam filter with Server-Manager

Using the Server-Manager Configuration/E-Mail panel, adjust the settings to these reasonable defaults.

• Virus scanning Enabled
• Spam filtering Enabled
• Spam sensitivity Custom
• Custom spam tagging level 4
• Custom spam rejection level 12
• Sort spam into junkmail folder Enabled
• Modify subject of spam messages Enabled

spam retention in junk mailbox

The server will automatically delete old spam in the junkmail folders after 90 days. You can control the number of days old spam is kept with the following commands. Where 15 is the number of days you want to keep messages, do...

db configuration setprop spamassassin MessageRetentionTime 15
signal-event email-update
svc -t /service/qpsmtpd

then config show spamassassin

Mail Statistics

See Mailstats for details on the mailstats package.

yum install --enablerepo=smecontribs smeserver-mailstats

Whitelist and Blacklist

If mail comes in and it is misclassified as spam by Spamasassin, you can add the sender to the Spamassassin whitelist so that future messages coming in from that sender are not filtered. Conversely, you can add a spammer to the Spamassassin blacklist so you never see their spam again. Add senders (or their entire domains) to the global whitelist (or blacklist) with commands similar to these (as root):

db spamassassin setprop wbl.global *@vonage.com White
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global *domain2.com White
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global user@domain3.com White
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global spammer@spamdomain.com Black

expland template and save the configuration to the database

signal-event email-update

You can view the lists with this command:

db spamassassin show

These lists can be also controlled by the server-manager with the wbl contrib http://wiki.contribs.org/Email_Whitelist-Blacklist_Control

MySQL

There appears to be no password set for the MySQL root password, but this is not true. If you are logged in to the SME Server shell a special mechanism is in place to log you in with MySQL root privileges without prompting you for the password.

The MySQL root password for SME Server is a 72 character random string generated during installation of SME Server. You should never change the MySQL root password as this will break your SME Server configuration. How to login as MySQL root user? describes how to access MySQL with root privileges on SME Server.

For more informations you can see the MySQL page

Login as MySQL root user

To login as MySQL root user, simply type 'mysql' at the SME Server shell, this will log you in with root privileges. the mysql admin password is a random password generated which can be find

• /root/.my.cnf
• /etc/ldap.secret for sme8 and /etc/pam_ldap.secret for sme9

do not modify these files.

• directly in a terminal

perl -Mesmith::util -e 'print esmith::util::LdapPassword();'

• in a template

my $pwd = esmith::util::LdapPassword();

if you need to call the mysql password in a script you can invoke this bash variable

• for sme8

PWD=$(cat /etc/ldap.secret)

• for sme9

PWD=$(cat /etc/pam_ldap.secret)

Create a Database and its User

Create a new MySQL database (In this example the database name is databasename. Change databasename, username and password with your own choices as required)

Login as root and issue the following command to enter the MySQL CLI and create the database:

mysql
create database databasename;
grant all privileges on databasename.* to username identified by 'password';
flush privileges;
exit

or directly from the shell or script:

mysql -e "create database databasename;"
mysql -e "grant all privileges on databasename.* to username identified by 'password';"
mysql -e "flush privileges;"

Remove a database

Get access to the SME Server shell and MySQL and issue the following command:

drop database databasename;

or from the shell. Confirmation will be asked.

mysqladmin drop databasename

Replace databasename with the name of the database.

Remove a user

Get access to the SME Server shell and MySQL and issue the following command:

USE mysql;
DELETE FROM user WHERE user = 'username';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Replace username with the username you wish to delete.

	Tip:
	mysql_setpermission is a command line menu driven utility that can assist in MySQL administration.

Show databases directly from CLI

Directly in your Terminal you can see how much DB mysql you have.

mysqlshow

+--------------------+
|     Databases      |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| egroupware         |
| horde              |
| mysql              |
| roundcube          |
| test               |
| wordpress          |
+--------------------+

Other useful MySQL commands:

• list all available database.

show databases;

• display a list of the MySQL users

SELECT user FROM mysql.user;

• remove the user jeffrey

DROP USER 'jeffrey'@'localhost';

• list the privileges granted to the account user

SHOW GRANTS FOR 'user'@'localhost';

• give all rights on all databases for new_dba user

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'new_dba'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

• give all rights on database for new_user

GRANT SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE ON database.* TO 'new_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

• will let you destroy a database. Use with care. Use 'mysqladmin --help' for all available options.

mysqladmin drop databasename;

• show you all table details of mysql database

use database;
show table status;

• let you see all tables of mysql database

use database;
show table status;

Password

Password strength

First a warning - Far too many systems out there have weak passwords and they will be broken into. Educating your users on the necessity of strong passwords is the best option. If that fails, here is how you change the password strength checking from 'strong' to 'normal', which was the setting in previous versions of SME. Be careful to use the exact capitalization.

