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How to Mount NFS Shares on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Mount NFS Shares on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Mount NFS Shares on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, […]

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How To Use Foreign Keys in SQL — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Foreign Keys in SQL

When working on a large SQL project, you must maintain the accuracy and consistency of data across all tables using foreign keys. This is where referential integrity comes into play. Referential integrity ensures all data references are valid in SQL and prevents inconsistent entries or orphaned records. In this tutorial, you’ll enforce referential integrity with foreign keys on your database.

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How To Set Up an Artillery Honeypot on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an Artillery Honeypot on an Ubuntu VPS

Artillery is a multi-purpose defense tool for Linux based systems including honeypot capabilities, OS hardening, file system monitoring and real-time threat analysis. Alone it provides a fair amount of security to your system, but it is meant to be used as part of a multi-layered security scheme and plays nicely with web application firewalls such as ModSecurity.

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How To Install Rails and nginx with Passenger on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Rails and nginx with Passenger on Ubuntu

This tutorial explains how to install Ruby, how to install any required dependancies, how to install Ruby Gems, how to install Rails, how to install Phusion Passenger, and how to use Passenger to install nginx. Passenger is an app server that allows you to deploy your rails application in production. This tutorial describes how to run Rails with nginx using passenger.

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Oracle Linux 8 — openssh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — openssh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2024-3166)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 October 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2024-3166 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15778 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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How to Configure Mandatory Access Control on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Mandatory Access Control on Debian 9

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure Mandatory Access Control on Debian 9 on Debian 9 Stretch. Debian Stretch uses systemd for service management, nftables as the underlying packet filter (with ufw or iptables front-ends still available), and AppArmor for mandatory access control. Every command is designed for a minimal Debian 9 install with the […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — java-1.8.0-openjdk — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — java-1.8.0-openjdk — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2024-0265)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 13 October 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2024-0265 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-20945 CVE-2024-20918 CVE-2024-20921 CVE-2024-20926 CVE-2024-20952 CVE-2024-20919 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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