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How to Configure OpenSSH Server on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure OpenSSH Server on Windows Server 2016

Introduction OpenSSH Server is available for Windows Server 2016 as an optional Windows feature (from Windows 10 1809 / Server 2019 onward it is built-in; for Server 2016 it is installed as a standalone package). Installing OpenSSH on Windows Server 2016 enables SSH-based remote access — the same client tools used on Linux — giving […]

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How to Install Icinga2 on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Icinga2 on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Install Icinga2 on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up to date: zypper refresh && […]

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FreeBSD 12 — apache+ssl — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — apache+ssl — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 28 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Apache 1.3 — mod_proxy reverse proxy exposure Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0993 CVE-2004-0940 CVE-2005-2088 CVE-2005-3352 CVE-2006-3747 CVE-2011-3368 Upstream summary: Apache HTTP server project reports: An exposure was found when using mod_proxy in […]

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How to Install 7Zip on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install 7Zip on Ubuntu 18.04

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/install-7zip-ubuntu/ If you’ve ever tried to send large files then you would definitely know about 7Zip. From almost 2 decades now, 7Zip allowed us to get a higher compression ratio. Apart from getting high compression ratio, you can get support for extracting and compressing RAR files on Ubuntu with 7Zip. Apart from the GUI, […]

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FreeBSD 12 — horde-base — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — horde-base — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: horde-base — XSS: VCARD attachments vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2008-3823 CVE-2008-3824 Upstream summary: The Horde team reports: The major changes compared to Horde version 3.3.10 are: * Fixed XSS vulnerability when […]

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How To Use JMeter To Record Test Scenarios — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use JMeter To Record Test Scenarios

In this tutorial, we will teach you how to set up and use the Apache JMeter HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder to record HTTP requests. Recording HTTP requests is a great way to building test plans, and can be useful in creating tests that closely mimic a normal user’s behavior.

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How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck

Once an app has been deployed and more and more people begin using it, it won’t be long before you begin to notice it slowing down. This is a common problem, and in this tutorial we will go over some tools that work with Django which can help to alleviate this issue.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — rubygem-puppet — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rubygem-puppet — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-3848 CVE-2011-3872 CVE-2012-3864 CVE-2012-3865 CVE-2012-3866 CVE-2013-3567 CVE-2013-4761 CVE-2014-3253  +2 more Upstream summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows […]

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How to Set Up BGP Routing with BIRD on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up BGP Routing with BIRD on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up set up bgp routing with bird on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from […]

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