config setprop passwordstrength Admin normal
config setprop passwordstrength Users normal
config setprop passwordstrength Ibays normal

It is also possible, but strongly discouraged, to disable password strength checking by setting to 'none'

none   : no check is performed on the password
normal : the password must be composed of at least seven characters with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and non-alphanumeric characters
strong : the restrictions are the same as for the normal level, but in addition, the password is verified by cryptlib which ensures its actual complexity

Change Password Users by the command line

If you want to change password to your users by the command Line instead of the user panel of SME Server you can do it like this.

perl -e "use esmith::util;esmith::util::setUserPassword( 'username', 'password');";  /sbin/e-smith/signal-event  password-modify username

run it for each user separately and replace

username

and

password

with the appropriate values for each of your users.

For special characters note this bug regarding escaping bugzilla:8510

Some examples :

perl -e 'use esmith::util;esmith::util::setUserPassword("username","pass!word");'

Or:

perl -e "use esmith::util;esmith::util::setUserPassword( 'username','pass"'!'"word');"

Generating strong random password

You can Install randpw else you can use manually the CL below

Security should not be taken lightly and password for e.g. databases, connections etc. need to be long and strong. One way of generating a strong random password is:

< /dev/urandom tr -dc '_A-Z-a-z-0-9!@+[](){}~<>*%^&#+=/$:;,?' | head -c${1:-50};echo;

This will generate a 50 character long random password whereby the characters are selected from the above given string _A-Z-a-z-0-9!@+[](){}~<>*%^&#+=/$:;,?. The number 50 represents the length of the generated password and can be adjusted to fit your needs.

One could also store the generated password to a file or to a db key:

< /dev/urandom tr -dc '_A-Z-a-z-0-9!@+[](){}~<>*%^&#+=/$:;,?' | head -c${1:-50} > mypassword.txt

config set MyStrongPassword `< /dev/urandom tr -dc '_A-Z-a-z-0-9!@+[](){}~<>*%^&#+=/$:;,?' | head -c${1:-50};echo;`

Please note the usage of ` charachter which is not the ' character

Signalling events : Signal-event

The signal-event program takes an event name as an argument, and executes all of the actions in that event, providing the event name as the first parameter and directing all output to the system log. It works by listing the entries in the event directory and executing them in sequence. So for example, the command:

signal-event console-save

will perform all the actions associated with the console-save event, which is defined by the contents of the /etc/e-smith/events/console-save/ directory. This is exactly what the console user interface does when you select save at the end of the console configuration wizard.

see all options

PHP Related Commands

Show current php settings

config show php

Expand php.ini template

expand-template /etc/php.ini

Configure PHP Basedir Restriction per ibay

db accounts setprop IBAYNAME PHPBaseDir DIR1:DIR2:DIRn
signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME

Example

db accounts setprop Primary PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary:/tmp
signal-event ibay-modify Primary

Execution Time

For SME9 exclusively see Useful_Commands#PHP_settings_only_for_SME9

db configuration setprop php MaxExecutionTime ZZ
expand-template /etc/php.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

where ZZ is the time in seconds.

Memory Limit

For SME9 exclusively see Useful_Commands#PHP_settings_only_for_SME9

db configuration setprop php MemoryLimit XXM
expand-template /etc/php.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

where XX is the amount of memory in Mb.

Upload Max File Size

For SME9 exclusively see Useful_Commands#PHP_settings_only_for_SME9

db configuration setprop php UploadMaxFilesize WW
expand-template /etc/php.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

where WW is the file size in Mb.

Post Maximum Size

For SME9 exclusively see Useful_Commands#PHP_settings_only_for_SME9

db configuration setprop php PostMaxSize  WW
expand-template /etc/php.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

where WW is the file size in Mb.

Allow URL FOpen

For SME9 exclusively see Useful_Commands#PHP_settings_only_for_SME9
Not secure. Instead use per ibay or directory.

SAMBA

shows samba mappings to nt groups

  net groupmap list 

manage the SAM database(Database of Samba Users)

The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.

pdbedit -u USER -v

for example

pdbedit -u stephane -v

check an smb.conf configuration

testparm - check an smb.conf configuration file for internal correctness

testparm -vs

The Trust Relationship Failure

Using Samba 3 sometimes some Windows computers fall off the domain, resulting in a trust relationship failure.

   The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

This is generally caused by mis-matched work-station and domain controller account passwords. To reset this you must un-join/re-join the domain.

enable samba audit logs for ibays

Samba audit logging can be enabled for ibays using db variables.

Samba activity is logged in /var/log/samba/samba_audit

To enable audit logging for an ibay named "fileshare":

db accounts setprop fileshare Audit enabled
 signal-event ibay-modify fileshare

To enable audit logging for every ibay on your server:

for ibay in $(db accounts show |grep \=ibay |cut -d= -f1); do db accounts setprop $ibay Audit enabled; done
 signal-event ibay-modify

The details of what gets logged are controlled by /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/smb.conf/ibays/10smbaudit

SME Server specific

Command Line

Command	Explanation
signal-event post-upgrade	performs SME Server to go regenerate all templates
signal-event reboot	reboots the server
signal-event <event>	performs SME Server to go regenerate event template (you may use TAB to auto-complete your command line)
signal-event console-save	Expands templates and reconfigures services which can be changed from the text-mode console and which do not require a reboot
signal-event dns-update	refreshes the DNS cache, useful for when you know a domain has changed IP and the TTL is too long to wait
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf	recreates server-manager navigation panel
config show	display the internal configuration of the server
config show <service name>	show the service configuration (you may use TAB to auto-complete your command line)
db	shows the syntax of the db command
db configuration show	shows the entire server configuration
db configuration setprop <record> <property> <value>	sets or changes a property in the configuration database
db accounts show	shows all account details
db accounts show <accountname>	shows the account details
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases	action for initializing the default database values

Refresh DNS cache

signal-event dns-update 	

refreshes the DNS cache, useful for when you know a domain has changed IP and the TTL is too long to wait

Refresh Squid Cache

Extracted from: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=38848.msg176737#msg176737

Flush and Restart

sv d /service/squid
echo "" > /var/spool/squid/swap.state
sv u /service/squid

& to check it's running

sv s /service/squid

SystemConfig

Some relative Informations to your system are recorded in the configuration database

config show sysconfig

db command

	Note:
	SME Server comes with the most used parameters set as variables in its internal configuration databases. These variables are used to store values to be used in the final configuration files. Please, read the SME_Server:Documentation:Developers_Manual:Section2 to understand the template and database process.

you can see this page of the wiki DB_Variables_Configuration and the Db_command_tutorial

Setting db variables to default values

	Note:
	Use of 'config' is a shorthand version for 'db configuration' and therefore only works with the configuration database

Any db variable that has a default value can be reset to the default by deleting the variable entirely, then re-initializing the default database values as follows:

config delprop <key> <prop>
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases

Delete a property value

To delete the property

db accounts delprop <key> <prop>

Reset a property to an empty value

To reset to an empty value

db accounts setprop <key> <prop> ''

	Warning:
	Database parameters are case sensitive so take great care when typing at the server shell because no error messages are given should you make a mistake.

Create DB key manually by a script

An example on how create by hand some db with contents in a script. all these db can not be erased because for every 'post-upgrade signal-event; signal-event reboot', the default values set manually below will return.

mkdir -p          /etc/e-smith/db/accounts/defaults/wordpress
echo "reserved" > /etc/e-smith/db/accounts/defaults/wordpress/type

mkdir -p                  /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress
echo "configuration"    > /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress/type
echo "Wordpress weblog" > /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress/Name
echo "global"           > /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress/PublicAccess
echo "enabled"          > /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress/status
echo "wordpress"        > /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress/DbName
echo "wordpress"        > /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress/DbUser
echo "en"               > /etc/e-smith/db/configuration/defaults/wordpress/WpLang

in order to initialize all db settings

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases

Create DB key manually by 'config'

If you want to create a key entry manually you can use the 'config' command and save properties in the configuration database. For your information, once deleted you cannot retrieve default values as above. The generic Command line is :

config configuration set key type [prop1 val1] [prop2 val2] ...

for example you can do

config set plop configuration Name wordpress PublicAccess private status enabled DbName wordpress DbUser wordpress WpLang en

you can see the result

config show plop
 plop=configuration
   DbName=wordpress
   DbUser=wordpress
   Name=wordpress
   PublicAccess=private
   WpLang=en
   status=enabled

Modify Hidden settings of users

Grant bash access to a "user"

db accounts setprop user Shell /bin/bash
signal-event user-modify user

Grant vpn access to a "user"

db accounts setprop user  VPNClientAccess yes
signal-event user-modify user

Grant sudo access to a "user"

db accounts setprop user Sudoer yes
signal-event user-modify user

Chroot "user" on FTP usage

db accounts setprop user ChrootDir /home/e-smith/files/users/user/home
signal-event user-modify user

General Service Handling

SME9

SME Server uses runit, a UNIX init scheme with service supervision. See the man page of the 'sv' command

All other linux common way to start or stop services are also valuable

/etc/init.d/servicename start/stop/status
service servicename start/stop/status

• start

sv u /service/servicename

• stop

sv d /service/servicename

• restart

sv t /service/servicename

• status

sv s /service/servicename

	Tip:
	you may use TAB to auto-complete your command line

you have some shortcuts

down => 'd',
stop => 'd',
up => 'u',
start => 'u',
restart => 't',
sigterm => 't',
adjust => 'h',
reload => 'h',
sighup => 'h',
sigusr1 => '1',
sigusr2 => '2',
once => 'o',
pause => 'p',
alarm => 'a',
interrupt => 'i',
quit => 'q',
kill => 'k',
exit => 'x',

Restarting:

sv t /service/httpd-e-smith

SME10

Systemctl is a systemd utility that is responsible for Controlling the systemd system and service manager. Systemd is a collection of system management daemons, utilities, and libraries which serves as a replacement of System V init daemon. Systemd functions as central management and configuration platform

To list all loaded services on your system (whether active; running, exited or failed, use the list-units subcommand and --type switch with a value of service.

# systemctl list-units --type=service
OR
# systemctl --type=service

But to get a quick glance of all running services (i.e all loaded and actively running services), run the following command.

# systemctl list-units --type=service --state=running 
OR
# systemctl --type=service --state=running

List all failed units.

# systemctl --failed

Check whether a Unit or Service is running or not?.

# systemctl status httpd-e-smith

How do I start, restart, stop, reload and check the status of a service (httpd.service) in Linux.

# systemctl start httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl restart httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl stop httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl reload httpd-e-smith.service
# systemctl status httpd-e-smith.service

Add a custom service

see this page

SSL

Test SSL certificate

This free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server on the public Internet. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

SSL diagnostic

The s_client command implements a generic SSL/TLS client which connects to a remote host using SSL/TLS. It is a very useful diagnostic tool for SSL servers.

openssl s_client Documentation

• on sme

openssl s_client -connect localhost:993

• on a remote host

openssl s_client -connect yourdomain:993

SSL Signature algorithm

you can verify the algorithm signature of your certificate

for example

openssl x509 -noout -text -in /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/sme9dev2.mycompany.local.pem

SSH

Enable SSH

• Enable ssh access (the lazy not-so-secure way, but I am assuming for this testing/dev scenario that your external IP is really a local address behind a router)

db configuration setprop sshd status enabled
db configuration setprop sshd PermitRootLogin yes
db configuration setprop sshd acccess public
db configuration setprop sshd PasswordAuthentication yes
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update

• Allow ssh in public or private mode : public= all internet private= only your network

db configuration sshd access public
signal-event remoteaccess-update

Access to the terminal of your remote sme

ssh root@ip-sme-or-remote-hostname

or

ssh -pX root@ip-sme-or-remote-host (X is the port listened by ssh service)

Note:

you need to forward in your router the port 22 (or whatever you decide) to your internal sme's ip and allow ssh in the server-manager with the root login and Password Authentication (Security/Remote Access menu). You can enhance security by disabling the root connection : Allow administrative command line access over secure shell NO Keep in mind that you need to set the service to public access (entire internet) if you want to be accessible by ssh outside of you network (see the Denyhosts contrib for banning hosts which failed too many login attempts to your ssh deamon.)

Execute or run a command over ssh to a remote server and auto disconnect after quit

ssh -t root@ip-sme-or-remote-hostname command

where 'command' is the program or command to run. An example could be:

ssh -t root@192.168.1.5 top

Access to the server-manager through SSH

We can access to the server-manager of your remote SME Server by SSH with a tunneling protocol initiated by "ssh -L". This command has to be done by a superuser in a Terminal like if you want to be connected to your SME Server by SSH.

	Note:
	We assume that ports are forwarded in your router to your sme internal IP (443 and 22) and the root user is allowed to access by ssh to the server.

Do this in a root terminal of your Linux computer outside of your network

ssh -L 443:localhost:443 root@your-static-external-network-IP-or-host.dyndsn.org

host.dyndsn.org could be a free service as dyndns.org or noip.com

Keep the terminal open, Then you need to use this specific URL in your WEB Browser to go to the server-manager

https://localhost/server-manager

	Tip:
	It is possible to use putty if you are afraid about some commands in a terminal, you can find a lot of examples by typing this in google tunneling by putty

Access with non standard ports

In certain cases which you are not root on the local computer, you can not redirect port < 1024, so you have to use port > 1024 as the example below.

ssh -L 9443:localhost:443 root@your-remote-ip -p 22

9443 : local port
443 : remote https port
your-remote-ip : the remote host (could be an ip or a domain name)
22 : this is the port where the ssh server is listening, you can change it in accordance with the remote server

Keep the terminal open, Then you need to use this specific URL in your WEB Browser to go to the server-manager

https://localhost:9443/server-manager

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